Re: Spaceship-Mounted Mining Equipment
Realistically at lower TLs at least different types of ore processed would require different processing equipment to extract the actual resource you want. At higher TLs you might easily get multi-use mining equipment with things like micro/nanobots doing the separation.
Most types of mining equipment could be use to make the rock dust though.
The big problem with the mining equipment as presented in the book is that the mining ate does not go up with TL, that it would realistically likely do.
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