Tech billionaires bankroll gold rush to mine asteroids

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 01:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Google Inc executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company said on Tuesday.

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