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The only thing is a real value in the Cosmos are the things that we would normally have to pay millions or billions of dollars to bring that far, but that we could easily mine there instead.
Air, water, food, fuel
No giant asteroid sized gold nugget could offset that systematic cost.
Food is the only real concern. There's so much ice that air and water can be made on site. And fuel can come from the sun. If we're talking about collecting space nuggets
the thing is, gold isn't really even very useful. especially once we start looking at the exotic elements in those space rocks