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>>3975580

Thorium costs $371.00 for 1kg

This value was in September 2010 I suspect it has changed somewhat since then but I doubt that change has been substantial. You have to also remember the 100,000 tonnes of the stuff the US government as stored under the Nevada desert.

source: United States Geological Survey

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/thorium/

For 1000kg we can get about $540,000,000 worth of electrical energy as explained in >>3975565 when used in a LFTR.

So for $310,000 that could potentially be 540 million (ignoring the latter stages of the process which produce many more sellable resources with high value) if we had a LFTR. Of course this is ignoring purity of the ore and drop rates of power cables so it may be a bit less.

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