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I wrote a massive post but it disappeared while I was looking for this image so you get the brief version. Maybe that's a good thing.

I don't know a convenient method of seperating the aluminium from the lunar dust. Aluminium has some advantages though and it does need to be a pure metal, not an alloy or metaloceramic (which is what I think steel kind-of is).

Lunar activity is currently focusing on the Aitkin basin. Just as easily the north pole could have been chosen instead but the south pole is more interesting.

One reason for that is an anomaly beneath this crater is believed to be the pure metallic core of the asteroid which ended up lodged deep in the moon's crust.

So really a lot of options may yet open up on the moon. Maybe abundant nickel or titanium. I'd like to find out soon.