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>Under guidance from the U.N., a system of claims governed ownership of an asteroid to strip it of its resources. However, it basically came down to whoever first prospects a claim, claimed the entire asteroid.
>Unlike the prospectors of the old wild west, who rode horses and trains and worked with a pickaxe and shovel, the prospectors on Mars were multinational conglomerates who sent robotic mining spacecraft to harvest the distant mother loads buried inside asteroids. Internationally, scientists identified which asteroids could be profitable for metals. And which ones were loose piles of rubble only valuable when mined for oxygen, silicon, magnesium, calcium and other elements.
With their assertion of a claim over Asteroid 5982, the Abundant Harvest Asteroid Company had just beaten the U.S.-backed company Deep Space Resources to their planned next business venture, in addition to one-upping the U.S. and their Allies.