If you can't ship it, make it
How to make metals from Martian dirt: Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully made iron under Mars-like conditions, opening to door to off-world metal production.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2025/August/Metals-out-of-martian-dirt
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