Lunar Boom Town/Volume miner

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Background: Due to a lack of atmosphere lunar facilities must be protected from micrometeorites and radiation. This can be accomplished by burying facilities.

Volume miners dig into surface to create useable volume for sell to volume developers.[1] The material extracted is sold various raw material processers such as an oxygen extractor[2] or sold delivered to a customer/developer for berming/burying material.

Startup can be as easy as a shovel and explosives and a regolith hauler. Next phase might add a horizontal drilling machine and a front end loader or backhoe. Largest operators construct and operate large tunnel boring machines.[3]

As a by product valuable volatiles set free by the mining process would by collected by binding them to liquid salts.