Did Fans of Command And Conquer Just forget this?
I was looking a forum of a Mass Effect/ C&C Tiberium Wars crossover and a discussion popped up on whether or not the Systems Alliance/GDI would still use Tiberium. a lot of discussions about its use as an energy source but none about the fact that it literally Focuses and collects all useable mineral resources in a planets crust into its easily harvested crystals.
Seems to Me like that would be extremely useful to mine say... a dead world with no biosphere to risk. seed it, and just harvest even the scarcest elements with nothing more than a drone controlled combine harvester...










