Secret TREASURE buried on Moon is 'precious' prize that scientists say could be 'profitable' for whoever digs it up

TREASURE could be lurking just out of sight on the Moon – just waiting to be extracted.

That's the idea put forward by scientists who say our lunar neighbour could be hiding a vast resource with "profitable" potential.

A new paper suggests that the Moon may be hiding a large amount of platinum-group metals.

That includes platinum itself, as well as other elements like rhdoium and palladium.

Precious metals are rare and naturally occurring, and have high economic value and utility.

And scientists think that there man be as many as 6,500 craters – more than a kilometre wide – containing platinum group metals.

Scientists think they arrived on the Moon via asteroid impacts.

And it gives hope to the prospect of space mining , which would expand humanity's access to rare resources beyon