1) Add a recipe to make oxide asteroid chunks out of Aquilo materials
2) Reprocess those oxide chunks into metallic ones
3) Crush them for iron and copper
4) Profit

I don’t know if this is in line with what you have in mind for galore Aquilo or galore asteroids, but I saw the possibility and thought it was quite amusing. This would also open paths to calcite, stone and tungsten on Aquilo’s surface, even though it wasn’t my primary goal. It does open a new path to carbon, but two already exist so it’s not a big deal.

There is technically already a path to iron and copper on Aquilo, but it’s only enabled by recyclers. Make LDS out of lithium and oil, recycle it for copper, make green circuits out of copper and oil and then recycle those for iron. But I’m not sure what your stance is on recycler-based conversions, whether or not you consider them a proper part of them mod.

Oh this chain does look pretty cool :D

Next update will be a huge Aquilo add-on and this will fit right in. (Although I may do something like filtering asteroids from the ocean / advanced ammoniacal separation instead, it's the same general idea.) I did already have a path involving breeding bacteria in ammoniacal solution in place, but I don't see any reason to not add both.

I must add however, that I'm still not sure if I want to make iron and copper sourced on Aquilo. The whole idea of the planet is that you import necessities like that, and I'm still thinking if I want to break that mentality or not. And IF I do, I want to it in a interesting manner; e.g instead of making steel and copper available locally, making it so you can craft LDS from Aquilo stuff. (Well I could do both, but I just wanted to say it's not set in stone if I'll add the source-from-aquilo recipes.)

But I'm not sure what your stance is on recycler-based conversions, whether or not you consider them a proper part of them mod.

Huh? The recycler annoying me again? No waaaaay- (I'm ignoring that thing)

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion and as a sidenote; I admire your Galore-knowledge :D

Edit: The Aquilo overhaul has been pushed to another update.