Would you live on terraformed Venus?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

And Neptune might be awash in diamonds the size of your fist.  So what?

Boru

So what?   If Venus can’t ever be mined for most of the minerals its own colonies need, the economic proposition of planting colonies on its surface would be greatly reduced.

It doesn't matter.  The mineral wealth (or dearth) on other planets is of no moment, as we're never going to exploit it.

Boru