Exactly what they did with diamonds.

“The mine owners did not find the gold asteroid, they did not mine the gold asteroid, they did not mill the gold asteroid, but by some weird alchemy all the gold from the asteroid belonged to them!”

Bill Haywood

You fool, the tax payers will fund it. The billionaire will merely provide the shell companies to channel government funding through, in return for some sizeable dark money political donation kickbacks that will enable whatever crooked politicians who allowed such theft to occur to absolutely flood the airwaves with propaganda at every election cycle.