harpoon
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Calculate it so that the shipment will fall into an ocean, and recover it from there. Like they used to do with the astronauts.
It still doesn't seem cost effective though. It would take a lot of energy to catapult such a heavy mineral shipment off the lunar surface in the first place.
Astronauts maneuver their reentry vehicle to precise degree when trying to re-enter Earth's surface. Even a small change in the angle will cause them to bounce off the Earth's atmosphere or force them to land at another location..thats one of the reasons NASA have landing locations for their shuttles around the globe including Somalia. So to have such level of accuracy on a piece of rock is just not possible. Even after crashing to ocean (if we are lucky), we have to send in divers or specially equipped submarines to recover them. So your idea just not seems feasible.