What would be the first thing humans would mine on Jupiter?

Jupiter is a terrible place to be, but for a number of artistic reasons, I'd like to have my story take place there and only there. "Mining", or resource extraction by any other name, is the usual reason cited for sending human beings to live in terrible places. The reasons NOT to do so are usually economic in nature, as the resources extracted are not worth the investment required to enable people to survive in a terrible place.

What would likely be the first thing we'd find economically viable to mine on Jupiter? I really don't want to handwave this thing the target material away, as it may have a direct impact on the environment I create to be my setting. EDIT: I'm willing for the required tech to be powered by phlebotinum.

EDIT: Emphasize this, restate that... The unspoken assumption, I guess, is that something HAS been found to be economically and technically viable to mine on Jupiter. I would like a reasonably well-thought-out opinion on what that first material for which these conditions might be true could be.

posted over 7 years ago

Lord Dust‭

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