Using Mars as a waystation for asteroid mining

Would there be any benefit to this? At first I was thinking if you had an outpost on Mars you could spend less money on the actual trip to the belt itself, but I'm not sure if having your launch station be closer to the belt makes a difference when, at the end of the day, it still has to make it back to Earth. Doubly so if you have to take off from Mars, mine for ice/iron, then land on Mars again to extract and refine your cargo before shipping it to Earth.

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