Mining Metallic Hydrogen

The Hegemony is in need of superconductors for their fleets of stratospheric craft (stratocraft for short) as well as many, many, many other applications. I recently read metallic hydrogen is a theoretical superconductor and the Hegemony already mines the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

How would you even manage to siphon the stuff from the mantle of Jupiter up to orbit? Even if metallic hydrogen isn't worth fetching, other metals probably are at those depths. Mainly I'm wondering what infrastructure and cool toys you would need to "mine" the mantle of Jupiter.

Note: Stratocraft are pretty much halfway between a space ship and a regular ship. They are mainly used to ferry shipments to and from orbit. They mainly hover above the surface using superconductors and conventional engines.

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