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Marble.
No. Seriously. It's a material derived from very specific conditions (primordial sea calcium carbonate containing creatures being ground up then exposed to geological influences over extremely long time spans) that don't necessarily exist everywhere else if at all.
With enough power you can obviously replicate everything and anything but barring that it's one resource that is both tangible and not comparatively abundant elsewhere.
By the same token I feel like having marble floors & statues is going to regain a lot of its old popularity during the first Millenium of solar settlement.
Nothing says "I'm rich" like lifting literal stones out of a gravity well for aesthetic purposes.
Micro/Post-scarcity is reedom of deprivation, not freedom of desire. 😎
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Nah bulk hydrocarbons aren't that rare. Titan has a ton for example.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/This-Tiny-Moon-Has-More-Oil-Gas-Than-Earth.html
Moreso because unlike diamonds or most other precious minerals visible randomness adds to the value.
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Yeah abducting life forms to proliferate is far easier than the result of a potentially unique bio-geological process.