Resource depletion, peak minerals and the implications for sustainable resource management

Publication year: 2011 Source: Global Environmental Change, Available online 13 October 2011 T. Prior, D. Giurco, G. Mudd, L. Mason, J. Behrisch Today’s global society is economically, socially and culturally dependent on minerals and metals. While metals are recyclable, terrestrial mineral deposits are by definition ‘non-renewable’ over human timescales and their stocks are thus finite

Publication year: 2011 Source: Global Environmental Change, Available online 13 October 2011 T. Prior, D. Giurco, G. Mudd, L. Mason, J. Behrisch Today’s global society is economically, socially and culturally dependent on minerals and metals. While metals are recyclable, terrestrial mineral deposits are by definition ‘non-renewable’ over human timescales and their stocks are thus finite

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