Scientists from different countries of the world, united to study the problem of the finiteness of mineral resources, declare that despite the fact that the reserves of mineral raw materials are really not infinite, they will be more than enough for many thousands of years. And there, you see, people will master technologies that will make copper, zinc and other non-renewable resources unnecessary.
“Recently, it is widely believed that the mineral resources at the disposal of mankind will run out in a couple of decades. This is, in fact, a myth, carefully maintained for certain economic purposes. However, we will not delve into conspiracy theories, but we will only say that there will be enough mineral resources for thousands and tens of thousands of years,”the actualnews.org resource quotes the authors of the study.
According to which, people often confuse the mineral resources of the Earth as a whole with the volume of proven deposits.
And this is a rather serious mistake, because proven resources make up an extremely insignificant percentage of the world's reserves.
The scarcity of one or another mineral resource, which generates loud headlines in the press, is only evidence of a temporary increase in demand for a particular resource. That is, it has nothing to do with its real reserves in the earth's interior.
Kolesnikov Andrey