ENV-1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Gravimeter, Surface Mining, Magnetometer
13 Sep 2016
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Mineral and energy resources: mineral resources concentrations of matter we need and use that can be extracted, these are nonrenewable resources because may take millions of years to form (rock cycle is sloooow) Nonrenewable mineral resources: we extract and use many nonrenewable minerals. Metallic most compounds of oxides or sulfides (iron, copper, aluminum, etc) Nearly 50 mineral components (3,000+ pounds) go into a car including plastic, copper, gold, iron, lead, zinc, silicon, sand, and others. Known location, quantity, and quality: 2. Portion of identified resources that can be extracted profitably at current prices: 3. Portion of identified resources that boarders on being economically producible: 4. Portion of identified resources that with sufficient economic or technical change may become a reserve: 5. Undiscovered materials that may exist in a known producing area: 6. Undiscovered materials that may exist in a non-producing (new) area or in a new form. How do we get our resources: 1.
