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Abstract
Modern societies are highly dependent upon energy and mineral resources to produce and deliver the material goods and even the services of everyday life. Although societies' dependence upon fossil fuels is evident and understood by much of the population, few people are as well informed about their dependence upon a wide variety of nonfuel minerals. This ignorance may result from two interrelated conditions. First, in contrast to fossil fuels, few people directly use nonfuel minerals in recognizable forms because most use is as part of manufactured products. Second, the value of raw ($38 billion) and even processed ($397 billion) nonfuel minerals in the United States in 2002 was small relative to the value the industries that consume these materials contribute to the economy ($1,700 billion). That is, although nonfuel mineral inputs are indispensable to construction and to the manufacture of durable and even nondurable goods (USGS 2003), their value is modest compared with the value of the final products.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Mineral resources and consumption in the twenty-first century |
| Year Published | 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Resources for the Future |
| Publisher location | Washington, D.C. |
| Contributing office(s) | National Minerals Information Center |
| Description | 21 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Scarcity and growth revisited: natural resources and the environment in the new millennium |
| First page | 33 |
| Last page | 53 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |