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When we wrote the first edition of this book in 2008–2009, the world was in the depths of the financial crisis and activity of the minerals sector was at a minimum. We nonetheless painted a positive picture of the future of mining, mineral exploration and the study of ore deposits, arguing that the world will always require metals and other mineral products. We recognised that recycling and substitution will meet an increasing proportion of these needs, but the rest must be mined. We talked about whether (not when) our mineral resources will be exhausted and concluded that this is unlikely ever to happen, at least for most metals.
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Arndt, N., Ganino, C. (2011). The Future of Economic Geology. In: Metals and Society. Metals and Society, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22996-1_6
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