Abstract
Considerable effort has been expended during the past ten years to develop improved methods for analysing current and future minera supply. The mineral fuels have received particular attention, prompted by an increasing awareness that the world’s supply of petroleum may be severely limited in the very near future. In response to such concerns, analyses of the world’s supply of uranium have become increasingly comprehensive, and significant effort has been focused on developing illustrations of future supply possibilities that are both meaningful and easily understood.
Immense — and immensely misconstruable — figures for mineral resources fail to impart a clear picture of mineral resource adequacy and long-term mineral supply. Such figures are almost routinely miataken for material that will be available at acceptable prices when and where needed, as if the world were economically frictonless.
Jan Zwartendyk (1980) Chief, Resource Evaluation Section Mineral policy Sector, EMR Canada
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Williams, R.M. (1984). Prospects and Concepts. In: Brookes, L.G., Motamen, H. (eds) The Economics of Nuclear Energy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3720-9_6
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