Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2020)

Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production

  • Simon M. Jowitt,
  • Gavin M. Mudd,
  • John F. H. Thompson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-0011-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Future availability of metals is likely to be constrained primarily by environmental, social and governance factors, according to an analysis of reserve, resource and production figures which show that supply has matched demand over the last 60 years