Non-renewable Resource Issues: Geoscientific and Societal
Challenges: An Introduction ..................................... 1
Richard Sinding-Larsen and Friedrich-W. Wellmer
Raw Materials Initiative: A Contribution to the European
Minerals Policy Framework ...................................... 21
Slavko V. Šolar, Luca Demicheli, and Patrick Wall
Discovery and Sustainability ................................... 35
Friedrich-W. Wellmer
Is Depletion Likely to Create Significant Scarcities of
Future Petroleum Resources? .................................... 45
Roberto F. Aguilera, Roderick G. Eggert, Gustavo Lagos
C.C., and John E. Tilton
Coal: An Energy Source for Future World Needs .................. 83
Thomas Thielemann
Uranium and Thorium: The Extreme Diversity of the Resources
of the World's Energy Minerals ................................. 91
Michel Cuney
The Principal Rare Earth Elements Deposits of the United
States: A Summary of Domestic Deposits and a Global
Perspective ................................................... 131
Keith R. Long, Bradley S. Van Gosen, Nora K. Foley, and
Daniel Cordier
Evaluating Supply Risk Patterns and Supply and Demand Trends
for Mineral Raw Materials: Assessment of the Zinc Market ...... 157
Peter Buchholz, Maren Liedtke, and Marko Gernuks
Stretching the Availability of Non-renewable Resources ........ 183
Sigurd Heiberg and Friedrich-W. Wellmer
Secondary Raw Material Sources for Precious and Special
Metals ........................................................ 195
Christian Hagelüken
Certified Trading Chains in Mineral Production: A Way to
Improve Responsibility in Mining .............................. 213
Gudrun Franken, Jürgen Vasters, Ulrike Dorner, Frank
Melcher, Maria Sitnikova, and Simon Goldmann
Issues and Challenges in Life Cycle Assessment in the
Minerals and Metals Sector: A Chance to Improve Raw
Materials Efficiency .......................................... 229
Mohan Yellishetty, Nawshad Haque, and Alain Dubreuil
Index ......................................................... 247
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