Sentences with phrase «nonrenewable minerals»

The GPI, by contrast, counts the depletion or degradation of wetlands, forests, farmlands and nonrenewable minerals (including oil) as current cost.

In order to develop them companies need to engage in the mining of nonrenewable minerals, like columbite - tantalite, which sometimes come from politically unstable regions such as the Congo.

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In the 1969 book «Resources and Man» by the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, it says in the introduction: ««Man must look with equal urgency to his nonrenewable resources — to mineral fuels, to metals, to chemical, and to construction materials.