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Comment by beefield

We very rarely need specific minerals. We need energy, nutrition, conducting materials etc. Most of these needs we can fulfil with many different minerals. And the amlunt of all [1] minerals in earths crust is staggering compared to any foreseeable futre, so we are just going to flip to whatever is easiest/cheapest to dig. None will "run out" as in there is no more available, only that the remaining ones are too expensive to extract at the moment.

[1] Helium may be one of the exceptions here, but I would guess even that is produceable with some future nucleaf technology given enough money.

parent beefield 3 years ago

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