Mineral Resources
This page is part of the Geology for Society publication.
Modern industry, technology and consumer products require a vast array of minerals, both abundant and rare. Their extraction and trade forms a major part of our national and global economy. As the population and demand for resources grow, innovative technologies are required to locate and extract minerals and to use them more efficiently.
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Background British Geological Survey: Minerals UK, Centre for Sustainable Mineral Development
British Geological Survey: European Mineral Statistics
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Critical, Strategic and Rare Earth Minerals
BGS: What makes a smart phone - Video
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Policy documents and consultation responses:
Education Factsheets
Past Meetings & Lectures
Geoscientist Magazine
- Game of Drones - March 2017
- Finding our Marbles: the story of long-forgotten but exceptional ornamental marbles - May 2015
- Burma's Rising Star: Tin-tungsten Mineralisation and the mining comeback in Burma - February 2015
- Critical metals: a Greenland hunt for rare metals underpinning new technologies - March 2014
- Kimberlites uncorked – On the formation of Kimberlites, March 2012, article
- Strategic Metals & Minerals : is the world facing a crisis or opportunity? - February 2012, article
- Apatite for growth – On the depletion of Phosphate resources, August 2011, article
- Arctic Russia – minerals and mineral resources – August 2010, article
- Rare and getting rarer – August 2010, article
Rare Earth Elements
Read the 2011 Geological Society briefing note on Rare Earth Elements.
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