Since the first oil crisis in 1973, the scientific literature on questions of mineral resource supply has increased dramatically. Within this development, the present work deserves a key position. It fills existing gaps, particularly in the connection between resource-related areas of general economics on the one side and classical mining/mineral economics on the other. Both fields furnish the basis for decision-making in a particularly sensitive area of the economy.
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