The energy costs of producing copper and aluminium from primary sources

Chapman, Peter F. (1973). The energy costs of producing copper and aluminium from primary sources. ERG Report 1; Energy Research Group, The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Abstract

The current reserve of a material is the total quantity of material in known or inferred deposits which can be extracted economically now or in the immediate future. As known deposits are depleted and the price of the material rises, exploration is encouraged and new deposits are discovered and worked. Thus the quoted reserve is an operational number, elastic to the market price. The same is not true of the total resource base of the material.

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