Mineral resources and consumption in the twenty-first century

Scarcity and Growth Revisited: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-53

  David Menzie, W ^a   Singer, Donald A ^b   DeYoung, John H ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 84920756624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331499     Document Type: Chapter

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