Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion
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...In addition, better extraction technologies have been found to be largely obscured by decreasing reserve levels as the coal becomes increasingly complicated to mine, effectively meaning that depletion has been able to offset many of the gains from new technology [18, 19]....
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...In a review of the debate regarding the long-term supply of minerals, Tilton (2003) describes the long-run availability of mineral commodities as, ‘a race between the cost-increasing effects of depletion, and the cost-decreasing effects of new technology’....
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...In fact, various studies show that depletion can make up for technological progress in the industry (Livernois, 1988; Tilton, 2003; Rodriguez and Arias, 2008; Topp et al., 2008)....
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...These surplus costs over a long period of time are not particularly considered in current decision making [10]....
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