{"id":88330,"date":"2009-12-18T07:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/energy-and-mineral-production-on-a-permanent-downward-spiral-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-18T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T12:53:00","slug":"the-coming-shortage-of-all-the-worlds-most-important-industrial-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/88330","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Shortage Of All The World&#8217;s Most Important Industrial Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/energy-and-mineral-production-on-a-permanent-downward-spiral-2009-12\/economies-are-growing-exponentially-which-is-the-root-cause-of-resource-strain-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b2b79fc0000000000b14bdb&amp;maxX=397&amp;maxY=298\" border=\"0\" alt=\"metals\" width=\"397\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s beena a lot of dicussion lately about so-called peak gold.<\/p>\n<p>But as gold&#8217;s fans will tell you gold isn&#8217;t a commodity, it&#8217;s a form of money. Gold isn&#8217;t actually intended to be used in anything.<\/p>\n<p>But what about metals that are meant to be used in industrial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In an excellent presentation, Andr&eacute; Diederen presents an argument that all of the world&#8217;s important industrial metals are dwindling, and that despite increasing explortation budgets, our sources of them are becoming rare and more concentrated.<\/p>\n<p>We present, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/5548?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theoildrum+(The+Oil+Drum)\">The Oil Drum<\/a>, Diederen&#8217;s presentation <em>Global Resource Depletion: Metal minerals scarcity and the Elements of Hope. <\/em><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/energy-and-mineral-production-on-a-permanent-downward-spiral-2009-12\/economies-are-growing-exponentially-which-is-the-root-cause-of-resource-strain-1\">Now, see the charts &#8212; &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/energy-and-mineral-production-on-a-permanent-downward-spiral-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/peak-gold-is-happening-everywhere-2009-12\">The Overwhelming Evidence For Peak Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-coming-collapse-of-the-global-gold-mining-industry-2009-12\">The Coming Collapse Of The Global Gold Mining Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/5BxAf08YIRs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s beena a lot of dicussion lately about so-called peak gold. But as gold&#8217;s fans will tell you gold isn&#8217;t a commodity, it&#8217;s a form of money. Gold isn&#8217;t actually intended to be used in anything. But what about metals that are meant to be used in industrial purposes. In an excellent presentation, Andr&eacute; Diederen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}