peak minerals, Tag

This is a guest post by Jean Laherrère. As is his nature, Jean speaks more with graphs than words. This posts contains over 40 images amounting to 2 Mbytes of data; keep this in mind when proceeding.

Last November, a group of Dutch institutes and companies launched a platform on the topic of material scarcity (www.materialscarcity.nl). The goal of the platform is to exchange information and start a number of research...

This is the second installment of a guest post by Jean Laherrére on peak gold. The first part can be read here. This time Jean takes a macroscopic perspective on gold mining for the world as whole.

This is a guest post by Jean Laherrère on gold. Although of little relevance to our economies in the present day, this precious metal has been used as money for many thousands of years, and still retains its importance and...

For the last couple of weeks, I have been reading about the issue of mineral depletion, since I want to do some research on this topic. The basic question is whether we can keep relying on producing (rare) metals from the...