China dominates the global market simply because it has fairly abundant rare earth ores close to the surface.

Faced with severe supply constraints, Asian economies are increasingly tapping other continents fossil fuels, mineral ores, and timber.

He described many minerals and ores both from local mines such as those at Laurium near Athens, and further afield.

Smuggling of the conflict minerals, coltan and cassiterite (ores of tantalum and tin, respectively), has helped fuel the war in the Eastern Congo.

Like other rare earths, this element is never found as a free element in nature but is found bound in monazite sand ores.

OXFORD In the coming decade, extraction of oil, gas, and mineral ores will constitute by far the most important economic opportunity in Africa s history.

Rare earth ores in southern China all except for those in Inner Mongolia contain radioactive substances that pose significant threats to human health and the environment.

Indeed, rare earth elements are rare only in the sense that they are distributed in small quantities and must be extracted from ores, a time consuming process.

NEW DELHI Competition for strategic natural resources including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order.

Similarly, countries can import fossil fuels, mineral ores, and resources from the biosphere like fish and timber but they cannot import water, which is essentially local, on a large scale and on a prolonged much less permanent basis.

We draw from stocks of non renewable natural resources (for example, oil and metal ores), and we deteriorate or modify the quality of other resources (for example, water and arable land) by imposing on them a rhythm of exploitation superior to their capacity for regeneration.