What ores are considered to be non-renewable resources?
Every ore deposit is a non-renewable resource. Having said that it is the job of technology to make the price of a metal competitive, affordable. Initially when not much in demand the technology of mining it, extraction needs to pick up bringing its price down. Later demand may push up its price and the extra expenditure for adding to its supply may become unaffordable, making it appear non-renewable. A stage will come when a particular metal or more metals may have to be recycled as the quantum of it is fixed in nature. Water as consumable is no exception. So far as Sun is renewing it by sucking it from oceans, forming clouds and precipitating it in the form of rains, man need not pay his attention there. He has immense quantity of unusable water of seas (“Water, water everywhere | not a drop to drink”) as an alternative!. in particular Aluminum recycling is picking up as the Electric power input, the most essential raw ingredient in its production is becoming scarce faster. Copper or
