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Natural resources and their role in the global economy: the mineral, energy, land, forest, water resources
Human resources of the world economy and labor migration
Scientific and technical resources and information resources

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By Consumption and resilience: exhaustible non-renewable exhaustible renewable inexhaustible As belonging to the natural environment:
Lithosphere resources: minerals land and soil resources
Resources hydrosphere: glaciers, water, land and oceans
Resources atmosphere: climate, recreational and wind
Resources of the biosphere: flora and fauna
The physical state: solid, liquid, gaseous
By formation: igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic (transformed)
According to the composition and characteristics of use: fuel, metal, non-metal
By end-uses:
Fuel and energy
For the needs of the construction, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, chemical, timber, wood and food industries
Principal division concerning economic activities:
Natural
Human
Scientific and technical resources financial The economic evaluation of natural resources - the possibility and feasibility of their involvement in the production at the present level of science and technology development
To do the economic evaluation, one needs to define the following:
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stock size and concentration per unit area;

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qualitative composition;

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proportion of mineral elements;

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occurrence and exploitation;

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costs of production (output) per unit of output;

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development and settlement of the territory where the field is located; 

transport conditions;

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requirements for environmental protection.

 Resourcing – the ratio between the value of

inventories and the extent of their use. Availability of mineral resources is expressed by the number of years that are enough for proven reserves, and provision of forest, land and