A mineral is a natural assemblage of elements that was created some time ago, usually millions of years. Wrigt: We have these minerals and metals in the ground in deposits which are finite. And once we consume those resources, they don't grow back on human time scales,. Not on human time scale. Or rather, if we do have them grow back, it means some large volcanic event has happened on a world wide scale. But in that case, they won't be growing back. They wold, they would be unearthed from where they were before - or would they literally be growing back?

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