Minerals Per Capita in the Future

L. David Roper
http://www.roperld.com/personal/RoperLDavid.htm
2 July, 2016

Here are graphs showing minerals extraction per capita assuming that population and minerals extraction are proportional to available fossil-fuels energy.

Minerals in Units of 106 tonnes

Minerals in Units of 103 tonnes

It is interesting that gold extraction per capita is almost constant in time under the assumption that population and gold-extraction rate are proportional to the available fossil-fuels energy.

Minerals in Units of tonnes

Minerals Depletion