Why minerals are considered a non-renewable resource?

Answer 1

Metals fall into several categories:

* Metals are non-renewable, no natural process is making new metal at a rate that notocably increases thew worlds supply.

* Metals are generally recoverable and reusable - once you extract a metal from ore you can reclaim it from whatever use it is in presently for further use. * With the exception of a few very rare metals from the far end of the Periodic Table metals are available on earth in quantities that will meet our conceivable needs. The problem is that the availability of these resources varies from easy (gold in placer deposits) to very difficult (gold in sea water) * the potential for an abundant metal reserve fro space (asteroids etc.) is high, but in the distant future.

Answer 2

because they are ore that cannot be used again and they take time to renew themselves again

Answer 3

Because it is a finite resource. There is only so much of any one mineral which is present on Earth and every time some of it is mined and processed there is a little bit less.

Answer 4

Because minerals take a long time to be made. (Much slower than we use them.)

(not strip mining)

Answer 5

No, it is nonrenewable.