Extracting natural resources


  • Winning raw materials
  • Utilizing raw materials
  • Using natural resources
  • Encouraging exploitation of natural resources
  • Facilitating extraction of natural resources
  • Exploiting available natural resources

Claim

  1. With regard to subsoil resources, the world becomes ever more adept at discovering new reserves and exploiting old ones. Exploring for oil, for example, used to be a hit-or-miss proposition, resulting in a lot of dry holes. Today oil companies can use seismic waves to help them create precise computer images of the earth. New methods of extraction -- for example, using bacteria to leach metals from low-grade ores -- greatly increase resource recovery. Reserves of resources are actually functions of technology. The more advanced the technology, the more reserves become known and recoverable.


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