[SustainableTompkins] No shortage of metals in the future?

[Thomas Shelley]

Dear Friends--I have a deep suspicion that there is something wrong with 
this guy's logic.  Such as there will be no energy available for the 
reclamation re sees off in the future?  Or am I being short sighted?   Tom

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=29e2295b-2de4-4207-9bd7-a994ca1441a9

"Canadian metals guru Brian Smith, director of the Metal Materials Division 
at Natural Resources Canada, says over the long term there 
<http://globalspec.ip09.com/rd/9z1zkp4htc3nrd9e4e5oo5vdmfccft0udrtrf707ag8>shouldn't 
be any metals shortages. Higher prices, he adds, are short term until 
supply catches up with demand. "Minerals and metals are part of the 
periodic table, so they can be neither created nor destroyed. Recycling 
means that they will always be available to us, providing that we don't 
eliminate them by scattering them in places we can't reach." He adds 
whatever comes out of the ground can be recovered, and even landfills can 
be considered as storage for the future."

Tom Shelley
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