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AMONG the raw materials referred to in the Atlantic Charter minerals are, beyond question, the most important because of their natural occurrence under fixed geographical conditions which cannot be changed by any artificial measures. They are essential to all technical industries ; and, rightly or wrongly, applied technology has become an inevitable and ineradicable phase of our civilization. No civilized community can now exist without a sufficient, and sufficiently varied, supply of mineral products ; substitutes for them cannot be provided, except to a very small degree, by other materials, natural or artificial, without increased cost and loss of efficiency. The demand for them is insistent and certainly will increase in the immediate future. The problems before us are therefore urgent.
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HOLLAND, T. RELATION OF MINERAL RESOURCES TO WORLD PEACE. Nature 150, 364–366 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150364a0
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