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Compare and contrast mineral resources and mineral reserves

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Mineral resources are a concentration of minerals in Earth's crust that can be extracted and processed now or in the future, and including unidentified sources. Mineral reserves are those that are identified and can be mined profitably under current economic conditions with current technology. Both are potentially valuable, and for which reasonable prospects exist for eventual economic extraction

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