Reasons for depleting nature of our mineral resources:

• Minerals gift of nature which is non-renewable resource. Coal, iron, copper, metals and non-metals are various minerals. These are obtained by mining and by metallurgical processes.
• Mining pollutes the environment, on a larger scale. The rate at which we are digging these minerals, our future generation may face the extinction. It is very dangerous.
• Value of these minerals increases because of the large demand, but the supply is increasing. This has resulted in more efforts to drill and search other territories.
• The large-scale exploitation of minerals began in the Industrial revolution in England and has grown rapidly over ages. Today's economy is largely based on fossil fuels such as coal, petrol and diesel, minerals and oil.
• Lots of building materials are obtained from mines. Demand of stones, marbles, granite and limestone etc is ever decreasing.
• To support 8-9% of GDP growth, mining sector has to do well. It puts efforts on minerals.

Solution to prevent mineral depletion:

• Strong global and local legislations are required to reverse the trend. Governments need to show more strong political will to preserve our resources.
• Use of synthetic building materials can reduce the load on natural stones.
• Use of new technologies at thermal power plants, ignition engines, metallurgy, industries etc so that big outputs can be obtained from low inputs.