Natural and man-made sources of metal production, forming an inexhaustible raw material base for controlled «creative development of subsoil»

Scientific and statistical confirmation of the practical probability of the exhaustion of metal reserves in the continental crust to a depth of 5 km requires, based on the lack of alternative to the existence of mankind without metals, the creation of a controlled format of resource-reproducing and resource-saving creative development of the subsoil with the simultaneous preservation of a high-quality natural environment. In this regard, sources of metal production in all their diversity, inexhaustible on a historical time scale, have been identified. The solution is based on the use of previously unknown and unidentified properties of the combined interaction of the geological environment and man-made systems created and used in this environment and outside it.