Sustainable Development and Utilization of Mineral Resources: Primary Copper and Secondary Copper.

The article focuses on a research paper which conducts a regression analysis of copper resource consumption trends in China on the basis of per capita gross domestic product, unit energy consumption and import-export volume between 1990-2013. Topics discussed include impact of declining copper stock on copper supply, advantages of secondary copper resources over primary resources in terms of energy consumption and need to develop secondary copper industry to satisfy future copper demands.