ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the probability and implications of contingencies that might significantly affect the flow of nonfuel mineral supplies to U.S. industrial consumers over the nearer term future. Specifically, it attempts to assess (1) the likelihood that significant shortages or abrupt price changes could occur for a number of important mineral commodities through approximately 1985 and (2) the seriousness of any such occurrence. It addresses itself, not to those mineral supply developments that are expected to occur within the next decade, but to those which might occur.
