How much do you use?
Each person in the UK uses over ten tonnes of minerals and metals in one year, on average. This figure includes mineral commodities you use at home and a share of minerals, metals and fuels used in leisure, retail, transport, work and public facilities. Average quantities of the main minerals and metals that are used in a person's lifetime in the UK (at 2004 rates of consumption) are shown below in tonnes:
Construction material:
| Construction material |
tonnes |
| Crushed rock | 165.66 |
| Secondary aggregates | 0.06 |
| Cement | 14.45 |
| Gypsum | 4.03 |
| Sand and gravel | 112.26 |
| Building Stone | 3.99 |
| Clays | 26.75 |
Industrial Minerals
| Industrial mineral |
tonnes |
| Barytes | 0.13 |
| Fluorspar | 0.09 |
| Talc | 0.09 |
| Silica sand | 6.42 |
| Feldspar | 0.04 |
| Potash | 0.51 |
| Salt | 6.95 |
Metals
| Metal |
tonnes |
| Aluminium | 0.694 |
| Gold | 0.001 |
| Magnesium | 0.014 |
| Nickel | 0.022 |
| Tin | 0.007 |
| Zinc | 0.312 |
| Copper | 0.474 |
| Lead | 0.394 |
| Manganese | 0.151 |
| Steel | 17.19 |
| Titanium | 0.024 |
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