Planet Earth is a pretty generous place when you think about it. It’s got all this great air to breathe, fertile
soil for growing fine foodstuffs, and even nice shiny metals like gold and platinum which are fun to look at
(and occasionally kill each other over). But the planet is less generous with a few things – things we very
much like to have in our modern lives. As scarcity breeds value, these five resources are incredibly
valuable because they are decidedly less than abundant.

5 Water
And when discussing valuable natural resources, we would
be remiss if we didn’t give a nod to good old water. Not that
valuable, you say? Readily flowing behind taps everywhere
and available in convenient bottles in thousands of stores?
1.) That’s not true everywhere. 2.) Go a day or two without
water and then tell us it’s not pretty damn valuable.

4 Phosphorous
Phosphorous may seem endlessly abundant, and indeed it
can be found in many places on earth – not to mention
within your own body. But large, concentrated deposits of
this element are limited to a few regions, and large-scale
collection of phosphorous threatens to deplete the supply
within a century. That’s bad news, as phosphorous is the
most commonly used fertilizer worldwide, and helps feed a
hell of a lot of human beings.

3 Ivory
Ivory is, unfortunately, pretty valuable. And the larger the
piece, the higher the value. Whereas an ounce of gold is
worth precisely one-sixteenth what a pound of gold would
fetch you, not so with ivory. Smaller pieces – say an inch
cubed – can be had for mere dollars. Once you start getting
into samples measured not in inches but in feet, you start
dealing in thousands and thousands of dollars. But if you
are in fact dealing in ivory, then you pretty much suck.

2 Rhodium
The most valuable metal in the world is not silver or gold.
It’s not even platinum. No, it’s good old rhodium. Rhodium
is prized for its industrial applications, including everything
from automobile exhaust systems (more than three-fourths
of mined rhodium goes to this purpose) to highly reflective
surfaces used to focus beams of light. And in the jewelry
industry, rhodium is used to make other metals truly shine;
white gold and platinum jewelry are often “rhodium dipped”
to provide added brilliance.

1 Californium-252 (Cf-252)
Arguably the most valuable natural resource on earth is the
element californium. In its most common seen form, the
isotope californium-252, the half-life is less than three years;
scientists wishing to use this element have very little time to
work with very little californium. It’s used in the medical
field as a cancer treatment, and it’s also great at starting
reaction processes for nuclear reactors. This exciting
element can also help detect subterranean resources
ranging from gold to oil. The californium used in practical
applications is manmade, but it does occur naturally in trace
amounts, thus it makes our list.

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4 Phosphorous
Phosphorous may seem endlessly abundant, and indeed it
can be found in many places on earth – not to mention
within your own body. But large, concentrated deposits of
this element are limited to a few regions, and large-scale
collection of phosphorous threatens to deplete the supply
within a century. That’s bad news, as phosphorous is the
most commonly used fertilizer worldwide, and helps feed a
hell of a lot of human beings.

False! The most used fertilizer is nitrogen, then of course phosphorus follows

Oxygen, nitrogen, both should be there instead of the last two, not everyone needs those two.

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