Question

What is the need to develop potential resources

Answer 1

Well, have a look around you, and you don't have to look too hard to find things that were made from resources. If you are sitting behind your computer reading Yahoo Answers, then you should thank the geologists, metallurgists, engineers, and miners for mining and extracting the raw materials that make your computer possible. Things like iron, copper, gold, siliica, clay, phosphorous, lead, and mercury all came from a mine. Then you've got to consider the energy that runs your computer, which almost certainly came from a mine that produces uranium or coal, or from an oil well.