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The perspectives of raw materials supply are analyzed using tips from the past. Continuous broadening of technology provides unimaginable new frontiers of the existing processes, and creates some entirely new production methods, and even new classes of materials. Hence, it can be concluded that technology-made novelties will lead to new resources. The achieved progress further encourages our imagination to forecast bolder highlights, such as: Why should humankind not adopt ambition to reverse back the process of metals dissipation along with their exploitation to recover metal even from the leanest metal containing particles? Against all sound reasoning of today and limitations implied by thermodynamics and its almighty entropy! The outcome of this idea alone may eventually provide sufficient supply in the future, without the participation of the other sources. Decrease of copper ores exploitation threshold from 3 % copper in the 1900s to some 0.06 % in the 21st Century is a proof that metal recovery becomes less and less demanding. Conquering the gap between gold content in seawater and its competitive extraction metallurgy will be far more spectacular proof of merits of the announced technology-made novelties. Old and already abandoned sources could again become candidates for exploitation.

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