Natural Resources
This is an attempt to develop an order to natural resources and how they may be encountered on planetary surveys. It is based upon this flawed & incomplete concept. All known and (Star Trek) fictional naturally-occurring elements will be categorized here.
Resource categories
Common
Corrosives
Base Metals
Noble Gases
Rare Earths
Precious
Radioactives
Exotics
Star Control to Star Trek planetary classifications
- Radioactive:
- Rainbow: n/a
| Resource | Type | Category | Deposits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actinium | element | Radioactives | |
| Aluminum | element | Base Metals | |
| Ammonia | compound | Common | |
| Antimony | element | Base Metals | |
| Argon | element | Noble Gases | |
| Arsenic | element | Exotics | |
| Astatine | element | Radioactives | |
| Barium | element | Rare | |
| Beryllium | element | Base | |
| Bismuth | element | base | |
| Boron | element | Common | |
| Bromine | element | Corr | |
| Cadmium | element | Base | |
| Calcium | element | Base | |
| Carbon | element | Common | |
| Carbon Dioxide | compound | Common | |
| Carbon Monoxide | compound | Corr | |