联合国一组专家建议,原先采用的有关矿产资源的一些描述性术语应废弃不用,而改用一套新的国际字母一数码系统. 例如,目前被描述为“已证实的工业矿床”(a proven economic deposit)这个术语,在新系统内被标为R-1-E资源;“潜在资源”(speculative or potential resources)则应属R-3类. 该专家组为解决国际矿产界在使用资源术语方面的混乱状况,提出了 A group of United Nations experts suggested that some of the descriptive terms previously used on mineral resources should be discarded and replaced with a new set of international alpha-numeric systems, for example, currently described as “proven industrial deposits” (a proven The term “economic deposit” is referred to as R-1-E within the new system; “speculative or potential resources” should belong to R-3, a term used by the group of experts to address the international resource community’s term of use of resources The confusion in the area was raised