what are the different types of nonrenewable resources 
among the most common examples of natural resources are crude oil coal uranium and mineral sources such as gold one subset of nonrenewable resources includes crude oil and natural gas both of these substances are made out of organic carbon material depending on the form it takes after heating and compressing over time another form of nonrenewables is minerals which include gold silver and iron unlike crude oil and natural gas these are quite difficult and expensive to extract meanwhile different types of groundwater are nonrenewables when they do not replenish at their draining speed 