This sounds like Club of Rome stuff I heard in the '70s. We were supposed to be out of quite a few metals by now. The problem is that they based their argument on the idea that proven reserves were the sum total of all the metal existing on the planet.

Looking here, for example, gallium is apparently usually recovered when processing bauxite, which isn't terribly rare, and that is far from the only source.

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