Office of Mineral Resources

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The Illuminatia Office of Mineral Resources (OMR) is a government office operating within the Illuminatia Bureau of Natural Resources (BNR). The OMR is tasked with ensuring the preservation of and sustainable mining, drilling, digging, quarrying, burrowing, and prospecting of natural non-organic, non-aquatic, non-atmospheric resources—typically of those found in the ground, including minerals, stone, gems, soil, and associated geologic environment. The OMR supports the conservation of natural mineral and land formations on the Neonisi planet while permitting and analyzing the potential impact of human activities that change, remove, or borrow these resources from the environment.

While the OMR's mission may seem to overlap that of its companion agency under the BNR, the Office of Resource Extraction (ORE), the OMR limits its scope to non-organic materials and focuses on the existing environment and the preservation of the observed status and balance of the structures, formations, and deposits within the geologic domain, while the ORE focuses on both inorganic and organic materials existing in the natural environment. The ORE concentrates on the administering of human activity that removes resources from the environment, while the OMR ensures the mineral and non-organic environment of the terranean landscape is preserved and studies impacts of human activity.

The Office of Mineral Resources intervenes in activities that might permanently alter Illuminatia's geology on a local or global scale. The OMR also engages in observation and study in order to inform other government agencies of the impact of human activity on Illuminatia's inorganic and mineral resources, putting the OMR in close collaboration with other BNR agencies, such as the Office of Landscape and Terrain (OLT) and Office of Aquatic Resources (OAR).

The existence of the OMR reflects Illuminatians' recognition of the inherent value of all of the Neonisi planet's natural environs, including all of those natural resources which are appreciated and acknowledged to contribute to the overall integrity of the planet's geology and ecosystem. Illuminatian humanity's concerns are not limited to flora or fauna by virtue of being "living things" or organisms which may experience sentience or to those elements of the environment which are visible or consumed by its human inhabitants. Human concern on the Neonisi planet extends to the whole planet, living and not, visible and invisible, including its geological completeness.