Over- exploitation

Under what circumstances do natural resources become scarce and disappear?

Under what circumstances do natural resources become scarce and disappear is when like the rising coal economy in Britain. The more the demand the more you use it and the more you is it the less of a chance it will return.Also oil the rising in the price is a sign that it is slowly dwindling in number. (
://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/whosWho/profiles/neumayer/pdf/Article%20in%20Journal%20of%20
Economic%20Surveys.pdf )

A pile of coal with a worker in front of it

A oil firm