At ANP, we also trade few different minerals like coal, rock phosphate and scrap metals for iron and steel recovery. Mineral trading can be defined as the buying and selling of big amounts of minerals. Natural resources are both renewable and non-renewable. References to “energy” can include solid fossil energy. Typically, however, energy refers to oil and natural gas. References to “mineral” commodities typically refer to solids that must be mined. The energy minerals like coal are mined, and so can fall in either the energy or mineral category.