The island nation of Nauru initially sponsored The Metals Company (TMC) and its deep-sea ... miles south of San Diego. It also applied for two licenses to explore more areas for mining potential.

"It's an amazing way of catching up from what is a very distant second place to China when it comes to critical minerals." Deep-sea mining equipment being deployed by The Metals Company during a ...

Advertisement Advertisement Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential ... Brazil, China, and the Cook Islands are supportive of deep sea mining in their ...

Trump’s executive order also calls on federal agencies to write up a report on opportunities for deep-sea mining both within US waters and in international waters, and create a plan to map ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency has long held the keys to a potential motherlode ... for a future deep-sea mining industry.

Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep ... including Brazil, China, and the Cook Islands are supportive of deep-sea mining in their own economic ...

Protesters project a slide opposed to deep-sea mining on the side of ... The decisive factor in this initiative is clear: China’s current dominance over the mining and refinement of critical ...

The move comes amid U.S. efforts to decrease reliance on China for critical minerals. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 24 aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry ...

As global demand for critical minerals intensifies — driven by the energy transition, technological innovation, and geopolitical competition — deep-sea mining has emerged as a potential ...

China on Friday blasted President Donald Trump’s move to unleash deep-sea mining in international waters, calling the move a “selfish” and illegal act that violates international law.

Initially intended for civilian applications like seabed mining and salvage operations, the tool's dual-use potential ... constructing a deep-sea 'space station' in the South China Sea, designed ...

In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining ... and most systemic efforts to map a single nation’s seabed ...