In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy ...

The UN’s International Seabed Authority, established under the Law of the Sea treaty, has granted TMC and other companies exploratory permits for deep-sea mining.

Deep-seafloor mining is a complex topic that leaves out a crucial starting point: mining the potato-sized rocks on the seafloor called “nodules” only yields four metals of any economic ...

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor off the coast of American Samoa. The Interior Department announced late T… ...

Protesters project a slide opposed to deep-sea mining on the side of the Hidden Gem deep-sea mining vessel, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 8, 2022 (Sipa photo by Charles M. Vella via AP Images).

China's Meng Xiang drill ship aims to reach Earth's Moho, advancing deep-sea exploration and asserting maritime power in the South China Sea.

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.

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In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy.

Business China carefully assembling a deep-sea mining strategy The world’s oceans, both international waters and those under national jurisdiction, are rich in minerals and metals.