By Elizabeth Claire Alberts ・Early on, Canada-based The Metals Company cast the rocks it seeks to mine from the deep seafloor ...

OCEAN MINING EXPLAINED This illustration explains briefly the full cycle process of ocean diamond mining To increase the net present value (NPV) of Namibia’s marine diamond mining sector, four ...

The most-prominent of the three proposed types of deep-sea mining involves using a giant robot that is sent down to the ocean floor from a support vessel. This robot travels to depths of roughly ...

The deep ocean covers most of the planet. Gerard Barron wants his company to be the first to mine it. That's been his dream since 2001, when Barron's then-tennis partner asked him to invest in a ...

OCEAN OCEAN, a Wyoming-based company, co-founded by Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, is a non-custodial pool that requires only a bitcoin address to join, and is the successor of the Eligius ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in ...

The closure in July of the Point Lake part of the Ekati complex in the Northwest Territories is the latest blow to Canada’s ...

An animal called a crinoid, or sea lily, inhabits the seafloor 4,800 meters deep, in the central Pacific Ocean’s Clarion- Clipperton Zone, targeted for mining. Credit: Vincent Fournier ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

Sand mining disturbs that natural balance, and it can have ripple effects. One example of this is in Louisiana, where damming upstream of the Mississippi Delta reduced sediment transport to the coast.

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