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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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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.

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 ...

Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

Where are the data to validate your assertion that deep-sea mining ... land-based mining produces millions of tonnes of waste in the form of tailings and rock-waste dumps. Potential metal leaching ...