Market volatility has pushed the gold price to record highs in both US and Australian dollar terms, as investors pile into ...

Impossible Metals requests U.S. auction for American Samoa mineral deposits Bureau of Ocean Energy ... from the International Seabed Authority (ISA) - created by the United Nations Convention ...

Trump’s order is expected to benefit The Metals Company, or TMC, which for years has sought to collect mineral-rich deposits that cover the sea floor ... The Law of the Sea Treaty established the ISA, ...

The request from privately held Impossible Metals asks the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management – which oversees mineral deposits in federal waters – to launch a ...

referring to Trump’s April 24 executive order aimed at speeding industry exploration of critical mineral deposits in federal waters. An unidentified White House official told POLITICO’s E&E ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order to jump-start the controversial practice of deep-sea mining, seeking to offset China's dominant position in critical mineral ...

"The United States has a core national security and economic interest in maintaining leadership in deep sea science and technology and seabed mineral resources," Trump said in the executive order ...

The U.S.’s Executive Order circumvents the approval of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental ... as well as in different mineral deposits such as polymetallic nodules ...

All minerals are critical minerals for the modern world. The most important critical ‘mineral’ is energy which must be cheap and reliable to enable low-cost mining, beneficiation, smelting, refining, ...