Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

Early on, Canada-based The Metals Company cast the rocks it seeks to mine from the deep seafloor as a crucial resource for ...

A discussion of deep-sea mining of critical minerals on the ocean floor, the importance of critical minerals for the clean energy transition, the global and national approaches to regulating the ...

After two weeks of negotiations, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) is still far from finalizing rules for extracting coveted metals on the high seas despite heightened pressure triggered by US ...

Nobody knows for sure, since deep-sea mining has never been done at commercial scale. Supporters of seabed mining claim it will be less destructive than mining on land.

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CEO Gerard Barron, 57, first invested in deep sea mining in 2001. Courtesy The Metals Company In 2021, TMC went public on the Nasdaq, via a SPAC called Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching implications for coastal communities and Small Island Developing States (SIDS ...