New Zealand is considering withdrawing its support for an international ban on deep-sea mining, the country's resources ...

Cook Islands prime minister Mark Brown posted a Facebook picture from a visit to China’s National Deep Sea Centre in Qingdao, 700km north of Shanghai. The National Deep Sea Centre’s crewed submarine ...

First Solar agreed to refrain from using minerals mined from the deep sea, an early win for shareholder environmental ...

An advocate for ocean conservation and protection claims the Cook Islands government is misleading public into believing the ...

Gerard Barron told MINING.COM Devan Murugan that the new administration’s focus on domestic mineral production comes at the ...

First Solar pledges to keep supply chains free from seabed minerals, aligning with a global moratorium on deep sea mining to safeguard marine ecosystems.

A major legal challenge in deep-sea mining is the jurisdictional ambiguity between international waters and areas within national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) —which extend up to 200 nautical miles ...

Portugal’s parliament has approved the drafting of a moratorium on deep sea mining in territorial waters to 2050.

The Dutch contributing partners of the international MiningImpact3 consortium have been awarded 1.4 million euros. The money ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

If it adopts the measure, Portugal will become "the first European country to write into law a ban on such activity until ...

In October 2023, parliament approved a PAN bill imposing a moratorium on deep sea mining in Portuguese waters until 2050. But ...