A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

In an essay which was published in The Portugal News on 12 March 2024 I made a synopsis of the potential environmental damage ...

The International Seabed Authority has raised concerns over The Metals Company’s bid to bypass multilateral oversight by ...

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton ... sea level where light cannot reach. While this ...

New York (AFP) – A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer ... contracts awarded by the ISA to explore parts of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a section of the Pacific Ocean rich with these nodules.

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ ... the study also complicates negotiations around deep-sea mining regulations as it showcases how little we really ...