Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

Nothing could be harder, except maybe going into space." Deep-sea organisms often make use of mineral nodules to anchor themselves on the sea floor. Ocean conservation groups argue that mining the ...

"The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen," Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, told CNBC by video call.

In some cases, the estimated resources of critical mineral deposits in parts of the ... Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), where polymetallic nodules abound. A decade ago, his research group began ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

Deep-sea mineral ecosystem The deep-sea mining industry ... the feasibility of using the National Defense Stockpile for nodule-derived minerals and of entering into offtake agreements, while ...

More than 1 billion metric tons of nodules estimated in U.S. waters Conservationists ... interest in maintaining leadership in deep-sea science and technology and seabed mineral resources," Trump said ...

TMC USA has been evaluating U.S. locations for nodule processing since 2019, in order to reshore critical mineral processing and related mid-to-downstream industries to America. Gerard Barron ...