Why might the U.S. be interested in deep-sea mining, and what are the environmental risks? Here's what you need to know.

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 ...

Deep-sea mining firm Impossible Metals said on Tuesday that it has asked U.S. federal officials to launch a commercial auction for access to deposits of nickel, cobalt and other critical minerals off ...

Impossible Metals, a pioneering US-based deep-sea mining company, has submitted a request to commence a leasing process for ...

Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, said that the company believes they have enough knowledge to manage environmental ...

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

MP Materials moves up after the Financial Times reported that President Trump is set to issue an executive order allowing the ...

Regarding onshore minerals, last month Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to expand domestic mining and processing of critical minerals to reduce foreign dependence.

The production of oxygen at the seafloor by polymetallic nodules is a new ecosystem function that needs to be considered when assessing the impact of deep-sea mining. These findings underscore the ...

He estimated that allowing the company to collect a billion tonnes of nodules via deep-sea mining could provide the United States with "456 years of manganese, 165 years of cobalt, 81 years of ...