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 ...

All rocks are made of one or more minerals. Minerals are solid, naturally occurring substances with well-defined crystal ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The move would enable miners to bypass the ISA and obtain permits from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Head of United Nations seabed authority warns move would be 'violation of international law' and undermine multilateral ...

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that could speed up international deep-sea mining, Reuters ...

A Vancouver-based company said it is seeking approval under United States law to mine several deposits in the Pacific Ocean — a move that could set up a collision with a United Nations body that ...

Despite their optimism, TMC’s own annual report filing at the SEC admits this new U.S strategy introduces “conflicting regulatory requirements”, “political instability”, and “no assurances” that any ...

A deep-sea mining company is turning to President Donald Trump to help it extract battery materials. The company that has ...

Following successful mining tests by U.S. consortia and pioneering environmental impact assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

But, despite collaborating in good faith with the ISA for over a decade, it has not yet adopted the Regulations on the Exploitation of Mineral Resources in the Area in breach of its express treaty ...