Trump's deep-sea mining order is likely to stipulate that the U.S. aims to exercise its rights to extract critical minerals ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

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

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

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

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international agency holds the keys to a potential motherlode: vast quantities of metals located on the remote seafloor. The ...

In 2019, a failed deep-sea mining venture in Papua New Guinea’s waters saddled the country’s government with a $120 million debt when the mining company it had invested in, Nautilus Minerals ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international ... than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Negotiators say the process could take ...

Mining firms claim the deep seabed could provide a major new source of minerals independent of China, which controls the supply of many critical minerals. A Vancouver-based startup, The Metals Company ...