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

Canada-based deep-sea mining frontrunner The Metals Company recently stunned ... Companies hope to earn billions by scraping the ocean floor for polymetallic rocks, or nodules, that are loaded with ...

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 ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

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

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USDT issuer Tether said that it will "deploy both existing and future hashrate" to prominent Bitcoin mining pool, Ocean.

Deep sea mining operations are expected to increase the negative impact on environmental indicators by up to 13 per cent, a change categorized as having 'great' significance, relative to the 'without' ...

700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal field, often described as a geological area where hot ...

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals and resources from the ocean floor, which can collect valuable metals such as ...

Donald Trump’s administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of metal found on the Pacific Ocean seabed, in an effort to counter China’s dominance of battery minerals and ...

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