In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...

The oldest mining test site is a strip of CCZ seabed, ploughed in 1979. Daniel Jones, a NOC researcher who trawled the ...

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands raises the stakes in critical mineral competition, with the United States at risk of falling behind. In February, the Cook Islands announced a key ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Pressure on the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to finalize and adopt regulations for deep-sea mining is increasing.

Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals like nickel, cobalt and copper — crucial for renewable energy technology — from the sea floor. But researchers and ...

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands raises ... most recently in the form of Russian and Chinese objections to an expanded continental shelf claim in the strategic Arctic Ocean.

Daniel Jones, a NOC researcher who trawled the archives to pinpoint the location, said the test followed an CIA plot to recover a Russian nuclear submarine, using deep-sea mining as a cover story.