A US company, Impossible Metals, aims to initiate deep-sea mining off American Samoa, seeking regulatory approval while ...

Seabed nodules rich in key metals such as nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese are crucial for the battery and defence ...

Deep-sea mining (DSM) not only poses significant environmental, social, and economic risks that may have far-reaching ...

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

“It’s better down where it’s wetter,” crooned Sebastian, the Disney crab, to the Little Mermaid. The sentiment is enthusiastically shared by a group of investors who have bet millions on extracting ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far ... and that the abundant resources available on the ocean floor can help get us there. TMC and other contracted companies are currently researching ...

The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China's ...

Impossible Metals, a pioneering US-based deep-sea mining company, has submitted a request to commence a leasing process for exploration and potential mining of critical minerals in the deep sea off ...

Executive order under consideration by the Trump Administration to open up the deep sea to mining would be economic folly and flout international consensus, experts say The US government is ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract -- by appealing to US President Donald Trump.