Witnesses tell Congressional panel that to break Beijing's rare earths dominance, Washington must promote ocean mining of ...

Mining the Clarion-Clipperton Zone Beneath the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii, a hidden treasure trove of polymetallic nodules can be found scattered across the seafloor. These nodules form as ...

Currently, the largest area in international waters being explored for commercial deep sea mining is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, located in the central Pacific Ocean. The vast area sits between ...

There’s a hitch, though. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone and the rest of the ocean floor in international waters falls under jurisdiction of the International Seabed Authority, whose 169 member ...

The application area for the commercial recovery permit covers a total combined area of 25,160 square kilometers (9,714 square miles) in the Clarion Clipperton Zone. However, the Clarion ...

Something unpleasant. This experiment was carried out in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, according to Oceanographic, and the recovery process has taken too much time. The ocean floor was lost in time due ...