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

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...

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

The International Seabed Authority isn’t close to setting rules on harvesting minerals more than a decade after talks on how ...

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

A Vancouver-based mining company is looking to sidestep the international agency charged with regulating mining in ...

The proposed mining process is invasive. Collector vehicles scrape along the ocean floor as they scoop up nodules and stir up sediments. This removes habitats used by marine organisms and ...

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

The proposed mining process is invasive. Collector vehicles scrape along the ocean floor as they scoop up nodules and stir up sediments. This removes habitats used by marine organisms and ...

A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction ...

The proposed mining process is invasive. Collector vehicles scrape along the ocean floor as they scoop up nodules and stir up sediments. This removes habitats used by marine organisms and ...

Jamaica this week to decide whether mining companies should be allowed to extract metals like copper or cobalt from the ocean floor. As they deliberate over hundreds of proposed amendments to a ...