The search for critical minerals could put deep-sea mining and commercial fishing on a collision course.

US President Donald Trump has been called many things. But a pirate? For now, that might be a stretch. But like all pirates, he has his eyes on a potentially rich prize – in this case, vast ...

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 ...

For its part, India has announced plans to ramp up its presence in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton zone, one of the world’s most mineral-rich deep-sea regions. Although the ISA has already ...

For the industry, the top area of interest is a section of the central Pacific Ocean called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone that contains resources such as nickel, cobalt and rare earth minerals.

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 ...

In the Pacific Ocean between North America and Hawaii lies a large area known as the Clarion-Clipperton zone — a particularly abundant area filled with copper, cobalt and nickel. Now ...

The Metals Company The commercial permit application covers a 25,160-square-kilometre area in the Clarion Clipperton Zone where the company has already carried out exploratory recovery of the nodules.

It is a relative speck within the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, an area bigger than India hailed as a new Klondike for coveted metals. Trump signed an order last week directing NOAA to start dispensing ...