Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed ... metric tons of nodules, or deposits ...

Oxygen seeps ... harm these deep-sea ecosystems before their value and workings are fully understood. Seafloor mining could target three kinds of metal-rich deposits: nodules, crusts and mounds.

On the floor of the Pacific Ocean, billions of tons of geological materials called nodules hold key minerals ... an executive order to help the deep-sea mining industry. Here are key takeaways ...

Deep-sea mining targets resources such as potato-sized polymetallic nodules from depths of 4,000 to 6,000 metres. The nodules contain critical materials, including manganese, iron, cobalt ...

which aims to extract nodules from a vast plain of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Beyond The Metals Company, others eyeing deep-sea mining ...