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arstechnica.com
Mining the deep ocean
More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile -- sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with copper, manganese, cobalt, and nickel.
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www.npr.org
Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone
Thousands of feet deep, parts of the seafloor are covered in polymetallic nodules. The potato-sized formations are being targeted by mining companies because of the metals they contain.
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www.yahoo.com
Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk
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You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements.
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www.nytimes.com
Can Nations Agree How to Mine the Sea? This Is the Year, She Says.
After a decade of debate, by year's end the world should finally have a rulebook for mining the deep sea, Leticia Carvalho, the head of the International Seabed Authority, said in an interview.
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ca.finance.yahoo.com
Japan retrieves rare earth-rich mud from seabed to lower reliance on China
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan said Monday it has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China.
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www.theverge.com
The US is fast-tracking permits for deep-sea mining
The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a "consolidated" permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched.
