President Donald Trump has signed an executive order intended to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his ...

The executive order will help private deep-sea mining companies to access mineral-rich nodules on the sea floor.

The order seeks swift permits for mining nickel, cobalt and other minerals from the sea floor. Critics say it threatens both ocean life and global agreements.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to expand US deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals in domestic ...

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to bolster the deep-sea mining industry. This is his latest move to increase ...

Any country can allow deep-sea mining in its own territorial waters, roughly up to 200 nautical miles from shore, and ...

A cross section of a manganese crust ... it,” says Armstrong. Deep-sea mining isn’t a new idea. The HMS Challenger research expedition discovered polymetallic nodules—the metal lumps mining ...

Some deep-sea mining companies have faced significant ... They’re also looking to target the manganese crusts that form on the sides and peaks of seamounts. Yet Ribeiro is less interested ...

If successful, it will primarily produce Manganese, which is of low value ... to mining critical mineral resources through deep-sea nodule mining. The company launched as a SPAC with limited ...