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

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The depths of the ocean are strewn with curious nodules that are rich in manganese, copper, cobalt and nickel. Special devices may make it possible to mine the bottom for these valuable substances ...

Polymetallic nodules containing certain critical minerals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019.

Now, plans are afoot to begin trial collection of the manganese nodules, or mineral concretions, from the Pacific Ocean site as early as 2025 with a view toward commercialization. Manganese ...

Since 2015, the JPIOceans project "MiningImpact" has been investigating the ecological consequences of deep-sea mining and how the impacts can be mitigated, studying both, manganese nodule areas and ...