A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

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Japan depended mostly on imported rare-earth minerals for decades. But something surprising has recently happened.

China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands risks leaving the United States behind in critical minerals essential for energy, defense, and tech.

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?

The polymetallic nodules were found four kilometres beneath the ocean surface, and contain manganese, nickel and cobalt, ...

Minerals found on the deep seabed including manganese, nickel ... bringing the spoils to a ship on the surface. The recovered nodules would then be transported to processing sites on land.

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Lodgers on Manganese Nodules: Sponges Promote a High Diversity June 10, 2021 — Deep down in the ocean, valuable raw materials are stored, such as nodules of manganese.