The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...

Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...

Deep Sea Mining Deep sea mining refers to the extraction of minerals from the seabed. The main ores that attract commercial interest are unattached polymetallic nodules, which are found at depths ...

The Metals Company (TMC) will instead seek permission from the U.S. to start deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean, rather than from the UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority (ISA).

IN the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners, and huge numbers ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

The International Seabed Authority has expressed concern following reports that the US subsidiary of The Metals Company is seeking deep-sea mining permits from the US instead of waiting for the global ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...

Deep sea mining has been off ... A major challenge for TMC is that the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which was established in the 1980s to define sea mining rules and counts more than ...

The U.S. Congress approved the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act of 1980 as an interim measure to govern seabed mining on the high seas “until an international regime was in place ...

Now, their deep sea mining dreams have been shattered. Loke also owns UK Seabed Resources, which holds the UK’s two deep sea mining licences in the Pacific. Last November, Loke Marine Minerals ...

confirmed that it disagreed with the Seabed Authority’s interpretation of international law. “Companies can apply for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permits for deep-sea mining ...