“Deep Sea Mining May Destroy the Ecosystem”
“Can deep-sea minerals be the answer to the green shift, or will the hunt for these rare metals of the deep cause even more distress to an already troubled ocean?”…
Posts by Halfdan Carstens
There is more to deep sea mining than technology …
“The potential environmental, social and economic impacts of deep sea mining can be addressed empirically by natural sciences such as marine biology, geology and ecology, as well as by social…
Immensely Underexplored
«The true resource potential of SMS occurrences cannot be estimated,” says Sven Petersen of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. The simple reason, explains Petersen, is that only…
High Grades in the Deep Sea
While seafloor massive sulphide deposits (SMS) provide a potential resource of base metals including copper and zinc, as well as more critical metals such as cobalt, selenium and gold, their…
The Need for a Multiphysics Approach
Seafloor Massive Sulphides (SMS) are one type of deep-sea mineral deposit currently being explored for as they often have high concentrations of metals. “Typically found in water 1 to 4…
Deep Sea Exploitation is Around the Corner
The previously announced business combination between Deep Green Metals and Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation (SOAC) to create TMC Inc. is now fulfilled. Figure caption: Manganese nodules are formed as accretions at…
Billions of Tonnes
Ferromanganese crusts (also referred to as Fe-Mn crusts, manganese crusts, cobalt-rich crusts, polymetallic crusts) are essentially two-dimensional deposits forming pavements on seamounts where rocks are exposed. Illustration above: Ferromanganese (Fe-Mn)…
“The Deep Sea is the only Alternative”
“We desperately need substantial amounts of manganese, nickel, cobalt and copper to build electric cars and power plants,” says Hans Smit to The Guardian. Smit is chief executive of Florida’s…
Secretary General Opens Mining Conference
Michael W. Lodge, Secretary General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), has kindly accepted the invitation to open the conference NCS Exploration – Deep Sea Minerals 2021 on October 20.…
Major step forward for Loke Marine Minerals
Following the completion of NOK 115 million private placement of equity in Loke Marine Minerals, three industrial investors – TechnipFMC, Wilh. Wilhelmsen, NorSea Group (with an aggregate of NOK 85…
Electrifying society requires critical minerals
According to information given by mineralsindepth.org, an electric vehicle with a 75KWh battery needs 56 kg of nickel, 12 kg of manganese, 7 kg of cobalt and 85 kg of…
Near-field exploration prevails
The last attempt to find oil and gas in a frontier area of the NCS conspicuously failed. The Aker BP well Stangnestind (Barents Sea southeast) only discovered non-commercial volumes of…