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The global energy sector from a subsurface perspective

Deep Sea Minerals

A promising new frontier

Henk Kombrink
An enormous challenge in terms of research, expertise information, technological innovation, environmental protection, spatial planning and social licence to operate is facing the European and international research and sustainable development…

A needle in a haystack

Henk Kombrink
“How to find and remove a needle from a haystack without disturbing it?” That’s the key question when it comes to sustainable exploration for deep-sea minerals. It requires non-invasive methods…

Timely and crucial

Ronny Setså
A three year, 18 million NOK funded research project will build important in-demand competence regarding the environmental aspects of deep sea mining on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.

A two-year deadline

Henk Kombrink
The prospect of the first large scale deep see mining project has this year come a lot closer when a deal was announced between a small Pacific island of Nauru…

Immensely Underexplored

Halfdan Carstens
«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

Halfdan Carstens
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

Halfdan Carstens
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

Halfdan Carstens
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…