Seabed Minerals

The race is on

The Cook Islands with – to say the least – a huge Exclusive Economic Zone, did earlier this year issue three 5-year contracts for the exploration of polymetallic nodules in…

A Big Step for a Small Company

The Norwegian company Green Minerals AS and Oil States Industries (UK) Ltd (“OSI”) have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a collaboration for the development of a Harsh Environment…

Huge Discovery West of Svalbard

Figure caption: The tem­per­at­ure meas­ure­ment in the out­flow open­ing of the black smoker showed that the flu­ids are more than 300°C hot. In ad­di­tion to this act­ive smoker, nu­mer­ous vents…

Call for papers

The international conference Deep Sea Minerals will be taking place for the 2nd time this fall (October 26-27, in Bergen, Norway). The first conference in 2021 was attended by almost…