Three weeks to go
The second international industry conference about deep-sea minerals in Bergen, Norway, October 25-27 – Deep Sea Minerals 2022 – has an impressive programme with speakers from many parts of the…
Seabed Minerals
Impossible Mining re-emerges as Impossible Metals
After careful consideration of the fractious debate surrounding seabed critical minerals, along with firstly, the novel approach to harvesting metals in a way that keeps the ecosystem intact, and secondly,…
The very first licences for nodule exploration
As of February this year, three seabed mineral exploration licences were awarded in the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone: Cobalt (CIC) Limited, Moana Minerals Limited and Cook Islands Investment Company…
The green future is also metallic
The consequence of building a green future, according to Gerard Barron, Chairman & CEO of The Metals Company, is that “our generation will need to mine more metal than we…
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…
Manganese Nodules: Innovative Harvesting and Processing
Impossible Mining, a battery-metal mining start-up only two years old, is now working on Proof of Concept for both environmentally friendly nodule harvesting and bio-extraction technologies. No wonder the marine…
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…
Get yours – before it is gone….
The 2nd Deep Sea Minerals conference in Bergen, Norway, is only 62 days away, and the conference program is taking shape. Check out the program here. The topics addressed by…
The Cook Islands in the Forefront
A separate session on the Cook Islands will be one of many highlights of the Deep Sea Minerals conference in Bergen in October.
An exciting moment for the marine mineral industry
Exploration for deep sea minerals has entered a new phase with the start-up of geophysical measurements in the North Atlantic.
A promising exploration method
Researchers at the University of Bergen have shown that geophysical measurements of self-potential can detect sulphide deposits in the deep sea.