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…
Seabed Minerals
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.
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…
First seabed exploration licences awarded
Held on 23 February 2022, the ceremony saw the signing of three Seabed Mineral (SBM) exploration licences with companies: CIC, CIIC Seabed Resources and Moana Minerals. The licence granting was…
20 years of EU’s cobalt demand may lie here
“In just a small area of the Norwegian Sea, we can potentially have cobalt resources equivalent to 20 times the EU’s annual needs,” said Rolf Birger Pedersen, head of the…
TGS proposes consortium to better assess deep sea mineral deposits
Together with companies EMGS and Halliburton and the universities of Tromsø and Bergen in Norway, Energy Data and Intelligence company TGS is proposing to form a consortium to perform a…
The potato fields of the deep sea
They are known as polymetallic nodules, manganese nodules or simply manganese tubers. The names give you an idea of the shape and metal content. Manganese modules were first found during…
Significant mineral potential in Norwegian waters
The conclusion by the MarMine project is based on analysis of collected data and several hundred kilos of samples on the mid-ocean ridge. However, there is still considerable research work required…
The state of the art in SMS exploration
Marine scientific research on hydrothermal systems has been ongoing for more than 40 years, starting immediately after their discovery near the Galapagos Islands in 1977. However, exploration of Seabed Massive…