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…
Seabed Minerals
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.…
The next Frontier: Metals in the Deep Sea
The conference NCS Exploration – Deep Sea Minerals is being held on October 20-21, and early bird tickets are now available.
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…
Study de-mystifies sediment plumes
Oceanographers at MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and elsewhere have developed a model that makes realistic predictions of how a sediment plume generated by mining operations would be transported…
Honoured for Deep Sea Minerals initiative
Bloomberg Media has since 2011 published a ranking of the 50 Most Influential with “the ability to move markets or shape ideas and policies”. In this year’s ranking, Ståle Rodahl…
Plenty of “rock batteries” on the ocean floor
Figure caption: Manganese nodules are formed as accretions at 4500 meter in the deep Pacific Ocean. They grow very slowly, about 1 cm per every million year, meaning that the…