Explorers have dreamed of harvesting deep-sea metals since the 1870s, when the British scientific ship HMS Challenger pulled up mineral-laden rocks on its round-the-world voyage. The first ...

Marketplace contributor Daniel Ackerman says deep-sea mining companies are innovating for how to efficiently mine rare Earth ...

Deep-sea mining equipment being deployed by ... is the lack of a refining and processing infrastructure for the minerals, and pulling rocks from the depths will not change that.

Instead of blasting rocks or the seabed ... The Trump administration also wants to fast-track deep-sea mining—extracting minerals from the ocean floor—something scientists say could cause ...

Most interest is in polymetallic modules: small, potato-sized rocks scattered ... s campaign to stop deep-sea mining. While the appetite for many critical minerals is soaring, some experts say ...

In the global race for critical minerals, one little-known international ... than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

The US in turn enacted the deep sea mineral resources law ... nickel and other metals found in polymetallic nodules - potato-sized rocks rich in those materials. TMC and other ISA-licensed ...

Engineers have found that a couple of electric volts - about what a toy flashlight uses - can lock loose coastal sand into a ...