The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to ...

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 ...

California State Parks, which manages more than 340 miles of California’s coastline, is asking the public not to collect any ...

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 ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

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 ...

In 2013, scientists were stunned to find microbes thriving deep inside volcanic rocks beneath the seafloor ... of marine life that snows from the sea above, or from the non-biological chemical ...

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.

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 ...