Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

The Trump administration is taking a step toward potentially allowing companies to trawl for minerals under the ocean floor ...

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

On April 24, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep-sea mining in the US and international waters, touting ...

As deep-sea mining accelerates to meet green tech demands, unresolved legal gaps, environmental risks, and ethical concerns ...

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Commercial mining on the miles-deep Pacific Ocean floor came one step closer to reality with an announcement late Tuesday by ...

Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to ...

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.

The Trump administration says it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa.

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 ...

The thing that people have missed is that there is zero chance that this will not happen,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals ...