Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX), an ocean exploration pioneer engaged in the discovery, development, and extraction of critical minerals that provide solutions to global challenges, ...

Interior reports that on April 8, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received a formal request for a lease ...

In February, the Cook Islands announced a key deal with China: a five-year agreement on deep sea exploration of marine ...

Some companies, like the Norwegian firm Loke Marine Minerals, have already gone bust due to funding troubles. As for another key stakeholder—nature—Sumaila’s paper concluded that the costs ...

and exploitation of marine minerals in international waters. However, the Authority has yet to formalize regulations for mining the ocean floor. Most recently, in March 2025, officials from the ...

Here’s why Norway is taking a leading role. Photo: Loke Marine Minerals President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the mining of the deep sea as part of a broader effort by ...

Under the leadership of Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander, Professor of Marine Mineral Resources at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and Dr Christian Tamburini from the French Mediterranean ...

This proposed industry aims to generate supplies of critical minerals, but critics say the cost to the marine environment could be devastating. Some Norwegian deep-sea mining companies have faced ...

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – The second of three seafloor production tools (SPTs) needed by marine mining project developer Nautilus Minerals to mine high-grade polymetallic seafloor massive ...