In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners—and huge numbers ...
It is the key ingredient of bronze, the alloy that helped create some of the world’s greatest civilizations and took humanity ...
The discovery, detailed last July in the journal Nature Geoscience, called into question long-held assumptions about the ...
A European country has opened its first gold mine in a decade - estimated to contain up to £74 million worth of the precious ...
In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...
Close to 170 member states and the European Union gathered in Jamaica on 17 March 2025, for a two-week-long negotiation on ...
After more than a decade of negotiations, a new round of talks to finalize a code to regulate deep-sea mining in ...
“So deep-sea mining is an extremely difficult solution to a battery metal problem that existed 10 years ago,” he said. Still, the U.S. Geological Survey deems nickel, cobalt and other ...
Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals like nickel, cobalt and copper — crucial for renewable energy technology — from the sea floor. But researchers and ...
according to the company building one of the niche metal’s few new sources of supplies. Larvotto Resources Ltd. is due to start a mine in Australia next year, offering a rare new stream of ...