Deep|sea mining

Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining | JPI Oceans

With deep-sea mining inevitably causing disturbances to abyssal ecosystems, because mineral deposits in focus cover extended areas of the inhabited seafloor ...

Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining - ScienceDirect.com

Minerals from the deep-sea like the polymetallic nodules, cobalt rich crusts and polymetallicsulfides are considered as alternative sources for metals.

Saving deep sea from mining - Seas At Risk

There is a way out: reducing the demand for metals through much more careful and efficient use of these resources would make deep-sea mining obsolete.

WWF Deep Sea Mining: Home

We believe in a world where people live in harmony with nature. Deep seabed mining cannot go ahead until it can be clearly demonstrated it can be done without ...

What is deep-sea mining and how is it connected to the net zero ...

The mining process may also release toxic compounds that naturally occur on the ocean floor. During the extraction of nodules, streams of water ...

The Deep Sea Mining Summit 2025

The 12th Annual Deep Sea Mining Summit will bring together a large array of solution providers, upcoming deep sea miners, members of the scientific community, ...

Harmful marine extractives: Deep-Sea Mining - UNEP FI

Plans to mine this unique and complex area of our planet would create irreversible ecosystem and habitat loss, as well as permanently destroy invaluable carbon ...

Do we need deep sea mining for the energy transition?

Deep sea mining refers to a process of collecting minerals from a depth of over 200 metres underwater.

Deep Sea Mining | UNEP - UN Environment Programme

This Issues Note outlines a summary review of literature on Deep Sea Mining (DSM) and recommends a comprehensive assessment of the ...

Conservation news on Deep Sea Mining - Mongabay

Deep-sea mining's future still murky as negotiations end on mixed note. Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Apr 2024

DEEP-SEA MINING | Oceana

Deep-sea mining refers to three distinct, but related, industries defined by the types of ore targeted for exploitation: hydrothermal vents' massive sulfides, ...

Stop deep sea mining - Greenpeace International

Deep sea mining companies are pressuring governments to let them go down there, several thousand meters below the surface of the ocean, and plunder the seabed ...

10 Deep Sea Mining Companies to Watch in 2024

Moana Minerals is our #1 DSM company to watch in 2024 due to the high quality of their team, resources and progress to date.

Deep-sea mining – plans are taking shape - World Ocean Review

Deposits in water depths from 800 to 2500 metres are considered to be commercially promising. The known crusts are generally three to six centimetres thick, in ...

Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium

Industry is pushing for deep-sea mining to start. As of July 2023, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) has entered into 31 exploration contracts.

The Mining Industry's Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea

Companies are diving to the bottom to scoop up metals essential for our EV-driven future. But how much ocean are we willing to sacrifice?

Deep-sea mining plans should not be rushed - Nature

Commercial sea-bed mining is not permitted for a reason: too little is known about the deep-sea ecosystem, such as its biodiversity, and its interactions with ...

Deep Sea Mining and the Green Transition

Most troubling to scientists is the fact that mining could release carbon stored in the seabed and cause sediments to enter the ocean ...

Exploration Contracts - International Seabed Authority

Deep-sea literacy. ISA Wakatoon activity · Life Under Water – Activity book for ... mining industry was born. Polymetallic Nodules. Polymetallic Sulphides.

Deep-sea mining | The Guardian

Deep-sea mining: why is interest growing and what are the risks? Jan 9 2024 11.21 EST Greenpeace activists in kayaks protest in front of the deep-sea mining ...