Pacific Islands remain divided on deep-sea mining as trial begins to extract precious metals from ocean floor
2022-09-16 Electric robots will soon be crawling along the sea floor and sucking up precious metals through a giant straw in a controversial trial to mine some of the ocean’s deepest, most pristine environments. Key points: Mining companies want to dig into the ocean floor to collect metals that can be used in the production of […]
The Metals Company reigniting race to mine the ocean floor
The deep-sea researcher was the only one with a submarine, and a year later, her exploration team had raised enough money to go back. When Tunnicliffe finally descended over 2,000 metres to a patch of ocean floor, everything was dark, save for the light on the submersible. Below them, two tectonic plates diverged, allowing cold […]