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Visualizing Deep-sea Mining
This animation demonstrates how a collector vehicle launched from a ship during deep-sea mining would travel 15,000 feet below sea level to collect polymetallic nodules containing essential minerals. Narrated by MIT Professor Thomas Peacock.
For more information, please watch: https://youtu.be/MWvCtF1itQM
published: 10 Dec 2019
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Deep-sea mining: The race for critical minerals
There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered company is leading the race to mine them. But marine scientists and environmentalists say it's likely to risk a sea floor ecosystem about which little is known. Negotiations are underway at the International Seabed Authority this month in Jamaica.
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published: 11 Jul 2023
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The Truth about Deep Sea Mining
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Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
Writer: Josi Gold
Editor: Dylan Hennessy
Animator: Mike Ridolfi
Animator: Eli Prenten
Sound: Graham Haerther
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster
References
[1] https://www.resolve.ngo/docs/mar_technol_soc_j_45_28a.pdf
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0027-0
[3] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-...
published: 17 Sep 2022
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The race to mine the bottom of the ocean
We have a lot to gain — and a lot to lose — from deep-sea mining.
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There are metallic deposits scattered throughout our ocean floors — among hydrothermal vents, under the crust of seamounts, and scattered along sea plains in the form of rocks. As it happens, in our search for climate solutions, these metals have become more critical than ever to help us transition away from fossil fuels. We need them for everything like electric car batteries, copper wiring for electrification and wind turbines. Our land-based deposits have met our needs so far, but it’s unclear whether they will continue to, or whether we’ll want to kee...
published: 11 Oct 2023
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A New Mining Ship Sucks Metals Off The Seafloor. Is That A Good Idea? | Big Business
A Canadian mining startup says metal-rich rocks on the seafloor can help power the switch away from fossil fuels. Critics say mining them could cause ecological destruction, but no one knows exactly what the impact will be yet.
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published: 21 Jan 2023
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How the 1st Ever Deep Sea Mineral Extraction Vehicles Were Made - LONG VERSION
See how we made the world's 1st ever deep sea mineral extraction machines!
These three remotely-controlled mineral extraction machines, the largest of which is 300t were designed to extract massive sulphides in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea. The mineral deposit has an average depth of 1600m below mean sea level and they were produced back in 2016 for Nautilus Minerals Inc. an early pioneer in deep sea mineral exploration and extraction.
Each of these vehicles is controlled from the ship’s control room via an umbilical. This supplies power to multiple copper cores, as well as communications, data and control commands via fibre-optic cables, which are all wrapped in an armoured casing.
The 3 machines:
AUXILLIARY CUTTER: The first machine used as part of the extraction is the auxi...
published: 20 Apr 2021
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How to and Should we mine gold in the deep sea?
Deep-sea mining (or Seabed mining) is a technology to mine the hidden gold and materials under the deep ocean. This technology promise to benefits humans in the future, but there is heated controversy surrounding. So what is deep-sea mining and how it works? - explained video using pixel animation
* Narration: Lith Dahbour
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5r1n6On_xtHznkQgdalF3g
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published: 11 Jan 2022
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What are hydrothermal vents?
The waters around hydrothermal vents may seem harsh and inhospitable to life, but in reality, these regions are oases that support rich and diverse ecosystems that make a living off the chemicals that flow from the seafloor. This video appears in WHOI's Ocean Science Discovery Center with the actual piece of hydrothermal vent chimney being collected by the human-occupied submersible Alvin beginning at 00:45.
For more on hydrothermal vents visit:
https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/seafloor-below/hydrothermal-vents/
published: 11 Sep 2019
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How a Canadian company will mine the sea bed near Papua New Guinea
Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals has reached an agreement with the government of Papua New Guinea to begin mining an area of seabed believed to be rich in gold and copper ores, according to the BBC.
Under the terms of the agreement, Papua New Guinea will contribute $120 million to the operation and receive a 15 percent share in the mine.
Environmentalists say the mine will devastate the area and cause long-lasting damage to the environment.
The BBC reports that "the mine will target an area of hydrothermal vents where superheated, highly acidic water emerges from the seabed, where it encounters far colder and more alkaline seawater, forcing it to deposit high concentrations of minerals."
The report continues:
The result is that the seabed is formed of ores that are far ric...
published: 07 Jun 2014
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Exploration of Deep Sea Minerals
published: 09 Jun 2017
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Visualizing Deep-sea Mining
This animation demonstrates how a collector vehicle launched from a ship during deep-sea mining would travel 15,000 feet below sea level to collect polymetallic...
This animation demonstrates how a collector vehicle launched from a ship during deep-sea mining would travel 15,000 feet below sea level to collect polymetallic nodules containing essential minerals. Narrated by MIT Professor Thomas Peacock.
For more information, please watch: https://youtu.be/MWvCtF1itQM
https://wn.com/Visualizing_Deep_Sea_Mining
This animation demonstrates how a collector vehicle launched from a ship during deep-sea mining would travel 15,000 feet below sea level to collect polymetallic nodules containing essential minerals. Narrated by MIT Professor Thomas Peacock.
For more information, please watch: https://youtu.be/MWvCtF1itQM
- published: 10 Dec 2019
- views: 146393
10:24
Deep-sea mining: The race for critical minerals
There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered compan...
There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered company is leading the race to mine them. But marine scientists and environmentalists say it's likely to risk a sea floor ecosystem about which little is known. Negotiations are underway at the International Seabed Authority this month in Jamaica.
#energy #climatechange #cbcnews
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https://wn.com/Deep_Sea_Mining_The_Race_For_Critical_Minerals
There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered company is leading the race to mine them. But marine scientists and environmentalists say it's likely to risk a sea floor ecosystem about which little is known. Negotiations are underway at the International Seabed Authority this month in Jamaica.
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- published: 11 Jul 2023
- views: 20284
15:32
The Truth about Deep Sea Mining
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Writer: Josi Gold
Editor: Dylan Hennessy
Animator: Mike Ridolfi
Animator: Eli Prenten
Sound: Graham Haerther
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster
References
[1] https://www.resolve.ngo/docs/mar_technol_soc_j_45_28a.pdf
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0027-0
[3] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from#:~:text=Between%2070%2C000%20and%20100%2C000%20years,35%2C000%20and%2065%2C000%20years%20ago.&text=Map%20of%20the%20world%20showing,throughout%20the%20Earth%20over%20time
[4] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/48/3/293/579958/Environmental-predictors-of-deep-sea-polymetallic
[5] https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/polymetallic-nodules
[6] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2017/12/the-clarion-clipperton-zone
[7] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02222-1
[8] https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/2525/2018/
[9] https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/10/1132
[10] https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/349889/
[11] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.884571/full
[12] http://www.deepseaminingoutofourdepth.org/impacts-of-mining-deep-sea-polymetallic-nodules-in-the-pacific/
[13] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00213-8
[14] https://www.discol.de/home
[15] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44492-w
[16] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192577/
[17] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652620338671?via%3Dihub
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Credits:
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Writer: Josi Gold
Editor: Dylan Hennessy
Animator: Mike Ridolfi
Animator: Eli Prenten
Sound: Graham Haerther
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster
References
[1] https://www.resolve.ngo/docs/mar_technol_soc_j_45_28a.pdf
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0027-0
[3] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from#:~:text=Between%2070%2C000%20and%20100%2C000%20years,35%2C000%20and%2065%2C000%20years%20ago.&text=Map%20of%20the%20world%20showing,throughout%20the%20Earth%20over%20time
[4] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/48/3/293/579958/Environmental-predictors-of-deep-sea-polymetallic
[5] https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/polymetallic-nodules
[6] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2017/12/the-clarion-clipperton-zone
[7] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02222-1
[8] https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/2525/2018/
[9] https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/10/1132
[10] https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/349889/
[11] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.884571/full
[12] http://www.deepseaminingoutofourdepth.org/impacts-of-mining-deep-sea-polymetallic-nodules-in-the-pacific/
[13] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00213-8
[14] https://www.discol.de/home
[15] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44492-w
[16] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192577/
[17] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652620338671?via%3Dihub
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage.
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Thank you to my patreon supporters: Adam Flohr, Henning Basma, Hank Green, William Leu, Tristan Edwards, Ian Dundore, John & Becki Johnston. Nevin Spoljaric, Jason Clark, Thomas Barth, Johnny MacDonald, Stephen Foland, Alfred Holzheu, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Binghaith, Brent Higgins, Dexter Appleberry, Alex Pavek, Marko Hirsch, Mikkel Johansen, Hibiyi Mori. Viktor Józsa, Ron Hochsprung
- published: 17 Sep 2022
- views: 1874034
11:13
The race to mine the bottom of the ocean
We have a lot to gain — and a lot to lose — from deep-sea mining.
Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now
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We have a lot to gain — and a lot to lose — from deep-sea mining.
Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now
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There are metallic deposits scattered throughout our ocean floors — among hydrothermal vents, under the crust of seamounts, and scattered along sea plains in the form of rocks. As it happens, in our search for climate solutions, these metals have become more critical than ever to help us transition away from fossil fuels. We need them for everything like electric car batteries, copper wiring for electrification and wind turbines. Our land-based deposits have met our needs so far, but it’s unclear whether they will continue to, or whether we’ll want to keep destroying the environment to do so.
This video explains the history and the debate over mining metals in the deep sea and why one Canadian company, The Metals Company, is leading the rush there. There are huge environmental implications for digging up seafloor ecosystems as well as ethical ones: Metal-rich zones like the Clarion-Clipperton Zone lie in international waters that technically belong to everyone. A United Nations body located in Kingston, Jamaica, the International Seabed Authority, is faced with an urgent dilemma over how to regulate mining, whether the environmental harm is worth the benefits to solving our climate crisis, and how to fairly share the profits from this shared resource.
Correction: at 7:45, the company rang the opening bell at Nasdaq not New York Stock Exchange.
You can dig into the exploration contracts issued by the International Seabed Authority here:
https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/
The New York Times has done some important investigative work on deep sea mining:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/world/deep-sea-mining.html
This study provides a thorough overview of some of the ecosystems with metallic deposits:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full
Here is more information about DeepCCZ, which is leading research on the ecosystem of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone:
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18ccz/welcome.html
Note: In a previous version of this video, the voice-over incorrectly stated miles instead of meters at 0:15. It has since been corrected.
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There are metallic deposits scattered throughout our ocean floors — among hydrothermal vents, under the crust of seamounts, and scattered along sea plains in the form of rocks. As it happens, in our search for climate solutions, these metals have become more critical than ever to help us transition away from fossil fuels. We need them for everything like electric car batteries, copper wiring for electrification and wind turbines. Our land-based deposits have met our needs so far, but it’s unclear whether they will continue to, or whether we’ll want to keep destroying the environment to do so.
This video explains the history and the debate over mining metals in the deep sea and why one Canadian company, The Metals Company, is leading the rush there. There are huge environmental implications for digging up seafloor ecosystems as well as ethical ones: Metal-rich zones like the Clarion-Clipperton Zone lie in international waters that technically belong to everyone. A United Nations body located in Kingston, Jamaica, the International Seabed Authority, is faced with an urgent dilemma over how to regulate mining, whether the environmental harm is worth the benefits to solving our climate crisis, and how to fairly share the profits from this shared resource.
Correction: at 7:45, the company rang the opening bell at Nasdaq not New York Stock Exchange.
You can dig into the exploration contracts issued by the International Seabed Authority here:
https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/
The New York Times has done some important investigative work on deep sea mining:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/world/deep-sea-mining.html
This study provides a thorough overview of some of the ecosystems with metallic deposits:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full
Here is more information about DeepCCZ, which is leading research on the ecosystem of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone:
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18ccz/welcome.html
Note: In a previous version of this video, the voice-over incorrectly stated miles instead of meters at 0:15. It has since been corrected.
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- published: 11 Oct 2023
- views: 2453767
13:42
A New Mining Ship Sucks Metals Off The Seafloor. Is That A Good Idea? | Big Business
A Canadian mining startup says metal-rich rocks on the seafloor can help power the switch away from fossil fuels. Critics say mining them could cause ecological...
A Canadian mining startup says metal-rich rocks on the seafloor can help power the switch away from fossil fuels. Critics say mining them could cause ecological destruction, but no one knows exactly what the impact will be yet.
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A New Mining Ship Sucks Metals Off The Seafloor. Is That A Good Idea? | Big Business
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A New Mining Ship Sucks Metals Off The Seafloor. Is That A Good Idea? | Big Business
- published: 21 Jan 2023
- views: 3495914
7:11
How the 1st Ever Deep Sea Mineral Extraction Vehicles Were Made - LONG VERSION
See how we made the world's 1st ever deep sea mineral extraction machines!
These three remotely-controlled mineral extraction machines, the largest of which is...
See how we made the world's 1st ever deep sea mineral extraction machines!
These three remotely-controlled mineral extraction machines, the largest of which is 300t were designed to extract massive sulphides in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea. The mineral deposit has an average depth of 1600m below mean sea level and they were produced back in 2016 for Nautilus Minerals Inc. an early pioneer in deep sea mineral exploration and extraction.
Each of these vehicles is controlled from the ship’s control room via an umbilical. This supplies power to multiple copper cores, as well as communications, data and control commands via fibre-optic cables, which are all wrapped in an armoured casing.
The 3 machines:
AUXILLIARY CUTTER: The first machine used as part of the extraction is the auxiliary cutter, which creates a level working surface for the subsequent bulk cutter and collector machines.
BULK CUTTER: The bulk cutter is the main production machine and the heaviest deep-sea mineral extraction unit ever built, weighing in at over a colossal 300 tonnes. Designing a ship-based launch and recovery system was challenging for something of this size so we settled on a cantilever system. The installed power of the cutter head is also bigger than any other rock cutter at 1.2MW. The power is supplied via an umbilical from the vessel.
COLLECTING MACHINE: In the planned extraction technique, the giant bulk cutter grinds up the seafloor with each pass, before the collector sucks up material from the piles made by the bulk cutter, which is then transferred via a riser pipe to the production support vessel on the surface, where it is dewatered.
For more information on our minerals projects you can check our brochure here: https://www.smd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SMD-Minerals-Projects-Brochure.pdf
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See how we made the world's 1st ever deep sea mineral extraction machines!
These three remotely-controlled mineral extraction machines, the largest of which is 300t were designed to extract massive sulphides in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea. The mineral deposit has an average depth of 1600m below mean sea level and they were produced back in 2016 for Nautilus Minerals Inc. an early pioneer in deep sea mineral exploration and extraction.
Each of these vehicles is controlled from the ship’s control room via an umbilical. This supplies power to multiple copper cores, as well as communications, data and control commands via fibre-optic cables, which are all wrapped in an armoured casing.
The 3 machines:
AUXILLIARY CUTTER: The first machine used as part of the extraction is the auxiliary cutter, which creates a level working surface for the subsequent bulk cutter and collector machines.
BULK CUTTER: The bulk cutter is the main production machine and the heaviest deep-sea mineral extraction unit ever built, weighing in at over a colossal 300 tonnes. Designing a ship-based launch and recovery system was challenging for something of this size so we settled on a cantilever system. The installed power of the cutter head is also bigger than any other rock cutter at 1.2MW. The power is supplied via an umbilical from the vessel.
COLLECTING MACHINE: In the planned extraction technique, the giant bulk cutter grinds up the seafloor with each pass, before the collector sucks up material from the piles made by the bulk cutter, which is then transferred via a riser pipe to the production support vessel on the surface, where it is dewatered.
For more information on our minerals projects you can check our brochure here: https://www.smd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SMD-Minerals-Projects-Brochure.pdf
Or visit the minerals page of our website: https://www.smd.co.uk/minerals/
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- published: 20 Apr 2021
- views: 1637
4:52
How to and Should we mine gold in the deep sea?
Deep-sea mining (or Seabed mining) is a technology to mine the hidden gold and materials under the deep ocean. This technology promise to benefits humans in the...
Deep-sea mining (or Seabed mining) is a technology to mine the hidden gold and materials under the deep ocean. This technology promise to benefits humans in the future, but there is heated controversy surrounding. So what is deep-sea mining and how it works? - explained video using pixel animation
* Narration: Lith Dahbour
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5r1n6On_xtHznkQgdalF3g
Product of Tredecillion
https://wn.com/How_To_And_Should_We_Mine_Gold_In_The_Deep_Sea
Deep-sea mining (or Seabed mining) is a technology to mine the hidden gold and materials under the deep ocean. This technology promise to benefits humans in the future, but there is heated controversy surrounding. So what is deep-sea mining and how it works? - explained video using pixel animation
* Narration: Lith Dahbour
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5r1n6On_xtHznkQgdalF3g
Product of Tredecillion
- published: 11 Jan 2022
- views: 3230
2:25
What are hydrothermal vents?
The waters around hydrothermal vents may seem harsh and inhospitable to life, but in reality, these regions are oases that support rich and diverse ecosystems t...
The waters around hydrothermal vents may seem harsh and inhospitable to life, but in reality, these regions are oases that support rich and diverse ecosystems that make a living off the chemicals that flow from the seafloor. This video appears in WHOI's Ocean Science Discovery Center with the actual piece of hydrothermal vent chimney being collected by the human-occupied submersible Alvin beginning at 00:45.
For more on hydrothermal vents visit:
https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/seafloor-below/hydrothermal-vents/
https://wn.com/What_Are_Hydrothermal_Vents
The waters around hydrothermal vents may seem harsh and inhospitable to life, but in reality, these regions are oases that support rich and diverse ecosystems that make a living off the chemicals that flow from the seafloor. This video appears in WHOI's Ocean Science Discovery Center with the actual piece of hydrothermal vent chimney being collected by the human-occupied submersible Alvin beginning at 00:45.
For more on hydrothermal vents visit:
https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/seafloor-below/hydrothermal-vents/
- published: 11 Sep 2019
- views: 74781
1:11
How a Canadian company will mine the sea bed near Papua New Guinea
Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals has reached an agreement with the government of Papua New Guinea to begin mining an area of seabed believed to be rich...
Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals has reached an agreement with the government of Papua New Guinea to begin mining an area of seabed believed to be rich in gold and copper ores, according to the BBC.
Under the terms of the agreement, Papua New Guinea will contribute $120 million to the operation and receive a 15 percent share in the mine.
Environmentalists say the mine will devastate the area and cause long-lasting damage to the environment.
The BBC reports that "the mine will target an area of hydrothermal vents where superheated, highly acidic water emerges from the seabed, where it encounters far colder and more alkaline seawater, forcing it to deposit high concentrations of minerals."
The report continues:
The result is that the seabed is formed of ores that are far richer in gold and copper than ores found on land.
Mike Johnston, chief executive of Nautilus Minerals told the BBC "that a temperature probe left in place for 18 months was found to have 'high grade copper all over it'."
Nautilus announced in April that it had completed its bulk cutter, the first component of its Seafloor Production Tools system, which will be used to mine the seabed.
Nautilus also approximately 500,000 square kilometres of "highly prospective exploration acreage" in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga, as well as in international waters in the eastern Pacific, the company said in a press release.
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Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals has reached an agreement with the government of Papua New Guinea to begin mining an area of seabed believed to be rich in gold and copper ores, according to the BBC.
Under the terms of the agreement, Papua New Guinea will contribute $120 million to the operation and receive a 15 percent share in the mine.
Environmentalists say the mine will devastate the area and cause long-lasting damage to the environment.
The BBC reports that "the mine will target an area of hydrothermal vents where superheated, highly acidic water emerges from the seabed, where it encounters far colder and more alkaline seawater, forcing it to deposit high concentrations of minerals."
The report continues:
The result is that the seabed is formed of ores that are far richer in gold and copper than ores found on land.
Mike Johnston, chief executive of Nautilus Minerals told the BBC "that a temperature probe left in place for 18 months was found to have 'high grade copper all over it'."
Nautilus announced in April that it had completed its bulk cutter, the first component of its Seafloor Production Tools system, which will be used to mine the seabed.
Nautilus also approximately 500,000 square kilometres of "highly prospective exploration acreage" in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga, as well as in international waters in the eastern Pacific, the company said in a press release.
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- published: 07 Jun 2014
- views: 47087