Mining the ocean floor: 5 deep-sea sources of critical minerals essential to technology, and the fragile marine life at risk

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to ...

Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental ...

Guam objects to Trump administration plan to allow deep-sea mining in western Pacific

The Trump administration wants to allow deep-sea mining for critical minerals near the American territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Residents are worried about environmental impacts.

What are sea mines? Why do they matter in the Strait of Hormuz?

Sea mines are disrupting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran warns vessels away. Here’s how these mines pose such a ...
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What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...
The New York Times

Can Nations Agree How to Mine the Sea? This Is the Year, She Says.

Leticia Carvalho heads a global authority that’s been struggling to set rules for a decade. President Trump’s aggressive push on ocean mining makes her task more urgent. Leticia Carvalho, the head of ...
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The land of Nome; a narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy 1900-1901, by ...

An attack on the operating of Alexander Mackenzie and the Alaska gold mining co. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries ...