Authority on Deep Sea Mining; operations, methods and impacts
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The Metals Company has made a clear statement that they will submit their NORI ISA application on June 27th 2025 We believe that this is a very clear and well intended move on their part - congratulations to the team!
TMC Announces June 27, 2025 Submission Date for Subsidiary NORI’s ISA Application, and Expanded Company Strategy
In an unusual election result twist, Benchmark Minerals is predicting increased EV and critical mineral activity under President Trump
🇺🇸 US Election Plot Twist The EV battery jobs boom will happen under President Trump and nearly all of it will take place in Republican states. These two charts from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence are compelling. With Elon Musk by the incoming President’s side, a #lithium and critical mineral mining renaissance to fuel this new industry could well happen. Mining and refining returns to middle America? The downstream EV funding will get hit hard but the job of building this new ex-China supply chain domestically is not yet complete. It was a trend that was started in 2017 with the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on critical minerals. The Republican’s have a chance to finish the job they started and own the geopolitical narrative. Join Benchmark next week in Los Angeles, 12-14th November. Google “Benchmark Week 2024” … there’s alot to discuss
Great report by the Federation of German Industries on deep-sea mining
New report by the 'Voice of German Industry', BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V., notes that Germany cannot afford to be left behind on deep-sea mineral exploitation and should engage in regulations to allow responsible operations. "Japan, Saudi Arabia, Norway - more and more countries are focusing on the extraction of raw materials in the deep sea. Germany cannot escape this trend." "The question now is rather when - and not whether - the commercial mining of manganese nodules will come. In November 2022, the German government declared its support for a precautionary pause in deep-sea resource extraction. This step is not very effective. This is because there is no majority for it internationally or in the [ISA] with its 169 member states. Therefore, a precautionary pause or a unilateral moratorium will neither lead to less extraction of raw materials in the deep sea nor to more environmental research or the development of high environmental protection standards." Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eKCmTZEd #deepseamining #energytransition #criticalminerals #offshore #industry #nickel #copper #cobalt #manganese
Our latest deep-sea mining newsletter discusses: - Cook Islands announced a sovereign wealth fund to handle DSM profits 🇨🇰 💰 - India's "Varaha 3" performed a successful collector test 🇮🇳 - Scandinavian Ocean Minerals returned from their exploration cruise in the Bothnian Bay 🚢 👩🔬 ⚒ - University of Ghent analysed the changing perspectives of countries in the ISA 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇩🇪 - Amazon Prime’s “The Rig” season 2 is set to feature “the controversial world of deep sea mining“ 📺 https://lnkd.in/ezDsHYZw
In our latest newsletter we talk about: - "Magnetic Microbes" 🦠 - EU flip-flops 💁 🇪🇺 - Improved harvester sediment plume modelling 👨🔬 - Cook Islands social license to operate 🇨🇰 - "A Deadly Moratorium" 🐼 https://lnkd.in/gj_9rMfq
In our latest email newsletter: - PBS visited an active deep-sea mining operation 🚀 - More activity from Scandinavian Ocean Minerals 🇸🇪 - International news outlets release various articles for / against DSM 🗞 - Steven Rizea talks about DRT's feasibility and concept design work 🔎 - I make an awkward joke in Dutch that no-one will understand 🇳🇱 🤣 #deepseamining #criticalminerals #energytransition https://lnkd.in/gUusdi6Q
Exciting progress from Scandinavian Ocean Minerals - they're heading out on a research cruise on October 7th to gather data on polymetallic nodules
Nu är det bara fyra dagar kvar. På måndag, den 7 oktober, är det äntligen dags. Då åker vi ut med vårt eget undersökningsfartyg R/V Bothnia Surveyor för att under två veckor göra nya undersökningar i Bottenviken. Med ombord finns tolv personer: en kapten, en styrman, tre matroser, en kock, tre medarbetare från oss på Scandinavian Ocean Minerals och tre personer från vår samarbetspartner Sweco. Det känns spännande att äntligen komma igång med de fysiska provtagningarna. De ska hjälpa oss att få en mer exakt uppfattning om hur stor mängd mineralrika mangannoduler som finns på havsbotten. Skrivbordsjobb i all ära, men det är ute på havet som det verkliga arbetet sker.
In our latest email newsletter, we talk about: - Scientist push back on "Dark Oxygen" 👨🔬 - TMC + PAMCO make significant progress in processing nodules 🏭 - The huge impact of terrestrial mining ⛏ - Offshore diamond mining 💎 - UMC 2024 🏝 🇨🇰 https://lnkd.in/dKGhzw-q #deepseamining #criticalminerals #offshoreengineering #energytransition
Enormous areas of land are impacted by terrestrial mining ⛏ 👨🚒 Satellite imagery indicates that 101,583 km² of the world's surface is mined However, around 1million km² of land is impacted by mining. That's 0.67% of the world's land area, or around a third more than total urban areas worldwide Land use and impacts include overburden storage, tailings, tailings ponds, and other associated land use It's important to understand the current impact of terrestrial mining in the debate around deep-sea mining https://lnkd.in/gwPyHzA3 #criticalminerals #deepseamining #mining #energytransition
Great progress from TMC and PAMCO towards commercial-scale processing of polymetallic nodules! #deepseamining #energytransition
World First: TMC and PAMCO Achieve Breakthrough in Commercial-Scale Processing of Polymetallic Nodules, Successfully Producing Calcine. Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eX8Rj6Ne #deepseamining #criticalminerals #energytransition #metallurgy #processing #nickel #cobalt #copper #manganese