Impossible Metals, a deep-sea mining startup, submitted a formal request to the Department of the Interior to sell leases to mine the ocean floor.

Many of the minerals involved in proposed deep sea mining operations are located on black, potato-shaped nodules that lie on ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the deep sea. Trump signed ... metric tons of nodules, or deposits ...

Oxygen seeps ... harm these deep-sea ecosystems before their value and workings are fully understood. Seafloor mining could target three kinds of metal-rich deposits: nodules, crusts and mounds.

On the floor of the Pacific Ocean, billions of tons of geological materials called nodules hold key minerals ... an executive order to help the deep-sea mining industry. Here are key takeaways ...

Deep-sea mining targets resources such as potato-sized polymetallic nodules from depths of 4,000 to 6,000 metres. The nodules contain critical materials, including manganese, iron, cobalt ...

which aims to extract nodules from a vast plain of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Beyond The Metals Company, others eyeing deep-sea mining ...