If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Two miles below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered something impossible: rocks that generate electricity and ...

“The same is true on the sea floor, and we actually have data that shows this: The communities that you find in the east on nodules ... in the deep sea, there's very little change in oxygen ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior said Tuesday that it’s beginning the process of selling deep-sea mining leases ... What’s more, the nodules themselves produce oxygen, suggesting they ...

Large swathes of the deep-sea floor contain nodules of the critical minerals cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel. "This is an exciting opportunity for the U.S.," Gerard Baron, CEO of The Metals ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ...

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 ...

The search for critical minerals could put deep-sea mining and commercial fishing on a collision course.