There is a lot of good news taking shape around The Mining Company, which is focused on building a deep-sea mining business.

Conservationists say retrieving mineral-rich rocks will destroy sea life. Environmental studies show conflicting results.

The Deep Sea Minerals CEO talks about the sector as the administration pushes to open the ocean floor to exploration and ...

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

This week, delegates from around the world gathered at the International Seabed Authority’s headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, to continue ongoing negotiations over a long-debated “mining code”—a set ...

The United States and Japan have agreed to work together on deep-sea mining, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...

The deal reflects a push to secure critical minerals as AOMC builds a deep-sea portfolio spanning billions of tonnes of resources.

Drilling for minerals deep in the ocean could have immense consequences for the tiny animals at the core of the vast marine food web — and ultimately affect fisheries and the food we find on our ...

The new federal office will undo a change made after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Critics say it could reduce ...

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