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    Characteristics of Oceanic Core Complexes (OCCs) in Central Indian Ridge (8 °–12 °S) by High-Resolution Bathymetry and Backscatter Images

    By Seung-Kyu Son, Michael T. Chandler, Youngtak Ko, Gyuha Hwang

    Over the past decade, sea-floor hydrothermal vent fields have been studied by many researchers because of their commercial potential of mineral resources and the origins of Earth’s life. Approximately

    Jan 1, 2018

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    Eyes in the Deep – How Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Can Support & Enhance Deep Sea Mining Operations

    By Stephen Hall

    Introduction Marine Autonomous Systems are making rapid progress from their early years as research tools for university departments & government institutes into having a growing number of real-world

    Jan 1, 2018

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    Environmental Influences On Metal Content Of Ferromanganese Crusts In The Central Tropical South Pacific: Implications For Prospecting And Resource Assessment

    By Philomene Verlaan

    Analysis of the relationship between environmental parameters and the content of Mn, Ni, Co, Cu, Fe and Zn in ferromanganese crusts permits improved identification of locations to prospect for crusts

    Jan 1, 2001

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    Studies on the Properties and Environmental Impacts of Deep Seabed Mine Tailings in Korea

    By Chan Min Yoo, Kiseong Hyeong, Inah Seo

    INTRODUCTION One of the major concerns for deep seabed mining is its environmental impact, from the disturbance of benthic communities due to the mining activity to the disposal of mine tailings back

    Jan 1, 2018

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    Development of Exploration Criteria for Massive Sulfides on Slow-Spreading Ridges – Lessons Learned from the TAG Hydrothermal Field

    By Isobel Yeo, Florent Szitkar, Sven Petersen, Sebastian Graber, Meike Klischies

    Technological advances and the shift towards green energies in the last decades have led to a substantial increase in the demand for metal resources. With rising political tension, and quasi-monopolis

    Jan 1, 2018

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    Investigations Of Seafloor Hydrothermal Mineralisation In Volcanic Arcs, Back Arcs And Continental Shelf Settings In SW Pacific And SE Asia

    By Timothy F. McConachy

    Between April 2000 and April 2002, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Division of Exploration and Mining has led 6 research expeditions totalling 160 days ship ti

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Methods of Manganese Nodule Exploration in the German License Area

    By Carsten Rühlemann

    Between 2008 and 2013, the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) carried out five exploration cruises to the German license area in the eastern Pacific Nodule Belt. The

    Sep 14, 2011

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    Back to Basics: Contract Law and the ISA Exploitation Regime

    By Elizabeth McIsaac, Wylie Spicer

    "In July 2016 the International Seabed Authority (the “ISA”) released a first working draft of its mineral exploitation regulations as well as the standard contract terms for mineral resources in the

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Manganese Nodules: Overcoming The Constraints

    By William D. Siapno

    Approximately a century lapsed between the time nodules were discovered and the beginning of commercial exploration in the early 1960's. A period of rapid development of exploration and mining te

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Managing Deep Sea Tailings Placement And The Environment: An Analogue For Deep Sea Mining

    By Tracy Shimmield

    Deep sea tailings placement (DSTP) techniques have been pioneered in Papua New Guinea (PNG): a mining reliant economy in a seismically active region, facing major environmental challenges in the safe

    Sep 14, 2011

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    Ecosystem-Based Management of the Deep Ocean: DOSI (Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative) Guidance for Seabed Mining

    By Maria Baker, Kristina Gjerde, Lisa Levin, Verena Tunnicliffe, Lenaick Menot, Rachel Boschen

    Deep-sea mining is rapidly approaching the test-mining phase to prepare for commercial mining in multiple oceans, both in areas within and beyond national jurisdiction. The first test-mining operation

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Production Determining Processes Of Subsea Deposit Removal

    By Tony van der Steen

    Subsea mining system are designed for the following, principally different, tasks: Dreding - The destruction and removal of seabed sediments overlaying the bedrock. Cleaning - The competence

    Jan 1, 1998

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    Resource Drilling Of The Solwara 1 Seafloor Massive Sulfide (SMS) Deposit

    By Glen Smith

    Nautilus Minerals is the world leader in exploration and development of deep ocean seafloor massive sulphide (SMS) resources. The company is currently focused on generating its resource pipeline in th

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Marine Diamond Mining - Now An Established Industry

    By Richard H. T. Garnett

    On the western continental shelf of southern Africa diamonds derived from onshore sources are concentrated in gravels within drowned terrestrial and marine geomorphological features. First discovered

    Jan 1, 1998

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    Deep-Sea Mineral Potential in the South Pacific Waters – The Results of the 21-year Long-term Japan/SOPAC Cooperative Deep-Sea Mineral Resources Study Programme, 1985-2005

    By Nobuyuki Okamoto

    The 21-year long-term Japan-SOPAC Cooperative Deep-sea Mineral Resources Study Programme was completed in March 2006. The Programme, which commenced in 1985, has seen numerous marine research surve

    Sep 24, 2006

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    The Stabilisation Of Vertical And Horizontal Slurry Pipelines In Mining: The Role Of The Jet Pump

    By Anthony Wakefield

    Dredging tends to be either horizontal or vertical. In each case solids have to be disengaged from the deposit, mobilized, acquired and elevated or translated. One means of elevation is the airlift.

    Jan 1, 1998

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    A Multidisciplinary Field Study of Cobalt-Rich Crusts, Tropic Seamount, North-East Atlantic: Marine E-Tech

    By Mark Lee, Isobel Yeo, Sarah Howarth, Christian Millo, Javier González Sanz, Paul Lusty, Bramley Murton, Pierre Josso

    "Seafloor cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts represent the most important yet least explored resource of ‘E-tech’ elements on the planet (Hein et al. 2003; ISA, 2008; Hein et al. 2010; Hein et al. 2013

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Exploration For Offshore Alluvial Gold And Diamonds In Coastal Ghana

    By Michael R. Gipp

    Marine Mining Inc. is currently exploring for marine alluvial gold and diamonds on a prospecting licence over a concession that covers 10,000 km2 of the continental shelf of Ghana. The boundaries of

    Jan 1, 1998

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    Seafloor Massive Sulfides And Oceanic Core Complexes At The Slow-Spreading Ridges

    By G. Cherkashov

    The geodiversity of seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) deposits at the slow- and ultra-slow spreading ridges is of great variety (Fouquet et al., 2010). Tectonics and magmatism are the two principal fact

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Mineralisation Associated with Submarine Volcanoes of the Southern Kermadec Arc, New Zealand

    By Ian J. Graham, Cornel E. J. de Ronde

    New Zealand lies astride a convergent plate boundary that extends north-eastwards from the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) to Tonga. This boundary is marked by the Kermadec arc, c. 1200 km of which falls wi

    Aug 24, 2006