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    Offshore Construction Technology - Opportunities And Applications In Marine Mining

    By James E. Dailey

    Marine mining is driven by profitability, and profitability is driven in turn by people and equipment that can work productively and safely at sea. Design challenges faced by the marine mining communi

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Mineralogy and the Incorporation Mechanism of Economic Relevant Metals Such As Ni, Cu, Co and Mo of Mn-Nodules from the German License Area within the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

    By Thomas Kuhn, Anna Wegorzewski

    "INTRODUCTIONPolymetallic nodules from the Clarion and Clipperton Zone (CCZ) within the equatorial NE Pacific Ocean show high concentration of economic important strategic metals such as Ni, Cu, Co, M

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Self-Potential Surveys Using Multiple Platforms for Exploration of Submarine Hydrothermal Ore Deposits

    By Takafumi Kasaya, Katz Suzuki, Yoshifumi Kawada

    "INTRODUCTIONThe area beneath the seafloor preserves valuable resources that are inevitable to sustain our industrial society. Hydrocarbon resources such as petroleum and natural gases are one of the

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Massive Sulfide Deposits, Southern Juan De Fuca Ridge

    By Willam R. Normark

    During a series of dives with the submersible ALVIN in 1984, samples of massive sulfide were recovered from four vent sites. All sites occur within a linear, steep-walled cleft about 50 m wide and as

    Jan 1, 1985

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    First Australian Offshore Mineral Locations Map

    By Yanis Miezitis, Gerald Mueller, Timothy F. McConachy, Ronald G. Sait, Keith R. Porritt, William J. McKay

    In November 2004, Australia lodged with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf possible new maritime boundaries in relation to Australia’s continental shelf extending b

    Aug 24, 2006

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    Feasibility Study For Crust Mining In The Marshall Islands.

    By Yoshio Masuda

    Cobalt-rich crust in rich Co, Ni, Mm and Pt will be a potential resources for island country such as Republic. Marshall Islands. This study was conducted for Marshall Islands by the President Kabua?s

    Jan 1, 1991

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    New Data From The Escanaba Trough: Implications For Other Sediment-Covered Ridge Axes And Besshi-Type Sulfides On Land

    By Randolph A. Koski

    Recent investigations located at least six major massive sulfide deposits (dimensions measured in tens to hundreds of meters) within a 50-km-long segment of Escanaba Trough, the sediment-covered axial

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Heavy Minerals, Offshore Virginia: A Project Report

    By C. H. Hobbs

    A recently completed series of projects funded by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the U.S. Minerals Management Service was designed to assess the distribution of heavy minerals on the inner continent

    Jan 1, 1988

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    From Space Robotics to Deep-sea Mining

    By Robert Corcoran, Piotr Jasiobedzki, Roy Jakola, Michael Jenkin

    Vast mineral resources of copper, zinc, cobalt and gold have been identified off the coast of Papua New Guinea at depths exceeding 2,000 meters. Accessing them in a cost effective manner and without

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    New Approaches To Mineral Exploration Off The Southwest Pacific Island Nations

    By D. S. Cronan

    Mineral exploration problems in the S.W. Pacific are not unique to that region, but a combination of favourable circumstances render it an ideal area to attempt to solve such problems. The land are

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Platinum-Group-Metals, Gold, And Chromium Resource Potential Offshore Of Platinum, Alaska

    By James C. Barker

    Concern over the availability of domestic critical and strategic mineral supplies has led the Bureau of Mines to evaluate the reserve development potential of alternative sources in Alaska. Near the v

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Sensitivity Analyses of the Kuroko-type Seafloor Massive Sulfide Mining in Japan’s EEZ

    By Tetsuo Yamazaki

    The Kuroko-type seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) in the western Pacific have received much attention as sources for economic recovery of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and lead (Pb). S

    Sep 24, 2006

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    Simple And Effective Sampling Methods For Marine Minerals Exploration

    By J. R. Woolsey

    The cost of an offshore exploration project is mainly dependent on the size of the vessel engaged for the work and increases dramatically with increasing size. Of the various factors influencing vesse

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Hydrogenetic Fe-Mn Crusts From The Atlantic And Pacific Oceans: Geological Evolution And Conditions Of Formation

    By Irina A. Pulyaeva

    Hydrogenetic Fe-Mn crusts are ubiquitous in the ocean basins and play an important role in marine mineral-deposit research because of their widespread occurrence and high concentrations of valuable an

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Optimization And Economic Efficiency Evaluation Of Manganese Nodule Carrier Using Genetic Algorithms

    By Jae-Hyung Park

    Since the Industrial Revolution, the land resources have been decreased rapidly as the industrialization. And this phenomenon brings to our mind an interest in deep-sea resource(manganese nodule). Hen

    Jan 1, 2003

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    Extraction Of Valuable Trace Metals From Ferromanganese Nodules And Crusts With Different Chemical Leaching Agents - Introduction

    By Andrea Koschinsky

    Recent technological breakthroughs in the fields of ceramics, medicine, aerospace engineering and electronics (semi- and superconductors) are constantly creating new uses and an ongoing increasing dem

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Minimizing Environmental Risk - An Opportunity To Reconsider Submarine Mine Tailings Disposal

    By Paul C. Rusanowski

    Mining is a waste intensive industry, oftentimes producing hundreds of kilograms of waste rock and tailings for every gram of metal recovered. Disposal of mine tailings is a major concern in most mini

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Borehole Mining Technology For Underwater Application

    By M. F. Dibble

    The technology available for mining of underwater mineral resources such as placers and phosphorite, typically occurring with variable amounts of overburden, has remained largely unchanged for decades

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Finding Femn Crusts: Growth, Structure, Texture and Geophysical Detection

    By Mark Vardy, Kate Dobson, Isobel Yeo, Paul Lusty, Bramley Murton

    In response to anthropogenic climate change, the way in which we use and generate energy is changing. To facilitate these developments, it is essential that we increase and diversify the supply of ‘E-

    Jan 1, 2017

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    Preliminary Economic Evaluation of Deep-sea REE Mud Mining

    By Tetsuo Yamazaki

    Deep-sea rare-earth element-rich mud (REE Mud) distributes in pelagic clayey sediment column on ocean seafloor at 4,000-6,000 m deep. The thickness ranges 5-80 m and the burial depth 0-100 m. The REE

    Sep 14, 2011