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Polymetallic Nodules In The Cook Islands EEZ - A Seabed Mineral Resource Of World Class Significance - Progress Towards Ultimate Development
By Darryl Thorburn
The Cook Islands are 15 islands located in the Southwest Pacific (between 8-23°S latitude and 156-167°W longitude). The total land area is about 200 km2. However, because its islands are widely scatte
Sep 14, 2011
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Exploration Strategies And Activities For Deep-Sea Mineral Resources Development Of Korea
By Cheong-Kee Park
Since 1983, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) have performed surveys on deep-sea mineral deposits in various areas with respects to their occurrences in Pacific ocean including ma
Jan 1, 2003
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An Article 76-Based Definition Of The U.S. Atlantic Continental Shelf
By G. B. Carpenter
The United Nations Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention includes provisions (Article 76) for establishing the outer limits of a coastal State's continental shelf and for denoting the seaward extent of
Jan 1, 1995
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Boiling Fluids And Unusual Mineral Deposits From Hydrothermal Vents At The South Mid-Atlantic Ridge ? Results Of Meteor Cruise M64/1
By Andrea Koschinsky
Numerous hydrothermal vents occur along the Earth?s oceanic spreading axes documenting the reaction of seawater with hot magmatic rocks. The circulation of seawater through the oceanic crust, the inte
Jan 1, 2005
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Search for Sediment-hosted Seafloor Polymetallic Sulfides: What Are We Doing Wrong?
By Timothy F. McConachy, Christopher J. Yeats, Ray Binns
Various kinds of sediment-hosted polymetallic sulfide deposit are known on land in ancient marine sequences, many tending to be larger and more valuable than massive sulfide deposits genetically ass
Aug 24, 2006
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Policy Objectives Of The Seabed Mining Programme In India
By J. V. R. Prasada Rao
India is dependent for 60% of its annual requirement of copper and the entire quantity of nickel and cobalt on imports from outside the country. Land-based resources are either too meager or of too lo
Jan 1, 1994
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Characterization Of Sand Mining Plumes
By N. Wang
The City of Honolulu mines sand from nearshore deposits for beach maintenance. The suction dredging operation creates a discharge plume which is carried by currents and other motions until it settles
Jan 1, 1991
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Hydrothermal Sulfide Deposits In Lakes
By Sophia Katsouri
Hydrothermal circulation that produces sulfide deposits in the marine environment can also produce sulfide deposits in lakes. The major differences in terms of process are (1) in lakes the hydrotherma
Jan 1, 2001
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Taxonomic and Trophic Structure of Megabenthic Community on Polymetallic Nodules Fields in NE Pacific Ocean
By Valcana Stoyanova
Data and information for this study were collected in June-July 2009 onboard the RV Yuzhmorgeologiya in the area covers about 7000 km2 in the eastern part of the CCFZ between 10º05? - 10º55?N and 119º
Jan 1, 2010
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Offshore And Land Mineral Resources
By Frank Manheim
The purpose of this presentation is to review the history of offshore non- fisheries resource development since World War II, as an introduction to a planned symposium on offshore resources scheduled
Jan 1, 1995
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Assessment Of The Rehabilitation Of The Seabed Following Marine Aggregate Dredging
By S. E. Boyd
Studies of benthic recolonization following the cessation of dredging in U.K. waters and elsewhere are limited, and are largely confined to experimental circumstances. Investigations of the physical
Jan 1, 2004
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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
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MARTEMIS – An Electromagnetic Coil System for the Detection of Buried Seafloor Massive Sulfides
By S. Hölz, M. Jegen, K. Reeck, A. Haroon
Past investigations of seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) focused on actively forming sites. New technologies are needed to explore for SMS deposits which have finished their active phase and are possibl
Jan 1, 2018
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ISA Draft Regulations for Exploitation
By Harald Brekke
On 13 July 2000, the ISA adopted the Regulations on Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Nodules in the Area. The first contracts for such exploration were issued by the ISA the same year. The
Jan 1, 2018
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Development of Equipment for Reconnaissance Level Detection and Confirmation of Deepwater Massive Sulfide Deposits
By Will Roberts, M. E. Williamson
After verification of methodology and testing of prototype systems during 2005/06, Nautilus Minerals expanded their Papua New Guinea (PNG) operations to a full commercial exploration program in 2007
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Sustainability Aspects in Deep-Seabed Mining of Polymetallic Nodules
By Ning Yang, Sup Hong
INTRODUCTION Metal components contained in deep-seabed mineral resources are being highlighted as “energy metals”, which are widely utilized in the entire fields of energy: harvesting and generation,
Jan 1, 2018
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The Newest Deep Submergence System In The United States
By Alexander Malahoff
The new ship-submersible system with R/V Ka'imikai-o-Kanaloa as a mothership and the PISCES V as the submersible completed its first season of dives. The dives involved deployment of the PISCES V
Jan 1, 1996
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Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Physico-Chemical Parameter In The Northeast Equatorial Pacific Ocean
By Seung-Kyu Son
This study was investigated about physico-chemical parameter such as water temperature, salinity, inorganic nutrients and total organic carbon (TOC). CTD (Model: Sea-Bird 911 Plus) castings were carri
Jan 1, 2005
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Mineralogical Characterization Of Southern Oregon Offshore Placers
By C. L. Mardock
The U. S. Bureau of Mines participated in a two-year joint State of Oregon/Department of Interior Placer Task Force study on the economic and environmental aspects of Oregon's marine placer depos
Jan 1, 1991
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Genesis Of The Diamond Mega-Placers Of Southern Africa And Its Global Context
By B. J. Bluck
Diamond mega-placers, in order to rank amongst the primary diamond deposits, are defined as => 70 m carats at =>95% gem quality. There is only one mega-placer known and that is found along the coast o
Jan 1, 2004