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    Potentially Minable Sands Of Virginia's Inner Continental Shelf

    By Carl H. Hobbs

    The beach at the resort city of Virginia Beach, Virginia has been and increasingly will be dependent upon artificial nourishment for maintenance and for hurricane protection. Both existing base-level

    Jan 1, 1995

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    Canadian Experience In Interpreting The "Law Of The Sea" With Reference To The Development Of Marine Mineral Resources

    By Richard T. Haworfh

    The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) entered into force, for those nations who had ratified it, on November 16, 1994. The Convention deals with nearly every aspect of ocean aff

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Modeling and Field Studies of Nodule Dewatering Plumes Generated by Surface Processing Vessels

    By Michael Goldin, Jonathan Ladner, Thomas Peacock, Nathaniel Johnson, Patrick Haley, Kris van Nijen, Andrew Rzeznik, Pierre Lermusiaux, Matthew Alford, Carlos Munoz-Royo

    Surface processing vessels for deep-sea nodule mining operations will produce dewatering plumes that will be released at some depth into the ocean water column. We are studying all aspects of this par

    Jan 1, 2017

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    The Marine Minerals Technology Center

    By J. Robert Woolsey

    The Marine Minerals Technology Center (MMTC) was established by Congress in FY 1988 as part of the Mineral Institutes Program, administered by the U.S. Bureau of Mines under the auspices of the Depart

    Jan 1, 1988

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    Manganese Nodules: Twenty Years Of Accomplishments

    By John W. Padan

    What is known about manganese nodules and their potential commercial recovery is outlined in terms of economics, legal rights, environmental impacts, and mineral genesis. As a result of 20 years of ac

    Jan 1, 1989

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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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    Fisheries Interests And Ocean Mining

    By D. J. Scarratt

    Fisheries make a significant regional contribution to the economy of Canada. In the Atlantic Region, over 70 thousand workers depend on the primary or secondary fishing industry. Fisheries are vulnera

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Some Questions of the AUV Control in Surveying the Seamounts.

    By Mikhail D. Ageev

    The paper concerns with some questions of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) control system design, which allows a motion at rough undersea terrain. The AUV advantages reveal itself completely du

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Marine Mineral Image-Text Database

    By Lu Jun

    Up to now, much data on marine minerals, as well as on marine geochemistry, have been accumulated. Modem computer databases provide optimum flexibility and power for manipulating these data. The best

    Jan 1, 1994

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    Sand From Virginia's Inner Continental Shelf

    By Carl H. Hobbs

    The needs of the on-going basic maintenance operations and proposed enhancement and hurricane protection projects in the City of Virginia Beach exceed the capability land-slide sources of sand. Throug

    Jan 1, 1996

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    On The Possibility Of Offshore Mineral Occurrences In Greenland Waters

    By P. U. W. Appel

    Despite the very large offshore Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) area of Greenland (in excess of 2 mill. km2) virtually no work has been carried out on marine minerals on the ocean floor. Apart from a si

    Jan 1, 1988

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    North Atlantic Marine Minerals and Ocean Mining Potential

    By Fredrik Søreide

    The Norwegian EEZ contains large areas of interest for SMS exploration along the Mid- Atlantic Ridge, from Jan Mayen to Svalbard. At the same time Norwegian companies engaged in oil and gas activities

    Sep 14, 2011

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    Gold Mineralization In The Marine Environment; A Possible Marine Mineral Exploration And Mining Target

    By Thomas Pichler

    In the past marine mining technology has focused on bulk mining of base metals from polymetallic massive sulfides. This has not been very successful because of the relatively low unit value of these m

    Jan 1, 1993

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    Potential Offshore Aggregate, Gulf Of Mexico

    By S. Jeffress Williams

    The topic area for this paper covers the United States portion of the northern Gulf of Mexico, extending from the Rio Grande delta east to the Florida peninsula. Declaration of an Exclusive Economic Z

    Jan 1, 1986

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    The Gorda Ridge Technical Task Force: A Cooperative Federal-State Approach To Offshore Mining Issues

    By G. McMurray

    The release by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the leasing of polymetallic sulfide minerals on the Gorda Ridge in December 1983 resulted

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Column Flotation Of Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crust

    By William C. Hirt

    Column flotation is a promising technique for processing as-mined, cobalt-rich, ferromanganese crust to separate the valuable crust component from barren substrate-rock, either aboard ship or within t

    Jan 1, 1992

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    Namco: Progression Through Sampling to Full Scale Diamond Production Offshore Namibia

    By Roger J. Daniel

    Major interest and investment in southern Africa's west coast diamond deposits have resulted in the development of various tools for sampling and mining in the varied geological conditions encoun

    Jan 1, 1998

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    Uncommon Au- And Ag-Enriched Sulfidic Mineral Assemblages From A Basaltic Spreading Ridge Environment: Mt. Jourdanne, Southwest Indian Ridge

    By Peter Halbach

    Hydrothermal activity is well known from many locations on most mid-ocean ridges, however no hydrothermally mineralized area had yet been found at the ultraslow spreading southwest Indian Ridge up to

    Jan 1, 2001

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    Remote Drilling Technology

    By Patrick J. C. Ryall

    Remotely control led drills capable of being lowered to the sea-floor from ordinary research vessels have been developed over the past two decades. These drills are currently being used in geological

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Possible Exploitation Of Seabed Minerals Of West Coast Of India

    By S. Rajendran

    The western continental margin comprises of the southwest coast (Cape Comorin-Mangalore), centralwest coast or Konkan coast (Mangalore-Bombay), northwest coast (Bombay-Gulf of Kutch) and the Laccadive

    Jan 1, 1996