Deep Seabed Mining in Global Waters: Time limit Drives Rulemaking
Proponents of deep-sea mining say that amassing mineral nodules deposited at the ocean flooring in a area of the central Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone is a much less damaging option to gather minerals — nickel, copper, manganese and cobalt — than it’s to mine them on land. Combatants of the follow say … Read more