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Companies angling to plumb the deep seas for critical minerals will appear on Capitol Hill this week. Companies wanting to take advantage of President Donald Trump’s deep-sea mining order will ...

Holden said the purpose of the Marshall Islands expedition is to look at the biodiversity of the deep sea ecosystems in the area, as well as search for archeological samples and remnants of ships ...

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“Any attempt to accelerate deep-sea mining without proper safeguards will only speed up the destruction of our oceans.” This was echoed by the Washington-based group Ocean ...

White House aides say the initiative could see US operations scoop up more than a billion metric tons of mineral-rich deep-sea nodules, and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the American ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to accelerate offshore mining and open new opportunities for extracting critical materials from the seabed. Within 60 days of the date ...

Commercial deep-sea mining remains in its infancy, but with a global race underway for rare earth minerals – and the industry dominated by China – Washington appears set on expanding its ...