A vast trove of valuable rare metals, cobalt and nickel to name just some, lies deep below ... metals were found concentrated on the sea floor near Minami-Torishima island, Japan’s easternmost ...

Using advanced deep-sea exploration technology, they discovered large deposits of minerals such as cobalt ... ocean floor have arisen. While the discovery has the potential to fuel Japan ...

To reach them, Japan must figure out how to mix and pump mud from the deep. In 2012, researchers identified large reserves of rare-earth elements in Japanese muds found at depths of roughly 6,000m.

Massive quantities of microplastics lie on the deep ... ocean floor 500 kilometers off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, the highest level ever found on the seafloor anywhere, a group of ...

The Nippon Foundation will work with the Scottish Association for Marine Science for conducting a study on "dark oxygen," which can be produced on the deep ocean floor where sunlight cannot penetrate.

Deep-sea mining ... (nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese) in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico. Prospecting corporations have long coveted the precious metals ...

And few places are as outlandish as the ocean deep ... floor. The nodules consist of a range of minerals, depending on where they’re located. Mining companies can recover copper, nickel, cobalt ...