Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, ...

To overcome this, Hu’s team crafted a specialized diamond-coated grinding wheel. Spinning at 1,600 revolutions per minute, ...

Canadian deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company (TMC) has announced it “initiated a process” with U.S. regulators to apply ...

Operating in the depths of the ocean is a challenge that India must embrace to maximise its economic potential and protect ...

Interest in joining the deep-sea mining rush is growing. Indonesia, the largest miner of nickel on land, notified the ISA ...

The company at the vanguard of plans to mine deep sea metals used in electric vehicle batteries has surrendered a third of ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This ...

Some Indian mining and cement companies have approached Dutch shipbuilder Royal IHC for technical assistance as they prepare to bid for deep-sea mineral blocks up for auction, two sources with direct ...

India is gearing up for a historic deep-sea exploration mission with Matsya-6000, the country’s first human submersible ...

Pacific nation Kiribati says it is exploring a deep-sea mining partnership with China, dangling access to a vast patch of ...

Kiribati holds rights for deep-sea mining exploration across a 75,000-square-kilometre swathe ... copper and nickel -- metals ...