An abrupt announcement has rattled members of a little-known U.N. agency based in Jamaica that has protected deep ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...

Following successful mining tests by U.S. consortia and pioneering environmental impact assessment by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

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

in 1980 to enable exploration and commercial recovery of deep-sea minerals in the high seas DSHMRA, along with its implementing regulations completed by NOAA in 1989 and other landmark legislation ...

U.S. Congress passed DSHMRA in 1980, affirming that deep-sea mining is a Freedom of the High Seas and granting NOAA authority to regulate exploration and commercial recovery activities of U.S.

(Reuters) -Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration ... (NOAA). TMC's bid to become the ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the US Department of Commerce to apply for exploration ... to develop deep sea minerals has been ...

NOAA said in a statement that The Metals Company USA LLC, has requested a pre-application consultation with the agency to learn more about the formal license application process for deep-sea mining.