President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday aimed at accelerating the collection of critical minerals from ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

An executive order from Trump backing deep sea mining faces fierce environmental and international opposition.

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, ...

The nodules contain critical materials, including manganese, iron, cobalt, copper and nickel, which are used by the defence, aerospace, energy and tech industries. A polymetallic, or manganese ...

TMC the metals company faces significant political hurdles in obtaining a mining license for deep-sea manganese nodules, despite solving technical challenges. TMC's financial stability hinges on ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his ...

manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies. These metals can be found in potato-sized nodules lying on the ocean floor. Many of the nodules are ...