A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...

Elizabeth Klein says the Interior Department is fast-tracking seabed mining using “already bare-bones, vague, decades-old rules.” A former Interior official who once oversaw the nation’s offshore ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

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With gold prices at an all-time high, illegal gold mining is again rising— a recurring pattern between gold prices and illegal gold mining. Earlier this month, several top-tier news reports covered ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is shifting deep beneath the waves. Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

The seabed is more than a new resource frontier; it is a test of whether multilateral rules can withstand the strain of great-power rivalry. The deep seabed is becoming a new arena of great power ...

Looking to redefine what’s possible in the mining industry, which poses some of the most extreme challenges in industrial applications and connectivity, Nokia and Boldyn Networks have deployed a ...

Nokia and Boldyn Networks teamed up to provide a private 5G network set to support tests of next-generation mining equipment. The pair deployed the network at the Callio FutureMINE site in Pyhäjärvi, ...

The path to the world’s technological future could be found on the deep ocean floor. But that path may come at a high price. The debate centers on critical minerals embedded in rocks on the seabed.

At a critical juncture in the cryptocurrency industry, cloud mining has become the mainstream method for Bitcoin mining. With its network of nine cutting-edge data centers spanning the globe, SJMine ...