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The deep blue sea might soon become a mining frontier

New Atlas 05 Apr 2025
How does it work? ... For its part, TMC intends to have large vessels out at sea deploying collector vehicles down to abyssal depths of 2.5-3.75 miles (4-6 km) in the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean ... TMC - The Future Is Metallic ... Source.
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In 1979, A Deep-Sea Mining Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, We're Finding Out Its Impacts

IFL Science 28 Mar 2025
Now 44 years old, this patch of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) – hot ... “The Clarion-Clipperton Zone itself is about 2% of the global abyssal plain, which is over half of the planet’s solid surface.
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It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life

The Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 2025
In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing ... The break seemed like a reasonable metaphor for our fractured times ... An underwater earthquake or a landslide can snap the cable deep in the abyssal zone.
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