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‘Playing gods with the cradle of life’: French Polynesia’s president issues warning over deep-sea mining

AOL 01 Apr 2025
He said deep-sea mining was a “lure” for Pacific Island countries, which might see the practice as a “shortcut to a better social and economic situation” ... Deep-sea mining has divided Pacific island governments.
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B.C. company to seek U.S. approval for deep sea mining — 'a violation of international law,' says United Nations

North Shore News 01 Apr 2025
Through it all, The Metals Company has been actively carrying out exploratory mining expeditions to the Pacific Ocean’s Clarrion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an area where polymetallic nodules ...
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Nations rebuke plan over seabed mining

The Buffalo News 01 Apr 2025
... and start seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean ....
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Canadian Mining Firm Seeks U.S. Permit to Bypass UN Seabed Rules

The Maritime Executive 31 Mar 2025
The Trump administration may be willing to help a Canadian company get a head start on seabed mining in the deep Pacific ... seabed mining code," said Barron in a statement ... mechanism for seabed mining.
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American Pacific Receives Updated Permit And Prepares To Commence Next Phase Of Drilling At The ...

MENA FN 31 Mar 2025
(MENAFN - Newsfile Corp) Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2025) - American Pacific Mining Corp. (CSE. USGD) (OTCQX. USGDF) (FWB. 1QC1) (" American Pacific " or the " ... .
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Pacific Energy delivers Australia’s largest off-grid hybrid power system to Tropicana gold mine (Pacific Energy Limited)

Public Technologies 31 Mar 2025
Pacific Energy delivers Australia's largest off-grid hybrid power system to Tropicana gold mine. Pacific Energy has successfully completed a significant renewable energy expansion of its power system at Tropicana gold mine in Western Australia.
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Canadian Company Seeking Trump’s Approval To Mine Seabed Condemned By Regulators

gCaptain 30 Mar 2025
The Metals Company (TMC) on Thursday said it had initiated a process to obtain a US government license to mine metals used in green technologies from a region of the Pacific Ocean controlled by the ...
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Fury as Canadian deep-sea firm undermines UN treaty

Urdu Point 29 Mar 2025
</p><p> TMC, apparently exasperated by the ISA's failure to agree on rules to mine the Pacific seabed for nickel and cobalt, now plans to submit a request to President Donald Trump's ...
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Mining company seeks Trump support to shortcut access to seabed metals

West Hawaii Today 29 Mar 2025
The long-running battle over whether to allow Pacific Ocean seabed ...
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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
Our data provide the first evidence of the timescale of that process in the main deep-sea mining region of the Pacific.” ... the main region of the Pacific that is being considered for future operations.
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Deep-sea mining scars remains after 40 years, but life returning

Mining 27 Mar 2025
A new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed that the effects of a deep-sea mining experiment in the Pacific Ocean more than four decades ago are still apparent, though early signs of biological recovery have emerged.
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Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On, Study Shows

US News 27 Mar 2025
By David StanwaySINGAPORE (Reuters) - A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered,... .
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed

Grist 26 Mar 2025
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who along with his wife, Teurumereariki Hinano Murphy, has advocated with Kahoʻohalahala against seabed mining.
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In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline

Grist 26 Mar 2025
“When you multiply it by this vast volume of seawater on planet Earth — that’s a huge gold mine,” said Scott Edmundson, a research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Lab. “There’s a gold mine, literally right at our shoreline.”.
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Deep-sea mining impacts visible 44 years on, UK expedition finds

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Mar 2025
It found strikingly unchanged tracks almost a metre deep created by machines in 1979 when a consortium led by Lockheed Martin tested mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean.
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