They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep ... the nodules have never been buried under the mud in the Pacific is because the sea is ...

And on Tuesday a Nauru-backed company told AFP it would forge ahead with contentious plans to start industrial deep-sea mining in the Pacific in 2026, vowing to overcome environmental criticisms that ...

They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep, polymetallic nodules are a crucial habitat. To the mining firms vying to extract them, on the ...

In June 2024, in the pilot-scale processing of nodules by TMC, a Swiss testing provider, SGS and TMC generated the first cobalt sulphate in the world from deep-sea polymetallic nodules.