Image by John Cannon/Mongabay. Vancouver, Canada-based Nautilus was granted its initial exploration license in 2011, the first deep-sea mining lease in the world (though the practice still has not ...

Nautilus intended to excavate minerals from ... Prospectors contend that without deep-sea mining the world will run out of valuable metals for green technologies. According to the World Bank ...

In this issue: diving into deep-sea mining; exploring plans for an REE refinery in France; how mines are transforming water ...

In 2011, Nautilus was granted the first-ever deep-sea mining exploration license for the Solwara 1 project in the Bismarck Sea. For now, though, Solwara 1 can’t go ahead “[u]ntil technology ...

Deep-Sea Mining Finance took over Nautilus and its mining permit in 2019, then eventually partnered with Magellan's founder to restart the venture. DSMF's listed representatives in 2019 included ...

Nautilus Minerals, a now-bankrupt deep-sea exploration and mining company, had plans to use its remotely controlled vehicle to cut and crush mound-shaped sulfide accumulations at a 1,600 m depth ...

Trump is right to accelerate licenses for commercial underwater operations, but they should be within America’s 200-mile ...

A deep-sea mining operation that recently took ... The Solwara 1 project site was originally allotted for mining by Canada-based Nautilus Minerals. But in 2019, amid strong local opposition ...

If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than ...

Opposition to deep-sea mining has been fierce enough to scupper entire companies. Nautilus Minerals sought to begin deep-sea mining work in the late 2010s. After protests and financial upsets ...