The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had "no doubt" the Canadian firm would be the first to to ...

A recent executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump to unilaterally authorize commercial deep-sea mining has raised concerns among experts, who warn that the move disregards the ...

Countries are starting to work out how to exploit the deep seas. But we still don’t really know how they work.Is it already ...

President Trump signed a far-reaching executive order aimed at accelerating the development of deep-sea mining for ...

The Trump administration has taken the first step toward opening waters near American Samoa to deep-sea mining. According to The Hill, the Interior Department announced Tuesday it will solicit ...

CEO of The Metals Company holds a nodule brought up from the sea floor. The company plans ... Cole / Los Angeles Times—Getty Images Deep-seafloor mining is a complex topic that leaves out ...

In doing so, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the agency was advancing President Donald Trump’s vision for boosting domestic production and deep-sea mining and paving a path for possible ...

The announcement comes a month after President Trump signed an executive order directing the administration to jumpstart the deep sea mining process. Large-scale deep sea mining has never been ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior said Tuesday that it’s beginning the process of selling deep-sea mining leases after a request from startup Impossible Metals (previously Impossible Mining).

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will consider selling leases to extract minerals from the seabed off the South Pacific island of American Samoa, a potential first step in a wider ...