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Published: Monday, July 27, 2015 KINGSTON, Jamaica—The deep oceans span more than half the globe and their frigid depths have long been known to contain vast, untapped deposits of prized minerals. These treasures of the abyss, however, have always...

Publish Date: Sunday, July 26, 2015 - 06:00 Title: Deep-Sea Mining Looms on Horizon Services: World Economy The deep oceans span more than half the globe and their frigid depths have long been known to contain vast, untapped deposits of prized...

Technological advances in robotics coupled with dwindling land-based mineral deposits is leading to what conservationists call a “marine industrial revolution.” Deep seabed mining activity has increased sharply over the past five years as there is a...

In the not too distant future, our children’s children will wonder how their grandfathers could ever have submitted to something so dangerous and deadly as coal mining. For centuries, coal has pushed civilization forward as we burned it for the fuel...

By Stephen Eisenhammer and Silvia Antonioli NEWCASTLE, England/LONDON Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:37am EDT 1 of 11. Employees of Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) work on a subsea mining machine being built for Nautilus Minerals at Wallsend, northern England April...