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Mining-Drilling-Harvesting : Mineral Mining
- Deep mining (Geology News)
-- Deep sea investigations suggest that mineral deposits rich in copper, zinc, gold, and silver can be found on the sea floor.
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- Marine Minerals Mining: Entering A New Age Of Feasibility?
-- "As financial and environmental factors make land-based mining more difficult, governmental and private entities are beginning to turn the seas for mineral resources other than petroleum. Newly discovered mineral deposits coupled with the continued success of offshore diamond mining have the industry poised to enter a new age of economic feasibility."
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- Marine Mining within the U.S. EEZ
-- "From gravel to gold, hard minerals on the ocean floor are attracting commercial interest. For the United States, the marine minerals with potential for development from the EEZ include placer deposits of heavy minerals (e.g., gold, platinum, chromite, and titanium minerals), sand and gravel, and phosphorite deposits..."
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- Mineral Mining within U.S. waters (Congressional Research Service)
-- From gravel to gold, hard minerals on the ocean floor are attracting commercial interest. For the United States, the marine minerals with potential for development from the EEZ include placer deposits of heavy minerals (e.g., gold, platinum, chromite, and titanium minerals), sand and gravel, and phosphorite deposits.
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- Ocean mining 'an issue for our grandchildren'
-- "During the 1970s and 1980s, there was an active North/South debate over who should benefit from the vast mineral wealth lying at the bottom of the world's oceans. Today, the silence is defeating. The reason? Economics. Offshore mining is simply too expensive at present. But this will likely change in the coming century, and some nations are a lot closer to the starting gate than others."
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- Seabed Hard Minerals
-- After many years of negotiations for a comprehensive Law of the Sea (LOS) Treaty, the United States decided not to sign the LOS Convention because of provisions that were "inimical" to the interests of the United States with regard to mining the seabed beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
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- The Protection of Antarctic Mineral Resources
-- Antarctica has attracted controversy as a potential source of mineral resources, although no recoverable deposits have been discovered. After seven years of negotiation, on June 2, 1988, in Wellington, New Zealand, the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (also known as CRAMRA or the "Wellington Convention") was adopted by consensus of the nations that were Consultative Parties (20 at that time) to the Antarctic Treaty.
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