A lawyer with a division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community says deep-sea mineral exploration and mining will be hugely beneficial to the Pacific Islands.
Hannah Lily, who’s with the Secretariat of the Pacific …
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Deep sea mining to begin in Papua New Guinea next year
Seabed Mining: plunging into the depths of a new frontier
Humankind has explored deeper into the depths of space than it has into the murky depths of the ocean. People actually have more knowledge of what lies at the end of the universe than at …
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Australian Greens Leader wants inquiry into undersea mining
Australian Greens Leader, Senator Bob Brown, has returned from Papua New Guinea vowing to push for an Australian Senate inquiry into the impact of undersea mining.
PNG is home to the world’s first deep sea …
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PNG Governor condemns proposed seabed mining project
Sir Julius Chan is the Governor of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea, and one of the country’s most senior political figures. Now, Chan joins his voice to growing criticisms of the world’s biggest …
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Independent scientific review slams Nautilus’s environmental plan
The world’s leading deep-sea mining company last week announced it had “unveiled” (sic) another high grade copper deposit at the bottom of Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Sea. Dubbing the deposit “Solwara 12″, Nautilus Minerals made …
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Papua New Guinea gives green light to deep-sea mineral mine
Privatisation of the deep sea bed has already started, as companies move to exploit potentially highly valuable mineral deposits, lying up to 2 kms below the surface and spread over hundreds of square miles. But …
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The unplumbed riches of the deep
In the world of seabed geology, if a sulphide deposit is massive, it is not necessarily big, but formless and rich in metals. As it happens, seafloor massive sulphides are also huge—at least they were …
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