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Case Study: Seabed Mining

AUV Monitors Environment at Underwater MineAUV Monitors Environment at Underwater Mine

Blue Ocean Monitoring (BOM) completed a contract in In- turned by the glider showed the Placement Program is proving donesia working for PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PTNNT). to be a success,” said Simon Illingworth, CEO of Blue Ocean

BOM’s task was to use its Slocum Glider to monitor PTNNT’s Monitoring. “The Glider was able to determine quickly at the

Tailings Placement Program at its Batu Hijau copper-gold outset of the project whether Newmont’s Tailings Placement mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia. The program involved the tail- Program was doing what it had been designed to achieve. This ings from the mine being piped (3.2 km) out to sea and de- was very important given the cost, magnitude and environ- posited off the continental shelf, where the depth reaches in mental sensitive nature of the program.” excess of 4,000m. BOM has a