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2020 & Beyond: Subsea Mining

Subsea Mining

Will 2020 be the Year?

Photo Courtesy Nautilus Minerals

By Andy Lipman & Alan Yu, ABS nyone who has been around true mission – recovering a Soviet sub- In the years since, there has been a the Offshore Oil and Gas marine - was that the rig would be used great deal of research and exploration in or the Marine industries for to mine manganese nodules from the this ? eld. However, except for shallow

Along has heard of plans for deep ocean ? oor. This cover story was water diamond mining off the coast of mining various minerals located on or so effective that it had the unintended Southern Africa, no commercial deep- just below the sea? oor. In fact, when consequence of stirring great interest in sea mining operation has yet been start-

Howard Hughes built the Glomar Ex- ocean mining among offshore compa- ed. Now it seems that 2020 may actually plorer in 1972, the cover story for its nies and the general public. be the year that commercial deep-sea

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