They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep, polymetallic nodules are a crucial habitat. The battle over mining mineral-rich deep sea ...

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SAMS's deep ocean discovery could complicate some of those theories. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers describe a number of polymetallic nodules—that ...

More than 1 billion metric tons of those nodules are estimated to be in U.S. waters and filled with manganese, nickel, copper and other critical minerals, according to the administration, which ...

Trump admin weighs bid to explore US waters for minerals. By Hannah Northey | 04/15/2025 01:53 PM EDT . A firm developing underwater robots to harvest mineral-rich nodules from the ocean floor is ...

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources. But ...

They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep, polymetallic nodules are a crucial habitat. The battle over mining mineral-rich deep sea ...

The battle over mining mineral-rich deep sea 'nodules' United Nations (United States) (AFP) – They might look like pebbles strewn across the seafloor, but to the unique animals of the ocean deep ...