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Wealth beneath the waves: US takes a step toward promoting deep-sea mining amid concerns in the Pacific
Around 16,404 feet beneath the northern Pacific Ocean, the whole seabed—stretching around 4,500 miles from east to west—is littered with potato-sized chunks of what look like charcoal lumps called polymetallic nodules. Rich in metals such as manganese, …
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The Pacific Island Times
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