Chinese state shipbuilding company says mining the seabed will help the country reduce “heavy reliance on foreign suppliers” of critical minerals. mining
A polymetallic nodule is captured on a seamount deep in the North Atlantic Ocean during the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA Ocean Exploration.that the country will make renewed efforts to join the race to mine the deep sea for critical minerals.
The English language government-run paper says China lags behind the West in terms of research, technology and hardware for seabed mining which it calls “a new frontier for international competition.”Ye Cong of Wuxi-based China Ship Scientific Research Center, a subsidiary of the China State Shipbuilding Corp, said mining the metals found in nodules on the seafloor – mainly nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese – will “help us reduce the heavy reliance on foreign suppliers”.
The nodules are found on abyssal plain sediments at about 3,500–6,000m water depths and the USGS expects that about 35–45% of the demand for critical metals will come from deep-ocean mines by 2065.
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