Proponents say they want to dredge the seafloor for metals needed for clean technology. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.

There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A ...

Deep-sea mining is back on Washington’s radar (or should that be sonar?) under President Donald Trump. Mineral-rich nodules ...

Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?

The project is part of the Department of Commerce’s implementation of the U.S. Offshore Critical Minerals Mapping Plan, as ...

Vancouver, BC, Feb. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (CSE: SEAS) (OTCPK: DSEAF) (FSE: X45) ("Deep Sea" or the "Company") a subsea mineral exploration and development company ...

A collector vehicle about to be deployed for deep sea mineral collection from The Metals Company's ship, Hidden Gem. (The Metals Company photo). As international regulations for deep-sea mineral ...

Vancouver, BC, March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (CSE: SEAS) (OTCQB: DSEAF) (FSE: X45) ("Deep Sea Minerals" or the "Company") , a subsea mineral exploration and development ...

Lying on the ocean floor are hunks of metal packed with these minerals. These polymetallic nodules, as they are called, contain cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese, which are the essential minerals ...

Evidence of a large underground reservoir of water has been discovered almost 700 km beneath the surface, in the transition ...