Deep-sea mining of seafloor massive sulfides

Porter Hoagland, Stace Beaulieu, Maurice A. Tivey, Roderick Eggert, Christopher German, Lyle Glowka and Jian Lin

Marine Policy, 2010, vol. 34, issue 3, 728-732

Abstract: The potential emergence of an ocean mining industry to exploit seafloor massive sulfides could present opportunities for oceanographic science to facilitate seafloor mineral development in ways that lessen environmental harms.

Keywords: Ocean; mining; Seafloor; massive; sulfides; Law; of; the; sea; Economics; Environmental; assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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