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Deep-sea mining tests resume as lost robot rescued
Patania II had been operating at a depth of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone an expanse of ocean between Hawaii and Mexico that’s as big as the continental US. (
Belgium’s Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) has resumed tests that could lead to the mining of battery minerals from the Pacific Ocean floor after it managed to recover a robot stranded at a depth of thousands of metres.
The company reported on April 28 that its Patania II, a 25-tonne mining robot prototype, had uncoupled from a 5 km long (3.1 miles) cable connecting it to the surface.
DeepGreen hits backs at firms opposing seafloor mining
DeepGreen intends to produce metals from polymetalic rocks, found in deep oceans. (
Image courtesy of DeepGreen Metals.)
Canada’s DeepGreen Metals, a seafloor mining hopeful that recently announced plans to go public, is hitting back at companies including Google and BMI for committing to not buying minerals extracted from the seafloor until the environmental risks of the activity are “comprehensively understood.”
BMW, Volvo, Google and Korean battery maker Samsung SDI became on Wednesday the first global businesses to support a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on mining the seabed.