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Deep-sea mining tests resume after robot rescued from Pacific Ocean floor thepeninsulaqatar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thepeninsulaqatar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A seabed mining robot being tested on the Pacific Ocean floor at a depth of more than 4 km (13,000 ft) has become detached, the Belgian company running the experimental trial said on Wednesday. ....
A deep-sea mining robot being tested on the Pacific Ocean floor at a depth of more than four-kilometres has become detached from its cable. A Belgian company, Global Sea Mineral Resources, has been trialling a robot prototype, Patania II, in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, which lies between Hawaii and Mexico. The machine is meant to collect the potato-sized nodules rich in cobalt, and other metals used in batteries, that pepper the seabed in this area. It was connected to a ship with a five-kilometre cable, but the company says it has come free and is now resting on the seafloor. An operation to reconnect it is under way. ....
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Greenpeace – 25-tonne deep sea mining robot lost on Pacific Ocean seabed during trial foreignaffairs.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from foreignaffairs.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Successful trial of seabed polymetallic nodule collector suffers temporary stranding of robot on ocean floor A pre-prototype seabed polymetallic nodule (earlier post) collector being tested on the Pacific Ocean floor by Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) has become detached from its lifting cable on its final dive and is sitting on the ocean bed 4.5 kilometers beneath the surface. GSR, the in-house deep-sea exploration and exploitation division of global dredging company DEME Group, said that operations to reconnect the lifting point have begun. GSR began testing the Patania II earlier this month in its concession in the Clarion Clipperton Zone. The trial of the 25-tonne mining robot prototype is being observed by scientists from 29 European institutes. ....