Current Status and Development Direction of Deep-Sea Mineral Resource Exploitation Equipment
中国工程科学, 2023 Deep-sea mineral resource development is an important measure to address China’s long-term dependence on strategic mineral resources. Having a complete and reliable equipment system is a prerequisite for China to promote its deep-sea mineral resource ...
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Should we mine the deep seafloor? [PDF]
, 2017 As land-based mineral resources become increasingly difficult and expensive to acquire, the potential for mining resources from the deep seafloor has become widely discussed and debated.
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Water Science, 2019 Remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV)-based spectral irradiance measurements at South Andaman coral reef islands are used to derive water quality parameters (chlorophyll-a, total-suspended sediments, turbidity, salinity, Secchi disk depth, diffuse ...
Shanmuga Priyaa S +2 more
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Visual information processing for deep-sea visual monitoring system
Cognitive Robotics, 2021 Due to the rising demand for minerals and metals, various deep-sea mining systems have been developed for the detection of mines and mine-like objects on the seabed.
Chunyan Ma +6 more
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Animal community dynamics at senescent and active vents at the 9° N East Pacific Rise after a volcanic eruption [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Gollner, S., Govenar, B., Arbizu, P. M., Mullineaux, L.
Arbizu, P. Martinez +8 more
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Environmental hazard assessment of a marine mine tailings deposit site and potential implications for deep-sea mining [PDF]
, 2017 Portmán Bay is a heavily contaminated area resulting from decades of metal mine tailings disposal, and is considered a suitable shallow-water analogue to investigate the potential ecotoxicological impact of deep-sea mining.
Bebianno, Maria João +9 more
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Options for managing human threats to high seas biodiversity [PDF]
, 2020 Areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) constitute 61% of the world's oceans and are collectively managed by countries under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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Exploration of New Operational Models and Technologies for the Synergistic Development of Deep-Sea Mining and Carbon Sequestration [PDF]
中国工程科学The ocean harbors abundant solid minerals and is the world’s largest carbon sink with vast carbon sequestration potentials. Exploring the synergistic development of deep-sea mining and carbon sequestration is of significant importance for supporting ...
Xuguang Chen +6 more
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Dispersion of Benthic Plumes in Deep-Sea Mining: What Lessons Can Be Learned From Dredging?
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Over the past decade, deep-sea mining (DSM) has received renewed interest due to scarcity of raw materials. Deep-sea mining has been spurred by the need for critical resources to support growing populations, urbanization, high-tech applications and the ...
Rudy Helmons +4 more
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Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining [PDF]
, 2017 Commercial-scale mining for polymetallic nodules could have a major impact on the deep-sea environment, but the effects of these mining activities on deep-sea ecosystems are very poorly known. The first commercial test mining for polymetallic nodules was
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