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Status of Sustainability Development of Deep-Sea Mining Activities
With technological improvement such as ore exploration, robotics, and hydrodynamic lifting, deep-sea mining has attracted more attention from governments, companies, and scientific research institutions.
Wenbin Ma +4 more
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To the Deep End or Out of Their Depth?
At the negotiations of the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1973-1982), industrialised states with the capacity to exploit the deep seabed had a fundamentally different vision of a regime regulating deep-sea mining than most ...
Yoram Carboex
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Morphotectonic Analysis of the East Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea
Backarc basin systems are important sites of extension leading to crustal rupture where basin development typically occurs in rifting phases (or stages) with the final successful stages identified by the formation of spreading ridges and new oceanic ...
Nicholas J. Dyriw +6 more
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Current Status and Development Direction of Deep-Sea Mineral Resource Exploitation Equipment
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 ...
Wang Guorong +8 more
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Should we mine the deep seafloor? [PDF]
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.
Beaulieu, Stace E. +2 more
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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
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]
© 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]
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]
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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