[HTML][HTML] Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining

DJ Amon, S Gollner, T Morato, CR Smith, C Chen… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive understanding of the deep-sea environment and mining's likely impacts is
necessary to assess whether and under what conditions deep-seabed mining operations …

Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction

LA Levin, CL Wei, DC Dunn, DJ Amon… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing
acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food …

The oceans' twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late

A Martin, P Boyd, K Buesseler, I Cetinic, H Claustre… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains

D Paulikas, S Katona, E Ilves… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract To meet UN Sustainable Development goals, a clean‐energy transition with
minimal ecological impact from its raw‐material supply chain is essential. Polymetallic …

Stokes settling and particle-laden plumes: implications for deep-sea mining and volcanic eruption plumes

N Mingotti, AW Woods - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Turbulent buoyant plumes moving through density stratified environments transport large
volumes of fluid vertically. Eventually, the fluid reaches its neutral buoyancy level at which it …

Ethical opportunities in deep‐sea collection of polymetallic nodules from the Clarion‐Clipperton Zone

S Katona, D Paulikas, GS Stone - … Assessment and Management, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Infrastructure supporting the transition of human societies from fossil fuels to renewable
energy will require hundreds of millions of tons of metals. Polymetallic nodules on the …

Vertical distribution of particulate matter in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (German sector)—potential impacts from deep-sea mining discharge in the water column

B Gillard, RP Harbour, N Nowald, L Thomsen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most studies on the potential impacts of deep-sea mining in the Clarion Clipperton Zone
(CCZ) have largely focused on benthic ecosystems but ignore the pelagic environment. To …

The scientific challenges of deep-sea mining

WR Roest, MR Clark, H Brekke - … of seabed mining and the law of …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter focuses on deep-sea mining, ie, activities related to seabed and subsoil
minerals located in water deeper than 200 m. There are many scientific challenges in …

Are shallow-water shrimps proxies for hydrothermal-vent shrimps to assess the impact of deep-sea mining?

NC Mestre, M Auguste, LC De Sá, TG Fonseca… - Marine environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polymetallic seafloor massive sulphide deposits are potential targets for deep-sea mining,
but high concentrations of metals (including copper-Cu) may be released during exploitation …

Deep-sea mining: processes and impacts

D Jones, D Amon, A Chapman - 2020 - nhm.openrepository.com
Mining the extensive accumulations of minerals on the seafloor of the deep ocean can
provide important resources but also has the potential to lead to widespread environmental …