China Leads Countries Plumbing The Sea Depths For Metallic Element Rocks

Japan is pretty far advanced every bit well.

From gCaptain:

China, the leading holder of international deep sea exploration licences, has increased its atomic number 82 inwards the race for option sources of battery minerals past times taking samples from cobalt-bearing mountains deep inwards the Pacific.

The cobalt-rich crusts could i solar daytime curb the world’s dependence on cobalt from Democratic Republic of Congo, only virtually companies enjoin deep sea mining is a distant prospect.
Maersk Supply Service, business office of transportation fellowship Maersk , is working alongside Canada’s DeepGreen to harvest metallic element rocks from the bounding main floor.

“It is a promising employment concern expanse alongside the potential for pregnant time to come growth,” Maersk Supply Service said inwards an email. “Production is a few years away.”

Miner-trader Glencore has a stake inwards DeepGreen which would eventually laissez passer Glencore fifty portion of whatever copper too nickel output.
Glencore declined to comment too DeepGreen had no immediate comment.

So far entirely Canadian-listed employment solid Nautilus Minerals has gone beyond the exploration phase to essay out too mine off the coast of Papua New Guinea, for copper, gilded too silver, only it been slowed past times funding issues too local opposition.
Anglo American sold its four portion stake inwards Nautilus inwards May, every bit business office of efforts to retain entirely its virtually profitable assets....MORE

Previously:
July 2011 
China Goes Deep (two tin dismiss play the 'mining the seafloor game')
June 2012
Screw the Asteroids: "DeepGreen strikes bargain alongside Glencore for undersea mining metals"
March 2013 
So Much for "Peak" Rare Earths: "Japan breaks China's stranglehold on rare metals alongside sea-mud bonanza"
Sept. 2015 
"We Are About to Start Mining Hydrothermal Vents on the Ocean Floor" (now alongside added alchemist's fallacy"
May 2017
The Wild West of Deep-Sea Mining
April 2018
First Deep Sea Mining Production Vessel Launched inwards China
May 2018 
Maersk Begins Support Operation for Deep Sea Mining Company, DeepGreen

Nihon is besides i of the leaders inwards mining sewage, we'll live out that story for tomorrow, World Toilet Day.