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Some Environmental Issues In Marine Mining, With Possible Resolutions
By Derek V. Ellis
This article is a summary, with documentation and references, of recent global developments in identifying environmental issues affecting the marine mining industry. It is recognised that marine minin
Jan 1, 2000
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Extinct Seafloor Massive Sulphide Mounds from the TAG Hydrothermal Area, Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Insights into Geological Processes after Cease of Hydrothermal Venting
By Sven Petersen, Berit Lehrmann, Bramley J. Murton, Paul A. J. Lusty
"INTRODUCTIONToday’s metal mining focusses on land based ore deposits which only consider one third of the Earth’s surface. Through an increasing global demand of strategic metals used in the electron
Jan 1, 2017
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Numerical Modelling Of The Sediment Transport Due To Deep Sea Mining
By J. A. Jankowski
The situation in the raw material market has brought into consideration the commercial exploitation of the mineral deposits on the deep sea bed and in particular the manganese nodules. They occur gene
Jan 1, 1995
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Sub-Seafloor Replacement Mineralization: Lessons From The Neves Corvo VHMS Deposit
By Jorge MRS Relvas
Recent research both on active and fossil systems has demonstrated that shallow subseafloor replacement processes are not only viable depositional mechanisms for massive sulfide mineralization, but li
Sep 14, 2011
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Not Your Father's AUV: New Technologies That Will Transform Deep Sea Operations
By Carl L. Kaiser
This abstract discusses selected recent technology developments at the Deep Submergence Lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution aimed at fundamentally changing the nature and scope of AUV oper
Sep 14, 2011
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Deep Sea Minerals, Inc.
By James M. Cairns
Deep Sea Minerals Inc. (DSM) is a high technology marine minerals and biotechnology corporation. The corporation is currently engaged in a worldwide leasing program to acquire exclusive rights in spec
Jan 1, 2000
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Hawaiian Mineral Deposits And Extremophiles On Loihi Submarine Volcano: A New Resource
By Alexander Malahoff
The most exciting frontier in Ocean Technology is represented by a new class of Marine Bioproducts, the source of which lies in marine microorganisms. The microorganisms include microalgae, bacteria
Jan 1, 2000
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Waste Rejection on Seafloor by Slurry Flashing for Economic Seafloor Massive Sulfide Mining
By Yuta Yamamoto
Seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) which contain Au, Ag, Cu, Zn, and Pb have been interested in as a target of commercial mining these 15 years. Japan has large potential of SMS and a national R&D projec
Sep 14, 2011
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A New Phosphate Anomaly in the South Mexican Pacific
By Arturo Carranza Edwards
Sedimento II oceanographic cruise, on board of the B/O El Puma, shows a new high anomaly or phosphate associated with shelf sediments from the south Mexican Pacific. Recently, were found two anomalie
Jan 1, 2000
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National Needs - Hard Mineral Dependencies
By Raymond Kaufman
While there is no immediate worldwide shortage of hard minerals, the consumption of natural resources is constantly increasing, and there are ominous predictions of shortages to come. Means of meeti
Jan 1, 1975
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Seafloor Hydrothermal Mineralization: Retrospect And Prospect
By P. A. Rona
The first hydrothermal mineral deposits found at a seafloor spreading center were discovered in the Red Sea by multi-national research vessels between 1963 and 1965. At that time, the deposits were co
Jan 1, 1989
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Discovery Of Hydrothermal Fields At The Central Indian Ridge (Gemino Project)
In 1983, the GEMINO research project (Geothermal Metallogenesis Indian Ocean) was initiated in order to locate and evaluate sites of recent or fossil hydrothermal activity in the largely unexplored In
Jan 1, 1989
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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Fe-Mn Crusts and Their Underlying Rock Substrates
By Tatiana ?. Sedysheva, Vladimir V. Ivanov, Michail E. Melnikov, Irina A. Pulyaeva
"INTRODUCTIONHydrogenetic Fe-Mn crusts are ubiquitous in the ocean basins and play an important role in marine mineral-deposit research because of their widespread occurrence and high concentrations o
Jan 1, 2017
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Continental Margin Hydrothermal Mineralization: Southern California Borderland
By James R. Hein
Barite and Fe-Mn-oxide deposits that occur along faults in the Southern California Borderland formed by low-temperature hydrothermal processes. The Borderland region consists of block-faulted continen
Jan 1, 2002
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Detailed Magnetic And Morphological Investigations Of The East Manus Basin And Planet Deep Section Of The New Britain Trench, Papua New Guinea
By Sang-Mook Lee
The Manus back-arc basin behind the New Britain Trench is one of the major sites of active seafloor hydrothermal vent-fields which are considered to be modern-day analogue of felsic volcanic-hosted po
Jan 1, 2000
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Exploring The Third Dimension Of A Felsic-Hosted Seafloor Hydrothermal System: Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 193
By Raymond A. Binns
Drilling into an active hydrothermal system linked to convergent-margin felsic magmatism is a listed priority of the Ocean Drilling Program that addresses several fundamental geoscience issues. Solid
Jan 1, 2000
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AUV-Based Long-Range Exploration For Hydrothermal Activity Between 13°-33°S Along The Southern Mid- Atlantic Ridge
By Sven Petersen
The southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (SMAR) is one of the least-explored spreading centers in the world with respect to hydrothermal activity. In the past 8 years research focused mainly on the ridge segme
Sep 14, 2011
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Spatial And Temporal Variability Of Physico-Chemical Parameter In The Northeast Equatorial Pacific Ocean
By Seung-Kyu Son
This study was investigated about physico-chemical parameter such as water temperature, salinity, inorganic nutrients and total organic carbon (TOC). CTD (Model: Sea-Bird 911 Plus) castings were carri
Jan 1, 2005
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How to Identify Extinct Seafloor Massive Sulphides by Using OBS Seismic Data – A Case Study from the Blue Mining Project at the TAG Hydrothermal Field
By Mark Vardy, Kasia-Leigh Chidlow, Tim Minshull, Jeorg Bialas, Sven Peterson, Bramley Murton, Alba Gil
Since the discovery of the first black smoker on the East Pacific Rise in 1977 (Francheteau, et al., 1979), the hydrothermal vents, now called seafloor massive sulphides (SMS) deposits, have generated
Jan 1, 2017
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Sources and Temporal Changes of Detritus in Ferromanganese Crusts from the Amerasia Basin of the Arctic Ocean Based On Isotopic Signatures
By Natalia Konstantinova, Kira Mizell, James R. Hein, Georgy Cherkashov
"Ferromanganese crusts and nodules from the Amerasian basin of the Arctic Ocean are characterized by a unique composition compared to crusts formed elsewhere in the global ocean (Konstantinova et al.,
Jan 1, 2017