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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