KELLY MARTIN on ON THE TIDE | 15 December 2017 “Improved technology is also allowing humans to exploit deep ocean resources in ways that could be extremely damaging. Last month, Japan became the first country to successfully mine the deep sea on a large scale. A company called Nautilus Minerals is also now licensed to […]
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MINING MAGAZINE | 15 December 2017 “The technology’s advanced sensor system takes advantage of magnetic resonance technology. It illuminates batches of ore with short pulses of radio waves, assessing ore grade and enabling high tonnage sorting at extremely high speeds. NextOre’s ore sorter is able to detect the magnetic resonance signatures of many minerals, including […]
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SHAWN BAILEY on STOCK NEWS TIMES | 15 Dec 2017 “News headlines about Coda Octopus Group (NASDAQ:CODA) have trended positive on Friday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern also assigned headlines about the company an impact score of 46.0924147018354 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on […]
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RADIO NEW ZEALAND | 14 December 2017 “Papua New Guinea’s Mining Minister says the government is committed to the controversial Solwara 1 seabed mining project. The project, led by Canada-based Nautilus Minerals, seeks to extract gold and copper from deep under the surface of the Bismarck Sea. However local community groups have launched legal proceedings […]
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SUBSEA WORLD NEWS | 14 December 2017 “Pixel is a multi-camera underwater filming and exploration platform that will facilitate cinema quality deep water and coastal storytelling. Pixel, as well as other forthcoming ROVs in MITech’s cinema-class line, simultaneously hosts multiple cameras with live video and control feeds.” Read the full article on Subsea World […]
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REUTERS on MINING WEEKLY | 14 Dec 2017 “Electronic waste rose to a record 45-million tonnes worldwide in 2016, squandering valuable metals such as gold and copper since few trashed televisions, cellphones or other products get recycled, a UN-backed study showed on Wednesday. Rising incomes and falling prices for everything from solar panels to fridges […]
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See original release from the Deep Sea Mining Campaign Affected communities have launched legal proceedings in a bid to obtain key documents that would reveal to them and all Papua New Guineans whether the controversial “Solwara 1” deep sea mining project was approved lawfully.[1] Furthermore, due to deficiencies in the Solwara 1 Environmental Impact Statement, […]
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JONATHAN AMOS on BBC NEWS | 13 December 2017 “It’s one of those truisms that we know the shape of the surface of Mars and the Moon far better than we know our own planet. The reason for this is Earth’s oceans: they cover 71% of the globe and are impenetrable to the satellite mapping […]
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SCORPIO on AMABHUNGANE CENTRE FOR INVEESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM | 13 Dec 2017 “Alexkor is a small operation that in some ways exists to award and manage contracts. Its shallow ocean concessions (up to 30 meters in depth) are mined by about 60 small-scale marine contractors, who use divers to manhandle large vacuum hoses to suck up […]
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DAVID FOXWELL on OFFSHORE SUPPORT JOURNAL | 13 Dec 2017 “MAC Goliath Pte Ltd, owner of the production support vessel that is being built for seabed mining outfit Nautilus Minerals, said MAC has failed to pay the third instalment due on the contract for the vessel. In a statement, Nautilus Minerals said it had been […]
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