![]() No British company has developed deep-sea mining technology. Which is, when we’re talking about 10*8 quantities of km2, pretty much nothing.Įven the economics, let alone the environmental point, is wrong:Īn unnecessarily weak stance is not only bad for the environment but not even in our national interest. As with surface mining the idea is to mine some hundreds of square kilometres, perhaps even thousands. As that’s where the deposits are, where they used to be.īut far more than this the assumption is being made - certainly the impression is being given by Hague - that some vast area of the seabed is to be disturbed. The copper suggestion is to mine where there used to be one, not where there is. The entire point of such smokers being that as the fissures in the crust expand - the smokers being the little pinholes - then what used to be the site of a smoker becomes not one. No, mining the smokers is not the suggestion. ![]() Hague says that Britain really should oppose deep sea mining:ĭeep down beneath the waves, in nodules below the seabed, minerals such as cobalt and nickel can be found in abundance.Īnd in the “black smokers”, the deep vents on the ocean floor often associated with the earliest origins of life, copper can be found in large quantities.
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