Deepsea mining: plundering the seafloor''s minerals | ET ...
Japan''s Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, JOGMEC, has also been testing deepsea mining equipment within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) at the Okinawa trough of the East China Sea. Working at 1,500m, in 2017 the company demonstrated a successful orelifting to a surface vessel from a sulfide mound, proving the deepsea mining ...