The prospect of Deep Sea Mining is becoming a reality. The growing global demand for minerals and rare earth elements in the recent years\, coupled with declining resources on land has got stakeholders interested from across the world to explore the lucrative mineral resources beneath the surface of the seas and invest in deep sea mining. But\, the commercial prospects don’t come without its challenges. There are regulatory\, legal\, financial\, social and technical issues that have to be resolved to make deep sea mining a commercial reality!
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260222T231638Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140402T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140404T150000Z UID:http://194.254.225.67/zh-hans/node/17115 URL;VALUE=URI:http://194.254.225.67/zh-hans/node/17115 SUMMARY:the 2014 VentBase workshop DESCRIPTION:the 2014 VentBase workshop to be held at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research\, New Zealand\, 2-4 April 2014.
VentBase was established as a forum where academic\, commercial\, governmental\, and non-governmental stakeholders can develop a consensus regarding the management of exploitation in the deep-sea\, specifically the mining of seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits.
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