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The Ocean Could Be the New Gold Rush
2016-07-13 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: As the future of seafloor mining is debated this week, here are five things you need to know about the risks and rewards of extracting precious metals and minerals from the ocean. Remotely operated vehicles are used to explore deep-sea sites for possible future mining. But what are the long-term impacts? The bottom of the world's ocean contains vast supplies of precious metals and other resources, including gold, diamonds, and cobalt. Now, as the first deep-sea mining project ramps up, nations...
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