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Marine mining
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Cruickshank, Michael J. Marine Minerals Technical Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Last reviewed:February 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.406600
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The process of exploring the deep seabed and recovering minerals from seawater and from deposits on and under the seabed. While the world's demand for mineral commodities is increasing at a rapid rate, most of the developed countries have been thoroughly explored for surface outcroppings of mineral deposits. Advances in oceanography and mining have highlighted the importance of the ocean as a source of minerals and indicated that the technology required for their exploitation is in some cases already available (Fig. 1).
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