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  Development of deep-seabed mining rules under way Mining Weekly Schalk Burger 28 Feb 2014 In its 2014 session, held in February, world regulatory body the International Seabed Authority’s (ISA’s) Legal and Technical Commission was preparing draft regulations for the exploitatio

  Deep Sea Mining; Digging a Hole We Can’t Get Out Of Epoch Times Feb 26 2014 Dr. Gerry Goede In May, 2013 the United Nations published its first plan for deep sea mining saying companies could apply for mining licenses as soon as 2016. To date the UN’s International Seabed Autho

  Deep-sea mining could make ‘largest footprint of any single human activity on the planet’ Global Post Kevin Douglas Grant December 19, 2013  Honolulu, Hawaii is emerging as a hub for a race to extract billions of dollars worth of minerals from the ocean floor. Moder

SciDev.net 28 August 2012 By Paula Park With China controlling most of valuable rare-earth mineral supplies, India makes a strategic move to back exploration off its own coast, writes Paula Park. India has joined the race to explore and develop deep-sea mining for rare earth elements

Australian Network News 18 July 2012 LISTEN TO AUDIO: Strong interest in Pacific, Japan rare earths Mining companies and manufacturers are hoping the recent discovery of rare-earth elements deep in the Pacific Ocean could help break a Chinese monopoly. Rare earth elements are crucial

ABC News 18 July 2012 LISTEN TO AUDIO With the world’s appetite for electronic gadgets growing ever insatiable, the supply of rare earth elements is becoming increasingly volatile.China is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of rare earths but in recent years, Beijing has