Key points
- DeepGreen deployed marine monitoring instruments on moorings throughout the water column in the Clarion Clipperton Zone to establish an environmental baseline.
- In 2019 the company measured the polymetallic nodule resource in its contract areas and derived its first metal from nodules.
- The company describes wrapping up its resource estimation and beginning a three-year program of environmental and biological studies.
- A collector test is planned in a couple of years to assess the impacts of nodule collection before any production decision.
