Key points
- AOM Chairman Tom Albanese presented President Trump with a solid gold replica of a deep-sea polymetallic nodule at a mining industry roundtable held at the U.S. Department of State.
- Albanese said the actual nodules contain 20 critical metals needed for the reindustrialization of America, defense purposes and widely used technologies.
- American Ocean Minerals is building a domestic platform to explore, harvest and process polymetallic nodules, which the company says contain metals including nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese, titanium and rare earths.
- Mike Rowe serves as Special Advisor and Founding Investor to American Ocean Minerals.
