Poseidon

Dayang Cruise 30 leg 3 completed mid-depth drilling in China's Southwest Indian Ridge sulphide exploration area from 15 to 17 March.

The ISA approved China's cobalt-rich crust contract area, adding a 3,000 km2 exploration block in the northwest Pacific on 19 July 2013.

COMRA and the ISA signed China's polymetallic sulphide exploration contract in Beijing on 18 November 2011, its second seabed area.

China's deep-sea mining pilot system completed a successful integrated lake trial, collecting 900 kg of simulated nodules at 130 metres.