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onNovember 10, 2025

BOEM Advances Offshore Minerals Planning Efforts in American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

BOEM advanced offshore critical minerals planning in the Pacific, completing area identification off American Samoa and seeking CNMI input.

National Deep Sea Center

onOctober 29, 2025

Deep-Sea Mineral Resources Development and Utilization Forum Held at China Mining Conference 2025

A deep-sea mineral resources forum at China Mining 2025 in Tianjin drew Chinese and ISA officials and about 100 attendees.

Interoceanmetal

onOctober 10, 2025

Visit of the Director General of IOM to the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria

IOM Director General Tomasz Abramowski met Bulgaria's Minister of Energy Zhecho Stankov in Sofia on 29 September 2025 to discuss deep-sea exploration matters.

Eminent Project

onOctober 2, 2025

EMINENT Summit: Demonstrating a Complete and Responsible Value Chain for Seabed Minerals

The EMINENT consortium will host its final summit in Bergen on December 9, presenting nearly three years of research results.

Interoceanmetal

onSeptember 26, 2025

8th ISA Annual Contractors Meeting

The ISA held its 8th Annual Contractors' Meeting in Goa, India, from 18 to 20 September 2025, with 16 of 21 exploration contractors attending.

Eminent Project

onSeptember 20, 2025

EMINENT Accelerates Toward Completion: Final Workshop

EMINENT held its final workshop, reviewing DeepInsight 25 results and eDNA findings ahead of its December 9 closing seminar.

National Deep Sea Center

onSeptember 10, 2025

COMRA and China Minmetals International Seabed Exploration Contract 2025 Contractor Training Class Formally Opens

COMRA and China Minmetals opened a 2025 contractor training class in Qingdao for 18 trainees from 14 countries.

Interoceanmetal

onSeptember 1, 2025

New Publications

New scientific publications cover deep-sea mining impact assessment methods and xenophyophore mitogenome research from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

COMRA

onAugust 25, 2025

New Deep-Sea Robot Takes to the Sea, Imaging the Deep Seafloor at Scale: Dongcha 2 (Insight 2) AUV Shines in Operations at Pioneer’s Deep-Sea Mine Area

The Dongcha 2 (Insight 2) AUV completed its first western Pacific mission at Beijing Pioneer's polymetallic nodule mine area.

onJuly 25, 2025

U.S. Intervention on Agenda Item 8 International Seabed Authority Assembly, 30th Session

The US told the ISA Assembly's 30th session it remains unbound by UNCLOS seabed mining rules, a position held consistently since 1982.

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