Private Companies

Key points CTO Jason Gillum tours the Collingwood, Canada facility, showing the Eureka 1 prototype, the shallow-water system used for the company’s first autonomous nodule pickup and first demonstration of its buoyancy engines. A dedicated test tank room houses a hexapod system mounted…

Key points Four-day pilot collector test planned for January-February 2026 in the BGR contract area of the Clarion Clipperton Zone, with two modes operating at 90% and 50% collection efficiency over 4,500 and 6,700 square meters respectively. Plume modeling shows 95% of suspended sediment…

Key points Juan Ignacio Guzmán, CEO of mining consultancy GEM, presents an epistemological framework for analyzing criticism of deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining, distinguishing justified beliefs from unsupported opinions and speculation. Guzmán’s team compiled 29 propositions drawn…