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TMC collects seafloor nodules with a water jet flow lift system. Excess particles are returned to depths below 1,200 meters.

The Metals Company piloted processing seafloor nodules into alloy. The alloy contains critical battery metals.

Allseas's former drill ship Hidden Gem has arrived in Rotterdam. It will become the first vessel classified for sub-sea mining.

DeepGreen Trainee: Titie Kaufusi: a video from The Metals Company.

CSA Ocean Sciences deployed three moorings in NORI's seabed area. The longest reaches about 4,000 meters to track seasonal water conditions.

Mekhala Rathnamali joined DeepGreen's trainee program as a researcher. She joined Crew 6B to survey deep-sea nodule fields.

DeepGreen measured nodule resources and derived first metal in 2019. A collector test follows in a couple of years to assess impacts.

ERIAS biologist Adrian Hellman leads sampling on Expedition 6A. The team uses a 32 micron sieve to build an ISA environmental baseline.

The Metals Company plans to mine seafloor nodules in the Pacific. It controls 1.6 billion tons of nodules, enough for 280 million EV batteries.