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PNG communities resist seabed mining: Interview with …

KONO, Papua New Guinea — News of apparent renewed interest in deep-sea mining came as a shock to Jonathan Mesulam in late 2022. Looking out over the …

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undersea mining | Act Now!

undersea mining. Resource Development: Why the hurry? ... QUITE A FEW DECADES ago PNG started logging for export revenue rather than building homes for its people or making furniture. It was explained at the time that commercial logging would benefit the nation as well as the communities that allowed it on their land. In the 1980s, Pedi Anis ...

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Nautilus Minerals looks across the Pacific after …

Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals will accelerate its range of seabed mining projects across the Pacific, after finally signing a US$120 million (K336 million) agreement with the Papua New Guinea …

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Deep Seabed Mining

Out of Our Depth: Mining the Ocean Floor in Papua New Guinea. Mining Watch Canada. PDF. The report details serious environmental and social impacts expected as a result of unprecedented mining of the ocean floor in Papua New Guinea. It highlights the deep flaws in Nautilus Minerals EIS like the insufficient testing by the company in the ...

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Frontiers | An Overview of Seabed Mining Including the …

For example, tailings disposed of at sea from the terrestrial Lihir Gold mine in Papua New Guinea are estimated to have spread over an area of 60 km 2 from the point of discharge because of subsurface currents (Shimmield et al., 2010). Even when plumes are restricted to deep waters, impact to benthic communities cannot be avoided considering ...

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Seafloor Mining Around Papua New Guinea: Just Another …

A typical example is that the PNG seafloor mining case is already known to correlate with beaked whales, many not even studied and well described (Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, 2018). This knowledge now slowly comes through and enters the wider community exposing the sensitivity of the seabed mining matter

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Deep Down Under: How deep sea mining threatens …

Two jurisdictions have introduced undersea mining bans off their coasts. In 2021, the Northern Territory government permanently banned seabed mining across the Territory, ... Tuvalu and Papua New Guinea, support a global moratorium. Greenpeace Australia Pacific holds ocean-themed rally on the iconic Bondi Beach, calling on Prime …

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Deep sea mining threatens indigenous culture in Papua New Guinea

Deep sea mining could supply valuable rare minerals to green ... a small archipelago in the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea which lies 30km from the world's first commercial deep sea mine site ...

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Will Deep-sea Mining Yield an Underwater Gold Rush?

These underwater geysers spit out fluids with temperatures exceeding 600ºC. ... Another concern for Deep Sea Mining Campaign: Papua New Guinea's government has a 30 percent equity share in the ...

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Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining plans

Coastal communities in Papua New Guinea's New Ireland province rely on the sea for their livelihoods and culture. But Solwara 1, a resurgent deep-sea mining …

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Agreement reached on deep sea mining

A Canadian mining company has finalised an agreement with Papua New Guinea to start digging up an area of seabed. The controversial project aims to extract ores of copper, gold and other valuable ...

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Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite …

Papua New Guinea out of pocket $157m from failed attempt at mining material from deep-sea vents as opponents point to …

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Outgunned Pacific Island nations vow to fight deep-sea mining

The world's first project to mine the seabed for minerals is expected to begin operations in Papua New Guinea in early 2019. Read more An incipient deep-sea mining industry also sees them as ...

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Deep-sea mining continues in PNG despite moratorium

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Papua New Guinean government's commitment to a moratorium on deep sea mining is being ...

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How PNG lost US$120 million and the future of deep-sea mining

In January this year, the managing director of Papua New Guinea's Mineral Resources Authority declared that the proposal to develop what had once been touted as the world's first deep-sea mine would 'not get off the ground'. This was a far cry from the optimism that surrounded the grant of the first seabed exploration licence to Nautilus Minerals Ltd, a …

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How Will Underwater Mining Affect the Deep Ocean?

To that end, Gartman has been networking with scientists at ISA and beyond. Just before the March ISA session, she assisted in a research cruise off San Diego run by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "They wanted to figure out how the [manganese] nodule …

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Opinion: Communities worry anew as PNG revives seabed mining …

The undead seabed mining project. For decades, the prospect of seabed mining at a site some 30 kilometers (19 miles) offshore has loomed over Kono, its neighboring communities and Papua New Guinea's island cultures in general.

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Giant Robots Are the Future of Underwater Mining

A 700-foot-long ship sits off the coast of Papua New Guinea. But this beast isn't even the star of the show—it is the control platform for a of even more colossal robots that are about to ...

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Nautilus now has $155 million kitty and all its green

Nautilus, the first company to explore the ocean floor for polymetallic seafloor massive sulphide deposits, announced on Friday it has completed the quarter with a cash balance of $155.1 million ...

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Nautilus Minerals keeps PNG deep sea mining licence …

Papua New Guinea has a 15 per cent equity stake in the Solwara 1 project. PNG's Minister for Mining, Johnson Tuke, said the government and the Mineral Resources Authority won't be revoking ...

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Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending …

In 2007, a submersible with a large drill descended 1,600 meters (5,250 feet) into the sea off the coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG), landing near a network of hydrothermal vents that host an array ...

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Deep sea mining project Solwara 1 in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea

The Pacific is a region of immense deep-sea mining potential. In 2008 the Canadian mining company Nautilus Minerals provided its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to Papua New Guinea Government to start deep-sea mining in the Bismarck Sea, in New Ireland Province, part of the Pacific Ocean, not far from …

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Permitting

Permitting Home Permitting The Tenements Administration Branch is headed by a manager who is also the Registrar of Tenements .The Registrar's Office administers the PNG Mining Act 1992 which is the Law that regulates mineral exploration and mining in Papua New Guinea. Apart from administering permitting the branch also oversees the …

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The first Deep Sea Mining (DSM) project in Papua …

The deep sea-mining project Solwara 1 was planned to mine sea-floor massive sulfides (SMS), the rich hydrothermal vents formed by plumes of hot, acidic, mineral-rich water on the floor of the Bismarck Sea. Solwara …

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Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon. What are …

FILE - Coral on Moore Reef is visible in Gunggandji Sea Country off coast of Queensland in eastern Australia on Nov. 13, 2022. The United Nations body that regulates the world's ocean floor is preparing to resume negotiations in July 2023, that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials vital for the green energy transition.

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Nautilus Minerals CEO Mike Johnston Talks Underwater Mining

Its project, Solwara 1, lies on the seafloor near Papua New Guinea, where the company is planning to mine high-grade copper and gold deposits. Nautilus Minerals CEO Mike Johnston Talks Underwater ...

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Pacific alliance adopts moratorium on deep-sea mining, …

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — A moratorium on deep-sea mining established by a group of Pacific island nations has struck a blow to the Solwara 1 project in Papua New Guinea, once poised to ...

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Controversial deep sea mining venture coming to Papua New Guinea

A controversial undersea mining venture has gained momentum as the Papua New Guinea government granted a 20-year license for copper and gold mining over 1.5 miles below the ocean surface to become the world's first commercial deep sea mining venture.

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How PNG lost US$120 million and the future of …

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