Deep Sea Mining - JM

John Mazziotti
Mr. Roddy
GPHC
March 10th, 2020
Deep-Sea Mining and Its Future
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This article breaks down the ocean floor as a complex landscape similar to the properties of our land. Scientists have known since the mid-19th-century that there are minerals and resources that can also be found on dry land. Many mining corporations like Nautilus Minerals and De Beers Group, have taken advantage of this recently referred to the situation. These companies have proceeded to scan and dredge the sea floors surrounding Papua New Guinea, and along the coast of West Africa. More so, International waters are estimated to have more minerals and precious resources than all of the world’s continents combined. It is recorded that half the world’s seafloor contains precious minerals that we yearn for so profoundly, which entails a foreseeable future with ocean-floor dredging.

When it comes to government regulations and official documents that regard oceanic mining, it is a pretty grey area in the eyes of Governments and Organizations such as the UN. There was however some closure on the idea at the annual ISA meeting of 2019, which worked with the United Nations to devise a new Mining Code that cleared up some obstacles. This was carefully talked over due to the gravity and size of this subject, which is crowned as, “The largest mining operation in the history of the world.”. The discussions that were held by marine biologists and the general staff of the meeting, regarded science and statistics to ensure that there would be no negative effect on the environment when this operation is set to occur. An example of this evidence discusses how almost all plants and sea creatures essentially thrive in shallow waters, but when towards the bottom where light can’t reach the ocean floor, life is practically non-existent. Overall, I do see this turning into a very profitable and low-impact industry, and even though the idea has been around for a little more than 150 years, I do think this will benefit modern-day society greatly.

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