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    Some Questions of the AUV Control in Surveying the Seamounts.

    By Mikhail D. Ageev

    The paper concerns with some questions of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) control system design, which allows a motion at rough undersea terrain. The AUV advantages reveal itself completely du

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Free-Standing Riser for Deep-Seabed Mining?

    By Sup Hong

    "Lifting riser in deep-seabed mining (DSM) is exposed to acute and chronic stresses of materials, whose yield will result in the most critical loss of total mining system. For freehanging riser (FHR),

    Jan 1, 2017

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    New Approaches To Marine Diamond Exploration And Mining

    By Mike Woodborne

    The marine diamond industry off south-western Africa is maturing rapidly. Some of the larger explorers have reached an advanced stage in their resource development and new mining operations have been

    Jan 1, 1998

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    The Status Of Marine Minerals Research Worldwide

    By Michael J. Cruickshank

    Marine minerals are more than an academic curiosity as they represent the most significant global source of mineral materials for economically and ecologically sustainable development for the future.

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Sediment Sources, Pathways And Sinks In The Southern North Sea And Eastern English Channel

    By Brian D?Olier

    Much of the aggregate that is being exploited at present from these areas is a ?relic? deposit. It was originally eroded from primary source rocks and transported to a depositional centre by processes

    Jan 1, 2004

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    Marine Sediment Data At The U.S. National Geophysical Data Center

    By Carla J. Moore

    The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), Marine Geology and Geophysics Division and co-located World Data Center-A for MGG archives and distributes global marine sediment data from U.S. and intern

    Jan 1, 1993

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    Column Flotation Of Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crust

    By William C. Hirt

    Column flotation is a promising technique for processing as-mined, cobalt-rich, ferromanganese crust to separate the valuable crust component from barren substrate-rock, either aboard ship or within t

    Jan 1, 1992

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    Gold Recovery Investigations With Radiotracers (198Au) And Relevance To Placer Operations

    By Daniel E. Walsh

    The recovery of most minerals, which are amenable to gravity concentration, is standardly determined by accurate sampling and assaying. .With respect to particulate - gold ores, sampling and assaying

    Jan 1, 1989

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    A Developing Country?s Challenges in Permitting / Regulating Underwater Mining ? PNG Experience

    By Jerry Hanua Naime

    Papua New Guinea has permitted its first underwater mine. Nautilus Minerals (PNG) Limited is the company permitted to operate the Solwara 1 project. The project is located 30km off the nearest islan

    Jan 1, 2010

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    Screening Criteria For Submarine Tailings Disposal

    By Derek V. Ellis

    A stepwise implementation of seven criteria for screening the physical, chemical and environmental suitability of submarine tailing disposal (STD) at coastal mines is presented. It is expected that si

    Jan 1, 1994

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    Computer Applications In Marine Mineral Exploration

    By Robert M. Owen

    Recent advances in coring technology and in the development of shipboard and/or in situ geochemical geochemical analysis systems have greatly improved our ability to collect and analyze exploration sa

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Phosphorite On The Georgia Continental Shelf - A Potential World-Class Deposit

    By James R. Herring

    An unusual combination of ten new, deep (-100 m) coreholes and an extensive high-resolution seismic reflection network enables us to produce a detailed study of the phosphorite resources in the Tertia

    Jan 1, 1994

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    Sand From Virginia's Inner Continental Shelf

    By Carl H. Hobbs

    The needs of the on-going basic maintenance operations and proposed enhancement and hurricane protection projects in the City of Virginia Beach exceed the capability land-slide sources of sand. Throug

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Environmental Risk Studies In The Deep Sea Need International Cooperation

    By Hjalmar Thiel

    Since industry is progressing into the deep sea, marine scientists have expressed their concern about environmental disturbances which will be introduced by using the deep seafloor for mining metallif

    Jan 1, 1994

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    The Development And Operation Of Remotely Operated Powered Seabed Coring Systems For Geology, Geotechnics And Mineral Exploration In Coastal To Ocean Depths

    By Alister C. Skinner

    The Marine Operations and Engineering section of the British Geological Survey based in Edinburgh, Scotland have, over the last 30 years, developed and operate a series of remotely operated, and power

    Jan 1, 2004

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    The Prospects of Mining of Minerals from the Deep Seabed

    By Satya Nandan

    • A review of the structure and mandate of the Authority – its main functions. • The different types of mineral resources found in the deep seabed – their global distribution. • The Development of

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    The Metallogeny of Ancient Greenstone Belts and Implications for Modern Submarine Hydrothermal Systems

    By H. L. Gibson, U. Schwarz-Schampera, Mark Hannington

    Ancient ore deposits provide important clues for the understanding of the origin and distribution of modern submarine hydrothermal systems. An analysis of the formation conditions, tectonic settings,

    Sep 24, 2006

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    Fisheries Interests And Ocean Mining

    By D. J. Scarratt

    Fisheries make a significant regional contribution to the economy of Canada. In the Atlantic Region, over 70 thousand workers depend on the primary or secondary fishing industry. Fisheries are vulnera

    Jan 1, 1985

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    The Features Of China's Pioneer Area And The Strategy Of COMRA

    By Cheng Xiangzhou

    The China's Pioneer area includes two parts. The topography in the western part is very different from that in the eastern one. The distribution of the manganese nodules in these two regions diff

    Jan 1, 1996

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    Offshore Phosphate Deposits: New Developments In U.S. Waters

    By W. C. Burnett

    The land phosphate deposits of the U.S. southeastern coastal plain have long been a major factor in the world trade of phosphate rock (Fig. 1). As recently as 1979, deposits of North Carolina and Flor

    Jan 1, 1986