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    Minimizing Environmental Risk - An Opportunity To Reconsider Submarine Mine Tailings Disposal

    By Paul C. Rusanowski

    Mining is a waste intensive industry, oftentimes producing hundreds of kilograms of waste rock and tailings for every gram of metal recovered. Disposal of mine tailings is a major concern in most mini

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Feasibility Study For Crust Mining In The Marshall Islands.

    By Yoshio Masuda

    Cobalt-rich crust in rich Co, Ni, Mm and Pt will be a potential resources for island country such as Republic. Marshall Islands. This study was conducted for Marshall Islands by the President Kabua?s

    Jan 1, 1991

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    A Study on Steering Characteristics of Pilot Mining Robot(MineRo II) on Extremely Cohesive Soft Soil

    By Hyung-woo Kim

    This paper concerns about steering characteristics of pilot mining robot, named MineRo II, crawling on extremely cohesive soft soil using dynamic simulation software. The MineRo-II for deep-seabed man

    Sep 14, 2011

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    Offshore Construction Technology - Opportunities And Applications In Marine Mining

    By James E. Dailey

    Marine mining is driven by profitability, and profitability is driven in turn by people and equipment that can work productively and safely at sea. Design challenges faced by the marine mining communi

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Hydrogenetic Fe-Mn Crusts From The Atlantic And Pacific Oceans: Geological Evolution And Conditions Of Formation

    By Irina A. Pulyaeva

    Hydrogenetic Fe-Mn crusts are ubiquitous in the ocean basins and play an important role in marine mineral-deposit research because of their widespread occurrence and high concentrations of valuable an

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Sensitivity Analyses of the Kuroko-type Seafloor Massive Sulfide Mining in Japan’s EEZ

    By Tetsuo Yamazaki

    The Kuroko-type seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) in the western Pacific have received much attention as sources for economic recovery of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and lead (Pb). S

    Sep 24, 2006

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    Remote Drilling Technology

    By Patrick J. C. Ryall

    Remotely control led drills capable of being lowered to the sea-floor from ordinary research vessels have been developed over the past two decades. These drills are currently being used in geological

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Submarine Hydrothermal Activity and Mineralization on the Kurile and Western Aleutian Island Arcs, NW Pacific

    By T. Semkova, G. Cherkashov, V. Rashidov, L. Anikeeva, G. Gavrilenko, G. Glasby

    The Kurile Arc consists of at least 100 submarine volcanoes and 5 submarine calderas located mainly in the rear arc (Figure 1). The arc is seismically very active, particularly in the south, and is

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    Inferred Genesis Of Each Textural Zone In Ferromanganese Nodules From Campbell Drift SW Pacific ? Introduction

    By Se-Won Chang

    This is a part of the joint KIGAM-GNS-NIWA 3-year study of ferromanganese nodules on the Campbell Drift, east of Campbell Plateau to determine age distribution, growth rates and geochemical evolution

    Jan 1, 2003

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    Acoustic and Inertial Positioning Solutions for Underwater Mining Applications

    By Pierre-Yves Morvan

    One of the numerous challenge for underwater mining is the positioning. This paper describes an architecture for the integration of an Ultra Short BaseLine (USBL), an Acoustic Synthetic BaseLine (ASBL

    Jan 1, 2017

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    First Australian Offshore Mineral Locations Map

    By Yanis Miezitis, Gerald Mueller, Timothy F. McConachy, Ronald G. Sait, Keith R. Porritt, William J. McKay

    In November 2004, Australia lodged with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf possible new maritime boundaries in relation to Australia’s continental shelf extending b

    Aug 24, 2006

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    Geochemistry Of Massive Sulfide-Associated Hydrothermal Exhalative Sediments, Bathurst, New Brunswick

    By Jan M. Peter

    Many of the Pb-Zn massive sulfide deposits of the Bathurst area in northern New Brunswick, Canada, are intimately associated with laterally continuous iron formation (IF) (Figure 1). This IF is a foss

    Jan 1, 1993

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    Sulfur And Lead Isotope Compositions Of Hydrothermal Chimneys From The North Fiji Basin: Implications For Formation Of Black And White Smokers

    By Jonguk Kim

    Hydrothermal sulfides were recovered from the16°50?S triple junction area in the North Fiji Basin, at a water depth of ca. 1900 m. The chimney samples can be divided into three groups according to the

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Determination of Noble and Rare Metals in Underwater Ferromanganese Ores with the Use of Atomic Spectrometry Methods

    By I. V. Kubrakova, O. A. Tyutyunnik, M. L. Getsina, A. M. Asavin

    An analysis of noble metals (NM) in natural samples is most problematic. Determination of their traces in geochemical samples, in part, for the purpose of deposit evaluation, is a difficult analytica

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    Ultra-Fast Segmentation And Quantification Of Polymetallic Nodule Coverage In High-Resolution Digital Images

    By T. Schoening

    The exploration of the seafloor regarding the abundances of poly-metallic nodules has received growing attention recently. Image-based exploration using cameraequipped deep-sea observation systems has

    Sep 14, 2011

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    Deepsea Mining, For The Benefit Of Mankind - Introduction

    By Robert Heydon

    With the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development fast approaching it is timely to reflect on the integral role seafloor polymetallic nodule mining will play in facilitating sustainable de

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Hydrothermal Hematite/Silica Rocks from the Blanco Fracture Zone, Northeast Pacific

    By David A. Clague, James R. Hein, Robert W. Embley, Robert C. Vrijenhoek, Randolph A. Koski

    We report preliminary results for a group of unique samples collected with MBARI’s ROV Tiburon on August 12, 2005. The samples were collected from the East Blanco Depression (EBD) diffuse-flow hydrot

    Aug 24, 2006

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    The Strength Characteristics Of Deep Seabed Sediment

    By Ivo Dreiseitl

    The interaction between nodule harvester and eupelagic sediment on the seabed is definitely one of the key aspects of mining technology for polymetallic nodules which is to be studied in details. Phys

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Rock Phosphate: Chatham Rise, New Zealand

    By Chris Castle

    The Chatham Rise is a submarine topographic feature lying off the east coast of New Zealand between the South Island and the Chatham Islands and within New Zealand?s jurisdiction. The Chatham Rise hos

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Massive Sulfide Deposits, Southern Juan De Fuca Ridge

    By Willam R. Normark

    During a series of dives with the submersible ALVIN in 1984, samples of massive sulfide were recovered from four vent sites. All sites occur within a linear, steep-walled cleft about 50 m wide and as

    Jan 1, 1985