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Remote Sensing Applications To Marine Mining
By S. W. McCandless
Since the mid 1970's, the science of remote sensing has invented and demonstrated sensors that hold unique promise for users that operate in the marine environment. Earlier, visible and infrared
Jan 1, 1986
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Simple And Effective Sampling Methods For Marine Minerals Exploration
By J. R. Woolsey
The cost of an offshore exploration project is mainly dependent on the size of the vessel engaged for the work and increases dramatically with increasing size. Of the various factors influencing vesse
Jan 1, 1986
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Self-Potential Surveys Using Multiple Platforms for Exploration of Submarine Hydrothermal Ore Deposits
By Takafumi Kasaya, Katz Suzuki, Yoshifumi Kawada
"INTRODUCTIONThe area beneath the seafloor preserves valuable resources that are inevitable to sustain our industrial society. Hydrocarbon resources such as petroleum and natural gases are one of the
Jan 1, 2017
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AUV-Based Small Scale Quantitative Predictive Mapping of Mn-Nodules: Precondition for Ideal Mining Path Planning
By Timm Schoening, Greinert. Jens, Iason –. Zois Gazis
"Ferromanganese nodules are again of interest because of their high concentrations of Ni, Co, Cu as well as REE. With regards to an operational underwater mining industry, one of the main questions an
Jan 1, 2017
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Can Radium Isotopes Give Insight Into Volcanic And Hydrothermal Processes And The Sustainability Of Metal-Rich Sulfide Mineralization?
By Robert G. Ditchburn
Dating seafloor mineralization at hydrothermal centres of submarine arc volcanoes is important for understanding deep-seated volcanic events that can produce deposits rich in base and precious metals.
Jan 1, 2011
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Preliminary Report: The Third Marine Kuroko-type Deposit in the Area 200 km2 of a Major Kuroko Province in Japan
By H. Shimoda, K. Tamaki, K. Iizasa, M. Watanabe, K. Okamura
Modern Kuroko-type deposits occur in submarine calderas of island-arc fronts and back-arc rifts in Japan. They occur primarily on or adjacent to caldera boundary faults. Hydrothermal sulfides in the M
Aug 24, 2006
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Sand Mining For The Restoration Of Waikiki Beach
By Michael J. Cruickshank
The State of Hawaii has expressed concern over deterioration of the tourist beaches at Waikiki, which are becoming seriously depleted of sand. In this report the options for acquisition, transportatio
Jan 1, 1991
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Marine Mining Is Getting A Bad Deal From Environmentalists
By Charles L. Morgan
For the past twenty years or so the oceans of the world have been transformed in the minds of most Americans from the ultimate and nearly infinite receptacles for sewage and other wastes to an almost
Jan 1, 1989
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Geostatistical Applications In Marine Placer Exploration
By Robert M. Owen
Geochemical exploration for marine placers involves the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of geochemical data. Recent technological advances such as in-situ analysis systems and microcompute
Jan 1, 1986
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Organization Of The International Marine Mineral Society
By William D. Siapno
The International Marine Minerals Society has now come of age! Previously known as the International Marine Mining Society, it was an informal group without officers, by-laws or official status. Despi
Jan 1, 1986
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Cobalt-Rich Crust Continuum Of Seamounts In The Central Pacific
By Alexander Malahoff
Accumulation of cobalt -rich ferromanganese crusts on Pacific seamounts located off-ridge in the Hawaiian EEZ, represents a complex process that involves geologic aging of the seamounts, geographic tr
Jan 1, 1991
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Marine Gas Hydrate Research at IFM-GEOMAR: An Overview on History and Recent Developments
By G. Rehder, C. Hensen, P. Linke, J. Bialas, M. Haeckel, W. Weinrebe, K. Wallmann
Research on marine gas hydrate and the methane cycle has a tradition at IFM-GEOMAR. In summer 1996 during a cruise with RV SONNE offshore Oregon (USA) scientists of the former GEOMAR recovered the lar
Aug 24, 2006
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Offshore Aggregate And Placer Drill For CCOP/SOPAC
By J. R. Woolsey
In late 1988, the Committee for Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in South Pacific Offshore Areas (CCOP/SOPAC), Suva, Fiji, consulted the Continental Shelf Division of the Marine
Jan 1, 1989
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Can Recycling and the Circular Economy Render Seafloor Mining Unnecessary?
By Fernando J. A. S. Barriga
"Recent concerns over the availability of many mineral raw materials, and newly available technological developments, produced renewed interest in deep-sea mining. However, environmental concerns, wit
Jan 1, 2017
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Location And Delineation Of Sea Floor Polymetallic Sulphide Deposits Using The Induced Polarization Method
By W. H. Pelton
Polymetallic sulphide (PMS) deposits have recently been discovered associated with hydrothermal vents on the sea floor off Vancouver Island, B.C. Visual estimates indicate reserves in excess of 1 mill
Jan 1, 1985
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Nearshore Geochemical Exploration Techniques
By John Noakes
Marine scientists at the University of Georgia, have in the past few years, designed, developed and refined two geochemical survelliance systems for the exploration of hard mineral resources on the se
Jan 1, 2011
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A Remotely Operated Seafloor Coring System
By Richard Petters
Williamson and Associates, Inc of Seattle, Washington has recently built a remotely operated seafloor coring system for Nichiyu Giken Kogyo Ltd and the Metal Mining Agency of Japan (MMAJ). The system
Jan 1, 1996
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Recommendations For The Conservation And Management Of The Biodiversity Of Deep Sea Ecosystems Targeted By Seabed Mining (Polymetallic Nodule Deposits, Cobalt-Rich Ferromanganese Crusts And Hydrothermal Sulfides)
By Virginie Tilot
Recommendations have been drafted following an international multidisciplinary panel discussion organized at UNESCO/IOC by the Académie des Sciences d?Outre-Mer on 15 December 2010 conveyed, according
Jan 1, 2011
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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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Search for Sediment-hosted Seafloor Polymetallic Sulfides: What Are We Doing Wrong?
By Timothy F. McConachy, Christopher J. Yeats, Ray Binns
Various kinds of sediment-hosted polymetallic sulfide deposit are known on land in ancient marine sequences, many tending to be larger and more valuable than massive sulfide deposits genetically ass
Aug 24, 2006