The Elements of Innovation Discovered
The Elements of Innovation Discovered
Metal Tech News - July 1, 2024
A mound of polymetallic nodules collected from the Pacific Ocean floor by The Metals Company, which is spearheading the push for deep sea mining and the idea that nodules could all but eliminate land-based mining for battery metals.
Japan's exclusive economic zone sports polymetallic nodules, which would support domestic battery mineral requirements for decades.
While the worldwide debate for and against harvesting critical minerals from international waters rages on, Japanese researchers have discovered their own massive mineral resource in the Pacific and are free to do as they please with it.
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