Sentence examples for deep ocean mining from inspiring English sources

The research can provide a basis for the optimization design of slurry pump in deep ocean mining system.

As the key equipment in deep ocean mining, the slurry pump suffers from wear and blocking problems.

There is a United Nations agency, the International Seabed Authority, based in Jamaica, that is charged with oversight of deep ocean mining, but it has done very little in its history, in part as there has not been much activity to date, and in part as it is jurisdictionally delimited from projects within a nation's exclusive economic zone.

Today, deep-ocean mining is done only by the oil and gas industry.

The complex processes of the suspension, resettling and consolidation behaviour of deep-sea sediments caused by deep-ocean mining were investigated on board the German RV Sonne and in the laboratory using sediment from the uppermost semi-liquid layer of the Peru Basin.

"Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago, the scientists warned that without international cooperation with a focus on 'deep-ocean stewardship,' deep sea mining will follow the destructive examples set by commercial fishing and offshore fossil fuel operations".

More environmental disasters are on the horizon because deep ocean drilling and ocean floor mining is going to happen, if not off U.S. shores, then in other parts of the world.

Proponents of seabed mining assert that extracting minerals from the deep ocean will inflict less environmental damage than mining on land, which displaces communities, removes entire ecosystems, exacerbates erosion, and pollutes groundwater, rivers, and streams.

Mining the deep ocean floor for valuable metals is both inevitable and vital, according to the scientists, engineers and industrialists exploring the world's newest mining frontier.

But Chris Carlon of Anglo is emphatic that the world's mining industry is not yet eager to tackle the deep ocean.

This encourages a frantic stampede to extract every fossil fuel through mountaintop removal, longwall mining, hydraulic fracturing, tar sands and tar shale extraction, and deep ocean and Arctic drilling.