Deep-sea mining of seafloor massive sulfides

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2009-10-28
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Hoagland, Porter
Beaulieu, Stace E.
Tivey, Maurice A.
Eggert, Roderick G.
German, Christopher R.
Glowka, Lyle
Lin, Jian
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Ocean mining
Seafloor massive sulfides
Law of the sea
Economics
Environmental assessment
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The potential emergence of an ocean mining industry to exploit seafloor massive sulfides could present opportunities for oceanographic science to facilitate seafloor mineral development in ways that lessen environmental harms.
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Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Marine Policy 34 (2010): 728-732, doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2009.12.001.
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