Underneath the surface of a resort town that pulls in hundreds of thousands of skiers per year lives a mining history that’s nearly a century deep. If it were not for historians and an interest from ...
Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Seabed mining could become ...
New Zealand’s Supreme Court rejected a giant seabed mining proposal in the South Taranaki Bight, proposed by Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR), in September 2021, following a seven-year-long legal fight by ...
Resources Minister Shane Jones says promoting the potential of New Zealand’s natural resources is at the “top of the agenda” during three upcoming international mining and geothermal conferences.
New Zealand’s willingness to encourage seabed mining in the same piece of ocean where offshore wind generation could be built is unprecedented, according to an international wind farm developer.
The Wellington-based company is seeking permission to mine about 66 square kilometres of seabed in relatively shallow water in New Zealand's exclusive economic zone, between 22 and 36 kilometres ...
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In 1979, a Deep-Sea Mining Test Scarred the Deep Pacific Seafloor—44 Years Later, Signs of Damage Refuse to Disappear
In March 1979, a 9-meter-wide prototype mining machine rolled across the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the eastern Pacific Ocean—an area now central to the global push for deep-sea mining. Its ...
Resources Minister Shane Jones says promoting the potential of New Zealand’s natural resources is at the “top of the agenda” during three upcoming international mining and geothermal conferences.
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