while the Cook Islands nodules contain especially high concentrations of cobalt, in global terms the rarest of the four ...

A 2019 study suggested that deep-sea mining could be a multibillion dollar industry within the Cook Islands alone, which is estimated to have the worldʻs largest collection of manganese nodules ...

An imminent executive order on deep sea mining could open a new resource frontier. It’s a signal to markets that the United ...

Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for decades ... A handful have begun permitting the exploration for seafloor minerals, including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Norway (though ...

Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for ... including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Norway (though Norway paused its permitting process late last year).

Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for ... including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Norway (though Norway paused its permitting process late last year).

Those nodules have tempted would-be miners for ... including Japan, the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Norway (though Norway paused its permitting process late last year.) ...