The Benefits of Sea Bed Mining
From whatever angle you look at it, mining minerals from a sea bed offers unique benefits, not only because of economics buts also because of social justice issues and the environment. As we move into the future, more minerals such as lithium, cobalt, tellurium and neodymium, as well as iron, copper, zinc, lead and even graphite are needed to build wind turbines and electric vehicles, among many other things. While the demand for these minerals is steadily increasing, their supply is unstable as their extraction brings about various social and environmental effects. For instance, waste from high-purity silicon processing, graphite…
