Seafloor Massive Sulphides: Assessment of Sustainable Mining Potential through an Iterative Decision-making Framework
Extraction of metals from the seafloor has been considered for decades, beginning with manganese nodules in the 1970s. Today, the targets are massive sulphide deposits rich in copper, zinc, gold, and silver that are associated with hydrothermal vents or black smoker chimneys that occur at divergent...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6902 |