Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples.

The Metals Company is exploring massive resources in the deep seas for critical materials. An executive order signed by President Trump has sent TMC stock soaring. At one point in 2025, the mining ...

President Trump’s April executive order aims to accelerate U.S. deep-sea mining, stockpile critical minerals, and reduce reliance on China for rare earths and battery metals. Companies like TMC The ...

Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up regulations around extracting minerals offshore. That might soon change, as ...

The Trump administration announced this past week that it has entered talks with the Cook Islands to research and develop seabed mineral resources. The Polynesian archipelago is one of only a handful ...

On April 24, President Trump issued another questionable executive order, this one calling for deep-sea mining in both federal and international waters. The former is within his control; the latter ...

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Participants gathered Sunday to protest deep-sea mining during a paddle-out ceremony. More than 80 people attended the event. Carissa Cabrera, founder of the ocean advocacy group Futureswell, noted ...