The U.S. leader could pave the way for a gold rush in international waters.

The U.S. leader could pave the way for a gold rush in international waters.

We should have been thinking about the seabed, not so much the cables. When a Chinese research vessel was spotted near ...

An executive order will unleash a global oceanbed mining boom ...

California-based company Impossible Metals asked the Trump administration earlier this month to auction off mining leases for ...

An executive order from Trump backing deep sea mining faces fierce environmental and international opposition.

In his latest move to secure supplies of critical raw materials, the US president has instructed federal officials to ...

A US push to approve deep-sea mining in domestic and international waters "violates international law", China warned on ...

WASHINGTON— President Trump signed an executive order today to fast-track a process that purports to allow U.S.-affiliated companies to mine the deep seabed in U.S. and international waters. The order ...

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry – mining critical minerals in the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday to boost the deep-sea mining industry, the ...

Two parallel regulatory regimes for deep-sea mining have begun to emerge in recent years. On the one hand, the International Seabed Authority ...