Trump sets sights on Pacific seafloor near the Marianas Trench

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By Anita HofschneiderNov 12, 2025, 4:45 am110 pts
The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around American Samoa from 18 million areas to 33 million acres, an area bigger than Peru. The move disregards unified…

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