Amid haggling over deep-sea mining rules, chorus of skepticism grows louder

Mongabay
Aug 5, 2022, 5:52 pm278 pts
It starts with tiny deep-sea fragments — shark’s teeth or slivers of shell. Then, in a process thought to span millions of years, they get coated in layers of liquidized metal, eventually becoming solid, lumpy rocks that resemble burnt potatoes. These formations, known as polymetallic nodules, have caught…

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