Frontiers | An Overview of Seabed Mining Including the ...
Rising demand for minerals and metals, including for use in the technology sector, has led to a resurgence of interest in exploration of mineral resources loed on the seabed. Such resources, whether seafloor massive (polymetallic) sulfides around hydrothermal vents, cobaltrich crusts (CRCs) on the flanks of seamounts or fields of manganese (polymetallic) nodules on the .