A company has applied for a licence to mine sand off Sydney's coast.
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Push to mine the Red Sea by 2014
The Sudan and Saudi Arabia are working together to start underwater mining in the Red Sea as soon as 2014.
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Company drops plans for seabed mining
Nautilus Minerals has decided to terminate the construction of equipment for its seafloor production system in the development of the Solwara 1 Project off the Papa New Guinea coast.
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Kiwis Against Seabed Mining to protest TTR’s Taranaki Coast plans
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining is campaigning against planned iron sand mining off New Zealand’s Taranaki Coast.
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People of PNG want seabed mining halted
Locals in Papua New Guinea have petitioned the government to stop a seabed mining project along the nation’s coast.
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India looks to deep sea mining
India is building a processing plant and investing in exploration equipment in an attempt to mine rare earths and other minerals under its oceans.
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PNG approves world’s first deep sea mining project
The Papua New Guinea Government has given the go-ahead for Nautilus Minerals to start the world's first deep sea mining project.
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Aborigines support NT seabed mining; want ban scrapped
An Indigenous group from Arnhem Land has approached Northern Manganese to explore the seabed for minerals and metals.
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Dispute over seabed mining in PNG
Nautilus Minerals says it’s in a “dispute” with the Papua New Guinea Government over plans to mine gold and copper on the ocean floor.
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