US opens vast Pacific seabed to mining

Washington is planning to auction off deep-sea mining leases near the Northern Mariana Islands later this year, advancing the Trump administration’s push to develop domestic sources of critical minerals from the ocean floor. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management...

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