The Race to Dominate Seabed Mining

How far will countries go to secure access to critical minerals?

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The world can’t get enough of critical minerals. From 2017 to 2022, green energy projects alone boosted demand for lithium by roughly 200 percent, cobalt by 70 percent and nickel by 40 percent. Given the time and resources that go into locating and extracting these and other critical minerals – marked by their indispensability for […]

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