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Experts question viability of billion-dollar deep-sea mining gold rush

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Mining and Metals IndustryOceansIndustryGovernmentDefence Industry

Few people on Earth have seen a polymetallic nodule 4 kilometres under the ocean, but Rob McCallum is one of them.

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Experts are concerned the economic case underpinning the deep-sea mining industry does not stack up.
Experts are concerned the economic case underpinning the deep-sea mining industry does not stack up.

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