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Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction
April 29, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules." Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep ocean's ridges, volcanic arcs, and tectonic plate boundaries, and on the flanks of sea . . .

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