UNDERGROUND MINING
Deep-sea mining Does it threaten our environment, or can it save us?
Metal clumps the size of potatoes at the bottom of the deepest oceans could help us fight climate change, but mining them could also harm a world we know very little about. More than 150 years after French author Jules Verne published his classic tale of deep-sea exploration, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, we know less about the deep sea than we do about the moon's surface.
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arge areas submerged thousands of meters beneath the surface of the ocean remain a mystery. However, it has now been discovered that they may hold the key to combating climate change. Technologies such as batteries 44 | SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW September 2021
