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TMC Subsidiary NORI Completes Key Offshore Research Campaign, Evaluating Seafloor Ecosystem Function a Year Post Nodule Collection Test

Researchers with Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI) successfully gathered further environmental data on ecosystem recovery and functioning as part of its Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) to characterise the potential impacts of proposed polymetallic nodule collection operations. Despite illegal disruptions from Greenpeace International aimed at hindering the collection of environmental data, researchers were able [...]

TMC Subsidiary NORI Shares Preliminary Findings on Environmental Impacts of Pilot Nodule Collection System Test

Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI) has begun sharing emerging data on impacts of seafloor sediment plumes one year on from its 2022 test mining campaign. Building upon earlier laboratory predictions and in-field verifications, NORI now has multiple lines of evidence that indicate that the seafloor plume forms a gravity-driven turbidity current that hugs the seafloor [...]

Researchers to Return to the Site of NORI’s Nodule Collection System Test to Assess Seafloor Ecosystem Function A Year After the Test

The upcoming offshore campaign is the latest in The Metals Company subsidiary NORI’s Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) to characterise the potential impacts of proposed polymetallic nodule collection operations. Scientists from several leading marine research institutions will undertake an array of studies on the site of last year’s nodule collection system test to gather [...]

TMC and Allseas Achieve Historic Milestone: Nodules Collected from the Seafloor and Lifted to the Production Vessel Using 4 km Riser During Pilot Trials in the Clarion Clipperton Zone for First Time Since the 1970s

During a 60-minute pilot collection run across ~150 meters of the seafloor, ~14 tonnes of nodules were collected by the pilot collector vehicle, transported to the surface using a 4.3-km riser system and placed into the hold of the surface production vessel Hidden Gem In the first such test in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) [...]

Exports of Dried Laver Set to Hit Record High This Year

SEJONG, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Exports of dried laver are likely to hit a record high this year on the back of growing popularity in Japan and China, the country’s customs office said Wednesday. In the first 10 months of the year, a total of US$450 million worth of dried laver was shipped overseas, [...]

‘Sea Road View’ Depicts Far Away Seas At Home

SEJONG, Dec.28 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Oceanographic Research Institute (NORI) announced that they have developed a ‘Sea Road View’, (www.khoa.go.kr/baroview) which presents the seas in panoramic images. Various information on the sea such as how it changes as the tides change and information about current weather is provided through pictures and videos. Images and video [...]