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Japan's world-first deep-sea mining trial underway

‘We can finally begin confirmation tests. It’s deeply moving’

Nathan Richardson
Japan's world-first deep-sea mining trial underway

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Japan's world-first attempt to extract rare-earth seabed sludge from a depth of six kilometres is officially underway. The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu departed the Port of Shimizu in Shizuoka on...

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