Deep-Sea Mining: Resource Potential, Technical and Environmental Considerations

✍ Scribed by Rahul Sharma (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 534
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining. Interest in exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals is seeing a revival due to diminishing grades and increasing costs of processing of terrestrial minerals as well as availability of several strategic metals in seabed mineral resources; it therefore becomes imperative to take stock of various issues related to deep-sea mining.
The authors are experienced scientists and engineers from around the globe developing advanced technologies for mining and metallurgical extraction as well as performing deep sea exploration for several decades. They invite readers to learn about the resource potential of different deep-sea minerals, design considerations and development of mining systems, and the potential environmental impacts of mining in international waters.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Deep-Sea Mining: Current Status and Future Considerations....Pages 3-21
Composition, Formation, and Occurrence of Polymetallic Nodules....Pages 23-63
Marine Co-Rich Ferromanganese Crust Deposits: Description and Formation, Occurrences and Distribution, Estimated World-wide Resources....Pages 65-141
Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits: Distribution and Prospecting....Pages 143-164
Submarine Phosphorites: The Deposits of the Chatham Rise, New Zealand, off Namibia and Baja California, Mexico—Origin, Exploration, Mining, and Environmental Issues....Pages 165-187
Predictive Mapping of the Nodule Abundance and Mineral Resource Estimation in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone Using Artificial Neural Networks and Classical Geostatistical Methods....Pages 189-212
Statistical Properties of Distribution of Manganese Nodules in Indian and Pacific Oceans and Their Applications in Assessing Commonality Levels and in Exploration Planning....Pages 213-228
Assessment of Distribution Characteristics of Polymetallic Nodules and Their Implications on Deep-Sea Mining....Pages 229-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Fundamental Geotechnical Considerations for Design of Deep-Sea Mining Systems....Pages 259-304
Concepts of Deep-Sea Mining Technologies....Pages 305-343
An Application of Ocean Mining Technology: Deep Ocean Water Utilization....Pages 345-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Metallurgical Processing of Polymetallic Ocean Nodules....Pages 365-394
Sustainable Processing of Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodules....Pages 395-422
Sustainable Development and Its Application to Mine Tailings of Deep Sea Minerals....Pages 423-441
Front Matter....Pages 443-443
Recent Developments in Environmental Impact Assessment with Regard to Mining of Deep-Sea Mineral Resources....Pages 445-463
Taxonomic Problems in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Linked to Ocean Mining and Possibility of New Technology Developments....Pages 465-482
Development of Environmental Management Plan for Deep-Sea Mining....Pages 483-506
The Crafting of Seabed Mining Ecosystem-Based Management....Pages 507-526
Back Matter....Pages 527-535

✦ Subjects

Mineral Resources;Oceanography;Metallic Materials;Environmental Chemistry;Marine & Freshwater Sciences;Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

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