World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019

Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by snerbles on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:18PM (#13950994)

I remember an '80s-era middle school science textbook touting seabed manganese nodules as the future of mining, driving mass underwater settlement.

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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by rbobby on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:04PM (#13951355)

> manganese nodules

Hah! Except that was a CIA cover story used when they tried to recover a sunken Russian sub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSF_Explorer

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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by Tuna-Fish on Friday March 24, 2017 @06:29PM (#13952734)

Well, manganese nodules are a real thing, and are of some value. They just used them as the cover when they needed to develop underwater recovery technology.

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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by ptaipale on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:17PM (#13951465)

Manganese nodules also feature heavily in Desmond Bagley's thriller "Night of error", which was published posthumously in 1984. Not quite as good as his earlier books but still enjoyable.

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