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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by mrfusion on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:21PM (#13951941)
I don't understand how it identifies the valuable metals? Or it just sends all the dirt up?
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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by patrickg_zill on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:38PM (#13952039)
Seems that the filtering occurs on the ship. A slurry is pumped up to the ship, where filtering occurs, with the sand being returned to the site.
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Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019 by undersuit on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:22PM (#13952322)
Sand is a very benign word for what is going to be tailings.
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