The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements (2018)

Re:The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth e... by eponeponepon on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:16AM (#18882974)

This has a slight air of the manganese nodule seabed mining that was propagated as cover for the Glomar Explorer expedition...

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Re:The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth e... by MarkSummer on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:00AM (#18883227)

Ha, agree. This is an amazing story if you haven't read about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian

The kind of thing that kind of makes you second guess the "whacky" conspiracy crackpots.

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Re:The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth e... by dsfyu404ed on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:00AM (#18883226)

This. Other than incremental improvements in deep sea drilling I can't read an article about deep sea resource extraction and take it seriously. There will forever be a voice in the back of my head telling me it's just a CIA cover story.

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Re:The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth e... by PavlikPaja on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:09AM (#18883276)

They actually exist thought, they just weren't worth mining.

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