A historical perspective on deep-sea mining for
2019-7-1 · The impacts of mining, however, will be different depending on the spatiality and temporality of the minerals. While single mine sites for seafloor massive sulphides will cover less than 1 km 2, mining for manganese nodules will require several hundred km 2 per operation per year (Petersen et al., 2016, p. 185). The minerals also have different ...
