Zitat:"begin mining copper and gold off the coast of Papua New Guinea moves a step forward. This month Nautilus Minerals, the first company to be awarded a deep sea mining lease anywhere in the world, signed an engines contract for a mining support vessel, which will process minerals off the coast of PNG.
The Canadian company, which counts Anglo American among its shareholders, has partnered the PNG government and is on schedule to begin mining at a depth of 1,600m by 2018.
Mike Johnston, chief executive of Nautilus Minerals, says: “I believe 30 per cent of the world’s mineral production could in the future be mined from the sea floor.”
Nautilus Minerals has also been awarded exploration licences in international waters by the ISA. The UN agency is working on a legal framework to begin issuing sea floor mining leases — a process that could start by 2016. Mining royalties under these licences would be paid to developing countries..... " ENDE Zitat
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