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This new Deep Sea Mining Campaign briefing paper examines what TMC's U.S. pivot really means. Drawing on recent U.S. filings and TMC’s own Pre-Feasibility Study, the analysis explores the complex legal, technical, and political barriers that make mining under the DSHMRA anything but straightforward. It highlights how TMC itself acknowledges the novelty and uncertainty of the U.S. process, and how its profitability projections rely on questionable assumptions and omissions.

Deep-sea mining risks damaging vibrant ecosystems that science is just beginning to understand. And we don’t need it to meet the critical minerals challenge.

The Deep Sea Mining Campaign, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and Surfrider Australia call on the Albanese Government to announce its support for a Moratorium at the upcoming ISA meeting in Jamaica; and direct CSIRO to take no further actions on behalf of TMC.

NGO's Call on Albanese Government to act: CSIRO research fuels calls for deep sea mining moratorium

Momentum is building! Isn’t it beautiful to see the world rejecting deep sea mining as a
dangerous industry?
There’s a lot happening right now after the United Nations Ocean Conference and we noticed
that deep sea mining updates were scattered across various announcements and media.
So we’ve compiled all the highlights in one place for you.
Here’s what you need to know about DSM from UNOC3:

Landowners in PNG's New Ireland Province want the Prime Minister to come back from the UN Oceans Conference and put his opposition to deep sea mining into practice by cancelling the mining leases connected to the controversial Solwara 1 project.
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Watch BLUE PERIL, a 16-minute visual investigation that presents a scientifically robust and disturbing picture of far-reaching impacts of deep sea mining for Pacific Island communities.