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"Scientists find 'easy' way to extract rare earths from seafloor" — Cecilia Jamasmie — Mining.com — April 20, 2014
While economists and geologists worry the world's supply of rare earth metals will soon be outpaced by demand, a team of German geochemists has found a way to easily extract them from the vast deposits lying under the sea.
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"Asteroid miner takes a page from deep sea miners" — Michael Allan McCrae — Mining.com — January 23, 2013
A newly launched asteroid miner is looking to the history of deep sea mining as it attempts to navigate laws governing exploitation of space. "If you look at parallels, like deep sea mining, that went forward without a global treaty. The companies that wanted to do deep sea mining shook hands: 'We won't interfere with you if you don't interfere with us', that was the general approach going forward," said David Gump, Deep Space's chief executive officer.
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