NEW BOOK (see last section contents table for environmental concerns):
Deep-Sea Mining
Resource Potential, Technical and Environmental Considerations
Dr. Rahul Sharma (Editor), National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India, Email: rsharma@nio.org
* ▶ Broadens understanding of deep seabed mining for mineral resources such as polymetallic nodules, hydrothermal sulphides and ferromanganese crusts
* ▶ Examines the environmental impacts and proposes an environmental management plan for sustainable mining
* ▶ Enables readers to gain an overview of the design and development of the technology used for mining activities under extreme environmental conditions
This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining. Interest in exploration and exploitation of deep-sea minerals is seeing a revival due to diminishing grades and increasing costs of processing of terrestrial minerals as well as availability of several strategic metals in seabed mineral resources; it therefore becomes imperative to take stock of various issues related to deep-sea mining.
The authors are experienced scientists and engineers from around the globe developing advanced technologies for mining and metallurgical extraction as well as performing deep sea exploration for several decades. They invite readers to learn about the resource potential of different deep-sea minerals, design considerations and development of mining systems, and the potential environmental impacts of mining in international waters.
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Contents
Foreword
Michael Lodge, International Seabed Authority, Jamaica
Deep-sea minerals – distribution characteristics and their resource potential
Chapter 1
Deep-sea mining: current status and future considerations
Rahul Sharma
Chapter 2
Composition, formation, and occurrence of polymetallic nodules
T. Kuhn, A. Wegorzewski, C. Rühlemann, A. Vink
Chapter 3
Marine Co-rich Ferromanganese Crust Deposits: Description and Formation, Occurrences and Distribution, Estimated World-wide Resources
Peter E. Halbach, Andreas Jahn, Georgy Cherkashov
Chapter 4
Seafloor Massive Sulfide deposits: distribution and prospecting
Georgy Cherkashov
Chapter 5
Submarine phosphorites: the deposits of the Chatham Rise, New Zealand, off Namibia and Baja California, Mexico : origin, exploration, mining and environmental issues
Hermann Kudrass, Ray Wood, Robin Falconer
Chapter6
Predictive mapping of the nodule abundance and mineral resource estimation in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone using artificial neural networks and classical geostatistical methods
Andreas Knobloch, Thomas Kuhn, Carsten Rühlemann, Thomas Hertwig, Karl-Otto Zeissler, Silke Noack
Chapter 7
Statistical Properties of Distribution of Manganese Nodules in Indian and Pacific Oceans and Their Applications in Assessing Commonality Levels and in Exploration Planning
TRP Singh, M. Sudhakar
Chapter 8
Assessment of distribution characteristics of polymetallic nodules and their implications on deep-sea mining
Rahul Sharma
Chapter 9
Fundamental geotechnical considerations for design of deep-sea mining systems
Tetsuo Yamazaki
Chapter 10
Concepts of deep-sea mining technologies
M.A. Atmanand, G. A. Ramadass
Chapter 11
An Application of Ocean Mining Technology – Deep Ocean Water Utilization
Koji Otsuka, Kazuyuki Ouchi
Metallurgical processing and their sustainable development
Chapter 12
Metallurgical Processing of Polymetallic Ocean Nodules
R.P Das, S. Anand
Chapter 13
Sustainable processing of deep-sea polymetallic nodules
P.K. Sen
Chapter 14
Sustainable Development and its Application to Mine Tailings of Deep Sea Minerals
John C. Wiltshire
Environmental concerns of impact of deep-sea mining
Chapter 15
Recent Developments in Environmental Impact Assessment with regard to Mining of Deep-Sea Mineral Resources
Y.Shirayama, H. Itoh, T. Fukushima
Chapter 16
Taxonomic Problems in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) linked to Ocean Mining and Possibility of New Technology Developments
Tomohiko Fukushima, Miyuki Nishijima
Chapter 17
Development of environmental management plan for deep-sea mining
Rahul Sharma
Chapter 18
The crafting of seabed mining ecosystem-based management
Yves Henocque
