Responsibly securing the building blocks for a prosperous, sustainable future
Our Critical Minerals Challenge
Inadequate Mining Pipeline
Shortages of critical metals such as copper, lithium, and manganese are expected by 2030, with demand expected to further increase 2-4x by 2040.
Supply Chain Chokepoints
Current processing of our limited copper, nickel, and cobalt supply is heavily concentrated, presenting significant bottlenecks for our global needs.
Increasing Ecological Impact
Building and operating new mines will take a toll on the environment - emitting carbon and harming biodiversity and vulnerable ecosystems.
Why Seafloor Minerals?
Deposits of minerals across ocean floors including nodules, crusts, and sulfides present our world's largest, greenest critical minerals supply. These resources present a more economical, responsible opportunity to build our clean future.
High-Grade, Large-Quantity Metals
Seafloor deposits are ~2-6x average terrestrial ore grades and dwarf terrestrial deposits, offering a large, secure alternative source of minerals essential to our future across a breadth of jurisdictions.
Lower Risk, Improved Economics
With visible deposits and no need for mine infrastructure, exploration campaigns are far simpler, cheaper, and shorter than terrestrial projects, while consistent grades reduce project risk.
Environmentally Responsible
Laying deep in dark, high-pressure environments, extraction is designed to minimise impact to local ecosystems while minimising the need to construct new mines.
"The World Faces a Shortage of Minerals Needed for the Energy Transition"
"Climate Law is Reshaping Private Investment in the United States”
"US Claims Huge Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for Resources"
Why Now?
Exploration & Regulatory Maturity
Decades of geological campaigns and biological data collection, environmental impact assessments, and policymaking have come together to prepare the industry for responsible extraction in the coming years.
