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Oceanne E. Himmighofen, Maria Holzmann, Inés Barrenechea-Angeles, Jan Pawlowski and Andrew J. Gooday
The abyssal Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) hosts vast, commercially valuable seafloor deposits of polymetallic nodules. Foraminifera (testate protists) dominate benthic communities in this region. Here, we present a taxonomic survey, combining mor...
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Changyu Lu, Jianmin Yang, Bernt Johan Leira, Qihang Chen and Shulin Wang
Three-dimensional path planning is instrumental in path decision making and obstacle avoidance for deep-sea mining vehicles (DSMV). However, conventional particle swarm algorithms have been prone to trapping in local optima and have slow convergence rate...
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Walter Leal Filho, Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Cintia Nunes, Johannes (Joost) Platje, Pinar Gökcin Ozuyar, Markus Will, Gustavo J. Nagy, Abul Quasem Al-Amin, Julian David Hunt and Chunlan Li
The rapidly increasing global populations and socio-economic development in the Global South have resulted in rising demand for natural resources. There are many plans for harvesting natural resources from the ocean floor, especially rare metals and mine...
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Xuya Lv, Yingwen Zhong, Geyi Fu, Yuehong Wu and Xuewei Xu
Polymetallic nodules and polymetallic sulfides are currently the major mineral resources found on the seabed. The motivation behind deep-sea mining arises from the pursuit of valuable metals, driven by both economic and geopolitical considerations. Howev...
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Yu Dai, Feiyue Ma, Xiang Zhu, He Liu, Zhonghua Huang and Ya Xie
With the decrease of primary resources in recent years, deep seabed mineral resources, especially the massive sulfides, are of extensive research significance. In this paper, firstly, the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) test and triaxial compressive ...
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Chao Xie, Lan Wang, Ning Yang, Casey Agee, Ming Chen, Jinrong Zheng, Jun Liu, Yuxiang Chen, Lixin Xu, Zhiguo Qu, Shaoming Yao, Liquan Wang and Zongheng Chen
This paper proposed a compact design of the subsea cobalt-rich crust mining vehicle with a general purpose support vessel for subsea resource exploration, sample collection, and research. The necessary functions were considered in the concept design, inc...
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