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Cameron s government sponsored Lockheed s claim to the 58,000-square-kilometre potential mining site through the company s subsidiary UK Seabed Resources in London.
Lockheed has proven technologies and the most nodule-bed data. Polymetallic nodules form over thousands of years on the sea floor, through processes that are still not fully understood;
Lockheed has released not specific plans, but the general scheme for harvesting uses a device that moves along the sea floor,
once Lockheed has completed technology tests and environ#mental studies. Data are so far sparse on the degree to
) Craig Smith, a deep-sea biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will lead an initial assessment of seafloor life for Lockheed s project, gathering baseline data for the potential harvest zone
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