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The Metals Company
Canada
Приєднався 9 бер 2020
The Metals Company will enable the battery-powered shift to electric vehicles with the lightest planetary touch.
World-first commercial-scale processing of deep-sea nodules
In a world-first, TMC and its partner PAMCO have successfully produced approximately 500 tonnes of high temperature material (calcine) during the first phase of a commercial-scale campaign to process a 2,000 tonne sample of polymetallic nodules at PAMCO’s Rotary Kiln Electric-Arc Furnace facility in Hachinohe, Japan. In the coming months, the calcine will be transferred to PAMCO's demonstration smelting facility to begin smelting into a high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt alloy and manganese silicate.
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Відео
NORI Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Explainer
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The Environmental Impact Statement for our NORI-D Project represents the culmination of over a decade of pioneering deep-sea research in collaboration with leading marine institutions and expert industry contractors. In this short video, learn more about the studies that underpin our EIS, how the process differs to projects on land, and how this wealth of data is being shared openly with the re...
NORI & TMC - Evaluating seafloor ecosystem function
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In 2022, we spent 6 months at sea gathering key data on the immediate environmental impacts of our pilot nodule collection system test. Approximately one year on, our team is hard at work assessing how the abyssal ecosystem at depths of 4kms has responded, and whether the structure of benthic communities and their ecological function has adapted or changed. This data will be used to inform our ...
NORI-D Environment Program Update
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The Metals Company subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI) aims to successfully develop the world’s first deep-sea polymetallic nodule project with its NORI-D project. Located approximately 1500 km from the nearest populated land mass in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean in international waters at depths of 4 kms, the resource is estimated to be the largest undeveloped...
TMC Impact Report 2022
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Our vision is a carefully managed metal commons that is used, recovered and reused for generations to come. You call it a circular economy. We call it metal metabolism. In our new Impact Report, we’re pleased to share our Sustainability Approach outlining the thought processes and principles that will guide us as we set about realising this vision.
NORI-D Nodule Project Application Process
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Following the July 2024 meeting of the International Seabed Authority, TMC subsidiary NORI intends to submit what we expect will be a world-first application for a commercial license to collect nodules in the NORI-D Area. More than ten years in the making, this complex body of work will contain multiple components, including a comprehensive Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. Learn more...
NORI ESIA - Foraminifera and eDNA
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Establishing a detailed environmental baseline of the NORI-D area is a key part of our assessment of the environmental impacts of nodule collection. During our recent integrated collection system test, research teams studied seafloor communities as an indicator of ocean health. In this short video, hear from Bryan O’Malley from Eckerd College in Florida about his work leading the research teams...
NORI & DHI - Sediment Plume Monitoring and Analysis
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Sediment plumes are a key consideration of collecting polymetallic #nodules, which sit atop the sediment on the abyssal seafloor at depths of 4kms. To understand the potential impacts, DHI Water & Environment is developing a numerical model to understand the behavior of mobilized sediment as our collector vehicle drives across the seafloor.
TMC @ Benchmark Gigafactories USA 2022 - Chief Financial Officer, Craig Shesky
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Last June, TMC CFO Craig Shesky outlined some of the key potential benefits of seafloor nodules as a source of critical battery metals over their traditional supply pathways on land as part of a panel discussion at @benchmarkmineralintelligen13’s Gigafactories USA 2022 conference. Benchmark will shortly be releasing the results of their third-party lifecycle impact assessment of our NORI-D proj...
Allseas & NORI - First Integrated Collection System Trials Since 1970s
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Allseas and NORI recently wrapped up the first integrated nodule collection system trials in the CCZ since the 1970s, collecting roughly 4,500 tonnes of nodules and lifting over 3,000 tonnes up a 4.3km-long riser to the surface. The pilot system will next be upgraded to a production capacity of 1.3 million tonnes per annum ahead of our first commercial project, Project Zero.
TMC @ Benchmark Week 2022 - Erica Ocampo, Chief Sustainability Officer
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In November, TMC Chief Sustainability Officer, Erica Ocampo, provided an overview of the NORI-D project to attendees at Benchmark Week 2022, outlining how polymetallic nodules could help re-shore critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition and provide an abundant and potentially lower-impact source of key metals like nickel and cobalt to support battery-related industries.
Expedition 5B - ROV Pelagic Surveys
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Expedition 5B focussed on characterising the pelagic or open sea component of the marine environment in the NORI-D exploration area. A team of 37 marine researchers from independent institutions including the University of Hawaii, Texas A&M University and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) conducted extensive examination of the CCZ’s pelagic biology from the macr...
Expedition 5D - Seafloor Lander Deployment
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Expedition 5D continued our research on deep-sea food chains, biodiversity, geochemistry, and nutrient cycles within the NORI-D contract area of the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean. Dr. Andrew Sweetman, professor and leading researcher of deep-sea ecology and biogeochemistry at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, was a lead researcher onboard Expedition 5D, alongside a team ...
Conclusion of Pilot Nodule Collection System Trials
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TMC subsidiary, NORI, and Allseas recently concluded integrated system trials in the NORI-D area in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). Engineers drove the pilot collector vehicle over 80 km across the seafloor, collecting approximately 4,500 tonnes of seafloor polymetallic nodules and lifting over 3,000 tonnes of nodules up a 4.3-km riser system to the surface production vessel, Hidden Gem. The...
TMC - NORI Environmental Monitoring Program
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In order to fully understand the impacts of collecting nodules, TMC, NORI and Allseas, along with expert industry contractors and independent scientists from leading research institutions from around the world, are engaged in a complex environmental monitoring and management campaign which represents the largest deep-ocean study ever conducted in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean.
TMC and Allseas - First Nodules Collected During NORI Pilot Trials
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TMC and Allseas - First Nodules Collected During NORI Pilot Trials
Mobilization for Pilot Nodule Collection System Test
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Mobilization for Pilot Nodule Collection System Test
TMC -- Pilot nodule collection system trials
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TMC Pilot nodule collection system trials
Expedition 5E - Benthic & Pelagic Fauna
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Expedition 5E - Benthic & Pelagic Fauna
Environmental Expedition 5C - Deep MOCNESS Sampling
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Environmental Expedition 5C - Deep MOCNESS Sampling
Expedition 4A: Deploy Marine Monitoring Equipment
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Expedition 4A: Deploy Marine Monitoring Equipment
If you cant understand how much better this type of mining is for the environment than what we do now take another look. This will help feed and creat more life than harm. When you stir up the bottom the bottom feaders get eaten so on so forth you just help the cycle of life
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I wanna be like Raphael some day!
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One day, i'll work in this company.
This is a much better alternative than those nasty land based mines.
Fuck this company
this shit is actually significant to the ocean ecosystem yall mfs shouldnt be doing this shit
Morons stop destroying sea and ecosystem
All these people are using metals mined from land with an extreme low rate of return to be on their phones bashing a company trying to save our forests 😂 I feel sorry for humanity, not because of this company, but because the vast stupidity of cronic internet users
You shouldn't be pulling those out of the sea, early tests have shown they contribute to deep sea oxygen levels ☹️
no, they told you that, you've seen no tests, no data, nothing... they are continuing because they know better... something tells me your far too old to be this gullible
@@jacobhoffman2553no, they pull them out because these metals are valuable, they don't give a shit about the environment
@@jacobhoffman2553 I've seen more evidence that they do than they don't 👍
@@jacobhoffman2553 and who is "they"? Are you talking about "big environmental"?
@@paulbragg7618 show the facts then goober
so it begins
Huge L for the planet and humanity
Stop acting like n words, these minerals produce deep sea oxygen...
The planet will be here long after we are gone as life lives on elsewhere in the Universe...
We're going to greed ourselves out of existence, what a joke.
Tell me how you made this comment? Oh. On an electronic device? That uses these very minerals in its construction. How shocking! Everyone is an evil consumer but you!
@@ReasonsWhy1 The minerals used at the moment have not been mined off the sea floor. How dumb are you that you cant see that this is a relatively new industry that will do massive damage to the aquatic zones that are mined. This has nothing to do with what has already been mined for our current electronic devices. So Shocking! /s
non renewable, extremely costly , unforeseen ecological catastrophe
If the planet dies, the rich will die, too.
they can foresee the catastrophe, they just dont care.
海底ノジュールと深海の酸素量との関係が指摘されているのに
You guys address the enormous damage your mining operations cause by pumping wastewater back into the ocean? It's great and all that you don't pump it back onto the surface where it blocks the sun - good thing you're pumping it down a ways! Out of sight, out of mind!
Raping the sea floor of nodules that took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to form. Just another instance of climate destruction in the search of corporate profits. SHAME
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Nodules that can’t be replaced. This is going to be devastating to the ocean ecosystem that rely on these. 😢
I've read somewhere that these nodules take care of oxygen in the deep sea
Ocean life doesn't rely on these. They are clumps of metal that came together through millions of years and serve no purpose to the ecosystem except to create a tiny bit of "Dark Oxygen". More than enough oxygen is created from plants, algea, etc. This might damage ocean life on the ocean floor a bit though.
what the f relies on metal?
@@rokadamlje5365they contribute to deep sea oxygen levels
This goes to show the ignorance of people. These are collected at a depth of around 2 miles in parts that are almost void of life entirely. Currents don't even reach down there. Would you rather have land mining at a rate of 2% metals in the rock? Or scooping them off the ocean floor with 90+% metals in these nodules? Or would u rather nothing get mined and we don't use any electronics or have anywhere near the comfortable life we have now....
we need to see what kind f damage this as done to the sea floor, and the eco system that is down there.
its essentially barren
This is beautiful! I’m rooting for you guys to figure this tech/process out before others do! 😊
This is environmental rape at it's finest. This area of the ocean has been shown to be a major source of oxygen, previously unknown. Shame on anyone promoting it.
And the carbon emissions will do what to the planet ? And the marine eco system? 😢
Either it’s going to happen in country with good regulation and care for environment like Japan, or it will happen somewhere else.
@@nuggert Japan, the country known for its good stewardship of the oceans and its sealife, the mink whales and bluefin tuna populations have never been more healthy.
Slick, good music
Keep up the great work!
I thought this was really interesting, thanks a lot 👍
The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Don't believe this lie. This Company (The metals heads) will destroy the ocean which will trigger unknown chain reactions that we arent fully aware..
seems John Oliver/Last Week Tonight somewhat critical of TMC NORI
The future is metallic
Ground breaking mining without breaking ground.
Make me proud
I’m invested
me too, literally
Same, hoping these guys do well
Very well articulated.
Stewards of these rocks? Get fugged
El documental dw un océano de codicia observen y miren como es la realidad de los océano
La gente no se imagina el daño que ocasionaría esta extracción y el impacto ambiental oceánico
It used to be “just clear everything out! Life? Fauna? Flora? Who gives a shit!” Now look at us. Well done metals co
I ❤❤❤ that they are doing all the research first. From what I have been seeing, this is the least harmful way to aquire the elements we need for the future. Much better than poisoning kids in 3rd world mines or cutting down forests to get the stuff under them.
keep up the great work!
If you do seabed mining 12.5nm offshore the east coast of #Mindanao, you will have wealth beyond belief.
Excellent to see progress on this field. I wrote my thesis on the mining of seafloor nodules, so it is always gratifying to see it come to fruition
Where can we find a copy of your thesis
This will prove to be the most environmentally friendly mining program in the world.
more than underground, lmfao. Underground doesnt kill off life, or disturb ecological cycles. Stop being willfully ignorant please. It only causes harm to the rest of the stupids out there, and they are all already too stupid.
I can’t believe it’s being labeled as mining. Doesn’t “mining “ typically involve a hole? This is more picking up junk off the floor
@@betweenthelightsdowntown8086yea it should be called collecting 😂
I can barely wait to see this happen!
Keep up the great work!
Those who remember the Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) is a prophet God knows the success.❤🤲🌹♥️