The Metals Company CEO on deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

The area where we are focused, called the Clarion Clipperton Zone, is known to be 70% of the global planetary reserves of nickel and cobalt and manganese. So, 70% of them sit in the form of these polymetallic nodules, and they they literally just lie on the seafloor like the one in the palm of my hand. And our opportunity under the Trump administration is to to bring these nodules to the USA and turn them into the critical minerals.And today, America imports 100% of its nickel, cobalt, and manganese demand, ...