Deep Ocean Mining Reconsidered a Study of the Manganese Nodule Deposits in Cook Island

Proceedings of the ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 88-93

  Søreide, Fredrik ^a   Lund, Trygve ^b   Markussen, Jan Magne ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AKER SOLUTIONS   (Norway)

^c FRIDTJOF NANSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Economic analysis; Manganese nodules; System design

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MINERAL RESOURCES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DEEP OCEAN MINING;

MINING;

EID: 0142185911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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