NORWAY ADVANCES PLAN TO OPEN NORWEGIAN SEA TO DEEP-SEA MINING
Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has proposed to open a 127,000-square-mile area of the Norwegian Sea to deep-sea mining (Mongabay). This region of the sea bed, roughly the size of Germany, has been found to contain large quantities of rare earth metals and minerals, such as magnesium, copper, and zinc (Reuters).