http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/oceans/2017/01/26/guest-post-prof-maarten-de-wit-nelson-mandela-university/ Exploring our Oceans Mon, 04 Jan 2021 05:40:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.14 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/oceans/2017/01/26/guest-post-prof-maarten-de-wit-nelson-mandela-university/#comment-261519 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:21:05 +0000 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/oceans/?p=2050#comment-261519 Maarten, as an economic geologist I could not agree more on the aspect of land-based exploration and sea-based exploration. There is an abundance of metal sulfide, oxides and carbonates in the Andes, in Africa etc. I would like to see a register of mining companies based in the exploration of the seabed be created and updated by the United Nations. We simply can’t trust them and online surveillance could be easily accomplished.

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