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China mulling undersea mineral exploration

MINING.com Editor | May 30, 2012 | 6:01 am Base Metals Battery Metals Precious Metals Asia China Aluminum Cobalt Gold Iron Ore 

China could take a page out of Nautilus Minerals' playbook and begin exploring for undersea polymetallic sulphide deposits. "With the improvement in deep-sea technology, metal resources under the ocean can be explored and mined within 20 years," Sun Zhihui, the...

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