The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining

Interesting article, I was initially very confused as I assumed Nautilus was the seabed mining company, which I bid some work to about 15 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Minerals?wprov=sfla1

On the average, one square meter in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone contains around 15 kilograms of manganese nodules.

The CCZ is south east of Hawaii. 9 million square kilometers, approximately the size of Europe, this is the world‘s largest manganese nodule region. The total mass of manganese nodules there is around 21 billion tones.

Just the copper alone in those nodules is worth 1,800 billion dollars.

There is so much money just laying there, somebody is gonna pick it up.