Schematic of potential mining impacts (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Schematic of potential mining impacts

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The potential effects of mining-generated sediment plumes and noise on pelagic taxa. Organisms and plume impacts are not to scale. See text for explanation of effects. Connections between seafloor vehicles and surface ships are only shown for nodule mining.

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Drazen, et al. (2020).

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