"The Metals Company's efforts to skirt ISA rules could lead to 'free-for-all seabed mining'", 3 April 2025

... Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) is attempting to bypass the ISA by applying to mine under the Trump administration through its US subsidiary. ...

Almost 40 nations condemned the actions of the company at the ISA council meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday, including Russia and China. ...

The company's CEO Gerard Barron has responded in a letter, which said the ISA is "being influenced by a faction of States allied with environmental NGOs who see the deep sea mining industry as their 'last green trophy'".

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An international lawyer with organisation the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, Duncan Currie, said if the US supports TMC it would open the door for other countries to do the same thing, which would "amount to a free-for-all on seabed mining". ...