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Concepts of Deep-Sea Mining Technologies

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The contents of this chapter are from published literature by the team working in the area of deep-sea mining at National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT). It starts with a brief introduction on deep-sea mining technologies. This is followed by the historical perspectives and the present-day work and execution in phases towards deep-sea mining in India. Some of the subsystems and infrastructure for deep-sea-related activities are described which is followed by operation of laying and pickup of artificial nodules at a depth of 500-m water depth. In situ soil tester designed, developed, and tested is described and the future work on the deep-sea mining system for 6000 m is finally explained. Many of these works have been reported in conferences and journals and are cited as references in the end of the chapter.

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  1. National Institute of Ocean Technology, Velachery-Tambaram Road, Pallikaranai, Chennai, 600 100, India

    M. A. Atmanand & G. A. Ramadass

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Atmanand, M.A., Ramadass, G.A. (2017). Concepts of Deep-Sea Mining Technologies. In: Sharma, R. (eds) Deep-Sea Mining. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52557-0_10

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