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At the new millennium, utilization of marine minerals is accelerating and knowledge of new types of marine mineral resources is expanding with significant present and potential scientific and economic benefits. The utilization of marine minerals is driven by growing societal and industrial needs, which may be met by turning to the sea for materials that are in short supply, strategically vulnerable,environmentally sensitive to recover on land, or can be recovered more economically from the seafloor. So a clear concept about the variety of minerals obtained from different marine regimes, their extraction, utility and the overall impact on environment has been concise in this chapter.
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Mukherjee, S. (2011). Marine Minerals in Different Environments. In: Applied Mineralogy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1162-4_11
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