Fundamentals of Deep Sea Mining

Course curriculum

Course introduction and useful information
Module 1: Introduction to seabed minerals
Module 2 - Introduction to UNCLOS, Article 76 and the concept of the extended legal continental shelf
Module 3 - Introduction to the concept of responsible ocean stewardship
Module 4 - Practical approaches to deep-sea mineral exploration, deposit assessment and mining production
Module 5 - Deposit Assessment, and the relevance of the international mining code and progressing from indicated resource to known reserve
Module 6: Extraction methods: deposit specific technology
Module 7 - The deep-sea environment
Module 8 - Environmental sustainability How do we measure and predict environmental impacts? Assessing and measuring near field and far field impacts.
Module 9 - Assignment