... various existing economic studies on the exploitation of manganese nodules. The investment and operating costs of these studies are adjusted to the year 2001 using the US Consumer Price index. The adjusted values are then used to examine the profitability of a potential investment using the net present...

... Organization. The information about economic evaluation of the industrial mining, processing and utilization of the deep sea polymetallic nodules (PMN) reveals that the contemporary projects are not enough attractive to the investors for intensive continuation development industrial exploitation nodules...

... rate at which the demand for resources has been increasing over the last fifty years, attention is being paid in numerous countries to the changes in spatial structure of resource exploitation, depletion of rich deposits, and a restricted access to resources as experienced. The most pronounced changes...

..., Poland INTEROCEANMETAL Joint Organization (10M), established in 1987, is an intergovernmental body created to carry out exploration and exploitation of polymetaHic nodules in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. 10M, certified by the governments of Bulgaria, Cuba, Czech Republic, Poland...

...Proceedi/lgs o/the ISOPE - Oceall Milling Symposium (1995) Tsukuba, Japall, November 21-22,1995 Copyright © 1995 by The Illternatiollal Society oiO//s/lOre and Polar Ellgineers ISBN 1·880653·2/·4 Influence of Distribution Characteristics and Associated Seabed Features on Exploitation of Cobalt-Rich...

...Proceedings ofthe ISOPE - Ocean Mining Symposium (1995) TSllkuba, Japan, November 21-22, 1995 Copyrigllt © 1995 by The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers ISBN 1-880653-21-4 Exploration Inputs for Exploitation of Manganese Nodules in Central Indian Basin R Sharma andR R Nair...