... and concrete tailings, the processing wastes. Tailings and their Disposal in Deep-Sea Mining Gerd Schriever and Hjalmar Thiel* BIOLAB Forschungsinstitut, Hohenwestedt, Germany and *Prof. emeritus, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany ABSTRACT Although not yet commercially practiced, deep-sea mining...

... animals living in and on the se~­ ment. To study those impacts, the German TUSCH research associa- tion (Thiel and TUSCH.Forschungsverbund, 1995) in 1988 initiated a large-scale, long-term disturbance and recolonisation experiment called DISCOL in the abyssal Peru Basin (Thiel and Schriever, 1989...

... to Thiel et. al. and Schriever in this issue for background information and a description of the scientific aims, the research program and achievements, as well. as the environmental aspects of deep-sea mining. The activities of the TUSCH group concentrate on the impact assessment of manganese nodule...

... mining heavy metal particle mining abundance sediment schriever peru basin experiment seafloor metals & mining upstream oil & gas thiel disturbance assessment Proceedi"gs ofthe ISOPE Oceall Milli"g Symposium (1995) Tsukuba, Japall, November 21-22,1995 Copyright © 1995 by The I...

... environment on earth (Thiel und Schriever, 1993, Thiel, 1995). One of the future uses is the mining of manganese nodules. Low metal prices and the International Law of the Sea are responsible that deep-sea mining will not commence before the second decade of the next century. But already now pre- cautionary...