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Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining become turbulent cloud

MINING.COM Staff Writer | July 31, 2021 | 2:32 pm Battery Metals Education Suppliers & Equipment USA Cobalt Nickel 

Midwater sediment plumes that are discharged through pipes used by mining machinery that descend 1,000 meters or more into the ocean's aphotic zone become a highly turbulent cloud of suspended particles that mix rapidly with the surrounding ocean water, when...

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