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Marine animals flee Takuyo-Daigo seamount after Japan’s deep-sea mining test

Staff Writer | July 19, 2023 | 6:06 am Battery Metals Suppliers & Equipment Asia Cobalt 

A recent paper published in the journal Current Biology reports a decrease in marine animals both in and around the area where Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt....

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