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The Coastal Clans Who Sank the World's First Seabed Mine

Oceans & Coasts

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea granted the world's first deep-sea mining licence in its own Bismarck Sea; the coastal clans who fish those waters spent eight years making the project unfinanceable.

2,011yearYear PNG issued the world's first deep-sea mining licence
5governmentsMelanesian governments adopting a seabed mining moratorium
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