Study: Deep sea mining could incur $132bn of losses for the mining industry

Cecilia Keating
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Study: Deep sea mining could incur $132bn of losses for the mining industry

Investors urged by Planet Tracker to avoid 'significant destruction to corporate value and natural capital’

Campaigners have urged investors to support a moratorium on deep sea mining, arguing more than half a trillion dollars of financial losses could result from the development of the controversial industry....

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