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Environmental – Questions • “Bugs” : • If an active vent field was ever mined and the overlaying material removed, would not the vent continue as less overlaying material/pressure? • If so then the vent post mining would remain an active site, food source for vent fauna. • The ‘bugs’/bacteria appear to be dormant in the water column awaiting the right environment in which to ‘spawn’. Evidence of this is clear from vent fields that have come and gone in recent geological time eg TAG periods of activity and inactivity.
Environmental – Questions • “Bugs” : • Possible to mine an active field such that post mining the vent continues to be active. Reintroduce fauna from another nearby vent field to the mined out ‘reactivated’ field prior to mining the second one.
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