Exploration for and Pre-feasibility of mining Polymetallic Sulphides ...

Environmental – UNCLOS
• If copies of ALL the MSR data gathered in
the AREA (and subsets of all samples –
rock, benthos etc,) had to be provided to
the ISA (as MSR must do for the Coastal
State) then the ISA would have a very
valuable asset of data on which to;
• 1. formulate its regulations eg enviro
baseline data we are discussing today
• 2. promote/market its resources to &
attract potential Contractors
• 3. A data base that may allow the ISA to
‘tender’ out areas to Contractors