CSIRO joins forces with TMC to develop underwater monitoring plan
Battery metals explorer The Metals Company (TMC), through its Australian subsidiary, The Metals Company Australia, has joined forces with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to potentially develop an ecosystem-based management and monitoring plan (EMMP) for its proposed deep-sea polymetallic nodule collection operations in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean.
The CSIRO-led consortium will leverage TMC’s extensive environmental baseline data, acquired in the company’s NORI project area in the CCZ, to help develop appropriate indicators and tolerance limits to create safe parameters for collecting seafloor nodules.