Deep Sea Mining

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We Are About to Start Mining Hydrothermal Vents on the Ocean Floor - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

Forty years ago, scientists found alien life. Not on another planet, but on Earth, in the deep sea, in places where plumes of steam and nutrients heated by volcanic activity fed entire ecologies of creatures adapted to harness chemical energy rather than energy from the sun.