DEEP SEA MINERALS - Vol 1 - Sea-Floor Massive Sulphides
Participating Paci c Island States
Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Palau
Kiribati (Line Iss.)
Kiribati
Nauru
(Gilbert Iss.)
Kiribati
Papua New Guinea
(Phoenix Iss.)
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Cook Islands
Timor Leste
Samoa
Fiji
Vanuatu
Tonga Niue
Exclusive economic zone
Figure 1. The Pacific ACP States (i.e. Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Group of States) participating in the European Union funded SPC Deep Sea Minerals Project.
The existence of known high-grade SMS deposits in the Pacific, and the progress towards ex- traction of metals from the Manus Basin site (Papua New Guinea), has increased interest around the region in the commercial development of SMS. To support Pacific Islands in governing and developing these natural resources, SOPAC Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is providing a range of information products, technical and policy support, and capacity building activities through the Deep Sea Minerals in the Pacific Islands Region: a Legal and Fiscal Framework for Sustainable Resource Management Project (Figure 1). This publication, created as part of that project, brings together expert knowledge on the geology and biology of SMS depos- its and information about best-practices related to environmental management and technical aspects of mineral exploration and extraction.
THE GEOLOGY OF SEA-FLOOR MASSIVE SULPHIDES 6
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