Mining of ferromanganese nodules has been largely driven by commercial and strategic interests in critical metals for high-tech industries [6, 12]. The Clarion–Clipperton Zone’s abyssal seafloor is the world’s largest and most economically promising area for deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules...
K.B acknowledges the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (contract RMA15-0048) and AB Sandvik Coromant. The APT work was performed at Chalmers Materials Laboratory (CMAL). The authors acknowledge the use of the USTEM facility at TU Wien. Appendix A. Supplementary data Download: Download ...