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Who's Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea?

Who's Leading The Race To Mine The Deep Sea? India has applied to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for two new licenses to explore parts of the Indian Ocean sea bed for minerals crucial to the green energy transition. If they are granted, India would hold four contracts, making it the country with the second highest number of active contracts for deep sea mining exploration projects in the world. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the fol…