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Cordis Results pack 2020
This CORDIS Results Pack showcases the accomplishments of six Horizon 2020 funded projects, focusing on innovative mineral extraction technologies with improved economic, environmental and health and safety performance, underlining the... Read more

The 4th Newsletter is out!
More information on the jumper hose: nodule transport as flexible pipes. Mr Zsolt Kovács, development engineer at project partner Continental explains all about it. Also the second field trial was... Read more

Blue Nodules on Dutch National television
On Saturday 25th January 2020 Blue Nodules appeared on Dutch television and wide national media in a very informative clip about Deep Sea Mining and how it relates to our... Read more

Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining.
The future of electric cars may depend on mining critically important metals on the ocean floor. That’s the view of the engineer leading a major European investigation into new sources... Read more

Blue Nodules consortium meets in Denmark
On the 22-24 October 2019 the Blue Nodules Consortium held their 6th General Assembly meeting in Dragor in Denmark. The meeting was very successful and the project on track. The... Read more

Side-event and stakeholder workshop at the ISA July 2019
During this Summers ISA session a side event was organized in corporation with the delegation of the Netherlands. The programming at the lunch hour of the second day of the... Read more

Blue Nodules as side event at ISA 2019
Good news! Blue Nodules has been selected to introduce the project during the side event during the 25th Session of the International Seabead Authority on 16th July.

Blue Nodules newletter 3 is out!
More information about the first field tests, degradation and Sea surface processes. Please click below picture to go to the full newsletter

Video clip of the trial cruise of the seabed mining project Blue Nodules is now online!
During a two-week trial cruise in the Gulf of Malaga on board the Spanish research vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa, technical performance and environmental effects of the mining crawler Apollo... Read more

The second Blue Nodules newsletter
The second Blue Nodules newsletter has been published. It appoints the following topics: Exploitation rules and regulations: ISA 23rd Session in Kingston Jamaica Nodule degradation Deep sea mining as part... Read more