Blue Nodules latest news

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

Blue Nodules Final Event

The Blue Nodules project ended at the end of July 2020. The consortium intended to have a Final Event to show the results and engage with multiple stakeholder groups. Arrangements... Read more

Blue Nodules article in SWZ Maritime

The January 2020 issue of the SWZ Maritime magazine includes an article on the development of deepsea mining solutions at Royal IHC with the current status of the technical possibilities,... 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 on dutch television

Blue Nodules activities were in the news on dutch television. Please have a look here starting from min 16. A written article can be found here. (only in dutch unfortunately)... 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.