Blue Nodules latest news

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

Blue Nodules on website partner DeREGT Cables

DeRegt Cables publiced a newsarticle on their website about Blue Nodules. You can find it here.  

Impact fragmentation of polymetallic nodules under deep ocean pressure

An article is published  on www.elsevier.com written by Royal IHC and NIOZ. Please find the abstract here: The mining of poly metallic nodules from the seafloor comprises excavation or pickup, vertical... Read more

Blue Nodules General Assembly 05 in Aachen

The Blue Nodules Project had a successful fifth General Assembly meeting at the partner RWTH in Aachen, Germany.

Blue Nodules in IHC Insight magazine

As part of its involvement in the Blue Nodules project, IHC published an article in their own company magazine in which they describe how they anticipate to the future of... Read more

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

First field trials of seabed mining project Blue Nodules successful

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 II... Read more

Blue Nodules General Assembly 04 in Spain

The Blue Nodules Project had a very successful forth General Assembly at the partner Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Meeting in Vilanova i la Geltrú near Barcelona, Spain.

Blue Nodules on Dutch television

The scientific program ‘FOCUS’ had a topic on metal hunger which was shown on Dutch television on the 15th of February 2018. Around minute 9 off the episode you will... Read more

Video about Blue Nodules published by the European Commission

Watch the video published by the European Commission where the coordinator of the Blue Nodules project explains the project and working in a European funded project.