"The Chinese are hoping to recover valuable metals such as copper, nickel and cobalt – used in mobile phones, laptops and batteries – as well as gold and silver, in an area of currently inactive "hydrothermal vents", underwater geysers driven by volcanic activity."
Mining the seabed, thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, is man's next move - in the search for materials for cell phones, automobile dashboards, countless other consumer products.
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