Pacific Ocean Deepsea minerals | Britannica
#0183;#32;Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean Deepsea minerals: Metalbearing deposits on the deepsea floor, consisting of nodules, crusts, and accumulations of metallic sulfides from deep vents, are of potential economic interest. In the 1970s and 80s it was hoped that mining the noduleswhich contain quantities of manganese, iron, copper, nickel, titanium, and cobalt, as well as small traces of