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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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million square kilometers in the Pacific Ocean roughly 500 miles south of Hawaii. The CCZ is one of the four deep-ocean seabed areas known to contain large quantities of nodules. The CCZ is an abyssal plain spanning 4.56 Polymetallic nodules found in the CCZ contain the four base metals critical for EV battery production in a single ore body.

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