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Deep-sea battery metal developer DeepGreen going public with SPAC to become $2.9B (equity value) The Metals Company

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Ranging from 2-10 cm in diameter, the nodules are easy to handle. This is generating the world’s largest industrial waste stream and gigatons of emissions, poisoning ecosystems and people’s health, and driving potential labor exploitation including child labor. Seafloor polymetallic nodule. Source: DeepGreen. Earlier post.)

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

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It's like picking up golf balls on a driving range," says CFO Craig Shesky. We are committed to turning those rocks into metal using renewable power and with zero solid waste," Shesky says. The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70 percent of the world's cobalt, and most of the world's nickel sits under Indonesian rainforests.

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