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Problems of Developing Solid Mineral Deposits on the Sea and Ocean Floor

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Brief characteristics of the mineral raw material potential of the deep-sea deposits of ferromanganese nodules in the area of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone leased by Russia in the Pacific Ocean are presented. The creation at the Moscow Mining Institute (MGI) of the USSR’s first Scientific and Technical Problems Laboratory and the results of its work on extraction of minerals from the sea and ocean floor are reviewed. The research works carried out by MGI on underwater mining of ilmenite-rutile-zirconium sands on the Baltic Sea shelf and Iturup Island and tin under conditions of northern seas and the development of the technogenic placer of the East Siberian Sea are analyzed. The concept of using the kinetic energy of coaxially swirled fluid jets in hydrotransport-hoisting devices of vortex slurry preparation, which was tested in the Black Sea and an air-lift mud intake by mechanical and hydraulic loosening for extracting diamond-containing gravel-pebble rocks on the Namibia shelf is given.

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  1. MGI NITU “MISiS”, Moscow, Russia

    I. M. Yaltanets, A. V. Myaskov & D. V. Pastikhin

  2. MGRI-RGGU, Moscow, Russia

    V. P. Drobadenko

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 11, November 2018, pp. 8 – 15.

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Yaltanets, I.M., Myaskov, A.V., Drobadenko, V.P. et al. Problems of Developing Solid Mineral Deposits on the Sea and Ocean Floor. Power Technol Eng 53, 7–13 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-019-01026-8

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