The aim of India is to explore the Indian ocean for critical minerals because they seek to secure reserves necessary for several industries, including pure energy.
The aim of the country is to carry out scientific exploration and reconnaissance activities in the 75,000 square kilometers in the Central Indian Ocean basin for polymetic nodes (PMN) and 10,000 square kilometers in the Indian Indian Aning and Southest Indian Ridge for Polymetic Sulfides (PMS), Minister of State for Science and Technology.
PMN occurs on the abyss on the abyss or huge deep areas of the seabed and contains metals such as nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. PM are deposits in areas with hydrothermal openings or holes and contain expensive metals such as copper, zinc, lead, iron and silver.
India is preparing to access the UN agency, the International Office of the Marine Days (ISA), to permit to scout critical minerals in the Arab Sea except the existing two places, Mint 1. The country already has a contract with ISA on the implementation of scientific reconnaissance and exploration activities in the allocated areas in the Central Indian Ocean basin, in the central Indian ridge and the Southwest Indian ridge.
The survey of precious metals in PMN and PMS via the deep ocean surveys is in line with the Earth with ISA and extends the know-how of the country of collective metal deposits, except for its ground sources, Singh said in a written answer.
India seeks to ensure reserves of critical minerals that are required in multiple industries, including the national transition to cleaner technologies. More after Chinese curbs on rare soil magnets, widely used in the automotive industry, emphasized the risk of relying on imports – China has 68.6% of global rare soil mining, follows 12.3%.
According to Singh’s Response in Parliament, The Latest Findings of Minerals by Ministers of Earth Sciences (MOOS) Include the Development of Technologies for Manned Submersible, Demonstration of the Collection of Over 100kg The Andaman Sea in 2024, Identification of Two Active Hydrothermal Vent Fields in the Central Indian Ocean, and Development of the Coastal Vulnerability Map as a result of climate change.
One of the missions focuses on technological innovations for exploration and preservation of deep marine biodiversity. According to the Minister to the parliament, the Center for Sea Life Resources and Ecology (Kochi), attached by the MOE office, was carried out by the Minister to the parliament of six navigation biodiversity diversity across 19 naval sea and the Gulf of Bengal. Several (about 1300) Deepsea organisms have been collected, studied and indentation, including the implementation of the deep genomic analysis for selected organisms and the discovery of almost 23 species that are new in science.
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