{"id":119079,"date":"2021-02-01T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/could-the-worlds-deep-seas-become-chinas-mining-frontier"},"modified":"2021-02-01T20:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T04:22:32","slug":"could-the-worlds-deep-seas-become-chinas-mining-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/could-the-worlds-deep-seas-become-chinas-mining-frontier","title":{"rendered":"Could the world\u2019s deep seas become China\u2019s mining frontier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-the-worlds-deep-seas-become-chinas-mining-frontier2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers conducted a series of government-funded surveys from 2011 to 2020 and located potentially high-yield deposits of various essential industrial minerals from nickel to rare earths, according to a paper published in the Chinese-language Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry last week.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chinese researchers have spent the last decade mapping the globe\u2019s ocean floors looking for potential mineral deposits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers conducted a series of government-funded surveys from 2011 to 2020 and located potentially high-yield deposits of various essential industrial minerals from nickel to rare earths, according to a paper published in the Chinese-language Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry last week. Chinese researchers have spent the last decade mapping the globe\u2019s ocean floors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1490,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-government","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}