Clarion Clipperton Zone

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3 mentions 2 recordings first heard May 2025 last heard 13 Apr ±0 this month

A zone in the Pacific Ocean rich in seabed mineral deposits, including polymetallic nodules.

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Andrew SweetmanDiscovery · Dark Breath · 11:06 · 13 Apr
…So there's enough deposit down there in the clarion-glipidin zone to power the global society for critical metals for decades.…
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Victoria GillDiscovery · Dark Breath · 9:59 · 13 Apr
…It's called the Clarion Clipperton Zone, a huge expanse of seafloor between Hawaii and Mexico that's littered with small black potato-sized lumps that formed naturally over millions of years.…
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Advertisement NarratorThe Why Files: Operation Podcast · Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Ext... · 1:24 · May 2025
…Researchers from dozens of fields and hundreds of organizations scrambled to understand the implications. But one organization wasn't surprised. They've known about these electric rocks since the 1960s. They even mined them in the 1970s. That organization is the CIA. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone, or CCZ, looks like an underwater desert. It stretches across 1…
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