Gerard Barron

And over millennia, they eroded into the Pacific Ocean.

And so you had these currents that came from the north and south, headed west.

And that's where you had this belt of nodules.

It's amazing.

It's about 1,000 miles high, about 4,000 miles wide, where it's like a carpet of nodules.

I mean, it's the most beautiful Mother Nature gift, you know, far away from human settlement, no alternative use for this part of the ocean floor, just sat there looking proud saying, come and get me.

We haven't, to be honest.

But, you know, there are other people exploring, including NOAA, the U.S.

agency.

They go out, and Bowen, who explore their own territorial waters, and, of course, other explorers.

The Chinese, I think, have explored a lot of the ocean floor, a lot more than they probably admit.

And this is so big, like it's multi-generational deposit.

As I said, 70% of the known reserves of nickel, cobalt, and manganese are in this one deposit.

And so that's where we've had our focus since 2011, purely there.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah, probably.

I mean, you know, before I mentioned where these tectonic plates meet, you know, if you get a map out of the world, you can see how the globe, how planet Earth all sticks together.

So you get a lot of pressure coming out from the core of the Earth, and, you know, that's where a lot of these deposits

have formed and the systems die, so they're very hard.

Some of the systems are still active.