Gerard Barron

They're still emitting gases, so they're easier to find.

They're like chimneys underwater.

They're fascinating.

But some of them have been dead for, I don't know, a million years or 100,000 years, and so they're covered.

So you've got to go really exploring.

So, yeah, there are other deposits out there for sure.

Tonga is an interesting...

example there because they have a lot of volcanogenic activity around where they are.

You saw that massive underwater volcano exploded some years ago.

Look, some of these Pacific Island countries in particular have a lot of potential metals in their economic zones.

So there will be opportunities there as well.

And I think what the world is waiting to see is, you know, us to get started.

And then, you know, I think there'll be a massive rush, you know.

Now, we know we have the best ground in the best area.

But once people see firsthand the low impact of what we're doing, the fact that the area recovers fast, I mean, in the last, since 2011, we've spent,

and are now approaching three quarters of a billion dollars.

A lot of it on environmental research.

Even though, I always use this first principle analogy to say, we should be carrying out extractive industries in parts of the planet with the least life, not the most life.

At the moment, we're pushing into our rainforests, which is the area with the most biodiversity, the most cute and cuddly animals.

When down here on the other end of that table is the abyssal zone, and the abyssal plains and the abyssal hills cover 50% of the planet, okay?