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The Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Journey 2022 / Te Tere’anga o te Runanga Takere Moana o te Kuki Airani
Overview of seabed minerals activity / Te Tupuanga o te Runanga Takere Moana
Environmental approval / Te akatikaanga a te Tuanga Taporoporo no te au angaanga a te Runanga Takere Moana ki roto nei i te Kuki Airani
Exploration Activities / Eaa te Kuki Airani i inangaro ei i te rave i te Rangaʻanga
Polymetallic Nodules / Te ʻakanoʻoʻanga o te tutui moana polymetallic nodules
posters & Maps
Level 1 Seabed Habitat Management Zones rev0.1 - Map
Rima Browne, John Parianos, Tanga Morris Jnr
Mineral Resource Estimate for Cook Islands Polymetallic Nodule Field - Map
Stephie Tay, Rima Browne, Olivier Bertoli, John Parianos
Geomorphology of the Cook Islands - Map
Rima Browne, John Parianos, Alain Murphy
Forms of ferromanganese nodules and crusts in the South Penrhyn Basin - Poster
Tuira Henderson-Enoka, Rima Browne, John Parianos
Forms of ferromanganese nodules and crusts in the North Penrhyn Basin - Poster
Inano Harmon, Rima Browne, John Parianos
Exploration techniques and tools used for baseline environmental research - Poster
John Parianos
Exploration techniques and tools used for geology and mineral resource estimation - Poster
John Parianos
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Reports of interest
Summary report on the Japan/SOPAC cooperative deep-sea mineral resources study programme, four R/V Hakurei-Maru no.2 cruises, for polymetallic manganese nodules, the EEZ of the Cook Islands - Nobuyuki Okamoto, SOPAC Secretariat
Minerals for Climate action: The mineral intensity of the clean energy transition - World Bank Group
Cost benefit analysis of mining deep-sea minerals in the Pacific Island region - Prepared by Cardno for the Pacific Community
Feasibility Study on Manganese Nodules recovery in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone - Agarwal. B, Hu. P, Placidi. M, Santo. H, Shou. J. J
Cook islands related Research Publications
Geomorphology of the Cook Islands, tropical South Pacific Ocean - Browne. R, Parianos. J, Murphy. A (2023)
Cook Islands Seabed Minerals “a precautionary approach to mining” - McCormack. G
The Cook Islands (South Pacific) experience in governance of seabed manganese nodule mining - Petterson. G. M, Tawake. A
Deep Sea Minerals: Manganese Nodules, a physical, biological, environmental and technical review - Clark. M, Heydon. R, Hein. R. J, Smith. S, Smith. C, Petersen. S, Baker. E, Beaudoin. Y.
Deep Sea Minerals: Cobalt-rich Ferromanganese Crusts, a physical, biological, environmental and technical review - Clark. M, Heydon. R, Hein. R. J, Smith. S, Smith. C, Petersen. S, Baker. E, Beaudoin. Y.
Deep Sea Minerals: Summary Highlights - The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC Division), through the European-Union funded Deep Sea Minerals Project.
Deep Sea Minerals: Deep Sea Minerals and the Green Economy - Baker. E, Beaudoin. Y, Bice. S, Burns. L, Dumas. D, Feenan. J, Hanley. N, Hoagland. P, Holland. P, Jobstvogt. N, Lily. H, Lodge. M, Roberts. J, Solgaard. A, Symonds. P, Roche. C, Tawake. A.
Critical metals in manganese nodules from the Cook Islands EEZ, abundances and distributions - Hein. J. H, Spinardi. F, Okamoto. N, Mizell. K, Thorburn. D, Tawake. A.
Towards the development of a national regulatory framework for deep sea mining in the Cook Islands - Lynch. P
Last Updated: 4 April 2025