sbma and related publications

booklet

• SBMA 10 Year Booklet: 2013 - 2023

• The Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Journey - Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting 2023 Edition

Newsletters

factsheets

• The Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Journey 2023

• 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

• Who does what / Koai te au rima rave

• Licensing process / Orongaanga Raitini

• 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

• Marine Environment / Te Tuitui o te Ao Moana

• Polymetallic Nodules / Te ʻakanoʻoʻanga o te tutui moana polymetallic nodules

SBMA science Article series

• How Deep is the Ocean

• What on earth under sea are Polymetallic Nodules? 

• The Meg was Here!

• Seven Hundred Trillion Reasons: The Unseen Scale of Cook Islands' Seabed Resources

• Keeping it honest: What is Independent Science?

• All creatures great and small - Life in the abyss

Speeches

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

• learn more about the SEA

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: 29 October 2024