A newly formed deep sea mining company is considering two greater New Orleans locations as potential homes for a critical-mineral refining facility that could be the first of its kind in the United States.
Washington, D.C.-based Glomar Minerals said late Monday that it has partnered with Australia’s Cobalt Blue Holdings Limited, a mining company, to harvest rock-like mineral formations — called polymetallic nodules — from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and transport them to the U.S. for processing.
Each of the nodules contains manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper, materials that are essential to many high-tech manufacturing processes…