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Rare Metals and Rare-Earth Elements inDeep-Ocean Mineral Deposits
James R. HeinU.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
SPC/SOPAC-ISA International Workshop on Environmental Needs for Deep Seabed Minerals
Nadi, Fiji, 29 November-2 December 2011
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WOW, this month we reached 7,000,000,000
People!
2.5 billion live in countries with boomingeconomies and a rapidly growing
middle class
Where will the resources come from to sustain that growth, and to support green and emerging technologies?
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Science v. 327 March 26, 2010
Physics Today May, 2010 David Kramer
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Road Bump? President Obama’s efforts to promote electric-car production may be stymied by getting access to rare-earth elements
Science v. 329 July 23, 2010
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From EE Times: Rare earth supply chain: Industry’s common cause by Colin Johnson
Variety of REEs in hybrid cars
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Two ton Nd-Fe-B magnets include 255 - 320 kg of
neodymium
Dysprosium, Praseodymium, &Samarium
also contain significant cobalt and rhenium
Wind Turbines
Other rare-earth elements include:
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~1.5 Billion Cell Phones sold in 2010
60 kg Tantalum510 kg Platinum
22.5 tons Palladium51.0 tons Gold525 tons Silver24,000 tons Copper
Plus many others e.g.REEs
25% of a Cell Phone is Metal
There will be only 20 years supply of tantalum if the global per capita use rises to 50% of the current U.S. per capita use; 40 years for copper
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The U.S. imports >90% of 26 strategic and critical metals
China is the leading producer of 28 metals essential for high-tech and green-tech applications
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The Earth’s surface is 71% water covered
• Dry land 29%• Ocean 71%
Pacific Ocean area is greater than the entire Earth’s land area
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Potential Deep-Ocean Metal Resources
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Emerging & Next Generation Technologies
Tellurium Photovoltaic solar cells; computer chips; thermal cooling devices
Cobalt Hybrid & electric car batteries, storage of solar energy, magnetic recording media, high-T super-alloys, supermagnets, cell phones
Bismuth Liquid Pb-Bi coolant for nuclear reactors; Bi-metal polymer bullets, high-T superconduct, computer chips
Tungsten Negative thermal expansion devices, high-T superalloys, X-ray photo imaging
Niobium High-T superalloys, next generation capacitors, superconducting resonators
Platinum Hydrogen fuel cells, chemical sensors, cancer drugs, flat-panel displays, electronics
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64,000 km of spreading centers & intercontinental rifts25,000 km of volcanic arcs & back-arc-basin spreading centers
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Mean composition of NautilusSolwara 1 marine mine compared to all major types of land-based copper deposits
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Zn = 23%Pb = 10%Ba= 10%Fe = 7%Sb = 1320Cd = 1120 ppmHg = 55 ppmAg = 358 ppmAu = 19 ppm
SphaleriteGalenaBariteChalcopyriteAnglesite
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Global distribution of manganese nodules
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Global Nodules
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Global Nodules Continued pp
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Crusts in the Global OceanCrusts in the Global Ocean
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Crusts in the Global Ocean Continued
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Global Trace Metal Maxima
Mean Co = 0.67%Mean Ce = 0.13%
Means are forCentral Pacific Prime Crust Zone
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The largest impediment to exploration for Fe-Mn crusts is the real-time measurement of crust thicknesses with adeep-towed instrument
The largest physical impediment to ore recovery isseparation of Fe-Mn crusts from substrate rock that occurs on an uneven and rough seabed
Challenges to Fe-Mn Crust Mining
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Ferromanganese crusts provide the richest source of tellurium (Te) known (Hein et al., 2003)
“Finding enough Te for CdTe is the largest barrier to the multi-terawatt use of CdTefor solar-cell electricity. It is widely regarded as the lowest cost photovoltaic technology with the greatest potential. This is important to the US and the world” (Ken Zweibel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS; 1982)to adequately represent the interests of developing nations in portioning out mining rights (Common Heritage of Mankind)
Areas beyond national jurisdictions (ISA)
EEZ (200 nauticalmiles)
U.S. EEZ
Compact of FreelyAssociated Nations with U.S.
Who Owns Deep-Ocean Mineral Deposits?
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ISA Headquarters, Kingston Jamaica
161 Member States Plus the EU
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Licenses for Marine Minerals Exploration Total 1,450,000 km2
Yellow shows the location of the only mining license
Total lease area equivalent to 3.4 Californias
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Pacific Prime Crust Zone
Clarion-Clipperton Zone Nodules
California Margin Crusts
Peru Basin Nodules
Central Indian Basin Nodules
South Pacific Crusts
Indian Crusts
Atlantic Crusts
Terrestrial Mine
Comparisons of CCZ and PCZ with global land-based reserves & REE deposits
PCZ
From Hein and Koschinsky, 2012
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In place metal tonnages (x 106 metric tons)
aUSGS 2010 reserve base & 2011 reserves (reserve base includes those resources that arecurrently economic (reserves), marginally economic, and subeconomic
Nodule tonnage used is 21,100 million dry tons and crust tonnage used is 7,533 milliondry tons (from Hein and Koschinsky, 2012)
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10 Year Gold & Silver 19 Year Platinum Price Graphs (kitco.com)
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From USGS REE fact sheet
Global Production of REEs
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Mine Site is 18 km long and 2-3 km wide; note waste-rock dumps
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Comparison of land-based carbonatite ores and marine ferromanganese deposits
PCZ: Pacific Crust ZoneCCZ: Clarion-Clipperton nodule zone
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Light versus Heavy REEBayan Obo & Mountain Pass average <1% HREE
PCZ averages 6.3% HREECCZ averages 10% HREE
From C. Hocquard, 2010
In US$/kgIn US$/kg
Price for 10 Rare Earth Elements As of May 7, 2010
Europium
Terbium
Dysprosium
Neodymium
Praseodymium
Yttrium
Samarium
Gadolinium
Lanthanum
Cerium
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Land-based: REE predominantly primary ore
PCZ: Byproduct of Co and Ni mining
CCZ: Byproduct of Ni and Cu mining
Primary Ore Versus Byproduct Production
Thorium ConcentrationsBayan Obo and Mountain Pass contain 100s ppm Th
PCZ averages 11 ppm Th
CCZ averages 14 ppm Th
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Extractive Metallurgy
Land-based ores require extensive processing, e.g., 1000 steps to isolate ytterbium metal
Marine FeO(OH) and MnO2 can be dissolved with simple HCl leachputting all sorbed REEs into solution
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July 9, 2011
July 3, 2011
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Is there a resource Potential?
Highly unlikely!
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Social and environmental advantages for recovery of deep-ocean minerals
Land-based mines leave a substantial footprint,impacted waterways, carbon emissions from heavy machinery, and millions to tons of waste rock
Marine-based mine sites have no roads, surface ore-transport systems, buildings, or other infrastructure
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Social and environmental advantages for recovery of deep-ocean minerals
No overburden to remove, which on land can be 75% of material moved
Less ore needed to provide the same amount of metal
Three or more metals can be obtained at one site
No indigenous or native populations to disrupt
Ecosystems with generally low population densities and low diversity
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Economic advantages to companies
Lower capital start-up costs
Moveable mining platform
Smaller deposits can be mined
High metal grades
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