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经过几十年的筹备,洛克希德·马丁公司按部就班地推进计划,将在矿蔵丰富的海底淘金。冷战时期奇怪的一幕或许预示着海底采矿的新纪元。1974年,美国政府使用了怪人百万富翁霍华德·休斯(Howard Hughes)的一艘船,用于拖拉沉于海底五千米以下的一艘俄国载核导弹的潜水艇的残骸。美国声称,此次出海收集到多金属结核:各种富含金属的岩状物遍布深海海底,如锰、镍、铜、钴以及其他稀土元素。
After decades of preparation, Lockheed Martin has been pushing the program step by step, will gold mining in the rich sea bottom. The strange scene of the Cold War may herald a new era in seabed mining. In 1974, the U.S. government used a ship of the geeky millionaire Howard Hughes to drag the wreckage of a Russian nuclear-powered submarine submerged 5,000 meters below the sea. The United States claims that polymetallic nodules have been collected from the sea this time: all kinds of metal-rich rocks are found throughout the deep seabed, such as manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt and other rare earth elements.