Mining in extreme environments Chairperson Sieglinde GRUBER, DG RTD, EC

Hotel Bloom, Brussels

• A developer’s perspective on best practice from a mining frontier – the deep sea - Jonathan Lowe, Nautilus Minerals (Canada)
• Nodules, crusts, sulfides: Marine resources in the glance of exploration licenses with the International Seabed Authority - Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Germany)
• Equipment for environmental baseline studies during the exploration and environmental monitoring during exploitation of marine mineral resources in the deep sea - Gerd Schriever, OKTOPUS GmbH and BIOLAB Research Institute (Germany)
• Advances in underwater mining and associated technology - Stef Kapusniak, Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (UK)
• Study to investigate state of knowledge of Deep Sea Mining – Iain Shepherd, DG MARE EC