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Seabed minerals race ramps up, US to map ocean floor next door
Minerals on the deabed. The US will start mapping American Samoa's ocean floor next month.
By Shalveen Chand
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23 January 2026, 6:00PM
The United States will carry out a new hydrographic survey project to map and characterise more than 30,000 square nautical miles of federal waters off American Samoa in a bid to identify seabed minerals on the ocean floor.
