Silent Goodbye a sad reality. (Mom passes on & leaves small Children)

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The quiet community of Ngodini, just outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga, South Africa, woke up to heartbreaking news that left neighbours and relatives in disbelief. Twelve-year-old Ayanda had always been the responsible one. As the eldest of three children, she helped her mother care for her younger siblings, eight-year-old Sipho and four-year-old Amahle. Their mother, Nomsa, worked hard to provide for them, often reminding her children that no matter how difficult life became, they should always love and protect one another. One cold winter morning, the children woke up as usual. Ayanda prepared breakfast while waiting for their mother to get up for work. Minutes turned into an hour, but Nomsa never came out of her bedroom. Ayanda gently knocked on the door. "Mama?" she called softly. There was no answer. She knocked again, louder this time. "Mama, it's morning. You have to wake up." Still, there was only silence. Growing worried, Ayanda tried opening the door. H...
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Deep-sea mining robot lost on cobalt-rich floor of Pacific

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 Bloomberg News | April 28, 2021 | 10:08 am Exploration Suppliers & Equipment Latin America Cobalt Nickel 

Deep-Sea mining robot lost on cobalt-rich floor of Pacific
Patania II, a 25-tonne seabed mining robot, is lowered into the Pacific Ocean. Credit: DEME

A deep-sea mining robot on test mission to bring up rocks rich in cobalt and nickel from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has malfunctioned.

Controversial plans to mine the ocean floor face a key test this year when a United Nations body unveils rules that could spur the exploitation of hundreds of billions of dollars of battery metals. Environmentalists say that would endanger fragile marine ecosystems, while the industry argues that extracting metals needed for the green-energy transition would cause less damage than terrestrial mining.

Related: World’s Top Ten nickel projects, Clarion-Clipperton Zone is no. 1

Global Sea Mineral Resources, a unit of Belgium’s DEME Group, brought up its first minerals from the ocean floor on April 20. It’s one of the companies, including DeepGreen Metals Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and China Minmetals Corp., spearheading moves to exploit seabed metals needed by electric vehicles.

“Patania II now stands on the sea floor,” GSR said in a statement on Wednesday, referring to the name of its mining device. Salvage operations will begin later today after a pump needed to lift the robot failed.

The GSR robot had been operating at a depth of 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles) in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: an expanse of ocean between Hawaii and Mexico that’s as big as the continental U.S. Its seabed is littered with billions of tons of manganese nodules — fist-sized rocks formed over thousands of years, which are filled with nickel and cobalt needed for lithium-ion batteries.

“This glaring operational failure must act as a stark warning that deep-sea mining is too big a risk,” Greenpeace marine biologist Sandra Schoettner said in a statement. A Greenpeace ship has been monitoring GSR’s activities in the Pacific Ocean.

(By Jonathan Tirone)

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