A new and controversial frontier in mining is opening up as a British firm joins a growing rush to exploit minerals in the depths of the oceans.
The company says surveys have revealed huge numbers of nodules - small lumps of rock rich in valuable metals - lying on the ocean Pacific Ocean floor south of Hawaii and west of Mexico.
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NIGHT OF ERROR (A THRILLER BY DESMOND BAGLEY)
Mike Trevelyan, an English oceanographer, learns that his brother Mark, a marine biologist has died in suspicious circumstances while prospecting in the South Pacific. The only clues, a notebook written in a code, and a lump of deep sea rock which indicates that Mark may have stumbled onto a potentially lucrative deposit of manganese nodules.
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