KINGSTON, Jamaica ¨C As demand grows globally for metals needed to make batteries for electric vehicles, one of the richest untapped sources of the raw materials lies 2? miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
This remote section of the seabed, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) southwest of San Diego, could soon become the world¡¯s first industrial-scale mining site in international waters.
The Metals Co., based in Vancouver, has secured exclusive access to tons of seabed rocks packed with cobalt, copper and nickel ¡ª enough, it says, to power 280 million electric vehicles.
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