Results for Deep Sea Mining

Six community groups on Tongatapu, ‘Eua and Vava’u  will receive assistance for their projects, under agreements signed by Tonga Offshore Mining Limited on 28 June.

Parliament has passed a Seabed Minerals Act 2014, an act that regulates mineral exploration and potential mining in Tongan waters.

Of all the noises our PRs have been making in the last few decades, it bothers me that their silence toward Nautilus Minerals exploration is deafening. It worries me that they are not questioning the activity that will potentially impact our resource that provide for our basic subsistence, the ocean. Nautilus Minerals' mission in the area, as they say, is for exploration. Exploration is good, but what is being done after the exploration is completed is bothersome. - Tevita U. Langi

I would like to address specific issues raised in the media recently about Nautilus Minerals Tonga and the work it hopes to do in Tonga. From Paula Taumoepeau, Country Manager-Tonga, Nautilu Minerals.

The mineral exploration for sulphides in Tonga is very good news indeed. Let's hope that the Nautilus Minerals adventure in the Tonga Waters will be a successful one. A successful underwater mining means a better economy and brighter future for people at home. The opportunities are endless. - Senolita Swan