Marine Minerals Webinar Series 2026. Session 5: Seabed Minerals on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Session 4

Contact person

Bhargav Boddupalli

Research Scientist

Session 4: Mineral Assessments at the Seafloor

Resource assessments are the cornerstone for the evaluation of any potential mining project, whether on land or the seafloor. These assessments follow a regulated procedure for disclosing information on the quality and quantity of a mining prospect to determine whether it has the potential to become a viable mine. Globally, such public assessments have only been completed for one seafloor massive sulfide deposit and a few polymetallic nodule projects.

In this webinar Professor John Jamieson at University of Ottawa will discuss how resource assessments are generated, their importance for determining whether a seafloor mineral prospect has the potential to be developed into a mine and how close (or not) we are to actual mining operations on the seafloor.

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Featured speaker

Dr. Jamieson is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Geology. His research advances our understanding of seafloor hydrothermal systems (black smokers) and the processes that form deep-sea mineral deposits. His research is multi-disciplinary, integrating ocean exploration, mineralogy and petrography, geochemistry, geochronology, stable isotopes, and cutting-edge seafloor mapping technologies. He earned a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Alberta (2002), an M.Sc. in Geochemistry from the University of Maryland (2005), and a Ph.D. in Marine Geology from the University of Ottawa (2013).