Resumen de CRP deep sea technology
According to CRP's managing director, Chris Castle, the company has already substantially satisfied key risk-factors such as identifying markets, quantifying the resource, and, importantly if the project is to be the first to plough ahead with sea bed mining, designing the extraction techniques.
Dredging services provider Royal Boskalis Westminister N.V. was selected exclusively as CRP's partner to undertake the detailed design of its offshore project, which will require processing technology to mine rock phosphate deposits at a depth of approximately 400 metres.
The vessel will stop mining when its holds are full. The mined phosphate will be taken to a port and unloaded, using either a wet or dry option, stored and distributed to the market. CRP estimates that the entire cycle will take around 12 days, with three days spent mining resulting in 50,000 tonnes of nodules, and nine days in transit or at the port
