History and background of the project
Abstract
The history of oceanography, the discovery of manganese nodules and the background of the developments in nodule research and mining is given The first nodules were collected in 1981 on board the research vessel R V Gaveshani Following the success of this cruise the project was redrawn with the basic objectives of a consortium tackling the problems from exploration to mining The project was extended to cover all the promising areas in the Indian Ocean
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