Photo: Supplied / Greenpeace
Research commissioned by Greenpeace, showing that deep sea mining in the Cook Islands is unlikely to make any money, is being rejected by the country's government.
The research, performed by Trytten Consulting Services in October last year, reviewed the economic potential of polymetallic nodules in the Cook Islands' seabed.
It looked at the likelihood of generating profit through the two main ways of seabed nodule recovery - dredging and picking - both of which are yet to be used on a commercial mining scale.
Taking into account available market data,
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