The United States has taken a major step toward deep-sea mining near American Samoa, proposing the lease of more than 31 million acres of federal waters for the extraction of critical minerals used in electric vehicles, electronics, and defense technologies.The move is part of President Donald Tr...

The U.S. government is planning to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.

Trump administration aims to be the first to exploit the seafloor for critical minerals