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These entail whether the minerals actually are of high-enough quality for use in commercial manufacturing, how many years it will take to extract and prepare the lithium, or whether there even will be 5.9 million tons of minable and usable reserves in total once the processes are complete.

To fashion the necessary tools that will allow her to explore the ocean’s depths — like an oxygen tank and flippers — Robin must scour her surroundings for minable resources: titanium, copper, quartz, etc.

What is rare is finding these elements in a minable deposit.

“It’s pretty much everything you would want in a minable coal seam,” he said.

Furthermore, EU research commissioner Carlos Moedas praised the JRC at its annual public meeting on 26 September for contributing to the inter­minable struggle to counter false information and communicate science effectively to a sceptical public.