Loading ...Struggling Nautilus Minerals, one of the world’s first companies to plan on mining the seafloor, will soon join a long list of companies that have failed at attempts to extract minerals in remote places, as its creditors have voted this week in favour of liquidating the company.
The Canadian firm, which tried for years to fully develop its Solwara 1 gold, copper and silver project off the coast of Papua Guinea, faced relentless community opposition, culminating in legal action and public appeals to the government.