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America: <strong>the</strong> Ocean Minerals Company (OMCO), Ocean Management Incorporated (OMI), Ocean Mining<br />
Associates (OMA) and <strong>the</strong> Kennecott c<strong>on</strong>sortium (KCON) 1 .<br />
The first kind <strong>of</strong> data that should be used for <strong>the</strong> project for <strong>the</strong> CCZ is that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> six pi<strong>on</strong>eer investors,<br />
which were submitted for <strong>the</strong> reserved areas at <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir registrati<strong>on</strong> (Figures 1 and 2). This is <strong>the</strong><br />
most important dataset at <strong>the</strong> disposal <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Authority.<br />
In additi<strong>on</strong>, for <strong>the</strong> reserved areas in <strong>the</strong> Central regi<strong>on</strong> (blocks 13, 15, and 16), some additi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
informati<strong>on</strong> was provided by IFREMER/AFERNOD, DORD and Yuzhmorgeologiya in 1991 in <strong>the</strong>ir report <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
preparatory work in <strong>the</strong>se blocks.<br />
In 2001, additi<strong>on</strong>al data and informati<strong>on</strong> were provided by IFREMER/AFERNOD at <strong>the</strong> request <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Secretariat, which represented a 20% increase in <strong>the</strong> Authority’s database for <strong>the</strong> reserved areas.<br />
At present, <strong>the</strong> Authority’s database POLYDAT c<strong>on</strong>tains a total <strong>of</strong> 2,785 sample stati<strong>on</strong>s which have<br />
been used in <strong>the</strong> Secretariat’s geostatistical evaluati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> nodule resources in <strong>the</strong> reserved areas. In general,<br />
<strong>the</strong> POLYDAT data for <strong>the</strong> reserved areas does not present a total picture <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> CCZ, although it provides<br />
certain orientati<strong>on</strong>s for establishing trends al<strong>on</strong>g <strong>the</strong> CCZ <strong>on</strong> a global scale. It should be noted that <strong>the</strong><br />
number <strong>of</strong> sample stati<strong>on</strong>s varies greatly from <strong>on</strong>e block to ano<strong>the</strong>r. The sampling grid for different blocks<br />
varies from 12.5 x 12.5 to 60 x 60 km. The difference in sampling density in various blocks is well illustrated in<br />
Figure 3.<br />
Figure 3: Density and locati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> sampling stati<strong>on</strong>s in <strong>the</strong> reserved blocks (modified from <strong>the</strong> background paper<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ISA Secretariat “Analysis <strong>of</strong> Discrepancies Between <strong>the</strong> Data Sets Submitted by <strong>the</strong> Pi<strong>on</strong>eer Investors”<br />
submitted to <strong>the</strong> RPIs meeting (28‐30 March 2001, Kingst<strong>on</strong>)).<br />
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1.<br />
Ocean Minerals Company, formed in November 1977 with Amoco Ocan Minerals Company (Standard Oil <strong>of</strong> Indiana), Lockheed<br />
Systems Company, Inc., (Lockheed Aircraft Corporati<strong>on</strong>) and Ocean Minerals Inc., (Royal Dutch/Shell Group).<br />
Ocean Management Incorporated (OMI), formed in February 1975 with Inco Ltd <strong>of</strong> Canada. A,R (Metallge‐sellschaft AG), AMR<br />
(Preussag AG and Salzgitter <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Federal Republic <strong>of</strong> Germany), Sadco Inc <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> USA and Deep Ocean Mining Company Ltd<br />
(DOMCO) <strong>of</strong> Japan<br />
Ocean Mining Associates (OMA), formed in May 1974 with Essex Minerals Company <strong>of</strong> US Steel Corporati<strong>on</strong>, Uni<strong>on</strong> Seas Inc <strong>of</strong><br />
Uni<strong>on</strong> Minière SA <strong>of</strong> Belgium, Sun Ocean Ventures <strong>of</strong> Sun Company Inc., and Samin Ocean Inc <strong>of</strong> Ente Nazi<strong>on</strong>ale Idrocarburi<br />
(ENT) <strong>of</strong> Italy.<br />
Kennecott C<strong>on</strong>sortium (KCON), formed in January 1974 with Kennecott Corporati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> Sohio, RTE DeepSea Enterprises Ltd <strong>of</strong> Rio<br />
Tinto‐Zinc Corporati<strong>on</strong> Ltd, C<strong>on</strong>solidated Gold Fields PLC <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> UK, BP Petroleum Development Ltd <strong>of</strong> British Petroleum<br />
Company Ltd, Noranda Explorati<strong>on</strong> Inc <strong>of</strong> Noranda Mines Ltd <strong>of</strong> Canada and <strong>the</strong> Mitsubishi Group comprising Mitsubishi<br />
Corporati<strong>on</strong>, Mitsubishi Metal Corporatin and Mitsubish Heavy Industries Ltd; all <strong>of</strong> Japan.<br />
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