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Minerals Report - International Seabed Authority

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Figure 2. World map showing plate boundaries, the 200 nautical mile zone extending from coastal states, and sites at plate boundaries where some of the<br />

larger massive sulphide deposits have been found (27). Only a small percentage of prospective areas of the deep seafloor have been explored in sufficient<br />

details to find such deposits. Numbers indicate locations where the submerged volcanic mountain range at divergent plate boundaries lies within the<br />

200-mile zone of a coastal state, as listed in table 2.<br />

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