Metals Company SPAC
BETTER METALS FOR EVs
Solution: sourcing
battery metals from
a vast resource of polymetallic
nodules.
23
billion dry tonnes of
nodules, total CCZ
resource estimate
Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ)¹
234Mt
Hawai'i
29
Cu
Copper
63.546
1.1%
2
270Mt
28
Ni
Nickel
58.693
1.4%
Enough total resource in the CCZ to electrify
the entire global car fleet several times over²
27
Co
Cobalt
58.933
0.1%
PROTECTED AREAS (1.44 million km²)
46Mt 6Bt
¹ Area depicted represents the entire CCZ.
2 Assuming 75kWh batteries with NMC811 chemistry; "Where Should Metals for the Green Transition Come From?", Paulikas et al, LCA white paper, April 2020; Nodule resource grade and abundance based on the ISA resource model.
Source: "A Geological Model of Polymetallic Nodule Deposits in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone", ISA, 2010. Resource Estimates of the Clarion Clipperton Manganese Nodule Deposits (Marine Mineral Deposits p 145-170), Morgan, 2000.
EXPLORATION AREAS (1.1 million km²)
25
Mn
Manganese
54.938
31%
Areas of Particular Environmental
Interest (APEI)
Exploration contract areas granted by
the International Seabed Authority
(ISA)
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