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The Ocean Floor Advantage: How Deep-Sea Nodules Could Outperform Terrestrial Mining

Small Cap Investments Research Team

October 31, 2026

12 min read

Every smartphone in your pocket, every electric vehicle on the road, every wind turbine on the horizon, and every fighter jet defending national airspace depends on the same handful of critical minerals. Nickel. Cobalt. Copper. Manganese. These metals are the invisible architecture of modern civilization. But the way we source them is broken, and a fundamentally superior alternative has been sitting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean for ten million years.

Investment Highlights

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Ticker Symbols:

CSE . SEAS

OTCQB . DSEAF

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Market Capitalization:

~$27 million CAD (micro-cap entry point as of March 25th, 2026)

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Active U.S. Regulatory & Defense Pipeline:

Submitted a response to the U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) to supply defense-critical minerals ¹ and an exploration license application to NOAA for polymetallic nodules in the Clarion- Clipperton Zone. ²

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Targeting Mineral Rights in:

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone, which holds an estimated 21 billion dry tons of polymetallic nodules, containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese ³

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Global Deep-Sea Mining Market:

Projected to surge from $4.6 billion (2025) to $65.56 billion by 2034 (34%+ CAGR) ⁴

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Targeted Minerals:

Subsea polymetallic nodules containing nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese ⁵ , the same metals in fighter jets ⁶ , nuclear submarines ⁷ , and hypersonic missiles ⁸

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Subsea Mineral Grade Superiority:

Subsea polymetallic nodule cobalt grades significantly higher ⁹

For over a century, extracting these metals has meant one thing: tearing open the earth. Blasting through mountainsides. Boring tunnels thousands of feet underground. Displacing communities. Contaminating aquifers. Waiting decades for permits.

The results have been predictable. Terrestrial ore grades are declining. Environmental damage is compounding. Permitting timelines have stretched to absurd lengths. And the geopolitical concentration of processing, with China controlling 80% of global cobalt refining and 90% of rare earth processing, has turned mineral supply chains into instruments of strategic leverage. ¹⁰

But what if there were a fundamentally better source? Higher grades. Lower environmental footprint. A timeline measured in months instead of decades.

There is. They’re called polymetallic nodules. And one company — Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (OTCQB . DSEAF CSE . SEAS) is building a business around harvesting them.

21B

Dry tons of polymetallic nodules

29 Years

Avg. U.S. land mine permitting from first discovery to first production

4 metals

Per single nodule deposit

The Problem with Mining on Land

Traditional mining is what most people picture when they hear the word: massive open pits carved into mountainsides, underground shafts bored thousands of feet into rock, crushing facilities running around the clock, and tailings ponds holding toxic residue that can persist for centuries.

The scale of environmental disruption is staggering. A single large copper mine can disturb tens of thousands of acres. Tailings dam failures, like the 2019 Brumadinho disaster in Brazil, can destroy entire communities downstream. Acid mine drainage leaches heavy metals into waterways for generations after a mine closes. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, which produces over 70% of the world’s cobalt, ¹¹ artisanal mining operations have been linked to child labor and severe environmental contamination. ¹²

Large-scale terrestrial mining operations disturb tens of thousands of acres, producing tailings ponds, acid mine drainage, and lasting environmental damage.

Then there’s the timeline problem. The average permitting process for a new mine in the United States takes an average 29 years from first discovery to first production. ¹³ Twenty-nine years of environmental impact assessments. Community consultations. Legal challenges. Regulatory reviews. Infrastructure construction.

Even if geologists discovered a massive new deposit of critical minerals in the U.S. tomorrow, the first ore may not reach a processing facility until the 2050s.

And here’s the compounding problem: terrestrial ore grades have been declining for decades. The easy deposits, the high-grade, near-surface ores that built the mining industry, were extracted first. What remains is progressively lower-grade material that requires moving more rock, consuming more energy, and generating more waste to extract the same amount of metal.

The core tension: Demand for critical minerals is surging, driven by the energy transition, defense manufacturing, and consumer electronics, while the conventional supply model is becoming slower, more expensive, and more environmentally destructive. This is exactly why Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (OTCQB . DSEAF CSE . SEAS) is pursuing an entirely different approach.

What Are Polymetallic Nodules?

Deep-sea mining targets polymetallic nodules, potato-sized concretions that sit loose on the ocean floor at 4,000 to 6,000 meters depth. These form over millions of years, accumulating metals from seawater around a nucleus, often a shark’s tooth or volcanic debris layer by imperceptible layer.

These are polymetallic nodules and they may represent one of the most important mineral discoveries.

Polymetallic nodules on the abyssal plain at 4,000 meters depth. Each potato-sized concretion contains concentrated nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese, accumulated over millions of years.

Each nodule is a concentrated package of the metals that modern civilization needs most: manganese, nickel, cobalt, and copper, along with trace amounts of rare earth elements, titanium, and lithium. They range from 4 to 10 centimeters in diameter and sit loose on the seafloor, not embedded in rock, not buried under overburden, not requiring blasting or drilling to access.

The richest concentration of these nodules sits in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a vast stretch of abyssal plain in the eastern Pacific roughly the size of the continental United States, located approximately 2,000 kilometers off Mexico’s west coast. The CCZ alone contains an estimated 21.1 billion dry tons of nodules. ¹⁴

A second major deposit field lies within the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, which holds an estimated 12 billion wet tons of nodules. The Cook Islands EEZ represents one of the few jurisdictions with an established seabed mineral regulatory framework supported by decades of scientific assessment. In February 2026, the Cook Islands Government and the United States formalized a framework for cooperation on critical minerals research and supply chain security, directly aligning this jurisdiction with U.S.-led critical minerals policy objectives. ¹⁵

SEAS is evaluating a dual-jurisdiction strategy targeting both the CCZ and the Cook Islands EEZ, a diversification approach that no other company at its valuation is pursuing.

Grade Superiority: The Numbers Don’t Lie

This is where the comparison between terrestrial mining and deep-sea nodules moves from interesting to economically transformative.

Polymetallic nodules don’t just contain the same metals found in terrestrial deposits. They contain them at significantly higher grades.

To put this in perspective: a terrestrial nickel mine produces nickel. A terrestrial cobalt mine produces cobalt. A single polymetallic nodule field produces nickel and cobalt and copper and manganese from the same collection operation.

This grade advantage has direct economic implications. Higher grades mean more metal per tonne of material processed, which means lower unit costs, fewer processing steps, and higher margins. ¹⁶ For a company like SEAS, targeting these deposits at a ~$26 million market cap while peers operating in the same jurisdictions trade at multiples of billions, the grade superiority of nodules is a foundational element of the investment thesis.

Harvesting polymetallic nodules is like finding gold nuggets scattered across a parking lot. Robotic collectors traverse the seabed, with AI-guided selective harvesting. Nodules are lifted via riser pipes to surface vessels, dewatered, and shipped for onshore processing.

Two Worlds of Extraction

The contrast between terrestrial mining methodology and deep-sea nodule collection is not incremental. It is fundamental.

Terrestrial Mining: The Conventional Approach

Opening a traditional mine begins with removing overburden, the rock, soil, and vegetation sitting above the ore body. For open-pit operations, this can mean stripping away hundreds of feet of material. For underground mines, it means boring shafts and tunnels, installing ventilation systems, and managing groundwater intrusion.

Once the ore is exposed, it must be drilled, blasted, loaded onto haul trucks, transported to crushing facilities, ground to fine particles, and processed through chemical or thermal extraction. The waste rock and chemical tailings are stored in engineered facilities that require monitoring and maintenance essentially forever.

The entire process demands enormous energy inputs, massive water consumption, and extensive surface infrastructure, roads, power lines, processing plants, worker housing, waste storage.

Deep-Sea Nodule Collection: A Different Model Entirely

Polymetallic nodules sit loose on the ocean floor. No overburden removal. No drilling or blasting. No tailings ponds. Higher grades. Multi-metal deposits. No 29-year permitting battles.

Robotic collectors traverse the abyssal plain using hydraulic suction with AI-guided selective harvesting, the same subsea engineering principles that offshore oil and gas has used for decades.

The collection process uses robotic collectors that traverse the seabed, picking up nodules with AI-guided selective harvesting that can avoid biological features. The collected nodules are lifted through riser pipe systems to surface vessels, where they are dewatered and transferred to transport ships for onshore processing. ¹⁷

The technology has been proven with TMC’s 2022 pilot. ¹⁸ The engineering borrows directly from offshore oil and gas. That is why SEAS assembled a management team steeped in that industry. The team has done this before, just with a different commodity.

Why this matters for SEAS: The engineering behind deep-sea nodule collection borrows directly from offshore oil and gas, riser pipe systems, dynamic positioning vessels, subsea robotics, operations at extreme depths. This is precisely why SEAS recruited CEO James Deckelman, a 25-year offshore veteran and former NYSE CXO who applies multi-billion- dollar deepwater expertise from ConocoPhillips and BP to deep-sea mining. He’s not a mining executive learning offshore operations. He’s an offshore operations veteran applying proven expertise to a new resource.

The Environmental Equation

The environmental comparison between terrestrial mining and deep-sea nodule collection is not close. And the direction may surprise you.

Critics of deep-sea mining raise legitimate questions about the impact on abyssal ecosystems, sediment plumes from collection activity, disturbance to seafloor communities, potential effects on midwater organisms. These concerns deserve serious scientific attention, and responsible operators must address them through rigorous environmental monitoring and mitigation protocols.

But any honest assessment must compare the impact of deep-sea collection against the alternative: what happens when we don’t collect nodules and instead continue to expand terrestrial mining to meet surging critical mineral demand.

The Terrestrial Mining Footprint

Deforestation: New mines frequently require clearing tropical and boreal forests. Indonesia and the Philippines, major nickel producers, have seen extensive deforestation tied to mining expansion. ¹⁹
Tailings dam risk: There are approximately 18,000 active tailings dams worldwide. Failures have caused catastrophic environmental and human disasters. ²⁰
Acid mine drainage: When sulfide-bearing rock is exposed to air and water, it generates sulfuric acid that leaches heavy metals into waterways, a process that can continue for centuries after mining ceases.
Water consumption: Mining is one of the most water-intensive industrial activities. In water-stressed regions, this creates direct competition with agriculture and communities.
Human costs: Community displacement, documented child labor in artisanal cobalt mining, and health impacts on mining communities and downstream populations. ²¹

The Deep-Sea Collection Footprint

No deforestation. Operations occur thousands of miles from land. ²²
No tailings dams. No toxic residue requiring permanent storage.
No community displacement. The abyssal plain has no human inhabitants.
No acid mine drainage. No sulfide rock exposure.
Sediment disturbance: The primary environmental consideration, and one that can be managed through technology, operational protocols, and site selection.

Yet these benefits come with risks: Deep-sea nodule extraction would permanently remove unique abyssal habitats, generate sediment plumes, disrupt fragile deep-ocean ecosystems, and carry uncertain long-term consequences, outcomes that science has not yet fully quantified or mitigated. ²³

SEAS has indicated plans to pursue low-impact collection technology, potentially utilizing AI- driven robots for selective harvesting with fauna avoidance systems, an approach designed to minimize ecological disturbance while maximizing resource recovery.

The question is not whether deep-sea collection has zero environmental impact. Nothing does. The question is whether it is better than the alternative, and the alternative is expanding destructive terrestrial mining to meet a demand curve that isn’t slowing down.

Polymetallic nodules on the abyssal plain and a schematic of the deep-sea mining collection system.

The Timeline Advantage

Perhaps no single comparison between terrestrial and deep-sea mining matters more to investors than the timeline.

The average permitting timeline for a new mine in the United States: 29 years from first discovery to first production. ²⁴

This is not an exaggeration. It is the documented reality of modern mining regulation. Environmental impact statements. Public comment periods. Legal challenges from environmental groups. State and federal permit coordination. Water rights adjudication. Cultural resource surveys. Endangered species consultations.

Each step is individually reasonable. Collectively, they create a timeline that is fundamentally incompatible with the urgency of the critical minerals challenge.

China’s export ban on critical minerals to U.S. defense contractors is happening now. The energy transition’s demand for battery metals is accelerating now. The defense supply chain is constrained now.

Deep-sea mining under the new NOAA framework operates on an entirely different timeline.

In April 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14285 ²⁵ , declaring seabed minerals a matter of national security and directing NOAA to accelerate permitting. ²⁶ Then, on January 21, 2026, NOAA finalized a historic rule change that collapsed the timeline for permitting. ²⁷ For the first time ever, companies can apply for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permits simultaneously. Previously, these were sequential steps, exploration first, then years of environmental review, then commercial permitting.

What previously required decades of sequential steps now operates on a compressed timeline measured in months and years.

29 years

U.S. average terrestrial mine permitting

Jan 2026

NOAA rule change effective

SEAS timing advantage: Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (OTCQB . DSEAF CSE . SEAS) completed its change of business on January 26, 2026, just five days after NOAA’s historic rule change took effect. The company entered the sector at the exact moment the regulatory pathway compressed from decades to months. Management has targeted Q4 2026 for a concession award, a potential catalyst that could advance SEAS from strategic concept toward asset-backed exploration. SEAS does not currently hold any subsea mineral rights.

The Scale That Changes Everything

The size of the seabed mineral resource is difficult to convey without numbers that strain credibility. But the data is peer-reviewed, scientifically documented, and geologically confirmed.

The CCZ may contains more nickel, cobalt, and manganese than all known terrestrial reserves combined. ²⁸ Not more than any single country’s reserves. More than all of them put together.

The Cook Islands EEZ adds approximately 12 billion wet tons of nodules. The Cook Islands EEZ represents one of the few jurisdictions with an established seabed mineral regulatory framework supported by decades of scientific assessment. In February 2026, the Cook Islands Government and the United States formalized a framework for cooperation on critical minerals research and supply chain security, directly aligning this jurisdiction with U.S.-led critical minerals policy objectives. ²⁹

And yet, despite the scale of this resource, zero commercial recovery permits have been issued in either zone. The industry is at the very beginning of the development curve. The companies that secure early positions, the ones that acquire concessions, file applications, and build relationships with regulators before the competition intensifies, will define the sector for decades.

The deep-sea mining market is projected to grow from $4.6 billion in 2025 ³⁰³¹ to $65.56 billion by 2034 ³²³³ , representing a compound annual growth rate exceeding 34%. ³⁴

SEAS is one of the only publicly listed companies targeting a dual-jurisdiction strategy in both the CCZ and Cook Islands EEZ, at a market capitalization of approximately $27 million CAD. The sector leader, The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC), is further along the process, owns proprietary collection technology, holds ISA-sponsored exploration contracts, and has completed pilot operations. ³⁵ SEAS believes its early positioning and dual-jurisdiction approach may offer a differentiated entry point into the sector.

The Investment Thesis: Why SEAS

The data in this report leads to a clear conclusion: deep-sea polymetallic nodules represent a fundamentally superior critical mineral source, higher grades, lower environmental impact, compressed timelines, and a resource base that dwarfs everything available on land.

The question for investors is not whether this resource will be developed. The Metals Company’s 450% surge in 2025 answered that. Japan’s active test mining operations confirmed it. The U.S. government’s executive orders and regulatory acceleration made it policy.

The question is who will benefit from the development — and at what entry point.

Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (OTCQB . DSEAF CSE . SEAS) offers a combination of factors that is rare in micro-cap resource investing:

The right resource: Polymetallic nodules containing nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese in a single multi-metal deposit
The right jurisdictions: Dual targeting of CCZ and Cook Islands EEZ, both zones targeted by peers trading at significantly higher valuations
The right timing: Entered the sector days after NOAA's historic rule change compressed permitting timelines ³⁶
The right team: A 25-year offshore veteran and former NYSE CXO, Deckelman applies multi-billion-dollar deepwater expertise from ConocoPhillips and BP to deep-sea mining
The right structure: Approximately 23.9 million shares post-financing undiluted, 24.9 million fully diluted, $4.22 million in fresh capital providing approximately 12 months of runway, no legacy dilution overhang

The near-term catalyst is straightforward: a CCZ license award as early as Q4 2026 targeted by management. If SEAS successfully secures licensed seabed assets, the company would transition from a strategic concept to an asset-backed explorer, a milestone that could prompt meaningful market reassessment. SEAS does not currently hold any subsea mineral rights.

In resource investing, early positioning has historically been rewarded. The lithium investors who recognized the EV thesis before 2022, the uranium investors who saw the nuclear renaissance before it became policy, and the TMC investors who understood seabed mining before 2025 each benefited from entering before broader market recognition. Past performance in other sectors does not guarantee similar outcomes for SEAS.

For investors interested in exposure to the potential critical mineral supercycle, who believe that America’s supply chain vulnerability represents a defining investment opportunity, Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (OTCQB . DSEAF CSE . SEAS) is a company that should be on your radar.

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Issuer: Deep Sea Minerals Corp

Date of initial distribution: 03/01/2026

Time of initial distribution: 10:30 am

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