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5 Advantages to Seafloor Resource Production
Seafloor resource production offers many advantages over typical land-based mining from health and safety, environmental, and social standpoints. The five primary benefits to seafloor resource production are shown below:
	Limited social disturbance Seafloor production does not require the social dislocation and the resulting impact on culture or disturbance of traditional lands common to many land-based operations.
	Little production infrastructure As the SMS deposits are located on the seafloor, production will be limited to a floating ship with little additional land-based infrastructure. The concentrations of minerals is an order of magnitude higher than typical land based deposits with a corresponding smaller footprint on the earth's surface.
	Worker safety The operation is largely robotic and will not require operators' exposure to typically dangerous mining or "cutting face" activities. There are only one hundred people employed on the production vessel with only a handful more included in the support logistics.
	Minimal overburden or stripping The ore generally occurs directly on the seafloor and will not require large pre-strips or overburden removal.
	Minimal extraction waste Nautilus will extract and raise high-grade ore only, resulting in the surgical extraction of a small ore footprint, with no requirement for waste rock dumping.

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