9N140W — OceanSITES Mooring Station
9N140W is an OceanSITES mooring station in the OceanSITES network, located at 9.000°, -140.000°. Status: OPERATIONAL. Within 500 km of 11 active mining concessi
Station Details
| Station Code | 5100006 |
| Network | OceanSITES |
| Status | OPERATIONAL |
| Latitude | 9.0000° |
| Longitude | -140.0000° |
Nearby Mining Concessions (within 500 km)
- Yuzhmorgeologiya, Russian Federation
- China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association (COMRA)
- Beijing Minmetals Joint Venture, China
- China Minmetals Corporation
- China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association (COMRA)
- China Minmetals Corporation
- UK Seabed Resources Ltd.
- China Minmetals Corporation
- China Minmetals Corporation
- Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany
- Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST)
Long-term climate monitoring baselines at this station may be affected by sediment plumes and seismic noise from nearby deep-sea mining operations.
Data: OceanSITES network / NDBC (NOAA) — public domain