10/22/2026
Political Picture · white-house
Trump administration will let companies bid to mine the deep ocean off American Samoa’s coast
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The Trump administration is officially moving ahead with a decision to lease ocean tracts off the coast of American Samoa for deep-sea mining. The decision, announced Monday, would represent the first time the U.S. government has offered up offshore mining leases. Large-scale deep-sea mining has never been done before, but the seafloor could contain valuable…
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