❗️A fire broke out at the Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant in Tula, Russia. The plant produces high-purity pig iron and ferromanganese used in manufacturing military equipment and armored vehicles, located adjacent to the Tula Arms Plant and Tulamashzavod. #Russia
March 11, 2026 at 8:42 PM
❗️A fire broke out at the Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant in Tula, Russia. The plant produces high-purity pig iron and ferromanganese used in manufacturing military equipment and armored vehicles, located adjacent to the Tula Arms Plant and Tulamashzavod. #Russia
Magnetotactic bacteria in the Baltic Sea #ferromanganese concretions produce bullet-shaped magnetosomes.🧪
The magnetosomes are spherical or cubic in the oceanic ferromanganese nodules.
RCF #FERMAID project
Full article:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The magnetosomes are spherical or cubic in the oceanic ferromanganese nodules.
RCF #FERMAID project
Full article:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
February 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Magnetotactic bacteria in the Baltic Sea #ferromanganese concretions produce bullet-shaped magnetosomes.🧪
The magnetosomes are spherical or cubic in the oceanic ferromanganese nodules.
RCF #FERMAID project
Full article:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The magnetosomes are spherical or cubic in the oceanic ferromanganese nodules.
RCF #FERMAID project
Full article:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
"Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimaeras" www.cell.com/current-biol...
@seaprinceaaron.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
@seaprinceaaron.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimaeras" www.cell.com/current-biol...
@seaprinceaaron.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
@seaprinceaaron.bsky.social & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
🧪It is possible to grow #ferromanganese concretions in the laboratory.
🔬The bright patches at the edge of a concretion in the tomography image precipitated during a 12-week laboratory experiment.
⚗️The ferromanganese growth captured Co, V, Ni, Zn, and Mo from solution.
RCF #FERMAID project
🔬The bright patches at the edge of a concretion in the tomography image precipitated during a 12-week laboratory experiment.
⚗️The ferromanganese growth captured Co, V, Ni, Zn, and Mo from solution.
RCF #FERMAID project
February 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🧪It is possible to grow #ferromanganese concretions in the laboratory.
🔬The bright patches at the edge of a concretion in the tomography image precipitated during a 12-week laboratory experiment.
⚗️The ferromanganese growth captured Co, V, Ni, Zn, and Mo from solution.
RCF #FERMAID project
🔬The bright patches at the edge of a concretion in the tomography image precipitated during a 12-week laboratory experiment.
⚗️The ferromanganese growth captured Co, V, Ni, Zn, and Mo from solution.
RCF #FERMAID project
Reposting 🧪🔭
In 2014 I wrote for StarDate magazine about a different kind of under-sea search for evidence of supernovae: indications from iron-60 found in the ferromanganese crust under the South Pacific, and in fossilized magnetitactic bacteria. Wouid be neat to have this other line of evidence.
In 2014 I wrote for StarDate magazine about a different kind of under-sea search for evidence of supernovae: indications from iron-60 found in the ferromanganese crust under the South Pacific, and in fossilized magnetitactic bacteria. Wouid be neat to have this other line of evidence.
Minerals exposed during an ancient Mediterranean Sea desiccation should reveal damage caused by muons, providing evidence of enhanced cosmic-ray fluxes. physics.aps.org/articles/v17...
Seeking Supernovae in Seafloor Sediments
Minerals exposed during an ancient Mediterranean Sea desiccation should reveal damage caused by muons, providing evidence of enhanced cosmic-ray fluxes.
physics.aps.org
December 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Reposting 🧪🔭
In 2014 I wrote for StarDate magazine about a different kind of under-sea search for evidence of supernovae: indications from iron-60 found in the ferromanganese crust under the South Pacific, and in fossilized magnetitactic bacteria. Wouid be neat to have this other line of evidence.
In 2014 I wrote for StarDate magazine about a different kind of under-sea search for evidence of supernovae: indications from iron-60 found in the ferromanganese crust under the South Pacific, and in fossilized magnetitactic bacteria. Wouid be neat to have this other line of evidence.
Detection of Prokaryotes Involved in Formation of Fast-Growing Ferromanganese Nodules in the Baltic Sea by Culture-Based and Molecular Approaches link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊
Detection of Prokaryotes Involved in Formation of Fast-Growing Ferromanganese Nodules in the Baltic Sea by Culture-Based and Molecular Approaches - Microbiology
Abstract— Ferromanganese nodules (FeMnNs), polymetallic ore deposits widespread in the Global Ocean, are important raw materials for metallurgy. Their largest aggregations are associated with deep-wat...
link.springer.com
July 17, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Detection of Prokaryotes Involved in Formation of Fast-Growing Ferromanganese Nodules in the Baltic Sea by Culture-Based and Molecular Approaches link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊
A new paleoclimate study links stronger ocean stratification to past ‘lukewarm’ interglacials, but points to lower ocean carbon sequestration in the future.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #oceans #stratification #sequestration #paleoclimate #interglacial
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #oceans #stratification #sequestration #paleoclimate #interglacial
Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials - Nature Communications
Lead (Pb) isotopes from a ferromanganese crust reveal that during lukewarm interglacials before the Mid-Brunhes Event, stronger deep Southern Ocean stratification limited CO2 release, helping keep atmospheric CO2 levels lower.
www.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A new paleoclimate study links stronger ocean stratification to past ‘lukewarm’ interglacials, but points to lower ocean carbon sequestration in the future.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #oceans #stratification #sequestration #paleoclimate #interglacial
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #oceans #stratification #sequestration #paleoclimate #interglacial
👀 "This suggests a prominent decoupling of phosphorus and silicate weathering during a major carbon cycling event over the last 10 million years" ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enhanced phosphorus weathering contributed to Late Miocene cooling - Nature Communications
West Pacific ferromanganese crust provides new insights to Late Miocene Cooling associated with the increased continental phosphorus weathering.
www.nature.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
👀 "This suggests a prominent decoupling of phosphorus and silicate weathering during a major carbon cycling event over the last 10 million years" ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘The next gold rush’: President Trump unlocks access to critical deep seabed minerals.
Historic executive order will boost economic growth, support national security.
noaa.gov/news-release/next-gold-rush-president-trump-unlocks-access-to-critical-deep-seabed-minerals
Historic executive order will boost economic growth, support national security.
noaa.gov/news-release/next-gold-rush-president-trump-unlocks-access-to-critical-deep-seabed-minerals
April 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
‘The next gold rush’: President Trump unlocks access to critical deep seabed minerals.
Historic executive order will boost economic growth, support national security.
noaa.gov/news-release/next-gold-rush-president-trump-unlocks-access-to-critical-deep-seabed-minerals
Historic executive order will boost economic growth, support national security.
noaa.gov/news-release/next-gold-rush-president-trump-unlocks-access-to-critical-deep-seabed-minerals
Deep-sea mining operations plan to extract cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals from the ocean floor—using massive machines more than 4,000 meters below the surface. grist.org/energy/deep-...
April 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Deep-sea mining operations plan to extract cobalt, nickel, and other critical minerals from the ocean floor—using massive machines more than 4,000 meters below the surface. grist.org/energy/deep-...
Something extraordinary happened on Earth around 10 million years ago, and it left behind a “signature” of radioactive beryllium-10. What was it? And did it come from outer space, or someplace closer to home? 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/radioactiv...
Radioactive anomaly appears in the deep ocean – Physics World
Unexplained peak in the abundance of beryllium-10 in ferromanganese ocean crusts could become an independent time marker for geological dating
physicsworld.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Something extraordinary happened on Earth around 10 million years ago, and it left behind a “signature” of radioactive beryllium-10. What was it? And did it come from outer space, or someplace closer to home? 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/radioactiv...
The June issue of #Geology is now online. Topics include the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption, earthquakes in the Seattle fault zone, and Holocene changes in mountain snowpack sublimation.
🔗 geosociety.co/4ftxTql
Cover: Ferromanganese nodules on the deep sea floor, courtesy Yongzhi Liang.
🔗 geosociety.co/4ftxTql
Cover: Ferromanganese nodules on the deep sea floor, courtesy Yongzhi Liang.
June 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The June issue of #Geology is now online. Topics include the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption, earthquakes in the Seattle fault zone, and Holocene changes in mountain snowpack sublimation.
🔗 geosociety.co/4ftxTql
Cover: Ferromanganese nodules on the deep sea floor, courtesy Yongzhi Liang.
🔗 geosociety.co/4ftxTql
Cover: Ferromanganese nodules on the deep sea floor, courtesy Yongzhi Liang.
Scientists managed to spot a single Megalodon tooth amidst a field of ferromanganese crust 3 kilometers deep. I spent half of yesterday trying to find the Meg tooth I lost in my office.
Finding Megalodon at the bottom of the sea: www.southernfriedscience.com/finding-mega...
Finding Megalodon at the bottom of the sea: www.southernfriedscience.com/finding-mega...
Finding Megalodon at the bottom of the sea
Since the first Challenger Expedition, deep-sea explorers have recovered shark teeth from the bottom of the ocean. Sharks shed their teeth almost as much as Twitter sheds users after changing its n…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 3, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Scientists managed to spot a single Megalodon tooth amidst a field of ferromanganese crust 3 kilometers deep. I spent half of yesterday trying to find the Meg tooth I lost in my office.
Finding Megalodon at the bottom of the sea: www.southernfriedscience.com/finding-mega...
Finding Megalodon at the bottom of the sea: www.southernfriedscience.com/finding-mega...
Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials - Nature Communications
Lead (Pb) isotopes from a ferromanganese crust reveal that during lukewarm interglacials before the Mid-Brunhes Event, stronger deep Southern Ocean stratification limited CO2 release, helping keep atmospheric CO2 levels lower.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @naturecomms.bsky.social
How phosphorus weathering 🌦️contributed to Miocene cooling🌡️📉? Go check it out 👉OPEN ACCESS www.nature.com/articles/s41....
How phosphorus weathering 🌦️contributed to Miocene cooling🌡️📉? Go check it out 👉OPEN ACCESS www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Enhanced phosphorus weathering contributed to Late Miocene cooling - Nature Communications
West Pacific ferromanganese crust provides new insights to Late Miocene Cooling associated with the increased continental phosphorus weathering.
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT @naturecomms.bsky.social
How phosphorus weathering 🌦️contributed to Miocene cooling🌡️📉? Go check it out 👉OPEN ACCESS www.nature.com/articles/s41....
How phosphorus weathering 🌦️contributed to Miocene cooling🌡️📉? Go check it out 👉OPEN ACCESS www.nature.com/articles/s41....
🚨NEW STUDY 🚨
Linkages between megafauna and ferromanganese crusts outlined in SoCal seamounts.
Implications for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
🦑https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064525001092?via%3Dihub
Linkages between megafauna and ferromanganese crusts outlined in SoCal seamounts.
Implications for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
🦑https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064525001092?via%3Dihub
Megafaunal community structure on ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds in the Southern California Borderland
The Southern California Borderland (SCB) is a topographically complex region on the active continental margin that hosts varied hardground habitats, i…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🚨NEW STUDY 🚨
Linkages between megafauna and ferromanganese crusts outlined in SoCal seamounts.
Implications for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
🦑https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064525001092?via%3Dihub
Linkages between megafauna and ferromanganese crusts outlined in SoCal seamounts.
Implications for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
🦑https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064525001092?via%3Dihub
[1/3] AFP - Les fonds marins recèlent 3 grands types de gisements : nodules polymétalliques (cobalt, nickel, cuivre), croûtes de ferromanganèse (terres rares), et sulfures hydrothermaux (zinc, argent, or). Ils attirent les industries de la transition énergétique mondiale. #geography #deepseamining
Infographie - L’exploitation minière des fonds marins
L’exploitation minière des fonds marins suscite un intérêt croissant en raison de la demande accrue en métaux rares essentiels à la transition énergétique et aux technologies modernes. Cependant, cett...
www.revueconflits.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
[1/3] AFP - Les fonds marins recèlent 3 grands types de gisements : nodules polymétalliques (cobalt, nickel, cuivre), croûtes de ferromanganèse (terres rares), et sulfures hydrothermaux (zinc, argent, or). Ils attirent les industries de la transition énergétique mondiale. #geography #deepseamining
NEW ARTICLE🧪
🧫Growth of a #ferromanganese concretion in the lab is documented for the first time by micro-CT.
📊The growing concretion captured trace metals (Co, V, Ni, Zn, Mo) from solution.
SLTS #FeCoVERY project
RCF #FERMAID project
@finmari-ri.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi....
🧫Growth of a #ferromanganese concretion in the lab is documented for the first time by micro-CT.
📊The growing concretion captured trace metals (Co, V, Ni, Zn, Mo) from solution.
SLTS #FeCoVERY project
RCF #FERMAID project
@finmari-ri.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi....
Microbially Enhanced Growth and Metal Capture by Ferromanganese Concretions in a Laboratory Experiment
The growth and metal enrichment of ferromanganese minerals on the seafloor have intrigued many studies, yet the role of microbes in the process has remained elusive. Here, we assessed the microbial i...
dx.doi.org
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
NEW ARTICLE🧪
🧫Growth of a #ferromanganese concretion in the lab is documented for the first time by micro-CT.
📊The growing concretion captured trace metals (Co, V, Ni, Zn, Mo) from solution.
SLTS #FeCoVERY project
RCF #FERMAID project
@finmari-ri.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi....
🧫Growth of a #ferromanganese concretion in the lab is documented for the first time by micro-CT.
📊The growing concretion captured trace metals (Co, V, Ni, Zn, Mo) from solution.
SLTS #FeCoVERY project
RCF #FERMAID project
@finmari-ri.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi....
Firing the natural colored clays to use for slips did almost as expected.
The gray glauconite wasn't neutral. It fired tan to pinkish tan. The ferromanganese (brown ochre) mixed with the glauconite fired brown. The red & the white are two I've used for slips many times. #ceramics #archaeology
The gray glauconite wasn't neutral. It fired tan to pinkish tan. The ferromanganese (brown ochre) mixed with the glauconite fired brown. The red & the white are two I've used for slips many times. #ceramics #archaeology
August 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Firing the natural colored clays to use for slips did almost as expected.
The gray glauconite wasn't neutral. It fired tan to pinkish tan. The ferromanganese (brown ochre) mixed with the glauconite fired brown. The red & the white are two I've used for slips many times. #ceramics #archaeology
The gray glauconite wasn't neutral. It fired tan to pinkish tan. The ferromanganese (brown ochre) mixed with the glauconite fired brown. The red & the white are two I've used for slips many times. #ceramics #archaeology
Nodules are enriched enough in Radon-222 that it can be used as a tracer to detect nodule fields: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
What does radon gas accumulation look like in a thousand-ton pile of nodules?
What does radon gas accumulation look like in a thousand-ton pile of nodules?
Exploration of Deep Ocean Ferromanganese Nodule Fields Using Radon as a Tracer
A significant positive linear relationship was found between the probability of Mn nodule occurrence and the benthic ex222Rn flux (r = 0.95)
Benthic ex222Rn flux was linearly correlated with the ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Nodules are enriched enough in Radon-222 that it can be used as a tracer to detect nodule fields: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
What does radon gas accumulation look like in a thousand-ton pile of nodules?
What does radon gas accumulation look like in a thousand-ton pile of nodules?
New in #GPLetters by Papineau et al.: "More than 150 yrs after the discovery of deep-sea ferromanganese nodules, the origin of the stromatolitic patterns they contain is now explained by abiotic, pattern-forming, chemically oscillating reactions during biomass decomposition"
Read: buff.ly/nSq5DPw
Read: buff.ly/nSq5DPw
July 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New in #GPLetters by Papineau et al.: "More than 150 yrs after the discovery of deep-sea ferromanganese nodules, the origin of the stromatolitic patterns they contain is now explained by abiotic, pattern-forming, chemically oscillating reactions during biomass decomposition"
Read: buff.ly/nSq5DPw
Read: buff.ly/nSq5DPw
📣Highest-resolution #geochronology ever reconstructed for a #ferromanganese concretion
🧪We combined #¹⁴C, anthropogenic Pb and Co-chronometer techniques in a Bayesian age model
🌊Ce-anomaly, δ56Fe and magnetic mineralogy record variability in the Baltic Sea over 7000 years
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
🧪We combined #¹⁴C, anthropogenic Pb and Co-chronometer techniques in a Bayesian age model
🌊Ce-anomaly, δ56Fe and magnetic mineralogy record variability in the Baltic Sea over 7000 years
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Centennial to millennial-scale paleoenvironmental record from a coastal iron-manganese concretion - Communications Earth & Environment
Seven thousand years of environmental variability are recorded by a coastal iron-manganese concretion, according to microstructure, magnetic, geochemical, and isotopic geochemical analyses of a concretion from the Baltic Sea.
doi.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
📣Highest-resolution #geochronology ever reconstructed for a #ferromanganese concretion
🧪We combined #¹⁴C, anthropogenic Pb and Co-chronometer techniques in a Bayesian age model
🌊Ce-anomaly, δ56Fe and magnetic mineralogy record variability in the Baltic Sea over 7000 years
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
🧪We combined #¹⁴C, anthropogenic Pb and Co-chronometer techniques in a Bayesian age model
🌊Ce-anomaly, δ56Fe and magnetic mineralogy record variability in the Baltic Sea over 7000 years
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
✨ New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! ✨ 🌊
23 Million Years of iron sources reconstructed in the Northwest Pacific Ocean using iron isotopes in a ferromanganese crust
www.geotraces.org/23-million-y...
Paper first author: Yongzhi Chu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
@scor-int.bsky.social
#OceanScience
23 Million Years of iron sources reconstructed in the Northwest Pacific Ocean using iron isotopes in a ferromanganese crust
www.geotraces.org/23-million-y...
Paper first author: Yongzhi Chu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
@scor-int.bsky.social
#OceanScience
July 21, 2026 at 12:46 PM
✨ New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! ✨ 🌊
23 Million Years of iron sources reconstructed in the Northwest Pacific Ocean using iron isotopes in a ferromanganese crust
www.geotraces.org/23-million-y...
Paper first author: Yongzhi Chu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
@scor-int.bsky.social
#OceanScience
23 Million Years of iron sources reconstructed in the Northwest Pacific Ocean using iron isotopes in a ferromanganese crust
www.geotraces.org/23-million-y...
Paper first author: Yongzhi Chu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
@scor-int.bsky.social
#OceanScience