Production & Innovation Energy transition & power systems

Deep-sea mining

Seabed mining for nickel, cobalt and manganese is moving towards first commercial permits under unilateral national rules, opening a new resource frontier while international regulation and environmental limits remain unsettled.

Rank: 179; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 0.50×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 50; 100 is the typical trend
Change: +1%; WoW
Volatility: ±6%; Turbulent

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

3.5×

#69

1.2×

#125

1.1×

#159

0.87×

#164

0.69×

#174

0.65×

#198

0.42×

#219

0.42×

#230

0.34×

#222

0.31×

#213

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

1.6×

#104

0.95×

#137

0.84×

#153

0.70×

#187

0.69×

#174

0.68×

#191

0.62×

#208

0.57×

#180

0.57×

#193

0.57×

#190

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

9.3×

#35

1.7×

#116

1.5×

#122

1.5×

#126

1.4×

#108

1.3×

#112

1.3×

#120

1.2×

#146

1.1×

#145

1.1×

#124

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 49.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Deep-sea mining, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.