The Trump administration will offer the first-ever offshore mining leases for deep-sea mining off the coast of American Samoa, as part of an effort to bolster the domestic critical mineral supply chain.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Marine Minerals Administration announced on Monday that it would offer two areas totaling nearly 32 million acres off the coast of American Samoa for offshore mining leases.
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