Story: Marine minerals

More links and websites

• Kermadecs – hydrothermal plumes

  This page from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences site describes marine hydrothermal plumes along the Kermadecs volcanic arc.

• Occurrence and physical setting of ferromanganese nodules

  This 2005 article, ‘Occurrence and physical setting of ferromanganese nodules beneath the Deep Western Boundary Current, SW Pacific’, discusses the polymetallic nodules on the sea floor around New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• De Ronde, C. E. J., and others. ‘Submarine hydrothermal venting related to volcanic arcs.’ Society of Economic Geologists Special Publication 10 (2003): 91–110.
• Economic opportunities in New Zealand’s oceans: informing the development of oceans policy. Wellington: Oceans Policy Group, Ministry for the Environment, 2003.
• Glasby, G. P., and I. C. Wright. ‘Marine mineral potential in New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone.’ Marine Mining 9 (1990): 403– 427.
• Hilton, M. J. ‘Management of the New Zealand coastal sand mining industry: some implications of a geomorphic study of the Pakiri coastal sand body.’ New Zealand Geographer 45 (1989): 14–25.