Its plan is to bring up ore containing copper and gold from the bottom of the Bismarck Sea north of Papua New Guinea, using technology developed by the offshore-oil industry.
而且加拿大鹦鹉螺矿业公司,希望在2009年成为第一个开始生产的深水采矿公司,它计划使用由海上石油业发展的技术,在巴布亚新几内亚以北的俾斯麦海底提取包含铜和金的矿石。