
April 29 (Reuters) - Deep-sea mining developer The Metals Co TMC.N said on Tuesday it has asked the Trump administration to approve its plans to mine the international seabed based on existing U.S. regulations.
The applications come a week after President Donald Trump signed an order seeking to jumpstart the mining of both U.S. and international waters.
The Vancouver-based company asked the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a commercial recovery permit under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act of 1980 to operation in part of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ).
The company also applied for two exploration licenses in the CCZ.