@article{oai:ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp:00007475,
 author = {OKAMOTO, Nobuyuki},
 journal = {南太平洋海域調査研究報告=Occasional papers},
 month = {2016-10-28},
 note = {The Government of Japan and South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) have been conducting joint surveys of deep-sea mineral resources in the Exclusive Economy Zones (EEZs) of SOPAC member countries, since 1985. The various research and government institutions that have been closely involved in this long-standing programme include: the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) which is the former Metal Mining Agency of Japan (MMAJ) and relevant ministries of the participating Pacific Island government.
The survey programme is on-going using research vessel Hakurei-Maru No.2 which belongs to JOGMEC.
This twenty year long, joint project initiative has been extremely successful in confirming the resource potential of the Pacific region through discovering valuable deep-sea mineral deposits such as manganese nodules in the Cook Islands waters, cobalt-rich manganese crusts in the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Federated States of Micronesia, and polymetalic massive sulfides in the Fiji waters.},
 pages = {21--30},
 title = {Deep-sea Mineral Potential in the South Pacific Region : Review of the Japan/SOPAC Deep-sea Mineral Resources Study Programme},
 volume = {41},
 year = {}
}