Hi! We here at Deep Dragon Mining seek to fuel the industry with resource extraction and exploitation, unrestricted by the faulty mess of bureaucracy created by various third parties who wish for us to live in the dark.
Here at DDM, the customer always comes first, because you matter!
Now, let's get down to business!
Mining!
What exactly is it we do here? Besides drilling holes in rock and throwing dwarves into caves full of hideous creatures only armed with their wits, explosives, drills, and guns? Well, we don't HAVE dwarves, but we do have a willing workforce and a fleet of vehicles and gear prepared for operations at various depths for various needs. Drilling for oil? We have the drills and pumps needed. Fracking? Same. Harvesting oil sands? We can do that too! Mining the sea floor? Converted drill ships for an excellent price. Hollowing out a mountain of uranium? Rock and stone, brother!
Below you shall see our catalog of services provided, along with bottom-line estimates purely based on equipment. However, while we could lend our equipment, we will have to deny the offer for extra capital given that some of the "gear" used is in limited supply. Hence, even with rather poor demand, our supply lines can only handle things being done through us, rather than third parties who don't know how to use a torque wrench at 1,000 feet below sea level on some critical infrastructure... Hypothetically speaking.
Polymetallic nodule mining- using a remotely operated crawler and a high-pressure vacuum pump system, we simply deploy a few of the UUVs down and let them move around to gather nodules, with specially designed tools to help aid in the process. However, for larger "dredge" operations we simply refer to the more generalized and cheaper approach of just dragging a larger, more powerful unit along the seafloor. The latter process is of course faster and cheaper, but can also result in greater inefficiency given the sheer amount of material gathered and ejected, which then runs up maintenance costs. The former however requires more time on site and hence has a higher cost, but is of greater efficiency and, by technicality, value. These deposits contain metals such as the well-known rare earth metals, cobalt, nickel, copper, molybdenum, lithium, and yttrium... To name a few.
Seafloor massive sulfide deposit mining- This requires more precision work, hence, UUVs get involved more here. Several are deployed from one or multiple ships, drilling away at a sulfide deposit and allowing the resultant material to be gathered via suction with separation partway up the "elevator" to allow for the safe ejection of unwanted materials including tailings. This is typically done over the course of several years or more, as a long-term agreement given the sheer size of these deposits and the possible payoff in metallic ores that contain copper, gold, lead, silver, and other metals.
Cobalt crust mining- The hardest yet. To put this in simple terms, imagine climbing up a mountain, just to drill into it as you ascend from a certain point, until just before you hit the peak. At least, some parties have proposed doing it that way. We however decide to take a bigger risk and drill as we crawl from the base up, gathering material right from the start, assuming the "mountain" can be climbed with the UUV. If not, we can use other UUVs to try to crack at the steep deposits. The challenge here however is doing so without creating an underwater landslide and damaging equipment in the process. The payoff? Cobalt, tellurium, nickel, copper, platinum, zirconium, tungsten, and rare earth elements being freed from the depths!
Of course, costs will vary depending on the operation(s) requested. And sure, we can pay for permits, but you are paying us to do the work here. You however get a sweet cut of the profits, plus you get to benefit from having it refined by your own country, or instead having the ores sold off to other countries for your own gain. The choice is yours!
So what are you waiting for?!
