Renee Grogan

Co-Founder and Board Director, Impossible Metals · 1 appearance on the record.

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Renee Grogan is an environmental specialist who co-founded Impossible Metals, developing autonomous underwater robotics to harvest battery metals from the seafloor with minimal ecosystem harm. Across two decades in resources and investment, she has advised organizations including the World Bank and The Pew Charitable Trusts on environmental policy and mining standards.

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2 predictions · 5 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported

Grogan: Seafloor massive sulfides can have 10x higher copper grades than land mines

“Now in something like sea floor massive sulfides, The grade can be 10 times as high as a typical terrestrial copper mine.”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 11:41 Mining the deep sea

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Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2028

Grogan: First commercial seabed mineral recovery will occur around 2028

“I think probably around twenty-twenty-eight is, is a fair guess.”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 48:12 Mining the deep sea

Assertion Partly supported

Grogan: Clarion-Clipperton Zone holds more nickel than all land resources combined

“There's an area called the Clarion-Cliberton Zone. It's between Mexico and Hawaii. It has a estimated resource of nickel that is larger than the entire global terrestrial nickel resource. So more than you have in the entire global terrestrial environment in th…”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 6:52 Mining the deep sea

Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2033

Grogan: The ISA will pass deep sea exploitation regulations

“I think the ISA will pass its exploitation regulations. Whether they do that in July is, is a question that I can't answer. But I think there's, it will go ahead.”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 45:55 Mining the deep sea

Assertion Supported

Grogan: Seafloor massive sulfides can have 10x higher copper grades than land mines

“Now in something like sea floor massive sulfides, The grade can be 10 times as high as a typical terrestrial copper mine.”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 11:41 Mining the deep sea

Assertion Supported

Grogan: Nauru triggered a 2021 UN rule forcing deep-sea mining regulations

“So about two years ago, in July of 21 NARU, which is a sponsoring state of the metals company, which is a company, private company, or listed company that has exploration licenses, triggered what's known colloquially as the two-year rule. So it's a trigger und…”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 18:51 Mining the deep sea

Assertion Supported

Grogan: Cook Islands and New Zealand passed national deep-sea mining laws

“A couple of nations, the Cook Islands is one, New Zealand is another, have passed their own deep sea mining legislation. So they have legislation in place that allows for mining applications to be considered.”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 22:32 Mining the deep sea

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Grogan: Selective seabed harvesting is proven in shallow water, unproven deep

“So that, that technology's in its infancy. It hasn't been tested in the deep ocean yet but it has been tested in shallow water and it does work.”

Renee Grogan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 36:51 Mining the deep sea

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Mining the deep sea	Jul 27, 2023	31m

Renee Grogan

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