ferromanganese
noun
fer·ro·man·ga·nese
ˌfer-ō-ˈmaŋ-gə-ˌnēz 
-ˌnēs
: an alloy of iron and manganese containing usually about 80 percent manganese and used in the manufacture of steel
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Amy Gartman, a research oceanographer and global marine minerals project chief at the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center in Santa Cruz, California, said the USGS has not observed any electrical phenomena in ferromanganese nodules examined so far.
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Other metals that are expected to be mined are in cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts and near thermal vents.
—Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
Brazil, for example, filed an application in December 2018 that included the Rio Grande Rise, a deep-ocean mountain range 1500 kilometers southeast of Rio De Janeiro that's covered in cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts.
—Richard Kemeny, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Other metals that are expected to be mined are in cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts and near thermal vents.
—Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
Brazil, for example, filed an application in December 2018 that included the Rio Grande Rise, a deep-ocean mountain range 1500 kilometers southeast of Rio De Janeiro that's covered in cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts.
—Richard Kemeny, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019
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“Ferromanganese.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ferromanganese. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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