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Shipboard operations for marine mineral research

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Shipboard operations from various research expeditions. Top: A dredge is wrangled back on deck. Bottom left: USGS research oceanographer Amy Gartman photographs freshly collected samples. Bottom right: USGS research oceanographer Kira Mizell cuts ferromanganese crusts with a diamond-blade saw on the deck.

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