SMARTEX has produced a policy brief on scaling up our current understanding of the ecology and impacts of commercial exploitation in the Clarion-Clipperton zone. 
The brief can be downloaded here

About the SMARTEX project:

about smartex poster

Some SMARTEX results, long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track after 44 years:

recovery poster

July 2024 SMARTEX research highlights:

research highlights poster