Interesting: The deep-sea drilling startup The Metals Company just inked a nearly $90 million deal with a major South Korean metal refiner.

It's a big step forward for TMC, which benefited from one of Trump's executive orders recently as the U.S. looks to make its controversial ocean-floor mining project a competition with China.  

https://investors.metals.co/news-releases/news-release-details/tmc-announces-strategic-investment-korea-zinc-world-leader-non

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Err, sorry I meant to write deep-sea mining, not drilling. The company doesn't drill, it collects metal-rich nodules from the seafloor.