China Ocean Mineral Resource R&D Association

COMRA came into existence in 1990 and registered as one of seven pioneer investors for the Preparatory Committee for the International Seabed Authority and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 1991. It signed its first exploration contract for polymetallic nodules with the Authority In 2001 and gained the exclusive right for exploration and preferential right for exploitation in the contract area. Then in 2011 and 2014，COMRA signed exploration contracts for polymetallic sulfides

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COMRA came into existence in 1990 and registered as one of seven pioneer investors for the Preparatory Committee for the International Seabed Authority and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in 1991. It signed its first exploration contract for polymetallic nodules with the Authority In 2001 and gained the exclusive right for exploration and preferential right for exploitation in the contract area. Then in 2011 and 2014，COMRA signed exploration contracts for polymetallic sulfides

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People's Republic of China

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1990

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http://www.comra.org/en/index.htm

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