President Donald Trump reportedly signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to expedite U.S. mining of the ocean floor.

While some companies have promoted the idea, deep sea mining has never been done on a large scale before.

The Hill reported that Trump’s order directs the commerce secretary to accelerate permits for commercial undersea exploration and mining and directs the interior secretary to develop a program to enable U.S. coastal mining.

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