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<ul><li><p>Putting science first. TMC’s recent announcement of a deepening of its relationship with Norway’s leading software company, Kongsberg Digital, to further develop its Digital Twin software serves as another indication of the company’s efforts to move beyond simplistic and often alarmist computer models based on little to no actual data and instead to develop robust monitoring and analytical capabilities that can help regulators ensure mining code compliance, while helping TMC optimize its production process, increase operating efficiencies, and further reduce the environmental impact of seabed mining.</p></li><li><p>Putting multiple tools to work. As with many of TMC’s key system components, the prototype Digital Twin was deployed and put to work during the company’s successful large-scale pilot collection test conducted in 4Q22 that not only collected and transported to the surface more than 300 wet tons of polymetallic nodules but generated more than 200 terabytes of data collected from a suite of marine sensors throughout the water column.</p></li><li><p>The renewed and expanded collaboration between TMC and Kongsberg will allow for integration of Digital Twin into the broader Adaptive Management System that will use AI and hybrid machine learning to analyze data from the immense amount of live operational sensor telemetry and provide real-time 3D visualization of TMC’s deep-sea operating environment to mining regulators and other stakeholders that can help monitor and assess the impact of seabed mining from operational and environmental perspectives.</p></li></ul>

Putting science first. TMC’s recent announcement of a deepening of its relationship with Norway’s leading software company, Kongsberg Digital, to further develop its Digital Twin software serves as another indication of the company’s efforts to move beyond simplistic and often alarmist computer models based on little to no actual data and instead to develop robust monitoring and analytical capabilities that can help regulators ensure mining code compliance, while helping TMC optimize its production process, increase operating efficiencies, and further reduce the environmental impact of seabed mining.Putting multiple tools to work. As with many of TMC’s key system components, the prototype Digital Twin was deployed and put to work during the company’s successful large-scale pilot collection test conducted in 4Q22 that not only collected and transported to the surface more than 300 wet tons of polymetallic nodules but generated more than 200 terabytes of data collected from a suite of marine sensors throughout the water column.The renewed and expanded collaboration between TMC and Kongsberg will allow for integration of Digital Twin into the broader Adaptive Management System that will use AI and hybrid machine learning to analyze data from the immense amount of live operational sensor telemetry and provide real-time 3D visualization of TMC’s deep-sea operating environment to mining regulators and other stakeholders that can help monitor and assess the impact of seabed mining from operational and environmental perspectives.

TMC the Metals Company, Inc. - Scientific Data > Preconceptions

<div><div><div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li><p>Keeping a tight rein on expenses. TMC reported 2Q23 results that included a significant reduction in SG&amp;A expenses from $8.1 million in year-ago period to $5.1 million, demonstrating the company’s ability to operate and move the NORI project forward at a significantly lower cash burn rate, suggesting that liquidity may be a diminishing investor concern.</p></li><li><p>Time to production extended; certainty increased.</p></li><li><p>While some observers may have been disappointed with the ISA’s failure to complete the undersea mining code creation process in July 2023, as originally envisioned, the July session featured the ISA’s renewed commitment to complete the code over the next three sessions (and inter-session discussions) that allowed TMC to announce a definitive timeline for NORI-D exploitation applications submission (3Q24) and beginning of commercial nodule collection envisioned under Project Zero (4Q25), establishing a timetable for getting to revenue and profitability.</p></li></ul></div></div></div></div>

Keeping a tight rein on expenses. TMC reported 2Q23 results that included a significant reduction in SG&amp;A expenses from $8.1 million in year-ago period to $5.1 million, demonstrating the company’s ability to operate and move the NORI project forward at a significantly lower cash burn rate, suggesting that liquidity may be a diminishing investor concern.Time to production extended; certainty increased.While some observers may have been disappointed with the ISA’s failure to complete the undersea mining code creation process in July 2023, as originally envisioned, the July session featured the ISA’s renewed commitment to complete the code over the next three sessions (and inter-session discussions) that allowed TMC to announce a definitive timeline for NORI-D exploitation applications submission (3Q24) and beginning of commercial nodule collection envisioned under Project Zero (4Q25), establishing a timetable for getting to revenue and profitability.

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<p>The proposed equity issue and additional resources will largely complete the funding requirement for The Metals Company’s (TMC’s) further environmental study and completion of its mining application, which it intends to file in July 2024. While the regulatory delays in the International Seabed Authority’s (ISA’s) implementation of the mining exploitation code were disappointing, momentum behind the legislative process remains positive and the stepping stones towards TMC’s production of battery metals from the deep sea are steadily falling into place.</p>

The proposed equity issue and additional resources will largely complete the funding requirement for The Metals Company’s (TMC’s) further environmental study and completion of its mining application, which it intends to file in July 2024. While the regulatory delays in the International Seabed Authority’s (ISA’s) implementation of the mining exploitation code were disappointing, momentum behind the legislative process remains positive and the stepping stones towards TMC’s production of battery metals from the deep sea are steadily falling into place.

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<li>The end is in sight. Although July 2023 meetings of the ISA ended without finalizing the international sea mining code, the agency made significant progress on the regulations with members re-committing themselves to complete the work on mining regulations in a timely fashion.</li>
<li>The ISA rejected an attempt by a group of nations looking for a long-term moratorium or a ban on undersea mining in international waters.</li>
<li>With three meetings scheduled through July 2024, the ISA will continue to work to build consensus and finalize the mining code.</li>
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The end is in sight. Although July 2023 meetings of the ISA ended without finalizing the international sea mining code, the agency made significant progress on the regulations with members re-committing themselves to complete the work on mining regulations in a timely fashion.
The ISA rejected an attempt by a group of nations looking for a long-term moratorium or a ban on undersea mining in international waters.
With three meetings scheduled through July 2024, the ISA will continue to work to build consensus and finalize the mining code.


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WTR Sustainable Index: During the week ended July 7, 2023, the WTR Sustainable Index outperformed the broader market, rising 3.3% W/W versus the S&amp;P 500 Index (down 1.2%), the Russell 2000 Index (down 1.3%), and the Nasdaq Composite Index (down 0.9%).







Advanced Transportation Solutions (75.2% of the index) contributed to the index’s outperformance, rising 4.7%, while Energy Technology (6.5% of the index) was up 0.4% and Industrial Climate and Ag Technology was down 0.8%.


Valuation: Based on forward 12-month consensus estimates, the current P/E ratio of the WTR Sustainable index is 25.3x versus 20.5x for the S&amp;P 500.



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TMC the metals company Inc. operates as an electric vehicles battery metal company. The Company produces metals from polymetallic rocks to store clean energy and power electric vehicles. TMC the metals serves customers worldwide.

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TMC the Metals Company, Inc. - Scientific Data > Preconceptions

TMC’s recent announcement of a deepening of its relationship with Norway’s leading software company, Kongsberg Digital, to further develop its...

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TMC the Metals Company, Inc. -The Resource Is the Resource

TMC reported 2Q23 results that included a significant reduction in SG&A expenses from $8.1 million in year-ago period to $5.1 million

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The Metals Company - Two steps forward, one step back

The proposed equity issue and additional resources will largely complete the funding requirement for The Metals Company’s (TMC’s) further...

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TMC the Metals Company, Inc. - Extended Timeline Comes with Increased Certainty

The ISA rejected an attempt by a group of nations looking for a long-term moratorium or a ban on undersea mining in international waters.

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Weekly Sustainable Investing Surveyor Week Ended July 7, 2023

Based on forward 12-month consensus estimates, the current P/E ratio of the WTR Sustainable index is 25.3x versus 20.5x for the S&P 500.

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