Reflection on Oceans minerals discussion

A group discussion + proposal
Group members- Ogi, Matija, Han &Ajda
Questions-

Why are minerals important?
• Because they use them for daily life purposes such as building materials, medicine and many more important uses
What minerals are found in the world’s oceans?
• Diamonds
• Salt
• Potassium
• Magnesium.
• Sand and Gravel.
• Limestone and Gypsum.
• Manganese Nodules.
• Phosphoresces
• Placer Gold
• Tin
• Titanium


Why are these minerals so valuable?
• Because the process of getting them cost a lot of money
• Because most of the diamonds lie on the continental shelf

Who should have the right to receive them or the profits?
• All countries around the specific ocean should have the right to own the minerals
• The wealthy countries should share the minerals they find with the developing countries, but in return the developing countries should share their minerals


What are the problems with mining in the oceans?
• It is very expensive
• It causes earthquakes
• They don’t have the tools to mine in some countries
• Some countries are able to mine the minerals from the oceans but do not want to share them

Blue Questions-
Who owns the oceans minerals?
• Mainly the countries around that part of the ocean
• Everyone should share their profits/founds
What are the rights?
• The people that find the minerals
• The governments
• Wealthy countries should produce the process and they should share it with the developing countries because they don’t have the privilege to afford it, but in return they need to give workers in return
• By 2003, 157 nations had signed the law of the Sea treaty. The mining profits must be shared between all nations. Because of the treaty some nations think that everyone should share their technology and profits they get from the deposits

Do you agree with them?
• Yes we do agree, because every country no matter if they are wealthy or developing should have the rights to have those minerals

The proposal-
Solve the problem without war-
• We had some disagreements about what to write, because everyone had their own ideas but in the end we ended up voting to get the right proposal.
• We also had many different answer possibilities so we ended up writing down more than one idea from more than one person
• We should make a law saying that no matter who finds the minerals has the rights to keep them, no matter where it is
• They should also share/trade what they find with the developing countries
• The red writing is the highlights of our discussion or the disagreements that we had
• The black is what we decided

Reflection

First I think we did a really good job on this discussion. We all listened to each others comments and also learned new things. And while we were doing that we had fun at the same time doing it. Everyone stayed on task we always made sure we had enough time to answer every question and we did it all and had good answers. Everyone when they did there job did really well. Ajda did a great job writting it all down. Ogi did great because we stayed on time. And Matija did a really good job reporting our information and explaining what we talked about. I think we made a good team.