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"Certainly there will be minor impacts; it all comes down to what percentage of that environment we're going to be influencing and in those vast areas off the coast we are likely to be influencing only a very small percentage of the ground or point of a percentage of that ground and we'll do so in terms of established mining practices with the Namibian government.

Woodborne added that standard practice in the marine mining industry is to redeposit a large portion of mined material on the seabed almost immediately.

"After that it's a case of putting the tailings directly over the ground that's been mined so it's almost an immediate replacement of a large portion of the material. After that it's allowing the ocean to do its normal work of regenerating itself and reestablishing itself."