History
Colmek Company was founded in 1977 by Tom Meyer to fulfill a contract of developing a deep sea mining experiment. The contract was offered by International Nickel, a Canadian company, to harvest manganese nodules off the coast of Hawaii. Companies from Germany, Japan and the United States were also in a consortium with International Nickel to fulfill the project.
There were two phases of the project. The first phase was surveying areas of high concentration of manganese nodules that were mapped out. The second stage was a follow up stage where a drilling vessel from SEDCO was sent out. It was at then that Tom Meyer offered ownership to the company. In 1978 employees Tom Hilton and Brent Miller acquired Meyer’s interest in the company, with the approval of International Nickel.
The collection phase was tested south of Hawaii and was highly successful. When the project ended in 1979, Tom Hilton and Brent Miller headquartered Colmek in Salt Lake City.
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