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Most metals are not in any economic concentrations in seawater. The only exceptions are sodium and magnesium. A company did start up trying to extract lithium from seawater but it went bust but the technology will certainly be looked at again when lithium is needed in large amounts for making batteries. Bioengineering technology may be used in the future to get bacteria and algae to concentrate metals from seawater.

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Metals in seawater are present in very low concentrations, making extraction inefficient and costly. The process of extracting metals from seawater is also complicated by factors such as high energy requirements, competition with other ions, and the presence of impurities. As a result, most metals are economically extracted from land-based mineral deposits.

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