🇴🇲 Oman just signed the world's first commercial concession for peridotite carbon mineralization.

Startup 44.01 will inject dissolved CO₂ into the Hajar Mountains' peridotite rock, where it reacts and solidifies permanently. 88-91% removal efficiency across the supply chain.

Not DAC. Not biochar. Rock.

https://www.captaindrawdown.com/posts/oman-44-01-peridotite-mineralization-concession/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #Oman #Mineralization

Mining produces 7–10 billion tonnes of alkaline waste rock every year. A new whitepaper makes the case that geochemical CDR — using mineral reactions in mine tailings to capture CO₂ — could be one of the largest scaling pathways for carbon removal.

No new mines needed. Turn a cost center into a revenue stream.

https://captaindrawdown.com/posts/2026-03-10-geochemical-cdr-mining-whitepaper/

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #Mining #Mineralization

New preprint: naturally occurring sodium carbonate and bicarbonate deposits could serve as permanent CO₂ storage — a geological CDR pathway that doesn't need fans or sorbents.

Nature already builds mineral carbon sinks. The question is whether we can accelerate them industrially.

#CarbonRemoval #CDR #Mineralization #ClimateScience

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🌲In temperate forests, changes in the dominance gradient of #EctomycorrhizalTreeSpecies significantly affect both aboveground and underground forest properties.

#EnzymaticActivity | #ForestCommunityStructure | #Mineralization | #SoilMicrobialCommunity | #SoilOrganicCarbon

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf143

Mineralization (geology) (Mineralogy 💎)

In geology, mineralization is the deposition of economically important metals in the formation of ore bodies or "lodes" by various process. The first scientific studies of this process took place in the English county of Cornwall by J.W.Henwood FRS and later by R.W. Fox, FRS. The term can also refer to the process by which waterborne miner...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralization_(geology)

#Mineralization #Mineralogy #OreDeposits #EconomicGeology

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Above- and belowground effects of ectomycorrhizal dominance on soil carbon and nitrogen in a temperate forest

#EctomycorrhizalTreeSpecies | #EnzymaticActivity | #ForestCommunityStructure | #Mineralization | #SoilMicrobialCommunity | #SoilOrganicCarbon

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf143

Underground carbon mineralization opens up a new opportunity for direct air capture.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/06/persistence-pays-off-for-direct-air-carbon-capture-and-mineralization/

#carboncapture #directaircapture #dac #carbonsequestration #mineralization #rockweathering #carbon #carbonremoval #iceland #innovation #startups #climateaction #carbonsolutions #geothermal #geothermalenergy #carbonemissions #sustainable #sustainability

Underground carbon mineralization opens up a new opportunity for direct air capture.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/06/persistence-pays-off-for-direct-air-carbon-capture-and-mineralization/

#carboncapture #directaircapture #dac #carbonsequestration #mineralization #rockweathering #carbon #carbonremoval #iceland #innovation #startups #climateaction #carbonsolutions #geothermal #geothermalenergy #carbonemissions #sustainable #sustainability