How captured CO2 could help mine carbon-negative nickel | New Scientist


Researchers propose a method to simultaneously capture carbon dioxide underground and extract valuable metals like nickel, crucial for clean energy technologies, by injecting CO2 into olivine-rich rocks.
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Olivine-rich rocks could be used to store CO2 and source key metalsMarieke Peche/Getty Images

Injecting carbon dioxide into rocks deep underground can turn the planet-warming gas into mineral form, permanently keeping it out of the atmosphere. Now, researchers say it may be possible to use the same process to simultaneously extract key metals used in clean electricity technology.

โ€œBy doing this surgical mining and doing things deep down-hole, weโ€™re able to keep what we donโ€™t want down there, and bring up the stuff we want,โ€ says Quin Miller at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state.โ€ฆ

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