Olivine rocks could be used to store CO2 and key metals of origin
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Injecting carbon dioxide into deep rocks underground can convert the planet’s gas into a mineral form, keeping it permanently 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.
“When doing this surgical mining and doing things in the background, we can maintain what we do not want there, and mention the things we want,” says Quin Miller in the National Laboratory of the Northwest of the Pacific (PNNL) in the state of Washington …