Abstract
Carbon mineralization, the sequestration of carbon within minerals, presents one method through which we could control rising levels of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The mineral wastes produced by some ultramafic-hosted mines have the ability to sequester atmospheric CO2 via passive carbonation reactions. Carbon accounting in mine tailings is typically performed using laboratory-based quantitative X-ray diffraction (XRD) or thermogravimetric methods, which are used to measure the abundances of carbonate-bearing minerals such as hydromagnesite [Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2⋅4H2O] and pyroaurite [Mg6
Acknowledgments
Funding for this work was provided by grants from Carbon Management Canada and the New South Wales Department of Industry to S.A.W. and G.S. We acknowledge the assistance of Kate Maddison, Nick Staheyeff, Catherine Karpiel, and Brad Mullard from the NSW Department of Industry for granting us access to the field site and for their support of our work at Woodsreef. Our particular thanks go to K.M. for her knowledgeable advice and support in the field. We also thank Ben Grguric from the South Australian Museum for providing us with samples of iowaite and Marion Anderson of Monash University for providing us with samples of magnetite. We are grateful to Denise Levitan and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive comments, which have improved this manuscript, and to Mickey Gunter for editorial handling.
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