Oman Signs World's First Commercial Peridotite Carbon Mineralization Concession
The Hajar Mountains in Oman contain one of the world’s largest exposed formations of peridotite — a rock from Earth’s mantle that naturally reacts with CO₂ and locks it away as solid mineral carbonate. The Semail Ophiolite alone has sequestered over one billion tonnes of CO₂ through this process, over millions of years. Now someone’s trying to speed it up. 44.01, an Omani startup named after the molecular weight of carbon dioxide, has signed a concession with Oman’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals for the world’s first commercial-scale peridotite mineralization project at Al Qabil in the Hajar Mountains. ...