Frontier selects Arca in largest carbon removal purchase round
Frontier announced that it has facilitated $11M of carbon removal purchases, its largest round to date, from seven companies, including Arca (previously Carbin Minerals), on behalf of Stripe and Shopify.
Announcements
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Carbin Minerals is now Arca – a new identity and bold mission to restore the Earth’s atmosphere
Read moreCarbin Minerals has unveiled a new brand identity and name – “Arca”. The update reflects the evolution of the company from its academic roots at the University of British Columbia to becoming the market leader in carbon mineralization.
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Carbin Minerals wins $1 million milestone award from XPRIZE and the Musk Foundation
Read moreThe XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition was launched to encourage carbon removal innovators to work on tackling the biggest threat facing humanity: fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle.
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Meet Canada’s most investable cleantech ventures – the 2022 Foresight 50
Read moreCarbin Minerals is listed to the Foresight 50, a group of cleantech ventures who are solving the most pressing global climate issues with made-in-Canada solutions.
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Shopify’s Sustainability Fund Partners With Vancouver’s Carbin Minerals
Read moreShopify announced new partnerships with nine entrepreneurial, climate-forward trailblazers through its Sustainability Fund, bringing their total carbon removal purchase commitment to $32 million. One of the newly added partners is Vancouver’s own Carbin Minerals.
Media coverage
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Mining is a polluting business. Can new tech make it cleaner?
Read moreMining will always have environmental impacts, but new approaches could help reduce them as the world digs up more metals for renewable energy.
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Carbon capture company founded by UBC geologists wins $1M international funding prize
Read moreCarbin Minerals Inc. has figured out how to speed up the mineralization of carbon dioxide in rocks.
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Mines can become “huge carbon sinks,” UBC researchers say
Read moreCarbin Minerals, founded by Dr. Greg Dipple, Bethany Ladd, and Dr. Peter Scheuermann, is a carbon-capture company that partners with mines and uses their technology to turn tailings ponds into “huge carbon sinks.”
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More low-carbon nickel the plea for 2022
Read moreCarbin Minerals is developing a technology that directly sponges CO2 out of the atmosphere into the tailings left behind from mining nickel, cobalt, and other metals.
Resources
Publications
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Strategizing carbon-neutral mines: A case for pilot projects
Read moreIan M Power, Jenine McCutcheon, Anna L Harrison, Siobhan A Wilson, Gregory M Dipple, Simone Kelly, Colette Southam, Gordon Southam
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International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
Offsetting of CO2 emissions by air capture in mine tailings at the Mount Keith Nickel Mine, Western Australia: Rates, controls and prospects for carbon neutral mining
Read moreSiobhan A Wilson, Anna L Harrison, Gregory M Dipple, Ian M Power, Shaun LL Barker, K Ulrich Mayer, Stewart J Fallon, Mati Raudsepp, Gordon Southam
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Applied Geochemistry
Rate and capacity of cation release from ultramafic mine tailings for carbon capture and storage
Read moreXueya Lu, Kate J Carroll, Connor C Turvey, Gregory M Dipple