Joe Hattersley - Climate Action: Carbon Dioxide Removal in Mine Waste through Weathering

In this episode of the Meliora Podcast from the Sustainability & Resilience Institute at the University of Southampton, we are joined by Joe Hattersley (BSc Environmental Geoscience) to explain why you should care about mine waste.  We discuss how strange fluids draining from huge mine waste piles in the mountains of Cyprus relate to Carbon Dioxide removal, circular thinking, and a variety of SDGs. Plus, the episode offers some advice and insights from Simon and the university experience.

Very good journal article on enhanced weathering and tailings: Frontiers | Global Carbon Dioxide Removal Potential of Waste Materials From Metal and Diamond Mining (frontiersin.org)

Article on the waters of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. A little geochemical and geology heavy but great context: Active near-surface mobilisation of slab-derived geochemical signatures by hyperalkaline waters in brecciated serpentinites - ScienceDirect

 Small and friendly article on the asbestos mine (less  complex geology): https://www.visitsolea.com/amiantos-asbestos-mine/?lang=en

The Meliora Podcast Student Research Symposium is part of the 2024 Student Takeover Season where we celebrate the fantastic sustainability research work of our Undergraduate Students.

Guest: Joe Hattersley (Third-Year BSc Environmental Geoscience Student)
Host: Prof Simon Kemp
Editor: Sophie Green

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