Land‐based enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a biogeochemical carbon dioxide removal
(CDR) strategy aiming to accelerate natural geological processes of carbon sequestration …

Potash fertilizer production is one of the most important economic activities. Historically,
potash mining has had a significant impact on the environment, often with catastrophic …

Mafic igneous rocks, such as basalt, are composed of abundant calcium-and magnesium-
rich silicate minerals widely proposed to be suitable for scalable carbon dioxide removal …

X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, as one of the most powerful methods, has been widely used
to identify and quantify minerals in earth science. How to improve the precision of mineral …

Mineral resources are fundamental to the growth and development of human society.
Extraction of metal ores has risen very slightly as a proportion of all resources, while …

The current rate of discovery of new boron minerals (65 species or potential species
described from 2008 to 2017) is higher than at any prior 10 year period, implying that rates …

Abstract The United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 calls for a
transformative action to eradicate hunger and poverty and is particularly important for food …

Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a promising technology being actively investigated to
ameliorate anthropogenic climate change. ERW accelerates atmospheric carbon dioxide …

Urmia Lake resides as a substantial hypersaline lake characterized by notable fluctuations
in water salinity, brine composition, and water level over long-term, annual, and seasonal …

Most fertilizers have some tendency to form agglomerates (caking) during storage. This
caking is usually effected by: chemical composition, particle structure, moisture content …