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Using stable Mg isotope signatures to assess the fate of magnesium during the in-situ mineralisation of CO2 and H2S at the CarbFix site in SW-Iceland

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Oelkers, Eric H., Butcher, Rhiannon, Pogge von Strandmann, Philip A.E., Schuessler, Jan A., von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm, Snæbjörnsdóttir, Sandra Ó., Mesfin, Kiflom, Aradóttir, Edda Sif +6 more·2019·Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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The in-situ carbonation of basaltic rocks could provide a long-term carbon storage solution. To investigate the viability of this carbon storage solution, 175 tonnes of pure CO2 and 73 tonnes of a 75% CO2-24% H2S-1% H2-gas mixture were sequentially injected into basaltic rocks as a dissolved aqueous fluid at the CarbFix site at Hellisheidi, SW-Iceland. This paper reports the Mg stable isotope compositions of sub-surface fluids sampled prior to, during, and after the CO2 injections. These Mg isotopic compositions are used to trace the fate of this element during the subsurface carbonation of basalts. The measured Mg isotopic compositions of the monitoring well fluids are isotopically lighter than the dissolving basalts and continue to become increasingly lighter for at least two years after the gas-charged water injection was stopped. The results indicate that the formation of isotopically heavy Mg-clays rather than Mg-carbonates are the predominant Mg secondary phases precipitating from the sampled fluids. Isotope mass balance calculations suggest that more than 70% of the Mg liberated from the basalt by the injected gas charged water was precipitated as Mg-clays, with this percentage increasing with time after the injection, consistent with the continued precipitation of Mg clays over the whole of the study period. The formation of Mg clays in response to the injection of CO2 into basalts, as indicated in this study, could be detrimental to carbon storage efforts because the formation of these minerals consume divalent Mg that could otherwise be used for the formation of carbonate minerals and because such clays could decrease host rock permeability.

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  • The findings support the conclusion that the majority of injected CO2 migrated through and mineralised within the porous media of the storage reservoir.

    “The significance of these findings to the outcomes of the CarbFix experiment are validatory, in that they support the conclusion that the majority of injected CO 2 migrated through and mineralised within the porous media of the storage reservoir (Matter et al., 2016;Oelkers et al., 2019;Pogge von Strandmann et al., 2019).”

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Oelkers, E. H., Butcher, R., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., Schuessler, J. A., von Blanckenburg, F., Snæbjörnsdóttir, S. Ó., Mesfin, K., Aradóttir, E. S., Gunnarsson, I., Sigfússon, B., Gunnlaugsson, E., Matter, J. M., Stute, M., & Gislason, S. R.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences (DE)
  • University of Iceland (IS)
  • Reykjavík Energy (Iceland) (IS)
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (US)
Venue
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-01
Volume
245
Pages
542-555
ISSN
0016-7037 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2901035054
Cited by
53
References
105
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 8
FWCI
3.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) (submittedVersion)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Orkuveita Reykjavíkur
  • U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FE0004847)
  • European Commission (317235, 764760, MC-RTN-35488, PITN-GA-2008-215360)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Keywords
CarbFix, magnesium carbonate, isotope mass balance, carbon storage, subsurface fluids, CO2 sequestration

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