Could a Scottish basalt quarry help turbocharge the carbon cycle?

Cecilia Keating
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Could a Scottish basalt quarry help turbocharge the carbon cycle?

In the first of a series of features on the UK's nascent carbon removal sector, BusinessGreen reports from Fife, where crushed basalt rock is being spread on fields to draw carbon from the air at breakneck pace

At the Orrock Quarry in Fife, huge trucks are careering around manmade mountains of rock, buckets and backends loaded with a coarse black material. The machines are circling a crushing machine, which extends...

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