{"id":113508,"date":"2022-08-01T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=113508"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:18:25","slug":"canada-nickel-identifies-new-method-for-accelerated-co2-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/canada-nickel-identifies-new-method-for-accelerated-co2-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Nickel Identifies New Method for Accelerated CO2 Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"A Comparison of Active IPT Carbonation vs. Passive Carbon Sequestration Rates\" class=\"wp-image-113547\" width=\"940\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10-400x223.jpg 400w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/2pmtyp10.jpg 1227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption>A Comparison of Active IPT Carbonation vs. Passive Carbon Sequestration Rates<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Simple carbon capture approach could allow production of Net Zero nickel and generation of 21 tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>credits per tonne of nickel produced after offsetting all emissions<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Demonstrates potential to turn a nickel mine into a generator of carbon credits rather than generator of carbon emissions<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Crawford Project could produce an estimated average of 710,000 tonnes of CO<sub>2&nbsp;<\/sub>credits annually and 18 million total tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;credits over expected life of mine<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Canada Nickel Company Inc. (&#8220;Canada Nickel&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (TSXV: CNC) (OTCQX:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/canada-nickel-identifies-new-method-for-accelerated-co2-capture-301589619.html#financial-modal\">CNIKF<\/a>) today announced the results of a laboratory test program for a new method of accelerated carbon capture \u2013 In Process Tailings Carbonation (&#8220;IPT Carbonation&#8221;) that the Company believes has transformative potential.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadanickel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/220719-In-Process-Carbonation-News-Release.pdf\">The lab scale test program demonstrates that this accelerated carbon capture process could allow Crawford tailings to absorb enough CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions within 36 hours, and generate up to 21 tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;credits per tonne <\/a>of nickel produced within just six days, rather than the multiple months involved in existing passive tailings approaches.&nbsp; At Canada Nickel&#8217;s Crawford Project, this translates into an average of approximately 710,000 tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;credits per year and 18 million total tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;credits over the Preliminary Economic Assessment (&#8220;PEA&#8221;) life-of-mine. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_1324885_746x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_1324885_746x466.jpg 746w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_1324885_746x466-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_1324885_746x466-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/thumbnail_1324885_746x466-400x191.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><figcaption>IPT Carbonation \u2013 CO2 Capture per Tonne of Nickel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Mark Selby, Chair and CEO of Canada Nickel<\/strong> commented, &#8220;These lab scale test results demonstrate a potentially transformative process to turn a nickel mine into a net generator of carbon credits rather than a generator of carbon emissions.&nbsp; Our active and accelerated process has the potential to operate at least 8-12 times faster than current passive approaches, delivering carbon capture at a multiple of what industry leaders are currently able to achieve.&nbsp; Our process also allows easier quantification and verification of the amount of carbon captured.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Nickel&#8217;s Crawford Project is hosted in ultramafic rock, which naturally absorbs and sequesters CO<sub>2<\/sub>. The potential to actively capture and sequester carbon was a key consideration in&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Nickel&#8217;s acquisition of the 42 km<sup>2<\/sup>of target ultramafic rocks in the&nbsp;Timmins&nbsp;area which could anchor a zero-carbon industrial cluster near&nbsp;Timmins. The challenge has been to develop a process that speeds up the naturally occurring carbon absorption process. Canada Nickel has developed a simple active process that utilizes tailings as generated in the milling process and injects a concentrated source of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;for a brief period of time. &nbsp;This novel process for accelerated mineral carbonation is called In Process Tailings Carbonation or IPT Carbonation, which fixes CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;geologically while the tailings are still in the processing circuit, rather than after they have been finally deposited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Canada Nickel&#8217;s IPT Carbonation process has only been demonstrated on a lab scale and on a limited number of samples, the Company believes that, given its relative simplicity, this process could be scaled up with availability of concentrated (rather than atmospheric) sources of CO<sub>2<\/sub>. This CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;could potentially be delivered by downstream processing of Crawford concentrates, a wide range of industrial processing activities, green hydrogen production, carbon capture facilities, or natural gas power generation.&nbsp; The process clearly demonstrates the potential to produce NetZero Nickel<sup>TM<\/sup>&nbsp;and NetZero Cobalt<sup>TM<\/sup>&nbsp;for the EV industry, NetZero Iron<sup>TM<\/sup>&nbsp;and chromium for the stainless steel industry and generate substantial carbon credits during the process. The Company believes that the need for a concentrated source of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;for this process and the substantial CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;capture capacity potential of its ultramafic land position could form the basis for an entire zero carbon industrial cluster in the&nbsp;Timmins&nbsp;region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw-1024x521.jpg\" alt=\"A Comparison of CO2 Capture Between the High Brucite (3.5% Brucite) and Average Brucite Samples (1.9% Brucite)\" class=\"wp-image-113550\" width=\"927\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw-1024x521.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw-400x204.jpg 400w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/07\/lg5m1hjw.jpg 1247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><figcaption>A Comparison of CO2 Capture Between the High Brucite (3.5% Brucite) and Average Brucite Samples (1.9% Brucite)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>IPT Carbonation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The IPT Carbonation process utilizes tailings directly from the mineral processing circuit and conditions them with CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;for a brief period of time.&nbsp; After this conditioning, the tailings achieved the Net Zero carbon capture target in less than 36 hours and achieved gross carbon capture rates of at least 26 tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;\/ tonne of nickel (5 times the amount necessary to achieve Net Zero metal production) in just 6 days. &nbsp;During this time, the rate of capture was 8 to 12 times faster than a lab scale passive approach. (see Figures 1a,&nbsp;1b, 2, 3).&nbsp; Both samples tested with IPT Carbonation have achieved or surpassed the complete theoretical carbonation of the ultramafic mineral brucite, which is significant as the capacity of brucite to sequester carbon, at Crawford alone, is estimated to be more than 13 million tonnes of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;over the estimated life of the project. The experimental method and results for IPT Carbonation were initially completed at XPS, Expert Process Solutions, a Glencore Company, and the mechanism was then reproduced at a second independent lab, Kingston Process Metallurgy, adding confidence to the process. No further information is being provided on the method at this time and work is underway to test a wide range of variables to optimize the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on mineralogy data captured in the Crawford PEA, the average brucite concentration of samples characterized in the resource was 2.0%. &nbsp;&nbsp;These initial lab scale results suggest that carbon capture beyond the theoretical maximum in brucite is possible.&nbsp; Canada Nickel is working towards incorporating the brucite content into the block model as an estimate for the total carbon capture potential of the project in the feasibility study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Validation and Measurement of CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;Credits<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>IPT Carbonation, which is an active process, has benefits over passive mineral carbon capture as the method for quantifying and verifying CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;capture is expected to be much simpler. Using a standard carbon balance in the mineral processing facility, the CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;captured from IPT Carbonation can be quantified before tailings are discharged into the permanent tailings storage facility such that carbon offsets can be quantified in real time as part of a standard metallurgical accounting system. Canada Nickel expects industry standards to be developed for quantifying CO<sub>2<\/sub>capture through passive methods as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Qualified Person and Data Verification<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Arthur G. Stokreef, P.Eng (ON), Manager of Process Engineering &amp; Geometallurgy, Canada Nickel Company, and a &#8220;qualified person&#8221; as such term is defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release on behalf of Canada Nickel Company Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Canada Nickel<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Nickel Company Inc. is advancing the next generation of nickel-sulphide projects to deliver nickel required to feed the high growth electric vehicle and stainless steel markets. Canada Nickel Company has applied in multiple jurisdictions to trademark the terms NetZero Nickel\u2122, NetZero Cobalt\u2122 and NetZero Iron\u2122 and is pursuing the development of processes to allow the production of net zero carbon nickel, cobalt, and iron products. Canada Nickel provides investors with leverage to nickel in low political risk jurisdictions. Canada Nickel is currently anchored by its 100% owned flagship Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulphide Project in the heart of the prolific&nbsp;Timmins-Cochrane&nbsp;mining camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Selby, Chair and CEO<br>Phone: 647-256-1954<br>Email:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">info@canadanickel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights Simple carbon capture approach could allow production of Net Zero nickel and generation of 21 tonnes of CO2credits per tonne of nickel produced after offsetting all emissions Demonstrates potential to turn a nickel mine into a generator of carbon credits rather than generator of carbon emissions Crawford Project could produce an estimated average of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"New carbon capture process could allow Crawford tailings to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions within 36 hours, and generate up to 21 tonnes of CO2 credits per tonne of nickel produced within just six days","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[10744,10416,10743],"supplier":[20733],"class_list":["post-113508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-useco2","supplier-canada-nickel-company-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113508"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=113508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}