AME JV video: Arca pilots new carbon capture tech at BHP mine

Canada’s Arca Climate Technologies expects to publish results in about six months from a new carbon-capture method being tested at a BHP (NYSE: BHP) nickel mine, founder Greg Dipple says in a new video.

Arca’s pilot project, now running at BHP’s Mount Keith property in Western Australia, aims to capture CO2 from the air and permanently store it in mineral tailings, Dipple said in a recent interview at the AME Roundup conference in Vancouver. The privately held company, which was spun off from a University of British Columbia research project, is hoping to convince miners of its technology’s effectiveness.

“If you look at the scale of mining in ultramafic rocks today and the historical deposits of tailings, there is the opportunity to store billions of tonnes of CO2,” Dipple said. Results of the pilot project will “demonstrate the scale at which we can capture CO2.”

Dipple spoke with Henry Lazenby, The Northern Miner‘s Western editor. Watch the full conversation below. Joint venture videos are paid-for content in arrangement with The Northern Miner.