Why Remineralize?

Carbon Sequestration

• Remineralization must play a major role in climate change mitigation and ecosystem repair. Soil is the only place on earth where it is feasible to store large amounts of Carbon that we need to draw down from the atmosphere. Carbon is a beneficial component of soil, increasing fertility and water retention.


• Rock dust sequesters CO2 in two main ways: by increasing plant biomass (capturing CO2 through photosynthesis) and by rock weathering (chemically capturing CO2 and locking it into soil).


• The amount of Carbon per year cycled in and out of the atmosphere through plant photosynthesis and respiration is an order of magnitude more than the amount released by human activity each year. Mother nature's carbon machines are already much more massive than any machine we could build to suck CO2, and proven over millions of years to work. Working with natural processes to maximize the biomass of plants, as well as managing the soil so that their biomass is retained, is the most effective and cost-effective way of drawing CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Healthy soil, healthy crops, healthy people

• Rock dust increases plant biomass, increasing crop yields.


• Rock dust increases the nutritional value of crops (you need to eat five apples today to have the same nutrition of one apple in 1965!) With remineralization: higher brix counts, better flavor, and increased nutritional density to foods. This means better physical and mental health for humans, animals, and ecosystems.


• Rock dust increases resilience of plants to weather extremes. Rock dust increases soil health and micro-organism populations, and as a result chemical pesticides and fertilizers are not needed. Increasing plant resilience prevents soil erosion and desertification, increasing the amount of productive and green land on Earth.


• By restoring a natural soil ecosystem, mineral blends can help to repair soil that has been damaged by chemical pesticides or fertilizers.


• Rock dust mimics natural mineralization that occurs through glaciation, which is why a post-ice-age world is so fertile. Through time and farming practices over the millennia, glacial mineralization has been depleted. The addition of minerals from various geological areas increases the productivity and resilience of the land. Minerals remain in the soil for decades+, so it is not necessary to repeat every year.

More Information about Rock Dust:

• The inimitable Remineralize The Earth organization remineralize.org

Articles on rock dust for CO2 sequestration:

1. Removal of atmospheric CO2 by rock weathering holds promise for mitigating climate change (Nature, 2020)
2. Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts of CO2 from air (The Guardian, 2020)
3. Rock Dust in Farming: A Potential Strategy to Help Close the Climate Gap (Columbia.edu, 2018)
4. Rock Dust Could Be Farming’s Next Climate Solution (Smithsonian, 2020)
5. Simulating carbon capture by enhanced weathering with croplands: an overview of key processes highlighting areas of future model development (Royal Society, 2017)
6. Understanding the long-term carbon-cycle: weathering of rocks - a vitally important carbon-sink (Skeptical Science, 2013)
7. Rock’s power to mop up carbon revisited (Nature, 2014)
8. Farming crops with rocks to reduce CO2 and improve global food security (University of Sheffield, 2018)
9. Geologists map rocks to soak CO2 from air (Phys.org, 2009)
10. University of California receives $4.7M to Study Carbon Sequestration with Rock Dust, Compost and Biochar (Remineralize.org, 2019)

Dr. Tom Goreau on Rock Dust and Biochar as a Strategy for Carbon Sequestration



Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation researching Rock Dust for CO2 sequestration



Remineralized Eggs

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