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Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals Transitioning from a Health Risk to an Earth Resource: A Case Study in the Serpentinites of the Pollino Ophiolite Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy)
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: Received: 29 February 2024 / Approved: 29 February 2024 / Online: 29 February 2024 (10:33:49 CET)
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Rizzo, G.; Dilek, Y.; Buccione, R.; Dichicco, M.; Punturo, R. Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals Transitioning from a Health Risk to an Earth Resource: A Case Study in the Serpentinites of the Pollino Ophiolite Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy). Preprints2024, 2024021728. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1728.v1
Rizzo, G.; Dilek, Y.; Buccione, R.; Dichicco, M.; Punturo, R. Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals Transitioning from a Health Risk to an Earth Resource: A Case Study in the Serpentinites of the Pollino Ophiolite Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy). Preprints 2024, 2024021728. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1728.v1
Rizzo, G.; Dilek, Y.; Buccione, R.; Dichicco, M.; Punturo, R. Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals Transitioning from a Health Risk to an Earth Resource: A Case Study in the Serpentinites of the Pollino Ophiolite Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy). Preprints2024, 2024021728. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1728.v1
APA Style
Rizzo, G., Dilek, Y., Buccione, R., Dichicco, M., & Punturo, R. (2024). Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals Transitioning from a Health Risk to an Earth Resource: A Case Study in the Serpentinites of the Pollino Ophiolite Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1728.v1
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Rizzo, G., Marilena Dichicco and Rosalda Punturo. 2024 "Asbestos and Asbestiform Minerals Transitioning from a Health Risk to an Earth Resource: A Case Study in the Serpentinites of the Pollino Ophiolite Massif (Calabria, Southern Italy)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1728.v1
Abstract
Capturing atmospheric CO2 and storing it in natural rock systems (i.e., alkaline earth silicate and hydroxide minerals) through carbonation reactions is a promising greenhouse gas mitigation research, and largely depends on the use of hydrated ultramafic rocks (serpentinites), which are widespread in orogenic belts around the globe. The Jurassic ophiolites in the Southern Apennines represent a natural analogue and a great opportunity for the mineralogical sequestration of CO2. Serpentinites of the Pollino ophiolite Massif have been widely studied for their mineralogical, petrographic, and chemical characteristics, providing major findings on their impact on environmental and human health issues. Serpentinites here have been divided into cataclastic and massive types based on their structures and are characterized by pseudomorphic and vein textures. The mineralogy of the studied serpentinites consists of lizardite, antigorite, clino-crysotile, Cr-chlorite, magnetite, tremolite, actinolite, pyroxene and calcite, and the most commonly occurring serpentine minerals are polymorphs of serpentine including lizardite, clino-crysotile and antigorite. Systematic petrographic and mineralogical studies of serpentinites in ophiolites, such as those outcropping in the Southern Apennines can represent a starting point for the study of natural materials, which can be used for CO2 storage and sequestration. A particular attention must be given to those carbonate phases, produced by carbonation processes to check whether the serpentinites of the Pollino Massif can be used for the induced mineral Carbon Capture Storage (CCS). If successful, this technique and the Pollino Massif serpentinites can become highly significant in safeguarding the health of our planet's climate.
Keywords
Serpentinites; health risk; carbon storage and sequestration; carbonation reactions in silicate rocks; Pollino Massif; Southern Apennines; Calabrian ophiolites
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Materials Science and Technology
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