It’s All about Carbonates
Carbonate rocks, crucial for geological and economic purposes, contain metals and resources like petroleum and play a significant role in infrastructure development. Current geophysical research highlights their importance, predicting that demand will increase dramatically as the population grows and urbanizes. As these rocks can host valuable rare earth elements, exploration and understanding of carbonates are vital for future resource needs.
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Key takeaways
Carbonate rocks are porous and economically significant as they contain metals and petroleum.
The global demand for resources from carbonate rocks will increase as the population grows and urbanizes.
Exploration and understanding of carbonate rocks are crucial as they can host rare earth elements needed for modern technology.
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A Propensity to Talk Density tapped three “rock stars” in the geophysical and geology space to discuss the importance of carbonates. Lending their thoughts and expertise were Colm Murphy, Chief Geoscientist at Bell Geospace, Graham Banks, Founder of Route to Reserves, and Jean Hsieh, Geoscientist for Sedimentary Geologist Consultants.
“Modelling carbonate rocks, or ‘reservoirs’ of metals and fluids, requires integration of the right expertise and the right data types to decipher their parameters. It’s worth it: the potential mineral deposits we could find may be very valuable.”
Carbonate rocks are porous. These holes can contain metals, petroleum and other resources, which makes them very economically important.
“The human population is predicted to increase by three and a half billion people this century,” Banks said. “And two-thirds of those people are going to be living in cities. So, we have to try and imagine the volume of new night lighting and electronic hardware, wire, galvanized steel and fuel to power those machines. And what rocks are we going to find all of those raw materials in? Looking into the future, carbonate rocks should be at the forefront of our minds.”
Historically through to present day, carbonates have played an important role in finding petroleum as well as providing materials for building and progress such as cement and concrete. As we move into the future, carbonate rocks can host the rare earth elements needed for meeting increasing global demands on everything from LCD screens to mobile phones, permanent magnets in wind turbines, electric cars, and hospital equipment. So, the drive for the exploration, understanding and mapping of Earth’s carbonates is on.
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