“…Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is a major component of a portfolio of advanced energy technologies required to mediate the rise in concentration of atmospheric CO 2 . In particular, sequestration of CO 2 as geochemically stable solid carbonates of Ca, Mg, and Fe through reaction with basaltic rocks has been tendered as a possible permanent sink for CO 2 (Seifritz, 1990;McGrail et al, 2006;Alfredsson et al, 2008;Oelkers et al, 2008;Gislason et al, 2009;Goldberg et al, 2009;Shikazono et al, 2009;Schaef et al, 2010). Immense basalt provinces exist worldwide in: Iceland, Hawaii, the Columbia River Plateau and India's Deccan Volcanic Province (McGrail et al, 2006;Prasad et al, 2009).…”