Stack Carbon has established a strategic operational partnership with ALOM Mining & Geohydro Services, a leading mining, geology, and mineral exploration consultancy in Uganda, to anchor the feedstock supply chain and geological operations for its Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) projects.
The partnership combines Stack Carbon's carbon removal deployment platform with ALOM's extensive geological expertise, active quarry network, and mineral processing infrastructure across the country. Together, the two organizations are establishing an end-to-end mineral supply chain designed to scale permanent carbon removal across East Africa.
Why Stack Carbon Chose ALOM
Executing Enhanced Rock Weathering with scientific rigor requires far more than sourcing raw rock. It demands precise mineral selection, verified geochemical safety, low-carbon transport logistics, and responsible local operational stewardship.
ALOM emerged as the ideal strategic partner because its operational footprint and geological expertise provide the physical foundation required to build a reliable and scalable mineral supply chain.
1. Multi-Quarry Footprint & Industrial Mineral Reserves
ALOM operates and manages a network of quarry operations and industrial mineral assets across Uganda. Sourcing directly from ALOM's established quarrying footprint provides Stack Carbon with greater visibility into feedstock availability and supply-chain execution.
- Guaranteed Mineral Access: Reliable supply lines of high-purity silicate rocks, including basalt, nepheline and other mafic minerals rich in the cations needed for rapid dissolution in tropical soils.
- Low Extraction Overhead: Leveraging active, operational quarries rather than developing greenfield extraction sites significantly reduces capital expenditure and supply-chain lead times.
2. Deep Geological Expertise & Geochemical Rigor
With over a decade of experience in geological mapping, geochemical sampling, core drilling, and mineral exploration across Uganda, ALOM's team of geologists and mining engineers brings the technical depth required to support rigorous feedstock qualification.
Every silicate deposit designated for ERW undergoes rigorous geochemical screening to confirm suitability for weathering in warm, acidic tropical soils, evaluate concentrations of calcium and magnesium, and identify potential heavy-metal contamination.
ALOM's technical oversight supports Stack Carbon's objective of ensuring that mineral feedstocks meet strict environmental safety and registry requirements, including applicable requirements under standards such as the Rainbow Standard.
3. Regional Logistics & Community-First Operations
Beyond geology, ALOM brings experience in local stakeholder engagement, environmental compliance, and regional logistics management across Ugandan districts.
Sourcing and processing rock locally can help minimize transport emissions, supporting stronger net-carbon efficiency while generating local economic value around the mineral supply chain.
Building permanent carbon removal requires infrastructure on the ground — from verified mineral resources and processing capacity to logistics and responsible local operations.
Accelerating Permanent Carbon Removal in Tropical Soils
Enhanced Rock Weathering accelerates the Earth's natural geological carbon cycle. When finely ground silicate rock is applied to warm, acidic agricultural soils, atmospheric CO2 dissolved in rainwater reacts with the minerals.
This geochemical reaction converts dissolved carbon into stable bicarbonate ions, which can drain through watersheds toward ocean basins, contributing to long-duration carbon storage within the natural carbon cycle.
The combination of Uganda's tropical agricultural landscapes and locally available silicate resources creates an opportunity to develop an ERW deployment model that connects carbon removal with agricultural regeneration.
Creating Value Beyond Carbon Removal
In addition to permanent atmospheric carbon removal, applying suitable silicate minerals can deliver immediate agronomic value to smallholder farmers.
- Neutralizing Soil Acidity: Restoring pH balance in degraded tropical soils.
- Replenishing Vital Minerals: Releasing essential plant nutrients such as silica, calcium and magnesium.
- Enhancing Crop Resilience: Supporting soil structure and moisture retention during dry spells.
What Supply Security Means for Carbon Buyers Evaluating Projects
As institutional carbon buyers evaluate land-based carbon removal projects, scrutiny is shifting from theoretical models toward physical supply-chain security, feedstock availability, and execution readiness.
When corporate procurement teams perform due diligence on ERW developers, the primary operational risks can include raw material bottlenecks, unverified mineral chemistry, and logistics delays.
By anchoring its mineral supply chain with a proven in-country mining and geological partner, Stack Carbon offers buyers greater clarity on feedstock origin, chemical characterization, and physical delivery capability.
- Established access to active quarry infrastructure.
- Geological and geochemical expertise for mineral screening.
- Local processing and logistics capabilities.
- In-country operational and stakeholder relationships.
The partnership demonstrates that Stack Carbon's ERW deployment is backed by accessible mineral resources and active industrial infrastructure on the ground — an important consideration as the carbon removal market moves toward larger-scale procurement.
Building Sustainable Climate Infrastructure
"Scaling permanent carbon removal is fundamentally a physical supply chain challenge," said Bashir Dan, CEO of Stack Carbon. "Partnering with ALOM provides us with both the geological foundation and the physical quarry infrastructure needed to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering across Uganda with uncompromised scientific integrity and operational reliability."
The collaboration marks another major milestone as Stack Carbon continues expanding its dual-pathway carbon removal footprint, combining Enhanced Rock Weathering and Biochar Systems to drive climate action and rural agricultural regeneration across the Global South.
From Geological Resources to Climate Action
The Stack Carbon and ALOM partnership represents an important step toward building the physical infrastructure required for high-integrity carbon removal in Africa.
By bringing together mineral resources, geological expertise, local operations and carbon removal deployment capabilities, the collaboration creates a foundation for scaling ERW while maintaining a strong focus on scientific rigor, supply-chain transparency and local value creation.
As Stack Carbon continues developing projects across the Global South, partnerships like this will play an important role in connecting the physical realities of carbon removal with the growing demand for durable, high-integrity climate solutions.