To go with our IVZ 1% (Commercial ?) concentration of Helium ?
Another Media puff for White Hydrogen....
Already found/anticipated in various locations across the globe:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/13/white-hydrogen-disrupt-global-energy-net-zero/
In May, Française De l’Énergie and researchers from GeoRessources made Europe’s biggest discovery to date, finding 15pc hydrogen content at a depth of 1,100 metres.
Europe's biggest natural hydrogen discovery was made in the Lorraine mining basin in France
Europe's biggest natural hydrogen discovery was made in the Lorraine Mining Basin in France
It is not contaminated by corrosive gases and can be separated easily.
The next step is to drill to 3,000 metres, where the purity is expected to reach 90pc.
In Mali, in the shade of a mango tree of a mango tree, Mamadou Ngulo Konaré recounted the legendary event of his childhood.
In 1987, well diggers had come to his village of Bourakébougou, Mali, to drill for water, but had given up on one dry borehole at a depth of 108 meters.
“Meanwhile, wind was coming out of the hole,” Konaré told Denis Brière, a petrophysicist and vice president at Chapman Petroleum Engineering, in 2012.
When one driller peered into the hole while smoking a cigarette, the wind exploded in his face.“
He didn’t die, but he was burned,” Konaré continued. “And now we had a huge fire.
The color of the fire in daytime was like blue sparkling water and did not have black smoke pollution.
The color of the fire at night was like shining gold, and all over the fields we could see each other in the light. …
We were very afraid that our village would be destroyed.
”It took the crew weeks to snuff out the fire and cap the well.
And there it sat, shunned by the villagers, until 2007. That was when Aliou Diallo, a wealthy Malian businessman, politician, and chair of Petroma, an oil and gas company, acquired the rights to prospect in the region surrounding Bourakébougou.
“We have a saying that human beings are made of dirt, but the devil is made of fire,” Diallo says.
“It was a cursed place. I said, ‘Well, cursed places, I like to turn them into places of blessing.’”
https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-hydrogen-earth-may-hold-vast-stores-renewable-carbon-free-fuel
As KiwiGeo mentioned Gold Hydrogen (GHY.ASX) is chasing White Hydrogen in Australia
It has hit accumulations with 80pc content at 500 metres in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, the frontrunner of the global hydrogen rush.
Australia has already created the world’s most advanced regulatory and permitting structure.
Natural Hydrogen Energy, co-founded by Dr Zgonnik, is drilling in Nebraska. China has begun exploration in Inner Mongolia.
“We never found much hydrogen before because we weren’t looking for it,” said Professor Jon Gluyas, a world expert on natural hydrogen at Durham University.
Mass spectrometers and sensors were not set to detect it in normal drilling.
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