Ivanhoe’s Kipushi zinc mine in DRC officially reopens
The restart marked exactly a century since the mine first went into production.
Alaska Energy Metals (TSXV: AEMC) plans to carry out a hydrogen soil gas survey over a portion of its Angliers-Belleterre project in the Canadian province of Quebec, the company said on Wednesday.
The property consists of 454 claims covering 241.82 square kilometres in the Angliers and Belleterre townships, within the Temiscamingue region near the Ontario border.
The company said it is investigating the potential for discovery of natural hydrogen (also known as white hydrogen) accumulations.
Recent soil gas sample data released by adjacent claim owner Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. illustrates the potential for hydrogen accumulations to occur within the Lake Timiskaming basin, which intersects with various parts of the Baby greenstone belt on the Angliers claim block.
White hydrogen is a naturally occurring, geologically created type of hydrogen that is gaining prominence as a low-cost, low emission, and renewable clean energy source. Alaska Energy’s claims cover source rocks, possible gas migration pathways, and potential reservoir rocks that can trap accumulations of hydrogen gas.
The accumulation of hydrogen in the basin is likely to occur from the serpentinization of iron-rich basement rocks of the Baby greenstone belt, which consist of serpentinite, komatiite, basalt, peridotite, and iron formation, the company said.
The company, which is also developing the Nikolai project in Alaska, said it will continue to advance the nickel-copper targets identified at Angliers.
“Natural hydrogen has gained prominence as a potential contributor to the low carbon energy landscape. Both the industry and governments worldwide have shown a growing interest in natural hydrogen exploration, which may form an important part of the future energy mix,” Alaska Energy Metals chief geoscientist Gabe Graf said in a news release.
