A Vancouver-based company has made a significant discovery of naturally occurring hydrogen in Quebec, with the potential to be a game-changer for the region's economy.
A significant hydrogen discovery has been made on the Quebec side of Lake Timiskaming with the potential scale and magnitude that could put this region of western Quebec on the map. Quebec Innovative Materials has been exploring and evaluating what appears to be a district-sized pocket of naturally occurring hydrogen spread out over a 300-square-kilometre land package of both forested and agricultural land, 15 kilometres north of the town of Ville Marie.
The Vancouver-based company has been generating quite a bit of news flow beginning since exploration field work last summer to identify “hot spots” of high-value zones of hydrogen within the rural municipality of St. Bruno de Guigues. Since July, Quebec Innovative Materials has been on the active hunt for the presence of hydrogen and helium through a soil sampling field program in a region where the geology is considered favourable to host natural hydrogen. The company’s field work culminated in a major breakthrough announced in September. Soil samples have been routinely showing hydrogen soil samples of more than 300 parts per million (PPM), but one break-through discovery result yielded soil samples of more than 1,000 PPM, a natural hydrogen level the company considered “first class” and “exceptional.” At that time, company CEO John Karagiannidis called it a “transformative discovery” that significantly advances the project toward eventually “developing and commercializing this remarkable hydrogen resource.' Quebec Innovative Materials is working in tandem with Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), a provincially-funded institute, which is providing technical support and expertise. The institute has developed a soil gas sample methodology to detect natural hydrogen. The partners are developing a strategy to explore and develop hydrogen and helium resources within the Ville Marie distric
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