MAX Power uncovers Canada’s largest natural hydrogen target area

As a result, through a series of permit applications, MAX Power has assembled a 1244 km² land package, which shall now be referred to as the 'Rider Natural Hydrogen Project', situated within the ~200 km long NE-SW striking Torquay-Rocanville Corridor.

Multiple high-priority target areas exist across five separate large claim blocks and include evidence of potential upward migration of hydrogen to surface, possibly through serpentinisation or fracture zones, making the Rider Project the largest known area in Canada for the potential discovery of naturally occurring accumulations of hydrogen gas. MAX Power’s staking covers almost all of the available Crown land as well as the premier Natural Hydrogen targets within the Torquay-Rocanville Corridor.

Two blocks at the Rider Natural Hydrogen Project include very high concentrations of hydrogen (4% at Weyburn and 87.4% at Stoughton) from the wellhead, supported by historical drill stem tests from old wells, indicating that natural hydrogen may have migrated to surface.

Two additional high-grade showings (3% and 75.6%) from the wellhead also occur within 800 m and 200 m, respectively, of MAX Power land claims.

Given the limited number of wells (45) in the data set covering the Rider Natural Hydrogen Project, vs the number of total wells believed to have been drilled in the region for which data is not available, the fact that seven of these wells showed hydrogen grades >10% at varying depths takes on added significance (the other 38 showed hydrogen grades between 1% and 10%).

Geologists are designing a near-term programme to verify and validate the existence of a naturally occurring hydrogen trend at Rider.

MAX Power continues to review an extensive array of datasets in Saskatchewan and elsewhere with an aggressive plan to further build on its first mover advantage in the natural hydrogen sector in Canada and the US.

Pro-energy and pro-business Saskatchewan is exceptionally positioned to become the first jurisdiction in North America to produce natural hydrogen given a combination of highly favourable geology and a clearly defined policy framework for exploration and development of this important new alternate energy source.

Read the article online at: https://www.globalhydrogenreview.com/hydrogen/07082024/max-power-uncovers-canadas-largest-natural-hydrogen-target-area/