Investor Presentaiton
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Potential natural hydrogen sources
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Western Australian
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Gawler
Craton
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Southern Margin
Curnamona
Province
OWells with hydrogen shows
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Intracratonic
basins
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Tasman Fold Belt
(late Neoprot-Mesozoic)
System
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Image - OZSEEBASE 2021 (Geognostics)
https://www.geognostics.com/oz-seebase-2021
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Hydrogen indications in drillholes.
Ancient basement complexes which contain iron and/or
uranium rich rocks e.g. Archaean greenstone and Precambrian
basement terranes, 'hot' granites' - may generate hydrogen via:
o radiolytic processes (radioactive decay breaks bonds in water) &
o oxidation of Fe2+ rich minerals (serpentinization).
fractured and seismically active source areas - deep-seated
faults can both channel migrating hydrogen up from deep sources
to surface and introduce water downward for further chemical
reaction with exposed iron-rich rocks.
Sedimentary cover may reservoir and trap migrating hydrogen
particularly if aquifer systems and/or seal rocks like salt are
present (see Bradshaw et al. 2023).
Thermogenic decomposition of organic matter (e.g. over-mature
source rocks).
Surficial hydrogen seeps? Seeps can be blind or coincident with
visible sub-circular topographic depressions on the metre to
kilometre scale ('fairy circles').
With input from Dr Betina Bendall 2022 https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/industry/geologica
survey/mesa-journal/previous-feature-articles/current-perspectives-on-natural-hydrogen-a-synopsis
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