An $8 million capital raise and exciting hydrogen results have propelled Gold Hydrogen into another round of media headlines.

The announcement this week of Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott ($4 million) joining the latest raise; and hydrogen test results giving the potential of 100kg of hydrogen per well per day featured in the AFR, ABC, and a range of other publications.

Sprott’s buy-in featured prominently in the AFR’s live market blog, which said he ‘‘was the cornerstone investor in a placement handled by Morgans and Canaccord Genuity at 44c per share’’.

The double ASX release brought a number of ABC radio hosts back into the conversation, with Gold Hydrogen’s executive vice president (commercial) Simon Talbot doing a round of interviews.

On ABC’s North and West SA breakfast show with Tom Mann, he highlighted how close the company was to commercial success.

"The really good news is we’re going to be generating cash relatively quickly from our helium project. At the same time, we’ll be stepping out with our hydrogen, starting it up," Talbot said. "This co-exists beautifully with farming."

The 15-minute interview can be found here and starts at the 36min 20s mark.

Talbot also talked about the potential for 40-50 jobs in the helium phase of the work. He was also on air with ABC 891 Adelaide. That interview is here.

Adelaide’s InDaily website ran a lengthy article, focussed on the involvement of one of the region’s local sons…..Gold Hydrogen chair and former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

That article is here.

Gold Hydrogen’s news was picked up widely in hydrogen and trade circles, with these links taking you directly to what was written by each title: Energy News Bulletin, HydrogenInsight, GasWorld, H2Tech, FCW (fuelcellworks.com), ChemAnalyst.News and Mining.com.au.