Gold Hydrogen

Example-of-an-onshore-drilling-rig-2-512x309

Environmental Impact Report

State of Environmental Objectives

Fact Sheet

Tenement schedule

Prospective resource table

Ramsay Project

Technical Articles

Corporate Governance

Corporate

Announcements

Meet the Team

Our Vision

Home

Updates

Poppins

Gold Hydrogen Investor Hub

Gold Hydrogen was one of the first companies in the world to prove that high levels of both natural hydrogen and helium exist underground.

This has been achieved at its Ramsay Project on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, a 100% owned exploration project covering 7820 sq km of permitted tennement (PEL 687).

The two sites drilled so far were identified after South Australian State Department geologists' reports were uncovered from the 1920s and 30s. These showed natural hydrogen, which they had no use for back then, had been found while exploring for oil.

More than a century later, we have looked at these results with a new understanding that naturally occurring hydrogen could be the key to unlocking a revolutionary low-cost clean energy fuel source with huge implications for net zero carbon goals. 

With a town in Mali, Africa, being powered by natural hydrogen for some years, we went back to the original South Australia petroleum test sites and had phenomenal results.

In 2023/24, we reported finds of natural hydrogen up to 95.8% purity and helium at the world's highest reported purity of up to 36.9%. In a major boost to the company, the extremely rare and valuable variant Helium3 was found in elevated levels in the latest samples.

Data from the two test sites has been matched with seismic and other survey results to identify up to five new sites that will be test drilled in 2025. The data suggests the latest targets will be more optimal locations than where we have drilled to date.

Successful results will lead to completion of a proof of concept and pilot project with the aim of commercialising both gases.

Initially validate the natural hydrogen occurrences of the 1920s and 1930s and prove that natural hydrogen is present within our tenement. We drilled at two of those sites in late 2023, and they yielded high purity levels of up to 86% hydrogen, plus helium in high purity levels at up to 17.5% (air-corrected). In 2024, further testing confirmed hydrogen purity of 95.8% and helium at 36.9%.

Demonstrate that natural hydrogen is present in sufficient volumes to be extracted for commercial use. This remains a critical focus of our ongoing exploration efforts as we aim to optimise our drilling locations as well as our drilling and extraction techniques.

The South Australian Department for Energy and Mining has approved Gold Hydrogen’s Environmental Impact Report and Statement of Environmental Objectives for exploration drilling activity on Yorke Peninsula Petroleum Exploration Licence 687. Our first two exploration wells Ramsay 1 and 2 were drilled in late 2023 and further wells are being planned for late in 2024 or early 2025.

Gold Hydrogen is hoping to prove natural hydrogen resources, first identified between 90 and 100 years ago, can be developed to provide clean energy.

As part of its licensed exploration activities, GHY is planning to carry out an airborne gravity-magnetic survey to obtain geoscientific data within the Yorke Peninsula section of the licence area during March 2023.

Airborne gravity-magnetic surveys measure and capture natural variations in the strength and other characteristics of the Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields. This information will assist GHY geoscientists to understand the sub-surface geological structures in the licence area.

The survey will be carried out by a fixed wing light aircraft fitted with instruments that can detect small variations in the force of gravity and natural magnetic fields. The aircraft is operated by Xcalibur Aviation Australia, a company that specialises in airborne geoscientific surveys. 

The survey will acquire approximately 10,000-line km of gravity-magnetic data in daylight hours along a flight path of parallel lines spaced 500 metres apart in the area marked in green on the map. 

Noise levels on the ground will be audible but transient and less than the sound of a passing motorbike.

Gold Hydrogen will be carrying out a non-invasive soil gas survey over the southern portion the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia within its granted licence area for approximately two weeks during mid-late April 2023.  The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation will be doing the soil-gas survey for Gold Hydrogen.

The survey is designed to detect natural hydrogen generated from various geological processes that could be occurring in parts of the Earth’s crust in the survey area. This information will assist Gold Hydrogen geoscientists understand where very small amounts (parts-per-million) of natural hydrogen could be leaking to the surface and its relationship to other subsurface geological observations. It will help generate a broad picture of the presence of hydrogen in soil.

A light vehicle operated by CSIRO stopped along the road easement at pre-determined survey points. Samples will be taken from road verges and easements.

High-vis field technicians with handheld gas-soil survey equipment.

A small handheld hammer drill, similar to the type of equipment you might use at home or on a farm, will drill a hole up to a metre in depth into the soil within the road easement. A tubular instrument will be inserted into the hole to determine if hydrogen gas is present.

This is a non-invasive activity and noise levels on the ground will be minimal.

Approximately 80 survey points have been identified in a wide locality (see map). Several sites on verges/easements on public roads within each location will be surveyed.

Gold Hydrogen will continue its exploration by undertaking a 2D seismic survey using public roads on the southern Yorke Peninsula from mid-June to mid-July 2024. There will be minimal requirement to access private land and Gold Hydrogen have consulted with the small number of landowners where survey activities will be undertaken on their properties.

Approval for the seismic survey has granted by the South Australian Department for Energy and Mining and the relevant documents for this work can be found by clicking on the links below.

A fact sheet that has more information about the seismic survey can also be found below.

ASX Announcements on Drilling Results

ASX Announcements on Seismic Surveys

Aerial Survey Announcements

Soil Survey Announcements

Date	Headline

Date	Headline

Date	Headline

Date	Headline