Ville Marie

VILLE MARIE PROPERTY

Industrial Minerals Temiscaming property with unique geology also prospective for naturally occurring hydrogen and hellium

  • Stage: Follow up on recent field work and sampling

  • Ownership: 100% owned by QI Materials

  • Location: Mining friendly province of Quebec

  • Access: 15km north of town of Ville Marie, located between two major mining cities

The Temiscamingue graben area is severely affected by seismicity and normal faulting related to extensional processes still active today (Fig. below). Such structures may be important in allowing the transfer of gases from deep sources to shallow environments. For H2 and He exploration, these faults must be well located in space (Lidar, AMT, gravity, magnetometric surveys) and geophysical surveys must be carried out in order to verify the vertical extension (in depth) of the faults. The deeper these structures are, the greater the potential for gas transfer.

QI Materials press release dated June 5th, 2024, disclosed its Hydrogen Exploration Initiative for the summer of 2024 with it’s exploration partner The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (“INRS”), INRS and QI Materials’ key objectives for this fully financed white hydrogen exploration initiative include:

  • Starting in June, INRS teams will be out in the field, taking gas samples from the soil (soil gas survey) and conducting underwater surveys in Lake Témiscamingue.

  • These surveys will be used, among other things, to locate degassing zones associated with faults in the Témiscamingue rift.

  • Subsequently, geophysical surveys will be carried out to detect deep structures in the rock. Drone surveys will also be realized to provide useful remote sensing data for hydrogen and helium exploration.

  • Fieldwork will be carried out mainly in the Municipality of St-Bruno-de-Guigues sector

  • The INRS is a high-level research and training institute. Pr. Richer-LaFlèche’s team has exceptional geological, geochemical and geophysical experience specifically in the regions of QIMC’s newly acquired claims. They have carried out over six years of geophysical and geochemical work and collected thousands of C1-C4 Soil-Gas analyses.

  • M. Richer-LaFlèche also holds an FRQNT grant, in partnership with Quebec MRN and the mining industry, to develop and optimize a Soil-Gas method for the direct detection of mineralized bodies and faults under Quaternary cover. In addition to sulphide gases, hydrogen was systematically analyzed in the numerous surveys carried out in 2023 in Abitibi, Témiscamingue and also in the Quebec Appachian.

QI Materials Témiscamingue property offers similar geology to the recent large natural hydrogen Ramsey Project discovery by GoldHydrogen Ltd in South Australia.

“The conceptual exploration model that led to the development of the exploration program is the hydrogen production model in the context of Precambrian basement and more specifically the sub-model linked to the presence of iron-rich rocks associated Archean greenstone belt In the Témiscamingue area and more precisely in the St-Brunode-Guigues sector, the units of the Baby volcanic belt containing peridotites, komatiites, basalts and iron formation.”

Furthermore, “These sedimentary rocks, covering the Precambrian basement, are affected by the still active Temiscamingue rift zone (neotectonic deformations),” said Marc Richer-LaFlèche, of the INRS who is heading the program.

Comparable to Ramsey Project in Australia
  • Located at the Gawler craton of South Australia, where radiolysis and hydrolysis reactions of iron-rich rocks are ongoing creating naturally occurring hydrogen
  • The Cambrian stratigraphy including tight limestones that overlie the basement source rocks provides likely seals that were penetrated by the historic wells that found hydrogen
  • Ramsay Project located on major lithospheric boundary and bend in the Tasman line of the Delamerian orogeny. Additionally, it is within the setting of the tectonically active horst-graben Adelaide extensional rift

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