Constellation Resources inks natural hydrogen and helium research agreement with CSIRO [Video]

Constellation Resources Ltd (ASX:CR1) has signed a research agreement with the CSIRO to jointly advance prospectivity studies for natural hydrogen and helium at CR1’s Edmund Collier and Yerrida projects in Western Australia.

Partly funded by the CSIRO’s Kick-Start Program – designed to support innovative Australian businesses in accessing CSIRO’s research expertise – the collaboration will initially focus on identifying gas seepages at surface within Constellation’s tenure.

CR1 believes the study results will also support soil gas sampling programs, expected to begin in early 2025, and the CSIRO will produce a prospectivity model to map areas of interest for natural hydrogen and helium.

Natural hydrogen and helium projects

Constellation holds two project areas covering an extensive 56,000 square kilometres near Meekatharra in Western Australia, the Edmund Collier and Yerrida projects.

The company’s technical team will assist and co-fund the CSIRO in relation to prospectivity studies for natural hydrogen and helium, with a focus on the company’s two basin-scale projects.

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