Constellation Resources Limited (“Constellation”) is pleased to advise that it has completed reprocessing and interpretation of a historical Geoscience Australia seismic line 10GA-CP2 and received the final batch of Total Organic Carbon (“TOC”) results within its Edmund-Collier Natural Hydrogen Project (“EdmundCollier” or “Project”). Edmund-Collier is part of the Company’s wider natural hydrogen (“NatH2”) land portfolio
which spans 87,602km2 across three sedimentary basins within Western Australia.
HIGHLIGHTS
- The Edmund-Collier Project represents a first-of-its-kind opportunity in Western Australia to explore for natural hydrogen across a large, underexplored basin, with no prior deep drilling to date.
- Cross section interpretation along the seismic line indicates the organic rich Blue Billy and Discovery Formations, extend across the Edmund-Collier Basin and may be capable of generating large-scale natural hydrogen, given the source rock and thermal maturity analysis completed.
- The Godfrey and Talga Faults (within the Basin) are both deep regional faults that extend from the basement
to surface and provide ideal targets for surface soil gas sampling to test for potential surface gas seepage.
- Enhanced exploration potential at Edmund-Collier as natural hydrogen could be generated from both radiolysis (which may also generate helium) and the thermogenesis of organic shales.
- Final batch of TOC results continue to demonstrate strong values across the entire basin (average >2% TOC over large intervals, with any results over 2% considered good to excellent for potential NatH2 production).
- Encouraging porosity values returned with maximum values for the Blue Billy (6.84%), Discovery (13.24%), Kiangi Creek (32.23%) and Irregully/Gooragoora Formations (10.91%).
- The Company plans to undertake a soil gas survey across its NatH2 portfolio to directly detect the potential presence for micro seepage of targeted gases in the following months.