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Desert Mountain Energy Acquires Additional 12,219 Acres of Strategic Helium Leases in Arizona's Holbrook Basin, Including Zone with Original Discovery Well
(via TheNewswire) May 29, 2018 / TheNewswire / Vancouver, British Columbia -- DESERT MOU...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Desert Mountain Energy Acquires Additional 12,219 Acres of Strategic Helium Leases in Arizona's Holbrook Basin, Including Zone with Original Discovery Well(via TheNewswire)\n \n \nMay 29, 2018 / TheNewswire / Vancouver, British Columbia -- DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY CORP. (the \"Company\") (TSX.V: DME) is pleased to announce that it has now acquired an additional 12,219 acres under lease for helium oil & natural gas from the Arizona Department of Land within the prolific Holbrook Basin of Eastern Arizona. The new leases are situated in Navajo and Coconino counties. This brings the Company's total acreage under lease in the Basin to 24,475 acres. Additional leases are pending approval. As noted in the Company's PR dated February 28, 2018, two of the world's richest historic producing helium gas fields, the Pinta Dome and the Navajo Springs, are situated in this region. They are noted for their exceptionally high grades of helium gas produced ranging up to 8% and more versus the industry benchmark of 0.3% to 1% for commercial grade. The new leases are highly prospective for helium as well as oil & natural gas. They are characterized by geologic anticlinal features with multiple anhydrite cap rock and salt trapping mechanisms, analogous to those typically associated with existing helium wells found in the Holbrook Basin.\n\n \n \nApproximately 3379 acres of the new leases are in Coconino County in the same highly prospective area as the Company's initial 12,256 acres under lease. This area, which now comprises an aggregate of 15,635 acres, has been named Heliopolis. It has two large anticlinal features, excellent cap rock and is characterized by the prolific Coconino sandstone reservoir rocks. It is a prime focal point of the Company's exploration efforts in the Holbrook Basin.\n\n \n \nApproximately 6400 acres of the new leases are in Navajo County in an area called the Great Basin Zone, which includes Arizona's original helium discovery well (Great Basin Oil #1) which was drilled in 1927 approximately 4 miles SW of the town of Holbrook and 14 miles E of Heliopolis in the Holbrook Basin. That well was an oil test drilled into the Tapeats Sandstone (Cambrian Age) at a depth of 3500 feet with a reported gas flow containing 1.12% helium. Helium was of little interest at that time so the well was not produced and the offsetting gr...