Stillwater Critical Minerals Collaborates with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Funding from the US Department of Energy for Geologic Hydrogen Production at Stillwater West

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[{"type":"text","content":"Stillwater Critical Minerals Collaborates with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Funding from the US Department of Energy for Geologic Hydrogen Production at Stillwater West VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 15, 2024 / Stillwater Critical Minerals Corp. (TSXV:PGE)(OTCQB:PGEZF)(FSE:J0G) (the \"Company\" or \"Stillwater\") is collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (\"Berkeley Lab\"), with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (\"DOE\") via the Advanced Research Projects Agency program (\"ARPA-E\"), to study the potential for geologic hydrogen production at its flagship Stillwater West Ni-PGE-Cu-Co + Au project in Montana.Funding in the amount of U.S. $2 million has been secured by Berkeley Lab to advance the \"Cyclic Injection for Commercial Seismic-Safe Geologic H2 Production (CyclicGeoH2)\" project, led by Berkeley Lab Research Scientist Dr. Mengsu Hu in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin. The team is developing technologies for geologic hydrogen production that address the challenge of extracting hydrogen both safely and economically at commercial scale. The technology involves the use of adaptive controls of fracture creation followed by serpentinization reactions to generate and subsequently extract hydrogen to a wellhead. Using rock samples from the Stillwater Igneous Complex, the team is applying an integrated approach for developing and testing novel technology that includes laboratory tests, field characterization and multiscale numerical modeling. The research effort in the project will benefit from studies conducted by other projects supported by ARPA-E that are focusing on the enhancement of the rate of geologic hydrogen generation.Geologic hydrogen refers to hydrogen gas that occurs naturally within the Earth's crust, which is generated through natural processes such as the reaction of water with certain types of iron-rich rocks, and other processes. The most favorable settings for geologic hydrogen accumulation are within ultramafic rocks which are rich in the mineral olivine that readily reacts in the serpentinization process, producing geologic hydrogen. These environments provide the necessary conditions for continuous hydrogen production over geological timescales or through accelerated stimulation of these reactions,...

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