Témiscouata Property
The Témiscouata property is located in the Lake Témiscouataregion, east and southeast of the town of Rivière-du-Loup in the Lower St. Lawrence River.
The surface geology shows sedimentary rock units of Cambrian to Devonian age. The Témiscouata property is part of the Appalachian Sedimentary Basin (Lower St. Lawrence – Gaspésie). The state of knowledge there is less than for the rest of the Gaspésie Basin. However, the surface geology shows evidence of potential structural traps and a succession of diverse sedimentary rocks, shales, sandstones, and carbonate rocks, which could constitute potential source rocks and reservoir rocks, hence the interest in this area.
The majority of the Témiscouataproperty is covered by Devonian rocks of the Témisoucata Formation, consisting of a succession of siliciclastic rocks and conglomerates. In the region, the TémiscouataFormation is juxtaposed with rocks of the Chaleurs Group (Lower Silurian to Lower Devonian) and rocks of the Cabano Group (Ordovician) along the NE-SW trending TémiscouataReverse Fault. The main deformation episode is probably Acadian in age and similar to that which affected the rocks of the Fortin Group, located further northeast in the GaspéPeninsula.
“Soil gas” surveys conducted in the past have identified several anomalous areas where the soils show very high concentrations of natural gas.
Temiscaming Property
The Témiscaming project is located alongside a significant natural hydrogen discovery that has been made on the Quebec side of Lake Témiscamingue, with a magnitude and potential scope that could put this region of western Quebec on the map. This discovery has what appears to be a district-sized pocket of natural hydrogen, spread over 300 square kilometers of forested and agricultural land, 15 kilometers north of the city of Ville Marie. The discoveries were made in collaboration with the provincially funded
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique(INRS), which provides technical support and expertise. The institute developed a soil gas sampling methodology to detect natural hydrogen. The project is supported by the Quebec government's program to advance clean energy solutions, including hydrogen. The potential terrain, located near the Ontario-Quebec border, contains hydrogen escaping from the earth. Lake Timiskaming is located at the eastern edge of a rift zone with several southeast-to-northwest-trending faults.
The TémiscamingueTrough is heavily affected by seismicity and normal faulting associated with extensional processes that are still active today. Such structures could play an important role in the transfer of gas from deep sources to shallow environments. The deeper these structures are, the greater the potential for gas transfer.
Exploretek Energies property in Témiscamingue has geology similar to that of GoldHydrogen Ltd'srecent large-scale natural hydrogen discovery at the Ramsey project in South Australia.
"The conceptual exploration model that led to the development of the exploration program is the hydrogen production model in the Precambrian basement context, and more specifically the sub-model related to the presence of iron-rich rocks associated with the Archean greenstone belt of Témiscamingue, and more specifically the St-Brunode-Guiguesarea, the Baby Volcanic Belt units containing peridotites, komatiites, basalts, and iron formations." "In addition, "these sedimentary rocks, covering the Precambrian basement, are affected by the Témiscamingue rift zone, which is still active (neotectonicdeformations)," said Marc Richer-LaFlèche, from INRS and head of the program.