LOCATION: Northern Ontario

OWNERSHIP: 100%

SIZE: 2,207 hectares (22.07km2)

Project Highlights:

  • Hydrogen potential present through serpentinization with subcircular depressions highlighting gas or fluid percolation to the surface.1
  • Forest rings in northern Ontario are abundant above glaciomarine and marine sediments of Quaternary age and commonly occur over Phanerozoic bedrock.2
  • According to the Ontario Geological Survey, the forest rings are caused by giant, naturally occurring electrochemical cells — big centres of negative charges (reduced chimneys) that are frequently situated over metal or mineral deposits.
  • Hydrogen is theorized to form at the redox boundary at the ring edge, with the oxidation of transitional metals and/or sulfur species (producing hydrogen H+).3
  • When hydrogen (H2) emanations affect the soils, small depressions and vegetation gaps are observed which are referred to as fairy circles or forest rings.4
  1. Hydrogen Emanations in Intracratonic Areas: New Guidelines for Early Exploration Basin Screening
  2. Veillette and Giroux, 1999; Hamilton et al., 2004a
  3. Spontaneous potential and redox responses over a forest ring, Hamelton & Hattori, May 2008
  4. Hydrogen Emanations in Intracratonic Areas: New Guidelines for Early Exploration Basin Screening
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