Quebec Modern Supplies Corp. (CSE: QIMC) (OTCQB: QIMCF) (FSE: 7FJ) (“QIMC” or the “Firm”) as we speak introduced the completion of Discovery Gap DDH-26-01 to a depth of 711 metres at its West-Advocate hydrogen challenge in Nova Scotia. Drilling intersected a persistent hydrogen-bearing system starting at roughly 505 metres, the place seen fuel was noticed on the drill head and effectively water returned headspace hydrogen concentrations that exceeded the detection limits of the Firm’s GA5000 fuel analyser. Hydrogen concentrations remained elevated to the tip of the outlet, confirming that the system stays open at depth as drilling advances, with Gap 2 concentrating on structural zones to the north-west.
Borehole DDH-26-01 has returned hydrogen concentrations so elevated that the Firm’s discipline devices had been pushed past their most detectable vary on a number of separate depth intervals. These readings had been obtained from wellhead water samples already topic to dilution components of 100 to 10,000 instances, in response to impartial evaluation by Prof. Marc Richer-LaFlèche of the Institut Nationwide de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Québec. The floor headspace fuel measurements, extraordinary in their very own proper, are a fraction of what the fractured geological formation is holding at depth.
This isn’t a hint detection. This isn’t background noise. It is a reside, pressurised, hydrogen-generating system, confirmed by instrument, confirmed by water geochemistry, and confirmed visually within the discipline, whose true magnitude present floor instrumentation can’t absolutely characterise.
Why This Discovery at Depth Issues
Pure hydrogen, more and more known as “gold hydrogen” by the worldwide power neighborhood, is likely one of the most transformative rising useful resource classes of this decade. It’s carbon-free, generated naturally throughout the Earth’s crust, and requires no energy-intensive manufacturing course of. The worldwide race to determine and develop commercially viable pure hydrogen deposits is intensifying quickly. QIMC’s West-Advocate outcomes, independently validated by one among Canada’s foremost geochemical establishments, place the Firm as probably the most scientifically rigorous pure hydrogen exploration programmes in North America.
Gap 2 Drilling Underway
Gap 2 of the West-Advocate 2026 drilling program is at the moment underway and is concentrating on structural zones much like these noticed in DDH-26-01 borehole and recognized from geophysical and soil-gas hydrogen and radon geochemistry. The outlet is oriented to the northwest with a purpose to strategy the contact zone between a gravity and magnetic excessive interpreted as an uplift of the bedrock sub-basement and the carboniferous sedimentary rock basin. Gasoline monitoring, effectively water sampling and core logging stay lively as drilling progresses.
Sampling Methodology
Water sampling was carried out on the prime of borehole DDH-26-01 casing and fuel analyses had been carried out utilizing customary headspace fuel measurements (2-L) at room temperature and strain and utilizing 1,300 mL of water and 700 mL of air. Sampling for headspace fuel, ranged from depths of 368 m to 710 m, and was carried out between February 25 and March 5, 2026.
Hydrogen Outcomes
At 638 metres, fuel bubbles had been bodily noticed rising from the drill head – direct visible affirmation of free hydrogen escaping the formation in the intervening time of intersection. This discipline commentary is among the many most unambiguous types of proof accessible to an exploration group: fuel below adequate strain to bodily exsolve and migrate upward by means of the drill column in actual time.
From 505 m to 680 m, a sustained zone of considerably elevated hydrogen concentrations was recognized. Inside this interval, on a number of separate events, hydrogen concentrations exceeded the utmost detectable vary of the GA5000 fuel analyzer totally, logged merely as instrument most exceedance. The place exceedance was recorded, samples had been subsequently reanalysed utilizing a second impartial Eagle-2 H₂ fuel detector, confirming concentrations of two,150 ppmV in diluted wellhead water – itself already topic to dilution components of 100 to 10,000 instances relative to true formation concentrations at depth. The two,150 ppmV isn’t the height. It’s the confirmed minimal ground of what was measured at floor. The true deep effectively water focus above it stays open.
From 683 m to 711 m, the deepest part drilled in gap DDH-26-01, the hydrogen system didn’t fade. Sustained readings of 525, 612, 623, 633, and 962 ppmV in diluted wellhead water had been recorded in successive intervals, confirming that even on the furthest extent of the borehole, the system stays lively, constant, and measurable.
All through the whole sampled interval from 368 m to 710 m, methane (CH₄) was recorded at concentrations beneath the restrict of detection of the GA5000 instrument in 97.3% of all samples. The statistical correlation between H₂ and CH₄ concentrations throughout the total dataset is R² = 0.06, confirming that hydrogen and methane are uncorrelated and that the fuel system is only hydrogen-dominant with no thermogenic hydrocarbon affiliation.
Hydrogen concentrations are equally uncorrelated with CO₂ (R² = 0.009), with 97.3% of samples exhibiting CO₂ at solely 0.1% by quantity. The mixed absence of methane, the extraordinarily low CO₂ ranges, and the dominance of H₂ throughout each drilling and beforehand carried out soil-gas surveys affirm a pure inorganic hydrogen supply – not a petroleum leakage, not a biodegradation plume, and never a thermogenic system of any sort.
The Dilution Issue
Buyers and analysts reviewing the floor measurements ought to perceive the hydrodynamic context that makes them actually extraordinary. As a result of operational constraints of diamond drilling, water samples are collected on the wellhead outlet, not at depth. For instance, for borehole DDH-26-01 at 725 m depth, the interior water quantity is roughly 717 imperial gallons. With a floor pumping fee of 13.5 gallons per minute, the residence time of water throughout the borehole is on the order of 54 minutes, leading to substantial dilution of any gases current within the formation earlier than samples attain floor.
Moreover, as Prof. Richer-LaFlèche’s evaluation establishes, if a fuel leak happens alongside a porous interval inside a deep fracture zone roughly 2 metres thick, the contact time between circulating water and the fractured zone is just roughly 9 seconds. Beneath such extremely hydrodynamic circumstances, hydrogen concentrations measured in headspace samples collected on the wellhead are anticipated to be strongly diluted in contrast with samples obtained instantly at depth below static or near-static circumstances.
The consequence, as independently established by INRS, is that dilution components of 10² to 10⁴ – that’s, 100 to 10,000 instances – are anticipated at this borehole. The confirmed 2,150 ppmV in diluted headspace water measurement represents a really diluted fraction of the true hydrogen concentrations popping out of faulted zones at depth.
Making use of the decrease certain of Prof. Richer-LaFlèche’s dilution vary alone, true in-situ deep effectively concentrations within the fault zone might exceed 215,000 ppmV which is close to 21.5percentV H2 (headspace fuel measurements). At dilution ratios approaching 465×, the theoretical formation focus would strategy hydrogen saturation (~100% by quantity). This modelling illustrates the magnitude of dilution occurring throughout circulation drilling and why floor measurements characterize solely a fraction of the hydrogen current at depth.
Why the Dilution Mannequin Issues
Floor hydrogen measurements collected throughout lively drilling characterize solely a diluted fraction of the hydrogen getting into the borehole from hydrogen-bearing fracture zones at depth. Throughout diamond drilling, circulating drilling fluids and subsurface fluids transfer repeatedly by means of the borehole earlier than reaching floor sampling factors. This course of introduces vital hydrodynamic mixing and dilution inside a big water column previous to measurement.
For borehole DDH-26-01, the interior borehole water quantity and circulation charges point out that hydrogen measured on the wellhead is topic to dilution components estimated by INRS to vary from roughly 10² to 10⁴ (100× to 10,000×). In consequence, floor headspace measurements characterize solely a small portion of the hydrogen really getting into the borehole from fractured zones at depth.
Making use of the decrease certain of this dilution vary to the confirmed 2,150 ppmV floor measurement implies potential in-situ formation concentrations exceeding roughly 215,000 ppmV (≈21.5% hydrogen by quantity). Larger dilution ratios would suggest proportionally increased formation concentrations. These calculations illustrate the dimensions of dilution occurring throughout the circulating borehole system and exhibit why floor measurements can’t instantly characterize the total hydrogen focus current within the subsurface.
Equally necessary, hydrogen remained repeatedly measurable at floor regardless of this dilution, borehole circulation, and transport to floor. The persistence of hydrogen readings throughout a broad depth interval due to this fact helps the interpretation that DDH-26-01 intersected an lively hydrogen-bearing fracture system fairly than a small remoted fuel incidence.
“I wish to be exact with the market about what we now have discovered and what the devices advised us,” acknowledged John Karagiannidis, CEO of QIMC. “On a number of separate depth intervals, our GA5000 discipline devices had been pushed previous their most detection ceiling totally – the devices had no increased studying to offer us. Once we reanalysed these samples with a second impartial Eagle-2 detector, we confirmed concentrations exceeding instrument detection thresholds in diluted wellhead water – water that Prof. Richer-LaFlèche has established carries a dilution issue of 100 to 10,000 instances relative to what the formation holds at depth. Each single methane studying throughout the whole gap got here again zero. It is a hydrogen system whose true magnitude our devices couldn’t absolutely measure at floor. The info from DDH-26-01 has not set a ceiling for this challenge. It has set a ground. Gap 2 is underway and we’re going deeper.”
INRS Evaluation by Prof. Marc Richer-LaFlèche
The whole fuel geochemistry dataset (headspace evaluation of effectively water samples) and drill core from DDH-26-01 have been submitted to and independently analysed by Prof. Marc Richer-LaFlèche of the Institut Nationwide de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Québec. Prof. Richer-LaFlèche labored on the Reactivated Rift and Graben Geostructure (R2G2) exploration mannequin that underpins QIMC’s concentrating on methodology, and is serving as impartial third-party scientific analyst for the West-Advocate 2026 programme.
In his evaluation, Prof. Richer-LaFlèche states:
*”Drilling DDH-26-01 represents a significant milestone for pure hydrogen exploration in Nova Scotia, and notably for the higher Advocate (Cumberland) space. Analytical outcomes from this borehole clearly exhibit that secondary faults act as conduits for pure hydrogen circulation and its switch towards the subsurface. These findings validate the exploration mannequin utilized by QIMC and its collaborators for concentrating on pure hydrogen alongside the Cobequid-Minas Fault Zone (CMFZ) deformation hall.”*
Prof. Richer-LaFlèche additional notes that the near-absence of methane throughout all sampled intervals:
*”…is a sample per our working speculation that hydrogen manufacturing within the space is primarily associated to radiolytic processes and/or water-rock reactions involving iron-rich geological supplies. This commentary is critical as a result of methane was additionally absent from the soil-gas surveys carried out within the West-Advocate space. The convergence of those two impartial datasets reinforces the interpretation that hydrogen circulating throughout the native rock mass might accumulate domestically, providing the potential for clear hydrogen assets with out the co-production of methane or different greenhouse gases.”*
Determine 1. Diagrams illustrating the variations in measured hydrogen concentrations (ppmV) in head-space fuel samples obtained from water exiting the DDH-26-01 borehole casing. A) Vertical distribution of hydrogen concentrations as a perform of depth alongside the 55°-inclined borehole. B) Statistical variability of the dataset and identification of background noise, anomalous samples, and strongly anomalous samples primarily based on a traditional likelihood plot derived from the head-space fuel analyses carried out on water samples from DDH-26-01.
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Technical Interpretation – What These Outcomes Recommend
The persistence of hydrogen concentrations towards the underside of the borehole, mixed with seen fuel observations and instrument exceedances, suggests the drill gap intersected an lively hydrogen migration hall fairly than an remoted fuel incidence.
The Knowledge – Interval by Interval
A number of intervals between roughly 500 m and 680 m returned hydrogen readings exceeding the GA5000 instrument detection limits. Unbiased verification utilizing an Eagle-2 detector confirmed hydrogen concentrations exceeding 2,150 ppmV in diluted wellhead samples. Sustained hydrogen readings continued from 683 m to 711 m depth.
Geology Confirms the System
Drill cores recovered from roughly 570 m to 680 m depth current a lithological character that’s each visually compelling and geologically coherent with the fuel knowledge. Darkish carbonaceous and graphitic black rock alternates with lighter siltstones. The plentiful fracturing and veining noticed all through the core signifies lively structural pathways by means of which hydrogen-bearing fluids migrate and accumulate.
The geology didn’t change. The drill didn’t cease. The system didn’t weaken.
Subsequent Steps
Drilling continues with Gap 2 concentrating on deeper parts of the interpreted structural system. Extra borehole sampling, fuel geochemistry evaluation and isotopic research are ongoing in collaboration with researchers from INRS.
ABOUT QUÉBEC INNOVATIVE MATERIALS CORP.
Québec Modern Supplies Corp. (CSE: QIMC) (OTCQB: QIMCF) (FSE: 7FJ) is a mining exploration and improvement firm devoted to unlocking the potential of North America’s plentiful pure assets. With properties in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Minnesota (USA), QIMC specializes within the exploration of white (pure) hydrogen and high-grade silica belongings. QIMC is dedicated to sustainable improvement, environmental stewardship, and innovation, with the target of supporting clear power options for the AI-driven and carbon-neutral financial system.
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