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Huge News Out of Minnesota: Exploratory
Drill Has Discovered What Is Likely the
Biggest Find in North America to Date

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/2/2024 8:24:44 PM

A new find of underground helium in Minnesota could turn out to be one of the largest in the world, Minneapolis’s WCCO-TV reported Thursday. The drill site, just outside Babbitt in the northeastern part of the state, took about a month from initially breaking ground to get to a depth of 2,200 feet. What it found there, Pulsar Helium CEO Thomas Abraham-James called “a dream.” “There was a lot of screaming, a lot of hugging and high fives. It’s nice to know the efforts all worked out and we pulled it off,” Abraham-James told WCCO. He said that the concentration of helium sampled was 12.4 percent — about 30 times

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Reply 1 - Posted by: voxpopuli 3/2/2024 8:28:15 PM (No. 1669179)
doesn't matter.. the communists, under Red Walz, will stop anyone mining for it.. like they've done for fifty years on the Iron Range where we have the largest cobalt lodes in the world..
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Reply 2 - Posted by: snakeoil 3/2/2024 8:36:18 PM (No. 1669181)
This is fabulous news for my congress critter, Hank Johnson, who has expressed great fears the without helium birthday balloons would be a thing of the past.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: HPmatt 3/2/2024 8:39:01 PM (No. 1669182)
Make sure we don't have a President, like Richard Nixon, that released the national Helium reserves into outer space to save money...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Catherine 3/2/2024 8:40:48 PM (No. 1669183)
Guess I need to google helium and see what it can be used for, other than balloons.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Ketchuplover 3/2/2024 8:58:26 PM (No. 1669187)
Agreeing with #1. The Dems control all three branches of MN govt. They will pile tax after tax and one environmental regulation after another on this to make it worthless. The only good outcome might be that the Democrat lock on this part of MN would be broken.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 3/2/2024 8:59:06 PM (No. 1669188)
If its 12.4%, what is the rest? Usually its mixed with natural gas aka CH4.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 3/2/2024 8:59:30 PM (No. 1669189)
The Marxists/WEFs are saving all of our natural resources until they own the country, then they'll loot it all for themselves.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 3/2/2024 9:23:41 PM (No. 1669191)
THIS JUST IN - - - - - - "Climate scientists" warn that helium is a major contributor to world annihilation. As a result - - the Despicable Joe administration has banned all use of helium. Party balloons must now be made of recyclable materials - - and filled with lithium from China. Update at eleven.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 3/2/2024 9:32:28 PM (No. 1669192)
Xi and the Big Guy are already cutting a deal.
7 people like this.

Reply 10 - Posted by: LeeBertie 3/2/2024 9:32:44 PM (No. 1669193)
First thing Monday morning we should expect lawsuits to shutter all underground helium mining operations as a criminal assault on Mother Earth..
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Reply 11 - Posted by: jalo1951 3/2/2024 10:00:10 PM (No. 1669202)
Thank God it wasn't dirty oil or evil beef. FJB would make you fill up the hole and back off.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DVC 3/2/2024 10:04:35 PM (No. 1669205)
Until now, Kansas has had pretty much the most helium. And for those who wonder...."Who cares about party balloons?" Helium is VERY limited and necessary to supercool the magnets for MRI scanners. A crucial resource, actually. And for other superconducting experiments and perhaps one day, additional real products beyond the MRIs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Birddog 3/2/2024 11:32:49 PM (No. 1669233)
Hmmm...Biden just SOLD the entire US Helium reserve, on Feb 4th...less than 1 month ago, all of it's storage facilities as well as 400miles of Helium Pipeline, to a "Privately Held" German company, only licensed to do business in the USA since 2019. Bet they are NOT happy about this...or....They were in on it. "Insider Trading"??? Perhaps??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messer_Group
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Reply 14 - Posted by: DVC 3/2/2024 11:45:46 PM (No. 1669241)
Re #13, I don't call him Traitor Joe for nothing.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Harlowe 3/3/2024 1:00:56 AM (No. 1669268)
#3~ Specific reference/source for the assertion that President Nixon released “the national helium reserves into outer space to save money” would be appreciated. Bill Clinton signed into law the “Helium Privatization Act of 1996” on October 9, 1996. According to Wikipedia, “The law was described by critics as a ‘fiasco’ due to the formula-based sale price being significantly lower than the market price for helium. The bill was amended in 2013 to use an auction to sell helium.”
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Reply 16 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 3/3/2024 2:48:47 AM (No. 1669279)
Hold your horses! Cant have a helium find. Joey Baby will surely stop the Helium drilling just like he has done with petroleum.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: mifla 3/3/2024 4:47:04 AM (No. 1669298)
Be prepared for the coming 200% tax on helium.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: homefry 3/3/2024 8:06:17 AM (No. 1669384)
I'd like to see someone pipe it into the room where the 6 o'clock news was being recorded.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: NamVet70 3/3/2024 8:37:16 AM (No. 1669396)
Drill, Baby, Drill! MAGA
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Reply 20 - Posted by: chance_232 3/3/2024 9:19:45 AM (No. 1669422)
This is HUGE news. Helium can't be manufactured or synthesized. As I understand it, helium reserves were getting low, with huge implications for medicine, manufacturing and yes, party balloons.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: nerdowell 3/3/2024 10:46:53 AM (No. 1669473)
Oh dear! This is an environmental catastrophe in the making. No-one seems to have taken into consideration what the majority of the scientific community has been warning us about: without this geological 'cushion' of helium, portions of the earth's crust will lose the critical buoyancy that has sustained it through the Eeyores. As a result, it will collapse and thousands--if not millions --of people will be left homeless. Mankind's greed for the earth's precious resources, coveting all for its own selfish use will spell our doom.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 3/3/2024 10:49:54 AM (No. 1669476)
Since this is Minnesota, they will most likely ban drilling. Have to protect the endangered Babbitt gnat and Babbitt mosquito which were just 'discovered'.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: MickTurn 3/3/2024 11:36:59 AM (No. 1669514)
Being Minnesota I would think they would have found the largest Flatulence, aka Methane deposit that has ever existed.
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