As the diesel engine power rotated through the drill, Trigui returned to his freight laboratory, a dusty house filled with microscopes and stone samples. After looking at the contents of his computer, he saw what he had been hoping for since he arrived in Rukwa: The gas detector saw that helium had risen to the rock he was on. to rot through. This is what is known as the “gas show”. Trigui opened the cabin door and walked towards the sump, where the mud coming out from the holes connected. It was buzzing like a jacuzzi.
“Here it is,” he said to himself. “Helium has arrived!”
Trigui took a video of the mud exploding on his cell phone and sent text messages with his friends to the camps. During one of his smoking breaks, he spent time with a group of drummers; no one has ever seen this before. He is believed to have found the world’s first “green” helium, as well as the first major growth since 1967.
The pills continued until 2 a.m., with the drill dropping again to 30 feet. Then, suddenly, it lost all torque. The engine changed its pitch tone from a low drone to a clearer sound. Obowola looked, amazed.
The drill — a 6-inch diameter stainless steel with tungsten — is connected to the engine by a series of steel pipes that form a coil. One of the points of the rope was shaved. The group had no choice but to pull it out of the pit, leaving a 300-foot-long[300 m]pipe, and still, it was still there.
As the sun rose, David Minchin, CEO of Helium One, woke up at camp. Unaware of the return, he saw Trigui helium data on his computer and immediately thought, This will be the best day of my life. He put on his trousers, jumped into his tent, and shouted, “Hello! to Randy Donald, the drill manager.
“Have you not heard?” Donald said.
“What did you hear?” Minchin replied.
“It simply came to our notice then. It’s not really good. ”
In the 1950’s, The geologist TC James traveled extensively in what is now Tanzania. As a senior mining expert in the Geological Survey Department of Tanganyika under British supervision, it was his job to understand the country better. geology in identifying objects such as salt-grown areas. On one of these trips, James spotted a fountain of gas near the small village of Itumbula in the Rukwa Valley, which had fascinated locals for years.
James’ discovery told him that these gases were too high in helium, but he never thought of anything. At the time, helium was readily available. The National Helium Reserve, the oldest geological helium museum built by the United States government in 1925 to remove helium from the Texas Panhandle airfields, was nearing its climax. With billions of cubic feet of black helium stored, and the need for it to remain intact, there was no need to rush gas to remote areas without the necessary infrastructure – roads, power, running water – needed to operate.