The Holbrook Basin Helium Project comprises +1000,000 acres of key Helium prospects under lease. Located in the prolific Holbrook Basin in North East Arizona, widely considered to be one of the world’s best addresses for Helium.
Desert Mountain Energy Corp. is an early mover among junior explorers in the helium space and is well positioned to participate in future growth of helium in our high tech economy.
The 2018 US Government Crude Helium Auction crude helium auction prices increased from $119.31 to $279.95. This 135% increase year-to-year in the world helium market is due to dwindling reserves with the 2019 US crude helium auction anticipated to be the last one due to the dwindling reserves mandated by legislation. Auction details here…
Two of the world’s richest historic producing helium gas fields, the Pinta Dome and Navajo Springs, are situated in this region. Historic production of 9.23 Billion Cubic Feet (Bcf) with exceptionally high grades of helium gas produced, ranging from 8%-10%, versus the industry benchmark of 0.3% to 1% for commercial grade.
To view our helium project overview, click HERE
Helium plays a critical role in the manufacture of high capacity hard drives, barcode readers, computer chips, semiconductors, LCD panels and fiber optic cable; as a refrigerant in cryogenics research; and as a coolant for nuclear reactors, MRI machines and space vehicles.
The McCauley Helium Processing Facility has digitally begun the layout process. To view the early stages of the design work involved in determining the final layout, click HERE
Desert Mountain Energy successfully built and commissioned their McCauley Helium Processing Facility, January 2023. Over the past year the processing equipment for the facility was built off-site at the Generon manufacturing plant. There it was prefabricated and installed in custom modular housing containers and shipped to the McCauley site. Concurrently while the plant was being built, the site was prepared for the final installation. Site preparation included fabrication of the high-pressure inter-module lines and installing a solar power system to power the processing plant.
The McCauley Helium Processing Facility site will include:
cubic feet of helium estimated to have been consumed in the U.S. in 2017
Heliopolis Project in Arizona’s Holbrook Basin
Liquid helium is used as a coolant for superconductor magnets in particle accelerators
Liquid helium is used to purge gas in rocket engine systems
Liquid Helium used as a coolant for superconductor magnets in MRI machines
Lockheed Martin is building 12 hybrid helium airships for Straightline Aviation (SLA) $480 Million, by 2021.
Google’s Project Loon aims to bring internet to the world through a network of Helium filled balloons traveling on the edge of space.
Helium-filled high-capacity hard drives are now used to power industry’s largest data centers, including Netflix video streaming.
Helium is required for manufacturing fiber optics
Helium neon laser barcode readers
Helium-gilled high capacity hard drives increase capacity by 50% and energy efficiency by 23%
Hard Drives
Replacing the air in a hard drive with helium (seven times less dense than air) the disks inside create less turbulence as they spin, meaning more discs can be packed into less space and use less power.
Data Centers
Helium-filled high-capacity hard drives are now used to power industry’s largest data centers, including Netflix video streaming.
MRI Machines
Liquid helium is necessary to keep the superconducting magnets cool in an MRI machine. This is due to a superconducting magnet’s interesting quantum properties – kept near absolute zero temperature, it will never lose any of its magnetic potential.
Space Exploration
Helium is also critical to the space industry, used in SpaceX fuel tanks to launch re-usable rockets for satellites and space exploration
Particle Accelerators
The same concept is utilized in the Large Hadron Super Collider to accelerate particles to near the speed of light.
Satellites
Helium is critical to keeping satellite instruments cool.
Deep Sea Diving
Helium is also used as a gas to breathe in deep-sea diving.
