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Company Receives Offer of Mining Licence for Southern Rukwa Helium Project, Tanzania
LONDON / ACCESS Newswire / March 3, 2025 / Helium One Global (AIM:HE1), the primary helium explorer in Tanzania with a 50% working interest in the Galactica-Pegasus helium development project in Colorado, USA, is pleased to provide the following update on its southern Rukwa Helium Project in Tanzania.
Highlights
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The Company has received an offer letter from the Mining Commission ("MC") in Tanzania for the grant of a Mining Licence ("ML") for the southern Rukwa Helium Project
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The potential ML will be for an area of approximately 480km2 and will cover all of the southern Rukwa Helium Project in the Momba, Sumbawanga Districts in the southern Rukwa Basin and is consistent with the area that was applied for under the application
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The offer of the ML follows approval by the Ministry of Minerals ("MoM") who have given the MC permission to grant a larger than standard ML that will enable the southern Rukwa Helium Project to be developed to its full potential
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Offer letter and terms are currently being reviewed by the Company
Lorna Blaisse, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"As we continue to drive forward, this achievement for the Company marks a milestone in our progress as the primary helium company in Tanzania.
This historical moment, for both the Company and for Tanzania, is the first ML to be offered for helium in Tanzania and also the first of such a significant size. I would like to express my appreciation to the Ministry of Minerals and the Mining Commission for their support of this application and project, and for entrusting the Company in paving the way for this flagship commodity sector in-country. I would like to thank the Helium One team who have worked so hard on this and to all our shareholders for their continued support."
Details
The offer letter of the ML is an achievement for the Company, following the discovery at Itumbula West-1 last year. The ML application, which was submitted in September 2024, was accompanied by a feasibility study which outlines the potential of the helium resource in southern Rukwa.
Following approval from the MoM, the MC were able to allow the full 480km2 which was applied for, and which is significantly larger than a standard ML area for conventional mining practices. The MoM and MC recognise that the helium potential in southern Rukwa is geologically unique given the gas in solution play, and that the Company has identified extensive faulting mechanisms and fracture networks and by including these in the ML area, it provides the Company with the best opportunity to fully leverage the helium potential.