The new white gold? The promise of natural hydrogen in Colombia

In 1987, a well digging for water in Bourakebougou, a town north of Bamako, the capital of Mali, turned up a strange deposit. It was a dry well, but it emitted a gas. An unsuspecting worker peered into the borehole opening with a lit cigarette and an explosion burned his face and started a fire that raged for several days, journalist Eric Hand told Science magazine in February 2023.

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