GeoRedox and Canada Nickel Launch First-of-its-kind Geologic Hydrogen Program at Crawford Nickel Project in Timmins, Ontario
A banner day for GeoRedox with the signing of our MOU with Canada Nickel Company!
Our partnership with CNC builds on years of exploration and hard work at the site of what will be the world’s cleanest nickel mine. With hundreds of kilometers of test wells already drilled and extensive knowledge of the mineralogy, we will be moving quickly, with drilling to commence in 2026 and test production in 2027.
Highlights:
MOU signed to develop first stimulated geologic hydrogen well at Crawford Nickel Project, Timmins, Ontario
Zero-carbon hydrogen to be produced from natural chemical reactions in ultramafic rock
Advances Canada Nickel's Zero-Carbon Industrial Cluster vision for the Timmins Nickel District
BOSTON, TORONTO May [19], 2026 -- GeoRedox Corporation (“GeoRedox”) and Canada Nickel Corporation (“CNC”) are pleased to announce that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) launching a partnership to develop the world’s first stimulated geologic hydrogen well on the site of CNC’s Crawford Nickel Project near Timmins, Ontario.
The project will test GeoRedox's proprietary technology for producing zero-carbon hydrogen from ultramafic rock formations - the same geology that underlies Canada Nickel's twenty-plus projects in the Timmins Nickel District - and represents a foundational step toward a zero-carbon industrial cluster in Northeast Ontario.
Robert Stoner, President of GeoRedox said: “Hydrogen is used extensively in metals production, which makes GeoRedox a natural partner to the mining industry. In Canada Nickel we’re delighted to have partnered with a miner that shares our commitment to industrial decarbonization and environmental stewardship - and our sense of urgency. Crawford gives us the ideal real-world setting to validate our technology alongside a world-class mining operation. The opportunity to develop a project with Canada Nickel in a well-developed industrial region with extensive infrastructure is truly exciting.”
Mark Selby CEO of Canada Nickel said, "The ultramafic rock that hosts our Crawford deposit and twenty-plus projects across the Timmins Nickel District is precisely the geology GeoRedox's technology is designed for. This partnership brings us a significant step closer to a Zero-Carbon Industrial Cluster in Northeast Ontario - one that converts our concentrates into finished critical mineral products including nickel, chromium and cobalt, while leveraging the region's significant carbon storage capacity."
GeoRedox will fund the demonstration program in full. Canada Nickel will contribute site access, rock samples, technical expertise, data, and other resources necessary for project planning and implementation at Crawford. The demonstration well represents the first phase of a program that, if successful, has the potential to provide a large-scale, carbon-free hydrogen supply for a zero-carbon industrial cluster in the Timmins Nickel District.
Crawford, located in Ontario's Critical Minerals Corridor, is expected to rank among the Western world's largest nickel sulphide projects and among the world's lowest-carbon nickel operations. The project's ultramafic geology - the same rock type that hosts GeoRedox's target formations globally - makes it a natural site for the demonstration program.
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We’ve been working quietly behind the scenes to develop a first-of-a-kind in-ground demonstration of our technology.
The stage is set. We have hundreds of carefully logged kilometers of test wells, and plan to produce hydrogen from the ground in 2027!
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GeoRedox Announces New Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen Approach and Strategic Partnership with Sage Geosystems
BOSTON, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GeoRedox Corporation (GeoRedox) announced today it's launching its Advanced Weathering Enhancement (AWE) technology to produce stimulated geologic hydrogen (SGH) at low-cost and at scale. Additionally, the company announced a new partnership with Sage Geosystems (Sage) to cooperate in the design, construction, and operation of an advanced field demonstration to produce SGH and to collaborate in future production projects. The partnership will include sharing of related technical expertise, data, and resources necessary for project planning and implementation.
This effort builds on recent progress created by discoveries around the world of sizable deposits of geologic hydrogen that have accumulated in the earth’s crust through naturally occurring processes. Using advanced drilling and subsurface engineering techniques adapted from the oil and gas industry in combination with GeoRedox’s AWE technology, the collaboration with Sage seeks to accelerate those processes in much more widely distributed source rocks. The approach has the potential to enable the production of ultra-low-cost, carbon-free geologic hydrogen close to existing industrial hydrogen markets, and to provide hydrogen at large-scale carbon-free liquid fuel production in the future.
According to ARPA-E, U.S. Department of Energy, while the supply of naturally accumulating hydrogen, in and of itself, can enhance the U.S. energy economy, reduced iron minerals within the Earth’s crust have the theoretical potential to produce even more hydrogen from reactions within the subsurface. Using stimulated mineralogical processes could yield larger quantities of hydrogen than what are produced naturally. Thus, engineering the production of subsurface hydrogen could yield a substantial source of clean energy.
“This collaboration brings together unmatched breadth and depth of experience in geoscience and advanced subsurface engineering to make stimulated geologic hydrogen a reality,” said GeoRedox President Robert Stoner. “Our demonstration project will simultaneously validate our geochemical and thermodynamic models and at the same time show that we can deliver commercially compelling outcomes in real-world settings. We expect our hydrogen to compete unsubsidized in the 100-megaton existing global hydrogen market – and that’s just a beginning.”
“Stimulated geologic hydrogen represents a new use case for the cutting-edge technologies we’ve developed at Sage,” said Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage. “Our work with GeoRedox positions Sage on the ground floor of a new global opportunity that we expect to grow alongside our Pressure Geothermal businesses.”
GeoRedox’s partnership with Sage to develop stimulated geologic hydrogen signals a significant step forward in the use of subsurface knowledge and resources to create a secure new global energy economy.
Construction of the field demonstration site is expected to begin in 2026.
About GeoRedox Corporation
GeoRedox Corporation is a Boston-based early-stage technology developer founded in 2024 by a group of scientists and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has developed proprietary technology for producing ultralow cost stimulated geologic hydrogen from a wide variety of rocks and formations. For more information, visit www.georedox.com.
About Sage Geosystems
Sage Geosystems is a leader in the next-generation geothermal industry, pioneering the use of Pressure Geothermal. Pressure Geothermal leverages both the heat and the pressure of the earth to enable three applications: energy storage, power generation and district heating. Sage is enabling geothermal to be deployable globally. For more information, visit www.sagegeosystems.com
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Brad Hager Talks About Geologic Hydrogen on MIT Podcast “What if it Works”
Rob Stoner and Brad Hager talk with NPR personality Kara Miller about geologic hydrogen on the MIT Energy Initiative Podcast What if it Works - released May 7, 2025
https://energy.mit.edu/podcast/hydrogen-beneath-our-feet/