MPR News: As helium prices balloon, hopes rise that northeast Minnesota has big deposit of the gas
20 Feb 2025
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Helium is best known as the ultralight element used to lift party balloons and the Goodyear Blimp effortlessly into the sky.
But it’s also a valuable commodity increasingly in demand for applications ranging from aerospace to the manufacturing of semiconductor chips.
And that’s led many people to cheer the ongoing exploration for helium in a remote corner of northeast Minnesota, where a small company, Pulsar Helium, hopes to open a production facility soon.
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