Helium as a kind of precious rare gas is widely used in aerospace, medical, industrial, civil and other fields, although helium application field widely, but the output of the helium gas is not actually ideal, has long been a helium gas is in short supply, so the helium gas prices have been high, coupled with the shortage of helium gas resources have been increasingly, we have reason to believe that the helium gas prices will rise further in the future. Why is there a shortage of helium?

First discovery of helium gas on Earth:

In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri discovered the D3 line of helium, the first recorded helium on Earth, while analyzing the magma of Mount Vesuvius.

Helium is not a scarce resource in the universe; it is found throughout the universe, accounting for 23% by mass. On Earth, however, the distribution of helium isn't that great. There's only about 52,000 parts per million of it in the air, so it's expensive and inefficient to extract helium directly from the air. In fact, most of the earth's helium is found in natural gas or radioactive ores, with U.S. natural gas containing as much as 1% and as much as 7%. In addition, radioactive minerals on Earth contain helium that is the product of alpha decay. The helium produced in China mainly comes from the only domestic helium production device built in The 1970s in Weiyuan gas field in Sichuan province, which is also the only gas field with helium industrial exploitation value in China.

At present in the wei river basin is rich in geothermal water soluble helium, regional geological data analysis showed that radioactive uranium granite of helium causes of weihe basin is the main source of water soluble helium geothermal water, large area exposed in the qinling orogenic belt and concealed in the wei river basin under the Cenozoic sediments in the south edge of rich uranium granite rock mass to the wei river basin geothermal water water soluble helium main gas source rock. Russia and Qatar also have helium fields, but the biggest producers come from American Wells. Helium is not a scarce resource in the universe; it is found throughout the universe, accounting for 23% by mass. On Earth, however, the distribution of helium isn't that great. There's only about 52,000 parts per million of it in the air, so it's expensive and inefficient to extract helium directly from the air. In fact, most of the earth's helium is found in natural gas or radioactive ores, with U.S. natural gas containing as much as 1% and as much as 7%. In addition, radioactive minerals on Earth contain helium that is the product of alpha decay. The helium produced in China mainly comes from the only domestic helium production device built in The 1970s in Weiyuan gas field in Sichuan province, which is also the only gas field with helium industrial exploitation value in China.