Most of the helium currently used by humans comes from the by-product of drilling for oil and gas   The discovery of large amounts of helium for the first time was the result of a recent collaboration between researchers and mining companies   Using a new method, they found about 1 5 billion cubic meters of helium in Tanzania, East Africa, enough to resonance 1 2 million medical mri machines   The site is within the Great Rift Valley, where heat from intense volcanic activity released helium trapped in ancient rocks into shallow oil fields
In the future, mankind will no longer passively wait for by-products from the process of oil and gas drilling
  This mining could be a turning point for society's helium demand in the future