Things are looking up for Minnesota's nascent helium industry, because miners keep going down to find more of it.

Nearly two years after first making the discovery with its Jetstream 1 well , engineers at Pulsar Helium are underway drilling Jetstream 3 more than a half-mile away — and there are potential plans for a dozen more.

"We anticipate going to up to Jetstream 16 to determine where the limits of this reservoir is," Steve Campbell, Pulsar's operations manager, explained to WCCO. "We're looking at multiple years, and a lot of the wells we can't drill until we're in a frozen condition because we're in wetlands."

Helium is a $3 billion industry, and blimps and balloons aren't the markets inflating that price. It's used in rockets, aerospace, semiconductors, welding and MRI ma

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