Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)
Data generated from the Alum Innovative Exploration Project, one of several promising geothermal properties located in the middle to upper Miocene (~11-5 Ma, or million years BP) Silver Peak-Lone Mountain metamorphic core complex (SPCC) of the Walker Lane structural belt in Esmeralda County, west-central Nevada. The geothermal system at Alum is wholly concealed; its upper reaches discovered in the late 1970s during a regional thermal-gradient drilling campaign. The prospect boasts several shallow thermal-gradient (TG) boreholes with TG >75oC/km (and as high as 440oC/km) over 200-m intervals in the depth range 0-600 m. Possibly boiling water encountered at 239 m depth in one of these boreholes returned chemical- geothermometry values in the range 150-230oC. GeothermEx (2008) has estimated the electrical- generation capacity of the current Alum leasehold at 33 megawatts for 20 years; and the corresponding value for the broader thermal anomaly extending beyond the property at 73 megawatts for the same duration.
Complete Metadata
| bureauCode |
[ "019:20" ] |
|---|---|
| dataQuality | true |
| DOI | 10.15121/1148793 |
| identifier | https://data.openei.org/submissions/6609 |
| issued | 2010-01-01T07:00:00Z |
| landingPage | https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/269 |
| programCode |
[ "019:006" ] |
| projectLead | Mike Weathers |
| projectNumber | EE0002845 |
| projectTitle | Recovery Act: Alum Innovative Exploration Project |
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