U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- 269
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0002845
- Research Org.:
- USDOE Geothermal Data Repository (United States); Ram Power, Inc.
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Program (EE-4G)
- Collaborations:
- Ram Power, Inc.
- Subject:
- 15 Geothermal Energy
- Keywords:
- geothermal; Gravity; Magnetics; MT; Geochemistry; Regional Temperature; Resource Model; Well Data; Geology; upper Miocene; Silver Peak; Lone Mountain; Walker Lane; Alum; Esmeralda County; Nevada; Gravity Survey; Grid; Terrain; 5km; 10km; Upward Continued Regional Residual; Bouger; Horizontal Gravity Gradient; North America; Imperial County; Grav-Mag; Magnetic; 3D; Profile; Profiles; Round 1; 2009; Round 2; 2010; magnetotellurics; Inversion; 30 ohm; 100 ohm; 300 ohm; ZTEM; Chemistry; Geothermometry; Temperature; hole 56-29; Historic; Shallow; Well Logs; Modern; geologic; geomechanics; geophysical; 25-29; 26-19; Geology; report; executive summary; maps; sections; Photos; Photographs; Pictures; geospatial data
- Geolocation:
- 37.908611111111, -117.66666666667
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1148793
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15121/1148793
- Project Location:
-
Citation Formats
Miller, Clay. Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.). United States: N. p., 2010.
Web. doi:10.15121/1148793.
Miller, Clay. Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.). United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/1148793
Miller, Clay. 2010.
"Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15121/1148793. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1148793. Pub date:Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2010
@article{osti_1148793,
title = {Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)},
author = {Miller, Clay},
abstractNote = {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.},
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