Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)

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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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Ram Power, Inc.. (2010). Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.) [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148793.
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Miller, Clay. 2010. "Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.) ". United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/1148793. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/269.
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Data from Jan 1, 2010

Last updated Aug 19, 2021

Submitted Nov 20, 2013

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Ram Power, Inc.

Contact

Clay Miller

775.398.3720

Authors

Clay Miller

Ram Power Inc.

DOE Project Details

Project Name Recovery Act: Alum Innovative Exploration Project

Project Lead Mike Weathers

Project Number EE0002845

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