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    • Alum Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2025

    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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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 20, 2025
    Publisher Ram Power, Inc.
    Maintainer
    Doi 10.15121/1148793
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/6609
    Data First Published 2010-01-01T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2021-08-19T20:44:00Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250120143002
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    Homepage URL https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/269
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:006
    Projectlead Mike Weathers
    Projectnumber EE0002845
    Projecttitle Recovery Act: Alum Innovative Exploration Project
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