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    • Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)

    Metadata Updated: January 20, 2025

    Data generated from the Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project, in Esmeralda County, Nevada, encompasses a deep-circulation (amagmatic) meteoric-geothermal system circulating beneath basin-fill sediments locally blanketed with travertine in western Clayton Valley (lithium-rich brines from which have been mined for several decades). Spring- and shallow-borehole thermal-water geochemistry and geothermometry suggest that a Silver Peak geothermal reservoir is very likely to attain the temperature range 260- 300oF (~125-150oC), and may reach 300-340oF (~150-170oC) or higher (GeothermEx, Inc., 2006). Results of detailed geologic mapping, structural analysis, and conceptual modeling of the prospect (1) support the GeothermEx (op. cit.) assertion that the Silver Peak prospect has good potential for geothermal-power production; and (2) provide a theoretical geologic framework for further exploration and development of the resource.

    The Silver Peak prospect is situated in the transtensional (regional shearing coupled with extension) Walker Lane structural belt, and squarely within the late Miocene to Pliocene (11 Ma to ~5 Ma) Silver Peak-Lone Mountain metamorphic core complex (SPCC), a feature that accommodated initial displacement transfer between major right-lateral strike- slip fault zones on opposite sides of the Walker Lane. The SPCC consists essentially of a ductiley-deformed lower plate, or core, of Proterozoic metamorphic tectonites and tectonized Mesozoic granitoids separated by a regionally extensive, low-angle detachment fault from an upper plate of severely stretched and fractured structural slices of brittle, Proterozoic to Miocene-age lithologies. From a geothermal perspective, the detachment fault itself and some of the upper-plate structural sheets could function as important, if secondary, subhorizontal thermal-fluid aquifers in a Silver Peak hydrothermal system.

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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 10.15121/1148794
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/6608
    Data First Published 2010-01-01T07:00:00Z
    Data Last Modified 2021-08-19T20:32:32Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
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    Data Quality True
    Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250120143002
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    Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
    Homepage URL https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/268
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Program Code 019:006
    Projectlead Mike Weathers
    Projectnumber EE0002844
    Projecttitle Recovery Act: Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project
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