Silver Peak Innovative Exploration Project (Ram Power Inc.)

Description

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.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 Contains (1) Ground Magnetic Report dated Sep 2009, (2) IGRF, (3) TMI-RTP Vertical Derivative, (4) TMI w/ IGRF Removed, (5) TMI and (6) TMI-RTP w/ IGRF Removed https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Magnetic%20Survey%20Data.zip
57 Contains ZTEM Final Report + Inversions https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Magnetotellurics%20ZTEM.zip
57 Contains Radiometric Survey 2005 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Radiometric%20Survey%202005.zip
33 Silver Peak Remote Sensing ASTER Report https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Remote%20Sensing%20Aster%20Report.pdf
57 Contains Remote Sensing Photographs https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Remote%20Sensing%20JPEGs.zip
0 Contains (2) 2D + 3D Resource Model (Movie Format) https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Resource%20Model.wmv
57 Contains (1) 2D Data Processing Report, (2) KPSTM Stacks w/ Depth Stretch + Map and (3) Proposed Seismic Line + Mitigation Strategies https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Seismic%20Survey%20Data.zip
57 Contains (1) TGH Water Reports and (2) Fluid Chemistry https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Geochemistry%20Fluid%20Data.zip
33 Contains Silver Peak Drilling Map for Temperature Gradient Holes https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20TGH%20Drilling%20Map%20Sep%202009.pdf
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 18A-11 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2018A-11.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 26-A14 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2026A-14.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 38-11 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2038-11.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 41-10 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2041-10.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 43-11 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2043-11.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 43A-14 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2043A-14.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 51-23 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2051-23.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 53-15 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2053-15.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 56A-11 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2056A-11.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 73-10 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2073-10.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from TGH Hole 74-11 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Geologic%20Logs%20for%20Temperature%20Gradient%20Holes%2074-11.zip
57 Contains photographs of Silver Peak Site and Exploration Activity https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Photographs.zip
33 Contains Geology Map and Model https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Geology%20Map%20and%20Model%20%28Hulen%29%20Jul%202008.pdf
57 Contains Ground MT Final Report + 3D Inversion Modeling Report https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Magnetotellurics%20Ground%20MT.zip
57 Contains Radiometric Survey 2009 https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Radiometric%20Survey%202009.zip
57 Contains Drilling Data from Historic Silver Peak Wells https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Well%20Data%20Historic%20Data.zip
57 Contains (1) Gravity Survey - Silver Peak Prospect - dated September 2009 and supporting metadata in the form of (2) Final XYZ + GDB, (3) Geosoft Files, (4) GPS Files, (5) Gravity Loop Files, (6) Grid + Terrain Files, (7) Complete Bouger, (8) 1st Vertical Derivative, (9) 5km Hi-Pass Regional and Residual, (10) 10km Hi-Pass Regional and Residual, (11) Data Acquisition and Processing Report, (12) Upward Continued Regional and Residual and (13) Horizontal Gravity Gradient https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Gravity.zip
57 Contains (1) Shallow temperature Map, (2) Shallow Temperature Gradient and (3) Shallow Temperature Metadata, https://gdr.openei.org/files/268/Silver%20Peak%20Regional%20and%20Shallow%20Temperature%20Data.zip

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