The geothermal lease (1,482 ha) consists of two whole and five partial semi-contiguous Sections in Lander County, along Nevada Highway 305, between the communities of Austin and Battle Mountain, approximately 350km east of the City of Reno. The lease is centred on: 39.034491 N, 116.676623 W.
No geothermal exploration is known to have been performed on the Lease, although numerous geothermal indicators have been documented in proximity to the Property, primarily during the 1970s and 1980s initial exploration foray into geothermal energy (e.g. Amax, 1998). The report by Richards and Blackwell (2002) ranks the Reese River- Shoshone Range area into top 15 geothermal areas with significant temperature, high gradient and heat flow. The report reports a significant influence of geothermal gradient on the hear flow. Based on the total of 52 relatively shallow boreholes in the area (~90m deep), the area’s potential is reflected by an average 225 °C/km gradient, with a peak gradient of 590 °C/km and a considerable calculated heat flow of 1117 mW/m2. Hot springs are known to occur within or and/or proximal to the lease with the reported temperatures around 50C.
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