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Notice Concerning Copyright Restrictions NOTICE CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS This document may contain copyrighted materials. These materials have been made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, but may not be used for any commercial purpose. Users may not otherwise copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any material. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law. The McCoy Geothermal Prospect Status Report of a Possible New Discovery in Churchill and Lander Counties, Nevada Harry J. Olson, Frank Dellechaie, ti. Dean Pi1kington, and Arthur L. Lange AMAX Exploration, Inc. 7100 West 44th Avenue Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033 ABSTRACT GEOLOGY The McCoy geothermal prospect was discovered The McCoy area has not been geologically in 1977 in the highlands east of Dixie Valley mapped in detail. The geological map shown in ~ about 55 kilometers northwest of Austin, Nevada. A Fig. 1 represents portions of the 1/250,000 scale marked thermal anomaly from a shallow gradient geologic maps of Churchill and Lander counties survey gives gradients of 28 to 406"C;km. Heat- with minor modifications (Stewart, J. H. and flow varies from 0.9 to 23 H.F.U., and subsurface McKee, E. H., 1977 and Wilden, R. and Speed, R. temperatures,as,high as.40.4OC have been measured C., 1974). at a depth of 58 meters. Water geochemistry util- izing a mixing model indicates a minimum reservoir P 39 €1 R40E temperature of 186°C. I INTRODUCTION -$23 The McCoy geothermal prospect was discovered N ,in the summer of 1977 during the course of re- gional exploration coverage of Nevada and other western states having geologic settings with geothermal potential. The McCoy area was identi- fied by anomalous thermal gradjents and favorable hydrogeochemical analyses of well water. The McCoy prospect is on land administered by the BLM and consists of issued federal geothermal leases. The prospect area is situated at the confluence of the Augusta and Clan Alpine Mountains and the New Pass Range along the border of Church- i11 and Lander Counties, Nevada immediately east 422 of Dixie Valley. The area is 55 kilometers northwest of Austin and can be reached by means of a well traveled and maintained dirt road which intersects U.S. Highway 50 near the center of the Edwards Creek Valley approximately 40 kilometers west of Austin. The heart of the prospect area is about 30 2 kilometers north of Highway 50. J .. .. - R 39 E I R40E During 1978,'AMAX submitted a proposal in response to the Department of Energy's RFP No. ET- 78-R-08-0003, Geothermal Reservoir Assessment Case Figure 1 Geology of HcCoy Area Study, Northern Basin and Range and was awarded a contract providing partial funding for exploration Rocks in the area are a thick assemblage of surveys at the property. Detailed results of the Tertiary intermediate to acidic volcanic flows, work funded by the DOE will be published by the tuffs, and associated sediments; Triassic and DOE through the University of Utah Research Jurassic sandstone, shale, limestone and conglom- Institute (UURI) under DOE contract DE-AC08- erate and Pennsylvanian-Permian eugeosyCclina1 79ET27010, Geothermal Reservoir Assessment Case sediments of the Nevada "western facies . These Study, Northern Basin and Range, McCoy Area. rocks have been extensively broken by Basin and Range faulting which followed the main episode of volcanism. No recent volcanism that could be CURRENT WORK associated with the geothe~alpotential of the area is known. The area, however, is tectonically A sel f-potential (SP) survey was conducted active; faulting has continued into the present; over the prospect area in the spring of 1979. microearthquakes are comnon; and major earthquakes Partial results are shown on Figure 6. (Micro- have occurred nearby as recently as 1954. geophysics, Corp. , 1979) s The SP contour patterns are mainly controlled by regional faulting along The central pert of the area is extensively N30W and N30-45E trends. Perturbations of the bleached and silicified by hydrothermal alteration contour trends are probably caused by shallow which relates to mercury minerali~ation at the structure and shallow lateral resistivity changes McCoy and Wildhorse Mines, and other prospects in associated with varying lithology or alteration the vicinity. Although no hot springs or other and mineralization. The McCoy mine is centered on thermal manifestations are currently active at a large SP low, Although alteration and mercury the prospect, a fossil travertine mound about ten mineralization roughly coincides with the low, the meters thick and approximately two square kilo- anomaly may have geothermal significance in that meters in area overlies the Tertiary and Triassic it is elongated in an east-west direction along a rocks just west of the McCoy mine. major structural trend which crosses the prospect. DEFINITIQN Of THE THERMAL ANOMALY An aeromagnetic survey of approximat~ly720 line-kilometers at 1.6 kilometer flight line The area of the thermal anomaly is fairly spacing and at a constant barometric altitude well defined by sh&l low gradient surveys totalling providing a minimum 300 meter terrain clearance 45 wells averaging about 42 meters in depth. Only has been flown to provide structural and possibly two of these wells, which vary in depth from 12 to magmatic data. Results of this survey have not 150 meters, interscct the water table. been recei ved. To expedite analysis, data from the gradient A gravity survey of ~pproximately 220 sta- surveys are computer manipulated and plotted util- tions has also been completed, but the data is izing a program available from ~INC~lP¶Corp., of still being analysed. The survey was run to pro- Englewood, Colorado. All measurements are vide additional structural data. The gravity sta- metric. Gradients are divided into segments and tions were located to provide adequate grid cover- are printed as OC/km with the standard deviation. age as well as several modelling profiles across Heatflow is given with the standard deviation and the prospect. Data processing will yield a com- measured or assumed rock conductivity. Depth in plete Bouguer gravity map and several profile kilometers to the 200°C isotherm is extrapolated model s. from a gradient selected as "most reliable" by the analyst. Temperat~~eat 100 meters is taken from Geologic mapping is continuing in and around actual measurements or extrapolated from the the prospect area to provide all infor~ation gradient, and a surface intercept which should possible on rock types, structure, alteration, represent the mean annual surface-temperature is dri 11ing conditions and possible reservoir con- also extrapolated upward from the gradient. ditions and locations. Qaps are prepared displaying gradients, A soil and rock-chip geochemical survey was heatflow, temperature at 100 meters, and depth to completed in mid July of this year. Results of the 200°C isotherm. Generally, these plots are the assay data have not been received. The survey similar but sometiEes marked differences are is designed to establish the extent of the mercury evident. By examining these maps the analyst can mineralization and the extent and nature of' thct reach a better understanding of the different alteration. All samples will be analysed for facets of the thermal regime. mercury, and selected samples, for an extensive suite of elements and compounds associated with The various aspects of the thermal an~~~ya4 geothe~al reservoirs. McCoy are shown in Figures 2,3,4 and 5. Gradients range from 28 to 406 "C/km. Heatflow varies from A microearthquake survoy of approximately 50 . 0.9 to 23 H.F,U., and temperature at 100 meters, stations is being conducted to map seismic activ- from 15.5'C to an extrapolated 58.1OC. The high- ity, zones of active faulting and possible areas est measured temperature is 40.4OC at a depth of of magmatism, Besides the recording and locating 58 meters. Extrapolated depth to the 200°C iso- of microearthquakes, Poisson's ratios, P-and S- therm is only 0.4 kilometers at the shallowest wave attenuations, and travel time anomalies will point. be determi ned. No extensive shall ow groundwater reservoir or SCHEDULED SURVEYS aquifer has been identified. Deeper drilling data are needed to establish its existence as well as A magnetotel luric survey of approximately 30 its temperature and characteristics. However, the stations recording at 10 to 0.01 Hz is scheduled chemistry of a warm well at the McCoy mine yields for late this summer, The stations will consist a deduced 186°C minimum equi 1 i bration temperature of 10 five component bases, and 20 telemetered with an 85% cold water fraction ~Dellechaie, F., satellite stations consisting of two orthogonal 1977, 1978). 516 Olson% R 39 E IR 40 E T T R39EIR40E 24 24 N- N- T I*//' T 23 23 N N I \ 0 T T 23 23 N- N- T T 22 22 N N / I EXPLANATION I *Heat Flow Data Gradient Data Points Point %/km ?* HFU \ f \ \ \ R3: k (R 40 E' R39k)R40E ' Figure 2 Geothermal Gradients Figure 3 Heat Flow T T 24 24 N- 0 N- T 23 N T 23 N- T' 22 N k39EIR40E / Figure 4 Temperature at 100 meters Figure 5 Depth to 23OOC 517 3.
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