Promising lithium finds near San Emidio geothermal plant, Nevada
San Emidio power plant in Nevada, U.S. (Source: U.S. Geothermal)
Alexander Richter
2 Nov 2016
Nevada Energy Metals - a mining/ metal company from Canada, is hopeful after promising results from a sampling program near the geothermal power plant of U.S. Geothermal in San Emidio, Nevada.
In a release this week, mining/ metals company Nevada Energy Metals Inc. announces that it has received highly encouraging results from a sampling program designed to test for lithium values in surface soils and/or playa evaporates at the 100% owned San Emidio Desert Project.
The San Emidio Desert Project consists of 143 placer claims in total, covering about 1156 hectares (4.5 square miles) of playa and alluvial fan in the San Emidio Desert, Nevada, about 98 air-line km north-northeast of Reno, Nevada.
The property is adjacent to the 9 MW Empire geothermal power generation facility of U.S. Geothermal Inc. power and a vegetable dehydration plant exploiting the active geothermal system. Gravity survey results indicate the depth of valley fill to be approximately 1,800 meters and that there is subsurface closure of the valley a short distance to the north of the claim block. The basin is fed by anomalous lithium bearing geothermal fluids interpreted to be meteoric waters heated by relatively deep circulation in the earth’s crust.
A total of 172 samples were collected with Lithium values ranging from 30.3 to a high of 600 ppm (30 mg/L to 600mg/L) with a median value of 215 ppm (215mg/L). Thirty-two samples were above 300 ppm (300mg/L) and 13 were over 400 ppm (400/mg/L).
Source: Company release via Stockhouse
