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Western USA Assessment of High Value Materials in Geothermal Fluids and Produced Fluids

This report documents the results of investigations dealing with the concentrations and availabilities of strategic, critical and valuable materials (SCVM) in produced waters from geothermal and hydrocarbon reservoirs (50-250° C) in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah. Analytical results were obtained for water samples from 47 production wells in 12 geothermal fields. Results were also obtained for samples from 25 oil/gas production wells in the Uinta and Paradox Basins and Covenant oil field, from 14 groundwater wells in the Tularosa play fairway (New Mexico), and from 20 groundwater wells and hot springs in the Sevier Thermal Belt (southwestern Utah). Most SCVM concentrations in produced waters range from <0.1 to 100 ug/kg. Lithium is the only element, which has much higher concentrations and which ranges from 10 to 26,000 ug/kg. Relatively high concentrations of gallium (10-80 ug/kg geothermal; 10-10,000 ug/kg Uinta Basin), germanium (1-70 ug/kg geothermal; 10-500 ug/kg Uinta and Paradox Basins), scandium (0.1-2.0 ug/kg geothermal; 5-10 ug/kg Paradox Basin), selenium (1-100 ug/kg geothermal; 10-20,000 ug/kg Uinta and Paradox Basins), and tellurium (0.1-10 ug/kg geothermal; 1-500 ug/kg Uinta and Paradox Basins) are measured too. Geothermal production waters contain very low concentrations of REEs, below analytical detections limits of 0.01 ug/kg, but the concentrations of some REEs (lanthanum, cerium, and europium) range from 0.05 to 5 ug/kg in Uinta Basin waters. Among the geothermal fields, the Roosevelt Hot Spring reservoir appears to have the largest endowments of germanium (20,000 kg) and lithium (7 million kg), the Patua reservoir appears to have the largest endowments of gallium (25,000 kg), selenium (47,000 kg), and tellurium (2500 kg), and the Raft River reservoir appears to have the large endowment of scandium (700 kg). By comparison, the Uinta Basin has larger inventories of gallium (>100,000 kg). These estimates are provisional, and they were calculated using geologically reasonable values for reservoir volumes and porosities. The concentrations of gallium, germanium, lithium, scandium, selenium, and tellurium in produced waters appear to be partly controlled by reservoir temperature and concentrations of total dissolved salts. The relatively high concentration and large endowment of lithium occurring at Roosevelt Hot Springs appears to be related to hot water interaction with crystalline granitic rocks, which host the reservoir and the hydrothermal system, and elevated concentrations of TDS. Analyses of calcite scales from Dixie Valley show that cobalt, gallium, gold, palladium, selenium and tellurium are depositing at deep levels in production wells due to boiling. Comparisons with SCVM mineral deposits suggest that brines in sedimentary basins or derived from lacustrine evaporites enable aqueous transport of gallium, germanium, and lithium.

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Utah FORGE: Area Terrain Slope Data

This archive contains a terrain slope image, in units of degrees, of the Utah FORGE area near Roosevelt Hot springs. The data was derived from 0.5 m resolution LiDAR DEM data and is in a GeoTiff format. It was processed using ArcGIS.

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Utah FORGE: Pressure Temperature Logs from Blundell Well 71-10, Beaver County

This archive contains an Excel spreadsheet with pressure and temperature logs from PacifiCorp well 71-10. This well is in the Blundell Power Plant geothermal well field near Roosevelt Hot Springs, Beaver County, Utah. The spreadsheet also contains UTM coordinates for the location of the well.

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Utah FORGE: Deep Well 58-32 (MU-ESW1) Core Data

These datasets, images, and graphics were derived from core drilling and core that was extracted from Utah Forge deep well 58-32 (originally called MU-ESW1), near Roosevelt Hot Springs.

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Utah FORGE: Regional Well Locations

This archive contains a GIS point feature shapefile that shows the locations of wells in the general region of the Utah FORGE project, near Roosevelt Hot Springs. This includes Utah FORGE deep well 58-32 and wells for which data has been uploaded to the Geothermal Data Repository. The attribute table has a field that contains well names.

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Utah FORGE: Geology Map and GIS Data

This archive contains a geology map of the general Roosevelt Hot Springs region, both in PDF and ArcGIS geodatabase formats, that was created as part of the Utah FORGE project.

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Utah FORGE: Soil Carbon Dioxide Data

These are data from soil CO2 flux surveys done in the Utah FORGE study area near Roosevelt Hot Springs. Concentration is in units of ppm and is the final concentration of CO2 in the chamber after the up-to-2-minute flux measurement. Flux is in units of grams of CO2 per m^2.

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Utah FORGE: X-Ray Diffraction Data

This dataset contains X-ray diffraction (XRD) data taken from wells and outcrops as part of the DOE GTO supported Utah FORGE project located near Roosevelt Hot Springs. It contains an Excel spreadsheet with the XRD data, a text file with sample site names, types, and locations in UTM, Zone 12, NAD83 coordinates, and a GIS shapefile of the sample locations with attributes.

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Utah FORGE: Area LiDAR Bare Earth DEM Mosaic

This is a mosaic of 154 bare earth DEM panels (0.5 m resolution) acquired during Phase II of the Utah FORGE project. The DEM covers the western Mineral Mountains and adjoining basin including the Roosevelt Hot Springs area. The coordinates are in UTM Zone 12, NAD 83 and elevation units are in meters. The DEM is in GeoTiff format.

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Utah FORGE: Updated Phase 2C Well Location Coordinates

Utah FORGE has been established to develop, test, and improve the technologies and techniques required to develop EGS-type geothermal resources. Drilling of the first of two deep deviated wells, 16A(78)-32, will begin in the second half of 2020. This well will serve as the injection well for the injection-production well pair that will form the heart of the laboratory. This submission contains an archive of well location data within the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal area. An Excel spreadsheet is included containing updated GPS data for Utah FORGE wells drilled during Phase 2C (56-32, 68-32, 78-32). This data was collected over time by the Utah Geological Survey and contains all coordinates collected and the final averaged XY coordinates in both Longitude and Latitude and UTM Zone 12, NAD83. Elevation is also included. GIS shapefiles with well points are provided in the archive.

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Utah FORGE: 2D and 3D Seismic Data

This set of data contains raw and Initially-processed 2D and 3D seismic data from the Utah FORGE study area near Roosevelt Hot Springs. Reprocessed versions of these data can be accessed at the linked submission in the Resources section titled "Reprocessed Seismic Reflection Data." The zipped archives numbered from 1-100 to 1001-1122 contain 3D seismic uncorrelated shot gatherers SEG-Y files. The zipped archives numbered from 1-100C to 1001-1122C contain 3D seismic correlated shot gatherers SEG-Y files. Other data have intuitive names.

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Utah FORGE Well 16A(78)-32 X-ray Diffraction Data

This submission contains x-ray diffraction data taken from 3,600 to 10,987 feet deep in well 16A(78)-32 in the Roosevelt Hot Springs Geothermal Area as part of the Utah FORGE project. 78 rock samples were taken. Samples are taken in a range of ten feet at 100 foot increments. Mineral abundances are given in weight percent of the sample, with results rounded to the nearest whole number. Fields marked with tr (trace) indicate that mineral is present, but that its abundance calculated from the Rietveld refinement was less than one weight percent; that it was observed in the clay-sized fraction, but not the bulk; and/or that it was observed in low abundance during petrographic analyses. The samples were taken between 10/29/2020 and 12/24/2020 during the drilling of well 16A(78)-32.

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Utah FORGE: Final Topical Report 2018

This is the final topical report for the Phase 2B Utah FORGE project, which is located near Roosevelt Hot Springs, Utah. This PDF format report details results associated with the conceptual geologic model, deep well 58-32, rock geomechanics, reservoir temperatures, seismic surveys, seismic monitoring, certainty, and NEPA. The report also provides an overview of all of the deliverables which were used to produce the results and full appendices.

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Utah FORGE: Phase 2C Seismic Observation and Ground Water Well Data and Well Locations

This submission contains the following data associated with Utah FORGE Phase 2C within the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal area: - An ArcGIS shapefile with well locations for wells 58-32, 78-32, 68-32, OH-3, OH-4, WOW-2, and WOW-3. Well 58-32 is the deep test well, wells 68-32 and 78-32 are seismic test wells, and the OH and WOW wells were used for ground water monitoring and temperature gradient logging. - Drilling reports, lithologic logs, daily drilling reports, cuttings logs, and drilling photos for seismic monitoring wells 78-32 and 68-32. - Raw and post-processing temperature logs for wells OH-3, OH-4, WOW-2, and WOW-4. The archive also includes a README.txt file, which contains an explanation of the data and how it was acquired, and a text file with coordinates for the logged wells.

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Utah FORGE: Well 58-32 Stimulation Conference Paper and Data

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (U.S. DOE) Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) is a field laboratory that provides a unique opportunity to develop and test new technologies for characterizing, creating and sustaining Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) in a controlled environment. In 2018, the U.S. DOE selected a site in south-central Utah for the FORGE laboratory. Numerous geoscientific studies have been conducted in the region since the 1970s in support of geothermal development at Roosevelt Hot Springs. A vertical scientific well, 58-32, was drilled and tested to a depth of 2290 m (7515 ft) GL in 2017 on the FORGE site to provide additional characterization of the reservoir rocks. The well encountered a conductive thermal regime and a bottom hole temperature of 199degC (390degF). More than 2000 natural fractures were identified, but measured permeabilities are low, less than 30 micro-darcies. Induced fractures indicate that the maximum horizontal stress trends NNE-SSW, consistent with geologic and well observations from the surrounding area. Approximately 45 m (147 ft) at the base of the well was left uncased. A maximum wellhead pressure of 27.6 MPa (4000 psig) at an injection rate of ~1431 L/min (~9 bpm) was measured during stimulation testing in September 2017. Conventional diagnostic evaluations of the data suggest that hydraulic fracturing and shearing occurred. Estimates of the stress gradient for delta_h_min range from of 16.7 to 17.6 kPa/m (0.74 to 0.78 psi/ft). A gradient of 25.6 kPa/m (1.13psi/ft) was calculated for delta_V. In 2019, the 2017 open-hole stimulation in well 58-32 was repeated with injection rates up to 2385 L/min (15 bpm). Two additional stimulations were conducted in the cased portion of the well; one to stimulate critically stressed fractures and the second to test noncritically stressed fractures. Breakdown of the zone spanning critically-stressed fractures occurred at a surface pressure of approximately 29.0 MPa (4200 psig). Although stimulation of the noncritically stressed fractures was interrupted by failure of the bridge plug beneath the perforated interval, micro-seismic data suggests stimulation of the fractures may have been initiated at a surface pressure of 45.5 MPa (6600 psig). These stimulation results support the conclusion the Mineral Mountains granitoid is an appropriate host for EGS development. Micro-seismicity was monitored during the stimulations using surface and downhole instrumentation. Five seismometers and a nodal array of 150 seismic sensors were deployed on the surface. A Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) cable and a string of 12 geophones were deployed in well 78-32, drilled to a depth of 998 m (3274 ft) GL. A broadband sensor and a high-temperature geophone were deployed in well 68-32, drilled to a depth of 303 m (994 ft) GL. More than 420 micro-seismic events were detected by the geophone string. Other instruments detected fewer events.

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Critical Elements in Produced Fluids from Nevada and Utah

Critical elements and related analytical data for produced fluids from geothermal fields in Nevada and Utah, Sevier thermal belt hot springs, Utah, and Uinta basin oil-gas wells, Utah are reported. Analytical results include pH, major species, trace elements, transition metals, other metals, metalloids and REEs. Gas samples were collected and analyzed from Beowawe, Dixie Valley, Roosevelt Hot Springs, and Thermo. Helium gases and helium isotopes were analyzed on samples collected at Patua, San Emido and two wells in the Uinta basin.

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