Tag: Geothermal

June 1, 2023

The new and improved GBCGE Subsurface Database Explorer web app

NBMG’s Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy (GBCGE) Subsurface Database Explorer web application has recently undergone redevelopment to deliver much improved performance. This application allows...

May 30, 2023

NBMG Job Announcement – Associate Professor / Director, Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy

The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) invites applications for a tenure-track Associate Professor and Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy (GBCGE). 

March 14, 2023

NEW NBMG PUBLICATION

Nevada active mines and energy producers Author: John L. Muntean and Rachel MicanderYear: 2023Series: Open-File Report 2023-01Version: supersedes Open-File Reports 2021-01, 2019-01, 2017-01, 2014-01 (first and second...

March 14, 2023

NEW NBMG PUBLICATION

The Nevada mineral industry 2021 Author: John L. Muntean, Rachel Micander, and Bridget AylingYear: 2022Series: Mineral Industry MI-2021Format: 81 pages, includes color, plastic comb-bound report Starting in 1979, NBMG...

October 26, 2021

New Face at NBMG—Anieri Morales Rivera

A message from Dr. Jim Faulds, NBMG Director and State Geologist: “We are very pleased to welcome a very talented new research scientist to NBMG—Dr....

October 19, 2021

2021 Earth Science Week Photos

A big thank you to everyone that attended Saturday’s NBMG Earth Science Week field trip and to our Earth Science Week team leaders! We had...

September 23, 2021

NEW NBMG PUBLICATION

We have completed a comprehensive inventory of the structural settings of known geothermal systems (>200 total; ≥37°C) and late Miocene (~8 Ma) to Quaternary epithermal mineral deposits in the extensional to transtensional region of Nevada.

May 4, 2021

UPCOMING TALKS AND MEETINGS

NPGS Monthly Meeting—Thursday, May 6 at 7 PM, PDT The Exploration History and Conceptual Model of the Gerlach Geothermal System  by Robert Selwood, Ormat Technologies,...

May 3, 2021

The Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy: Two Decades of Putting Renewable Energy Research to Work for Nevada and the World

By Caddie Dufurrena ’00, Nevada Silver & Blue Magazine, Winter 2021 The Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy was recently featured in UNR’s alumni magazine ‘Silver...

May 3, 2021

Geological Controls on Geothermal Resources for Power Generation

by Egbert Jolie, Samuel Scott, James Faulds, Isabelle Chambefort, Guðni Axelsson, Luis Carlos Gutiérrez-Negrín, Simona Regenspurg, Moritz Ziegler, Bridget Ayling, Alexander Richter & Meseret Teklemariam Zemedkun  This...