Spear-fishing in central Newcastle
We were overwhelmed with the national (and then international) press response to our project when we decided to open the site to journalists on Monday 27th June. We knew there was plenty of interest,...
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The delicate side-tracking operation was handled brilliantly by the team from Geometric Cofor, and we’ve been drilling at full speed again for two days. We’re presently at 1675m, and hope to reach our...
View ArticleBottoming out
Well that unusual red sandstone that we met about one mile down persisted – all the way to 1800m in fact. After that the rock type changed again, and we seemed to be in an unusual mixture of strata...
View ArticleMaking a silk purse from a sow’s ear…
We had a lot of interest both in the region and from national press (Independent, BBC Radio 5 Live) about the notion of a new “Mine on Tyne”, in the very same area where our geothermal borehole was...
View ArticleHotter than hoped!
We finally got round to starting what will be a lengthy process of testing and analysis of what exactly lurks down the borehole – and the main thing to report so far is that the temperature down there...
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