Sue Priest (USGS,Flagstaff) arrived to coordinate outreach activities. U.S. Forest Service, personnel toured Monday. Interviews will be given to the Mammoth Times and a Regional TV, station Thursday. Regular site tours will begin on Tuesday, August 11.
At 1800, began tripping out to replace bit and perform minor repairs to drilling tools. From, the geologists, the veins and fractures in the metamorphic rocks have become more open, and, the vein mineraogy is typical of the hydrothermal deposition in shallower rocks.
A very high quality Borehole televiewer log was run between 7178' and 7460' by Sandia personnel. An attempted hydrofracture was unsuccessful, even at pumping pressures approaching the lithostatic load.
The performance of DOSECC's Hybrid deep coring system continues to improve. The rock is also becoming more cpompetent, resulting in a dramatic improvement of the coring rate.
After a slow beginning, the coring project is back on track and the drilling is proceeding rapidly., The final adjustments to the Drilling Information System are nearly complete. We look forward to, a productive 2 months of drilling.
stack. The DOSECC hybrid coring unit is being put together with the Tonto mud system,, and we should start BOP testing this afternoon or early this, evening. The cement (30 feet or so) in the pipe and a few feet of the, formation will be cored, then a shoe test will be conducted.
The casing has been cemented in. Next pipe will be stretched to accomodate thermal expansion and the Blow Out Preventor (BOP) will be assembled and tested. We expect coring to begin by the weekend.
The ODP pipe that was standing in the derrick last night, circulated out all the glop, and laid it down. Running the ""bushing string"" into the well and cementing it back up into the 13 3/8"" casing sometime tonight.
