Drilling into new frontiers – drilling into magma
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Aug 23
Iceland’s Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) is preparing to explore one of geothermal energy’s most extreme frontiers: drilling near and potentially into magma beneath the Krafla caldera. While drilling into
KMT, Iceland
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Aug 23
The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) is a proposed drilling project in the Krafla Caldera in northern Iceland aimed at reaching the magma front beneath the volcano. Previous drilling, including the IDDP-1 p
In 2009, a drilling team at Krafla in northeast Iceland unexpectedly struck magma while searching for superhot geothermal water. The site is a volcanic caldera about 10 kilometers wide, and the origin