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Monday December 22, 2008
Big Isle well strikes deep lava chamber
Magma flowing into a shaft was the first seen in its “natural habitat”
By Rod Thompson
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
HILO ยป Geologists around the world are perking up at the news from San Francisco last week that magma flowed a short distance into a Big Island geothermal well during drilling in 2005, revealing an unusual mineral.
Geologists on the Big Island are taking the news more calmly since they were informed months earlier, and a much more dramatic case of magma in a geothermal well took place in Iceland in 1977.