It is the second-oldest alternating current power plant in the world, the first being the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant near Ophir, Colorado, also in San Miguel County.

Ophir (; ) is a port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth.

King Solomon is supposed to have received a cargo of gold, silver, sandalwood, precious stones, ivory, apes and peacocks from Ophir, every three years.

Ophir in Genesis 10 ( the Table of Nations ) is said to be the name of one of the sons of Joktan.

Ophir is also a place mentioned in poetry by John Masefield.

In the Cave of Treasures, this appears as: " And the children of Ophir, that is, Send, appointed to be their king Lophoron, who built Ophir with stones of gold ; now, all the stones that are in Ophir are of gold.

Vasco da Gama's companion Tomé Lopes reasoned that Ophir would have been the ancient name for Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe, the main center of sub-African trade in gold in the Renaissance period — though the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are now dated to the medieval era, long after Solomon is said to have lived.

Ophir is said to have been a town of the Abhira tribe.

Most modern scholars still place Ophir either on the coast of either Pakistan or India, in what is now Poovar, or somewhere in southwest Arabia in the region of modern Yemen.

Ophir was said to be "[...] in front of China towards the sea, of many islands where the Moluccans, Chinese, and Lequios met to trade ..." Jes Tirol asserts that this group of islands could not be Japan because the Moluccans did not get there, nor Taiwan, since it is not composed of " many islands.

Ophir is the subject of H. Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines, which places the lost city in South Africa.

Ophir is also a kingdom in Robert Howard's Conan the Barbarian series of stories ; see Hyborian Age for more information.

Wilbur Smith's novel The Sunbird is set in ancient Ophir ( called Opet ) and its modern ruins.

Ophir is the name of the Nordic Utopia in M. M. Scherbatov's 1784 novel " Putishestvie v zemliu ofirskuiu " (" Voyage to Ophir ").

Ophir is a town in Tooele County, Utah, United States.

The community library, housed in the Ophir School facility, is free to the public, providing thousands of books and technology access.

but this was replaced in the final design with a contrail sensor from Ophir that alerts the pilot when he should change altitude and mission planning also considers altitudes where the probability of their formation is minimized.

In Genesis 10: 26-29 there is a reference to another person named Sheba, listed along with Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Ophir, Havilah and Jobab as the descendants of Joktan, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Arphaxad, the descendant of Shem, another son of Noah.

In the second generation there are thirteen children of Joktan -- Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Havilah, Jobab and Ophir are mentioned while only Reu is recorded as being from Peleg.

The Bishop's Bible is notable for the note at Psalm xlv. 9: " Ophir is thought to be the Ilande in the west coast, of late found by Christopher Columbo, from whence at this day is brought most fine gold ".

Biblical references to the land of Ophir are also found in

He also claimed, that the province of Iucatan, had the same name that Ioktan father of Ophir.

Other evidence has also been pointed out suggesting that the Philippines was the biblical Ophir.

The two kings also joined forces in starting a trade route over the Red Sea, connecting the Israelite harbour of Ezion-Geber with a land called Ophir ( 2 Chronicles 8: 16, 17 ).

Ophir, 27 km away, holds the record for the lowest air temperature recorded-minus 21. 6 deg C in mid-1995-but it also held the highest reading ( 35. 2 deg C in 1959 ) until 42. 4 deg C was recorded at Rangiora, in Canterbury in 1973.

In his days also a king reigned over the town of Saba and annexed to his kingdom the cities of Ophir and Havilah, his name was Pharaoh.

* Ianthe is also the name of a fictional city in the nation of Ophir ( see also Hyborian Age, Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard )

KI also holds a 13. 7 % share in Aurelian Oil & Gas, a company dealing with oil and gas exploration, appraisal and production ; 39 % in Loon Energy Corporation, holder of an exploration and production concessions in Colombia and Peru ; 49. 99 % in Kulczyk Oil Ventures, a company dealing with oil and gas exploration and production in the Sultanate of Brunei, Syria and Ukraine ; as well as 10. 2 % in Ophir Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company active in Africa.

The highway measures in length, extending from Echo Bay eastward through the communities of Sylvan Valley, Leeburn and Ophir, where it turns southward and runs south through Rydal Bank, Bruce Station, and finally to its southeastern terminus, also at Highway 17, in the town of Bruce Mines.

Howard probably also envisioned his version of Ophir as a kingdom focusing on trade but it mostly has a peripheral role in the Conan stories.

* Mount Ophir, a 1276m high mountain in Muar, Malaysia, also known as Gunung Ledang

It is also reported from the Ophir District, Tooele County, Utah.

In a book found in Spain entitled Collecion General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas, the author has described how to locate Ophir.

* 1929 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor ( d. 1987 )

According to the Bible, during Solomon's reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish, Ophir, and South India.

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi, a 19th century Arab historian, states that al-Hind and al-Sind are of Ophir, the son of Joktan.

However, the majority pushed for an earlier date, as younger members of the party, among them Ophir Pines-Paz and Isaac Herzog, overtook established leaders like Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Haim Ramon, in the party ballot to divide up government portfolios.

* Bochart first suggested eastern localities for the ports of Ophir and Tarshish during King Solomon's reign, specifically the Tamilakkam continent ( present day South India and Northern Ceylon ) where the Dravidians were well known for their gold, pearls, ivory and peacock trade.

Details about the three of Joktan's sons, Sheba, Ophir and Havilah, were preserved in a tradition known in divergent forms from three pre-Islamic Arabic and Ethiopic sources: the Kitab al-Magall ( part of Clementine literature ), the Cave of Treasures, and the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

The Kitab al-Magall states that in the days of Reu, a king of Saba ( Sheba ) named " Pharoah " annexed Ophir and Havilah to his kingdom, and " built Ophir with stones of gold, for the stones of its mountains are pure gold.

Biblical scholars, archaeologists and others have tried to determine the exact location of Ophir.

The identification of Ophir with Sofala in Mozambique was mentioned by Milton in Paradise Lost ( 11: 399-401 ), among many other works of literature and science.

On the other hand, the theologian Benito Arias Montano ( 1571 ) proposed finding Ophir in the name of Peru, reasoning that the native Peruvians were thus descendants of Ophir and Shem.

In the 19th century Max Müller and other scholars identified Ophir with Abhira, at the mouth of the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan.