Resourcing the Territory

Supporting resource exploration in the Northern Territory

Resourcing the Territory is a $9.5 million per annum ongoing program supporting mineral and petroleum exploration and development in the Territory through a range of geoscience and exploration stimulus programs.

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AGES 2025 - save the date

AGES will be held in Alice Springs on 8 to 9 April 2025. Registrations will open in December 2024.

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Geoscience from the frontier Birrindudu Basin

Check out the latest releases from NTGS and its partners across the underexplored Birrinidudu Basin. Find out more about its resource potential.

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Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations round 17

Round 17 of the Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations program supports co-funding for a record 41 projects.

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Download the latest Resourcing the Territory commodity factsheets and posters

For the latest on developing mining projects and exploration, download the commodity factsheets, maps and reports updated tri-annually.

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Critical Minerals of the Northern Territory 2024

The Territory has defined resources for 17 globally recognised critical minerals, including graphite and gallium following recent discoveries. Download the updated guide for 2024.

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Latest news

Promoting the Territory's resource potential at IMARC 2024

14 Oct 2024

NTGS will be attending the International Mining and Resources Conference and Expo (IMARC) on 29 - 31 October 2024. Find us at booth K33.

New age data from the sedimentary rocks of the Pedirka Basin

01 Oct 2024

New U-Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronological results from six samples collected from two petroleum exploration drillholes (CBM 107-001 and CBM 107-002) provide age constraints and provenance information in the sedimentary rocks of the Pedirka Basin.

Insights into the sediment-hosted base metal potential of the Birrindudu Basin

01 Oct 2024

NTGS release the second phase of a collaborative study with CSIRO on the stratigraphic framework and mineral potential of the Birrindudu Basin, Northern Territory.

Record $227.4 million in exploration expenditure in the Territory

18 Sep 2024

The demand for the Territory’s critical minerals, including lithium and rare earth elements, as well as gold and uranium, continues to drive record growth in exploration.

3D dataset compilation across the Birrindudu Basin

12 Sep 2024

NTGS has released Data Information Package (DIP) 043. It comprises open-file surface and subsurface geochemistry, geophysics, geology, geochronology, SEEBASE interpretation, major structures, petrophysics and hyperspectral that can be easily imported into a variety of visualisaton and modelling software.

NTGS will be at NT Resources Week

04 Sep 2024

NTGS is presenting in the Mining the Territory program as part of NT Resources Week on 18 - 19 September at the Darwin Convention Centre. Come by the NT Government booth to catch up.

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