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Supporting resource exploration in the Northern Territory

The $26 million Resourcing the Territory initiative includes a range of geoscience and exploration stimulus programs designed to support mineral and petroleum exploration and development in the Territory.

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Northern Territory SEEBASE® and GIS

A Territory wide flagship pre-competitive geoscience product aimed at supporting exploration for petroleum, minerals and geothermal energy.

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AGES 2021 - Conference proceedings available

The Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) was held in Alice Springs on 20-21 April. The conference proceedings, presentations and posters are now available through GEMIS.

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Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations grants program

The Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations program co-funds innovative industry exploration programs in underexplored areas across the Northern Territory. Successful recipients for round 14 have now been announced.

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New data and publications released under Resourcing the Territory

For the latest data, products and publications from NTGS and its collaborative partners, visit our new Data and Publications page.

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World-class resource and reserves in the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory hosts some of Australia's largest deposits of manganese, zinc, uranium, gold, bauxite and phosphate, emerging copper and critical mineral projects and globally significant shale gas potential.

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Latest news

MinEx CRC’s Carrara 1 drillhole available for viewing only on Tuesday August 31

26 Jul 2021

Bookings are essential by contacting the NTGS Manager Core Facilities, Darwin.

Three NTGS records released on the geology of the Rover field, Warramunga Province

21 Jul 2021

Detailed logging, petrological studies and geochronology provide a better geological framework of the undercover Rover field and its relationship with the Tennant Creek mineral field.

NTGS releases CSIRO-NTGS McArthur Basin Project

21 Jul 2021

The study presents new geological constraints on the factors and processes controlling sediment-hosted base metal mineralisation in the southern McArthur Basin.

Release of legacy exploration data: Walhallow 1:250k map sheet

19 Jul 2021

The ongoing program to capture all legacy open-file exploration drilling and geochemistry data across the Territory, continues with the release of data from the Walhallow map sheet.

New acreage release for oil and gas exploration

24 Jun 2021

The area covers 30,780 square kilometres or 392 full and part blocks over some of the most prospective areas of the southern part of the Georgina Basin.