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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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Less than 2 weeks to go till AGES 2021

The Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) will be held in Alice Springs on 20-21 April. Register to attend AGES 2021 now.

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Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations grants program open for applications

The Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations program co-funds innovative industry exploration programs to encourage exploration in under explored areas across the Northern Territory. Applications for round 14 are now OPEN.

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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

New seamless aeromagnetic interpretation across the Tanami Region, Northern Territory

16 Apr 2021

Undertaken by CSIRO in collaboration with NTGS, DIP021 contains the GIS datasets and interpretative results and DIP022 contains the complete suite of processed grids and images of geophysical data used to develop the interpretation.

AGES 2021 in less than two weeks

07 Apr 2021

Register now to attend. The program is packed with exciting new geoscience to generate plenty of discussion and it all kicks off on Monday 19 April in Alice Springs.

Latest rock property dataset of the Northern Territory available for download

31 Mar 2021

Digital Information Package (DIP) 013 contains the annual release of rock property data collected and compiled by NTGS.

New interpreted geology map in the western Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory

29 Mar 2021

NTGS releases a 1st edition 1 : 500 000 detailed solid geology interpretation of the distribution of pre-Mesozoic rocks in the western part of the Neoproterozoic–Devonian Amadeus Basin.

AGES 2021 technical program released

17 Mar 2021

The technical program is packed with significant new data releases and exploration concepts from major collaborative geoscience programs and industry from across the Territory.

East Tennant NDI core viewing workshop at AGES 2021

15 Mar 2021

Geoscience Australia, MinEx CRC and Northern Territory Geological Survey will host the limited capacity core viewing workshop on Thursday 22 April in Alice Springs.

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