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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 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 under explored areas across the Northern Territory. Successful applicants for round 14 will be announced by June 2021.

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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

Significant increase in available data on shale units of the greater McArthur Basin

30 Apr 2021

NTGS releases an updated DIP014 with a 25% overall increase in the number of analysed samples.

Preliminary findings support resource potential of the South Nicholson Basin

29 Apr 2021

The first data from the National Drilling Initiative’s Carrara 1 deep stratigraphic drill hole is now available through the MinEx CRC and Geoscience Australia portals.

Explorations grants close in less than one week

28 Apr 2021

The Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations program co-funds exploration in under-explored areas of the Territory. Applications for round 14 close on Tuesday 4th May. Apply now through GrantsNT.

Resourcing the Territory initiative to be expanded and made ongoing

27 Apr 2021

The Northern Territory Government has committed record funding to support more exploration to drive resource development. Annual funding of the Resourcing the Territory initiative will increase from $6.5 million to $9.5 million from 1 July 2022, with funding to be ongoing.

Latest release of Territory-wide geochemical datasets

27 Apr 2021

NTGS releases an updated DIP001 including the newly captured complete datasets of drillhole collars and geochemical data over the Tennant Creek field and Barkly region.