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Supporting resource exploration in the Northern Territory

The Resourcing the Territory initiative will be expanded to $9.5 million per annum on an ongoing basis from 1 July 2022. The initiative supports mineral and petroleum exploration and development in the Territory through a range of geoscience and exploration stimulus programs.

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AGES 2022 - Registrations open

The Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) will be held in Alice Springs on 5-6 April 2022. Program highlights are available and registrations are open.

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Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations grants program

The Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations program co-funds innovative industry exploration programs in across the Northern Territory. Round 15 guidelines are available for download.

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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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Data and publications released under Resourcing the Territory

For the latest data, products and publications from NTGS and its collaborative partners, visit the 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

Registrations for AGES 2022 are now open

10 Jan 2022

The Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS) is excited to announce that registrations for the Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) event for 2022 are now open.

Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations program guidelines released

20 Dec 2021

The expanded exploration grants program for Round 15 (2022-23) features increases in both the total pool of funding and the maximum funding available per project, and a broader scope of exploration activities that are eligible for co-funding.

AGES 2022 program highlights announced

16 Dec 2021

The Territory’s largest exploration event will be held on 5 - 6 April, with the ice breaker planned for the evening of Monday 4 April.

More exploration success from brownfields co-funded drilling program

25 Nov 2021

Thor Mining PLC announced the second drill hole from their Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations co-funded program has intersected a significant interval of mineralisation within a magnetite skarn at the Molyhil tungsten-molybdenum-copper project in eastern Aileron Province, Central Australia.

First release of inorganic geochemistry data from NDI Carrara 1

17 Nov 2021

Geoscience Australia continues its release of data from the 1,750 metre deep stratigraphic drill hole in the South Nicholson region. NDI Carrara 1 was completed as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia and NTGS.

XRD data released from shales across the greater McArthur Basin

10 Nov 2021

A new NTGS Record has been released containing X-ray diffraction data from 468 shales across the prospective greater McArthur Basin. The data identifies the bulk and clay mineralogy of the shales, which can be used to understand their heterogeneity, brittleness, and thermal maturity.

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