AGES

AGES 2024

The AGES 2024 Conference proceedings and the AGES 2024 presentations and posters are available to download through GEMIS.

The Northern Territory (NT) Government’s flagship exploration event, the Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES), was held at the Alice Springs Convention Centre from 16 to 17 April 2024, marking the 25th anniversary of the event. A record 330 participants attended the event

AGES is a technical exploration-focused conference featuring presentations from the NT Geological Survey, its partners and the exploration industry on new geoscience and latest exploration results from across the NT.

The event provides a unique opportunity to access the latest in fresh exploration ideas and geoscientific data from the Territory, and to network with colleagues who share an interest in the discovery and development of the Territory’s minerals and energy resources.

AGES 2025 will be held in Alice Springs from 8 to 9 April 2025.

Program highlights

The program included presentations from NTGS, Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, universities and exploration companies on new discoveries of regolith-hosted rare earths, innovative targeting for copper-gold in the Barkly, updates on uranium geology in the Pine Creek region, and news of the discovery of the Territory's first graphite resource. Industry speakers included Astute Metals, GSW Resources, Investigator Resources, Kingsland Minerals, South 32, Newmont, PNX Metals, Prodigy Gold, Teck, Tennant Minerals and Transition Minerals.

A highlight of AGES was 2 presentations by Newmont on the geology and discovery history of the Oberon gold deposit in the Tanami.

The sessions on the Territory's Proterozoic basins and associated basin-hosted resources, including a workshop and presentations on a major new GA-NTGS seismic survey to unlock the minerals and energy potential of the Birrindudu Basin was also a highlight.

The final AGES 2024 program PDF (292.7 KB) is now available for download.

AGES 2024 Conference proceedings available to download through GEMIS.

Workshops

• Geoscience Australia - The Northwest Northern Territory Seismic Survey - an introduction and preliminary interpretation workshop
  Monday 15 April | 1:30pm to 4:30pm
• Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade - Mines Branch
  Monday 15 April | 3pm to 5pm

Sponsors

Thank you to all our AGES 2024 industry sponsors.

Mining Services Expo

AGES also incorporates the Mining Services Expo which showcases Territory businesses and their capabilities to support exploration and mining ventures.

For further information on exhibiting at this event, please contact Maddison Bolton from the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade on 08 8951 8553 or by email business.ditt@nt.gov.au.

Please visit Mining Expo Services page.

AGES 2023 Conference Proceedings

Download the AGES 2023 conference proceedings and AGES 2023 presentations and posters through GEMIS.

View AGES 2023 video presentations through previous events AGES 2023 .

Other information

Download key resources from AGES past events .

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