More than 20 of Australia’s leading geoscientists have travelled to Darwin for a three day workshop to talk about the NT’s geological potential.
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Geological Survey executive director Ian Scrimgeour said the scientists would discuss findings from NT Government’s resource exploration initiative.
The CORE (Creating Opportunities for Resource Exploration) looked at exploration and discovery of new mineral and petroleum resources in the NT.
The focus was to acquire new precompetitive geoscience information to begin exploration.
The initiative included an accelerated program to assess the Territory's shale gas resources and potential.
“The projects provide critical new information to attract investment in minerals and energy exploration in the Territory and assist industry to make the next generation of resource discoveries in the Territory,” Mr Scrimgeour said.
“It’s been an extremely successful workshop. We discussed the findings from a diverse range of innovative projects, including major new geoscience programs across the Barkly region under the Commonwealth’s Exploring for the Future initiative.
“We spoke on the findings from the work of CSIRO researchers who are embedded with NTGS in Darwin to apply CSIRO’s cutting edge technologies to interpret new data generated through the CORE initiative, as well as the cross-border collaboration with WA and Qld to ensure consistency of geological understanding across northern Australia,” he said.
A recent independent review of the CORE initiative found that it has leveraged around $14 million in investment from external organisations into studies of the Territory’s geology and resource potential.
The results of many of the programs will be released to industry and the public at the NT Geological Survey’s Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) in Alice Springs on March 20-21.