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Ore-struck Home
you'll be ore-struck
by what bringing forward
discovery offers!
The aim of all explorers is to make the next major discovery. That’s why the Bringing Forward Discovery (BFD) initiative is directly targeted towards assisting explorers on the road to discovery.
The Northern Territory is Australia’s last great exploration frontier and BFD’s unique program offers financial support for exploration geophysics and drilling in greenfields areas, new high-quality geoscience to lower your exploration risk, and support for attracting investment in your exploration projects.
Bringing Forward Discovery offers you the chance to become Ore-Struck!
what is bringing forward discovery (BFD)?
Bringing Forward Discovery is the Northern Territory’s exploration investment attraction program. The NT Government has committed $14.4 million over 4 years to lower your exploration risk and assist you in making the Territory’s next discovery. This unique program will assist you to:
- identify exploration opportunities in greenfields terranes and undercover
- source collaborative funding for your exploration geophysical surveys and drilling
- attract investment partners for exploration projects
The BFD program is delivered by the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS). who provide cutting edge geoscientific data, attract international investment and offer partnerships to advance your exploration program.
Read on! you will be Ore-Struck by what new services are on offer!
bringing forward discovery with co-funded geophysics and drilling
The Northern Territory Government has committed $2.4 million over three years to increase the intensity of exploration drilling and geophysics in greenfields areas of the Northern Territory.
The Territory Government, through BFD, offers the chance for companies to collaborate with Government in exploring greenfields areas, and is the only jurisdiction to also offer geophysical surveys as part of the collaborative program.
BFD will assist explorers by providing 50% (up to $100,000) of the cost of selected exploration geophysical surveys and/or drilling programs in new areas. The information gained from these collaborations will be made public after three months, thus increasing the amount of data available for future exploration.
You’ll be Ore-Struck by this exciting new program!
bringing forward discovery with regional gravity and seismic surveys
The Central Arunta gravity survey is now complete. This is the largest gravity survey ever undertaken in the NT, and has covered over 150,000 km2 of central Australia with over 12,000 gravity stations on grids that vary in spacing from 4 km to 1 km. Industry contributions to locally infill the survey have significantly improved the survey resolution, and the survey has revealed critical new information on the major structures and undercover geology of the Arunta Region.
The Northern Territory Government will be collaborating with Geoscience Australia on the acquisition of over 750 km of deep seismic surveys during 2009 , which will be designed to image the crustal-scale controls on mineralisation in the Pine Creek Orogen and Eastern Arunta Region and the stratigraphy, structure and resource potential of the Southern Georgina Basin.
bringing forward discovery with targeted geoscience programs
The Northern Territory Geological Survey continues to provide world-class geoscientific data and interpretations, particularly in under-explored areas with high potential for future discoveries. NTGS's current targeted geoscience programs are providing a fundamentally revised stratigraphic framework for explorers in Western Arnhem Land, and are placing the complex high-grade rocks of the Eastern Arunta Region in Central Australia in their stratigraphic and tectonic context. Mapping of the Central and Northern Georgina basin has just been completed, and will be combined with ongoing depth-to-basement studies to provide a vastly improved dataset for phosphate explorers in the basin.
A major new publication, ' The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Northern Territory' will be released at during 2009. This will be a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the Territory's geology, its currently known resources and resource potential, and will be available as an online version and on CD, with later release in book form.
You’ll be Ore-Struck by what NTGS has to offer
- personalised service delivery through the Minerals and Energy InfoCentre
- professional support for your data requests
- introductions to Minerals & Energy specialists
- access to online geoscience data through the STRIKE web-mapping system
- the latest investment opportunities through the NT Investment Alert
- the opportunity to network with NTGS experts at the Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES)
- increasing online access to NTGS and company reports
- web-based geophysical image server
- core facilities in Darwin & Alice Springs
bringing forward discovery with chinese and japanese investment
The NT is the only Australian jurisdiction with a dedicated strategy to attract Chinese investment into minerals exploration and development. The Resource Development team actively promotes exploration projects to Chinese investors via inbound visits and NT Government delegations to China.
BFD is focused on ‘matching’ NT exploration projects with both Chinese and Japanese investors and assists explorers to promote their projects to these markets. The program also provides valuable advice to explorers on protocol and communication with potential investors.
The Northern Territory Government has official cooperation agreements in China with the China Chamber of Commerce Metals and Minerals and the China Mining Association and key links in Japan with the Japan Oil and Gas Minerals Corporation (JOGMEC). These strategic partnerships assist to identify potential investors and open doors for NT explorers.