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Exploring for the Future Project Areas

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Exploring for the Future was a $100.5 million initiative by the Australian Government dedicated to boosting investment in resource exploration in Australia. The four-year program (2016-2020) focused on northern Australia and parts of South Australia. The under-explored northern Australian region offers enormous potential for industry development and is advantageously located close to major global markets. Geoscience Australia's leading scientists used and developed new innovative techniques to gather new scientific data and information, on an unprecedented scale, about the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources concealed beneath the surface. This work was undertaken in greenfield areas, where the Exploring for the Future program had the greatest impact. This dataset depicts the geographical extents of the various projects undertaken as part of this program, with an indicative total spend for each

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Title Exploring for the Future Project Areas
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/483b7bc1-ee16-4c30-8bbc-0d114a094a1a
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
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Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -32.0
      ],
      [
        152.0,
        -32.0
      ],
      [
        152.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -32.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Exploring for the Future Project Areas". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/exploring-for-the-future-project-areas