Exploring for the Future – Whole rock inorganic geochemistry data release of NDI Carrara 1, South Nicholson region, Northern Territory

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

NDI Carrara 1 is a deep stratigraphic drill hole (~1751m) completed in 2020 as part of the MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia and the Northern Territory Geological Survey. It is the first test of the Carrara Sub-basin, a depocentre newly discovered in the South Nicholson region based on interpretation from seismic surveys (L210 in 2017 and L212 in 2019) recently acquired as part of the Exploring for the Future program. The drill hole intersected approximately 1100 m of Proterozoic sedimentary rocks uncomformably overlain by 630 m of Cambrian Georgina Basin carbonates. This report presents inorganic geochemical analyses undertaken by Geoscience Australia on selected rock samples, collected at roughly 4 m intervals.

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Title Exploring for the Future – Whole rock inorganic geochemistry data release of NDI Carrara 1, South Nicholson region, Northern Territory
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d309ba37-8893-4b78-a32a-862a904814ee
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Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 01/09/2020 - 30/06/2022
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Exploring for the Future – Whole rock inorganic geochemistry data release of NDI Carrara 1, South Nicholson region, Northern Territory". 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-whole-rock-inorganic-geochemistry-data-release-of-ndi-carrara-1-south-