Exploring for the Future - Australia's transformational geoscience program

<div>The Exploring for the Future program, led by Geoscience Australia, was a $225 million Australian Government investment over 8 years, focused on revealing Australia’s mineral, energy, and groundwater potential by characterising geology.&nbsp;&nbsp;This report provides an overview of activities, results, achievements and impacts from the Exploring for the Future program, with a particular focus on the last four years (2020-2024). &nbsp;</div>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2024-08-10T06:00:00
Date (Publication)
2024-08-15T05:37:39
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149743

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149743

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Author

Geoscience Australia

 External Contact
Purpose

A plain English summation of the activities, results, achievements and impacts from the 2016-2024 Exploring for the Future program.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

 External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Steeper, T.

 Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project

  • EFTF – Exploring for the Future

Project

  • Officer-Musgrave-Birrindudu

Project

  • National Groundwater Systems

Project

  • Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian

Project

  • Australia’s Resources Framework

Project

  • Australia’s Future Energy Resources

Project

  • Barkly-Isa-Georgetown

Project

  • Geoscience Knowledge Sharing

Project

  • Enhanced Data Delivery

Keywords

  • precompetitive geoscience

Keywords

  • groundwater

Keywords

  • Minerals

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • Resource geoscience

  • Isotope geochemistry

  • Soil sciences not elsewhere classified

  • Applied geophysics

  • Other Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the report (pdf) [19.9 MB]

Download the report (pdf) [19.9 MB]

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  • pdf

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Resource lineage

Statement

<div>This publication was developed to summarise the 8 year Exploring for the Future program, which concluded on 30 June 2024.</div>

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/74d38ccf-e4ed-4c58-8e10-02fd7444098c

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Steeper, T.

 Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA Report

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/149743

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/74d38ccf-e4ed-4c58-8e10-02fd7444098c

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/skr/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/74d38ccf-e4ed-4c58-8e10-02fd7444098c

Date info (Creation)
2024-08-15T00:09:15
Date info (Revision)
2024-08-15T00:09:15

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

Australia’s Future Energy Resources Australia’s Resources Framework Barkly-Isa-Georgetown Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian EFTF – Exploring for the Future Enhanced Data Delivery Geoscience Knowledge Sharing National Groundwater Systems Officer-Musgrave-Birrindudu
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Applied geophysics Isotope geochemistry Other Earth Sciences Resource geoscience Soil sciences not elsewhere classified

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