Exploring for the Future - An overview of Australia’s transformational geoscience program

Australia remains underexplored or unexplored, boasting discovery potential in the mineral, groundwater, and energy resources hidden beneath the surface. These “greenfield” areas are key to Australia’s future prosperity and sustainability.


Led by Geoscience Australia, Australia’s national government geoscience organisation, the Exploring for the Future program was a groundbreaking mission to map Australia’s mineral, energy, and groundwater systems in unparalleled scale and detail. The program has advanced our understanding of Australia’s untapped potential.


Over the course of 8 years, the Exploring for the Future program provided a significant expansion of public, precompetitive geoscience data and information, equipping decision-makers with the knowledge and tools to tackle urgent challenges related to Australia’s resource prosperity, energy security, and groundwater supply.

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Date (Creation)
2024-08-08
Date (Publication)
2024-08-12T23:28:31
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149800

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149800

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Author

Geoscience Australia

 External Contact
Purpose

This publication celebrates the success of the Australian Government’s Exploring for the Future program, providing a comprehensive summary of the results, achievements, and impacts.

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Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Point of contact

Gow, L.

 MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

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  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

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Product data repository: Various Formats

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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

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Data Store directory containing the digital product files

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

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Project

  • EFTF - Exploring for the Future

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  • Officer-Musgrave-Birrindudu

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  • National Groundwater Systems

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  • Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian

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  • Australia’s Resources Framework

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  • Australia’s Future Energy Resources

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  • Barkly-Isa-Georgetown

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  • Geoscience Knowledge Sharing

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  • Enhanced Data Delivery

Keywords

  • precompetitive geoscience

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  • groundwater

Keywords

  • Minerals

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  • Published_External

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Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

Edition

4.0

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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License
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License
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(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024

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Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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English
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UTF8

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

Download the report (pdf) [26.7 MB]

Download the report (pdf) [26.7 MB]

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Statement

This publication celebrates the success of the Australian Government’s Exploring for the Future program, providing a comprehensive summary of the results, achievements, and impacts.

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Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

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Unclassified

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Gow, L.

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GA publication: Report

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/149800

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5167d912-6784-4371-9938-3931e84ca6f1

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ddd778a5-f889-47be-9170-ff59d152edfd

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-08T01:55:29
Date info (Revision)
2019-04-08T01:55:29

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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

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ISO 19115-1:2014

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ISO 19115-3

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

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

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

 
 

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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
EARTH SCIENCES

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