Exploring for the Future Project Areas

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

未来勘探（Exploring for the Future）是澳大利亚政府发起的一项总投资额达1.005亿澳元的计划，旨在推动澳大利亚国内矿产勘探领域的投资。该项目为期四年（2016-2020年），聚焦澳大利亚北部及南澳大利亚州部分区域。勘探程度不足的澳大利亚北部地区蕴藏着巨大的产业发展潜力，且地理位置得天独厚，毗邻全球主要市场。澳大利亚地质调查局（Geoscience Australia）的顶尖科研团队运用并开发了创新型技术，以空前的规模采集了关于地表下隐伏矿产、能源与地下水资源的全新科学数据与信息。相关工作均开展于绿地勘探区域（greenfield areas），该计划在此类区域的实施影响最为显著。本数据集展示了本计划项下各项实施项目的地理覆盖范围，并附带各项目的指示性总支出金额。