Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations (GDC) program

• Applicants must meet essential and project-specific eligibility requirements in the Round 19 guidelines. • Projects must be exploration programs in the Northern Territory that improve geological knowledge and resource targeting. • Co-funding is available for up to 50% of direct claimable project costs inclusive of GST, subject to category caps. • Greenfields diamond drilling must be away from known deposits, with no previous diamond drilling in the area or significantly greater depth than existing drilling. • Greenfields diamond and brownfields diamond drilling require non-diamond pre-collars to account for less than half of proposed drill metreage. • Greenfields RC drilling must show no previous drilling in the area, or only shallow RAB or aircore drilling that did not effectively test bedrock. • Greenfields non-diamond drilling must be first-pass style drilling with no previous drilling of any method in the area. • Brownfields diamond drilling must test an untested conceptual target significantly deeper than existing drilling or not adequately tested, and be outside an existing Identified Resource. • Brownfields projects are not eligible for shallow drilling into known mineralisation, resource definition or development drilling, or RC/RAB/aircore/sonic drilling except pre-collars. • Regional-scale geophysics must significantly improve existing data and cover a contiguous area greater than 350 square kilometres, the complete contiguous tenement package when smaller, or traverses greater than 25 kilometres. • Innovative targeting must use a technique or approach not previously tested in the project area, or involve seismic re-processing not previously undertaken or not adequate to modern standards. • Mineral characterisation and testwork must address insufficient existing analysis, critical minerals potential, or novel early-stage metallurgical or ore characterisation approaches. • Mineral characterisation and testwork at pre-feasibility stage and above is not eligible unless new critical minerals are being assessed. • Territory Supplier Incentive support is available for projects engaging Northern Territory enterprises for service or supply.