View Contract Details

The Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) embraces innovation, collaboration and capacity building to advance exploration activity in South Australia.

A total of $10 million over 3 years is available for approved co-funding exploration activities:

• Exploration drilling - single deep hole and multiple hole programs in frontier terrains, or drill testing new models and concepts;
• Geophysical programs that focus on the application of innovation technology or improve the density or quality of data and accelerate data sharing amongst the exploration sector;
• Logistical support asociated with testing exploration in remote greenfields/new frontier regions;
• Groundwater identification and testing;
• Research collaboration and/or technology development such as machine learning; and
• Proof of concept proposals that challenge traditional thinking and drive new investment within and beyond the resources sector.

The Department for Energy and Mining (DEM) provided co-funding via a competitive grants process.