b'Geophysics in the SurveysNewsGeological Survey of Victoria: North Central Victorian Goldfields ground releaseVictoria has re-emerged as an international minerals exploration destination, particularly for gold. A recent increase in minerals exploration activity, especially within the Victorian Goldfields region, has shown promising signs of the potential for new gold discoveries around former operations and under cover. Recent high-grade gold discovery and production success at the world-class Fosterville operation (near Bendigo) highlights the potential for high-grade gold discoveries and development opportunities in Victoria.To explore this potential, the Victorian Government has released new areas for minerals exploration within the north central Victorian Goldfields region (Figure 1), via an international, open, competitive, merit-based tender.The tender opened on 29 October 2019 and closes at 6pm (AEDT) on 31 January 2020. The tender documents are available at tenders.vic.gov.au.A geological overview of the ground release area and the four blocks offered is provided in the tender documents, together with a list of reports and datasets that may be of assistance.Geoscience information, datasets and tools from Geological Survey of Victoria (GSV) are publicly available including:1. GeoVica spatial mapping tool that searches geospatial databases to display results as maps or tables;2. Drill Core Library GSVs facility at Werribee that houses drill core and cuttings from across Victoria;3. Earth Resources Publications The online collection of GSV maps, reports and digital data;4. Geological Survey of Victoria Catalogue Online access to all Earth Resources reports and data including those associated with open-file mineral exploration.Geophysical exploration datasets available in the North Central Goldfields region include: Figure 1.North Central Victorian Goldfields Ground Release Blocks overlaid on terrain corrected Bouguer gravity with 25 km high-pass filter applied (white = high, magenta = low). Grey screen indicates areas under Detailed airborne magnetics/ Murray Basin cover. GDA94MGA55 coordinates shown. Gold mines and occurrences are shown as yellow dotsradiometricsAirborne gravity gradiometry For more information about theearthresources.vic.gov.au/geology-Airborne time domaintender, industry briefings, reports,exploration/maps-reports-dataelectromagnetics data and geology visit https://Detailed ground gravity earthresources.vic.gov.au/projects/ Suzanne Haydon Reflection seismic north-central-victorian-goldfields- Geological Survey of Victoria CSAMT and IP surveys ground-release and https:// Suzanne.Haydon@ecodev.vic.gov.au29 PREVIEW DECEMBER 2019'