b'Geophysics in the surveysNewsGeoscience Australia: NewsWith our key collaborative State Agencyhttps://www.ga.gov.au/news-events/ AuScope Curnamona Cube project are partners in Western Australia, Southnews/latest-news/ausarray-sensors-to- scheduled for acquisition in September Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland,build-national-picture-of-australias- or October 2022 (pending finalisation New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania,subsurface. of land access permissions and cultural Geoscience Australia (GA) continues toheritage clearances). This work is part acquire, process, interpret and deliverSites in South Australia are beingof the Exploring for the Future Darlinghigh quality pre-competitive geophysicaldeployed by the Geological Survey ofCurnamonaDelamerian project.products to support Australias future.South Australia under a collaborative Along with some Exploring for theproject agreement. Sites in other states Future highlights below, a summary ofand the NT are being deployed byUpdate on Exploring for the Future programmes and survey locations canOdyssey Geophysics under contract to GA. Western Resources Corridor AEM be found in Figure 1 and the tables thatAt the time of writing, roughly halfprogrammefollow. of about 80 planned AusLAMP long period magnetotelluric (MT) sites inAcquisition commenced this month on northern Queensland were complete.the Western Resources Corridor AEM Update on Exploring for theprogramme (shown in orange and Future passive seismic andThe remaining sites are expected to bethe hatched blue section over central complete by mid-2022. AusLAMP data magnetotelluric activities acquisition is expected to shift intoAustralia, Figure 1). The 60 000 line km Western Australia from late 2022, initiallysurvey is being acquired by Xcalibur Last month saw the deployment ofin the southwest of the state. AusLAMPAirborne Geophysics using their Tempest passive seismic instruments as part ofactivities are currently funded as part offixed-wing platform. It includes the the Exploring for the Future AusArraythe Exploring for the Future BarklyIsa following components:national coverage on a 200 x 200 kmGeorgetown and Australias Resources grid. The status of deployments is shownFramework projects. 1.The southern Northern Territory. in Figure 1 and also covered in a GAAlmost 24 000 line km to complete News Story published to coincide withBroadband MT data acquisition atcoverage of AusAEM1 and 2 surveys the first instrument deployment in NSW:around 100 sites as an extension to theto the South Australian border. Surveying started from Alice Springs in May and will move westwards towards Western Australia on north-south oriented, 20 km-spaced lines;2.Western Australia. Approximately 7 500 line km of acquisition on 20 km spaced lines to fill in a gap left between Western Australias AusAEM20 programme (shown in blue, already released) and state borders.3.A Kimberley block of 6 000 line km. Together with (2) above, this is 100% funded by the Western Australian Government Exploration Incentive Scheme and will complete regional coverage across the entire state (see article by the Geological Survey of Western Australia in the last issue of Preview)4.And a 22 500 line km of semi-detailed programme (15 km line spacing) across the western Musgrave Province focussed on groundwater investigations.The entire programme should be completed by October this year, with all data (hopefully) released before the end of 2022.Figure 1.20212022 geophysical surveysin progress, planned or for release by GA as part of the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) programme and in collaboration with State and Territory agencies. Projects that are substantially or wholly funded by state government agencies are identified by theMike Barlow bracketed contributors. Background image of national TMI compilation, Geoscience Australia, 2019Geoscience Australia (see http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144725) Mike.Barlow@ga.gov.au19 PREVIEW JUNE 2022'