The Northern Territory Government has launched an online portal to promote the region as a 'fossicking tourism' destination.
Information on gemstone and mineral field locations, land access and permits are included in the new website which hopes to help both landholders and visitors.
NT Minister for Mines and Energy, Willem Westra van Holthe, says the portal will be particularly useful in attracting international tourists.
"You can go and fossick in some areas of the Territory and see nobody else, and that's an experience people from overseas are just clambering over themselves to get to," he said.
"I think this new portal joins the new technology with the age old practice of fossicking, and brings the two together."
The minister says providing better information to tourists may also improve issues surrounding land access.
"Fossickers have been asking for better access to land across the Territory, and we are working on ways we can provide that," he said.
"I guess what we need to make sure is for those people who want to go onto the land to do the right thing.
"Often pastoralists complain about gates being left open, rubbish left lying around.
"It's really important that the relationship is strengthened between the pastoralists and those who go there, so we really need people to do the right thing."
The portal can be accessed on the Department of Mines and Energy webpage at www.nt.gov.au/d/fossicking
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