Company
Josh White Geoscience LLC was founded in 2018 and is based in Rathdrum, Idaho. Started by Josh White, who is currently the only member and employee, the company is focused on the mineral exploration industry. Utilizing all of our own custom software, combined with excellent open source packages like QGIS we are able to utilize significant savings on the cost of software and pass those savings onto our customers.
One of our areas of expertise lie in dealing with the claiming and maintenance of mineral ownership rights within the continental United States. The laws governing these issues are complex, have been in existence since 1872, and are a balance between individual states and the federal government. We understand how to navigate these laws and provide new claim documents as well as research existing ones.
Another area is in mineral exploration itself. We have spent years studying historic documents and maps dating back to the 19th century and have learned to interpret what they were describing, as well as potential implications of their observations when viewed through the lens of a modern understanding of ore systems and the geologic processes that form them. In addition to research, a key component of mineral exploration is field work. We have mapped, sampled, and explored extensively in the western continental United States where we work and understand the ore systems that generated the targets we explore.
Finally, we understand the mathematics behind modeling an ore deposit. Using Blender, an open source visualization software primarily designed and utilized by the motion picture industry, we have written algorithms in Python to analyze a drill hole database for errors, de-survey and visualize assay and lithology data, interpolate surfaces, visually design drill programs and more. In addition, using the Blend4Web javascript engine, we have built our own proprietary web-hosted 3D model display platform that allows anyone with a modern internet browser to interact with complex 3D geological models of ore deposits.
People
Josh White, P.Geo., graduated with a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Wyoming in 2009, and graduated from Montana Tech with an M.Sc. in Geosciences in 2012. Immediately upon graduation from Montana Tech he and his family moved to Fairbanks Alaska where he began his career with Kinross Gold at the world class Fort Knox Mine. He has worked as both an exploration geologist and a mine geologist on four different contintents, and has worked with a wide variety of ore deposit types. His Professional Geologist license is with the State of Idaho. He has published in Mineralium Deposita.
During his time with Kinross Josh worked as an exploration geologist in the Sahara Desert, based out of the Tasiast Mine camp he and the team there worked throughout the Aouéouat greenstone belt searching for orogenic gold mineralization. He also spent a year at the Kupol mine in the Chukotka region of Northeast Russia, working in the winter with the resource geology team at the mine and in the summer with the exploration group, spending time in remote tent camps looking for epithermal gold mineralization. In addition to Africa and Russia, Josh worked in Brazil out of the Paracatu Mine, where he finished his time with Kinross as the Senior Project Geologist. While there he was in charge of the field operations of a multi-million dollar water well drilling program. In addition, he worked on various other projects around the mine including designing and supervising the fabrication of a hand-sampling device needed by the tailings dam team. In Alaska, where Josh started his career, he worked both as an open pit mine geologist and a greenfields exploration geologist. With the greenfields team he spent the summer in a remote helicopter supported camp looking for the source of one of the richest placer mines in the region.
In addition to field work and historic geologic research, Josh is an avid computer programmer, often participating in MIT's Open Courseware to advance his mathematic and programming skills. He recently worked through the Linear Algebra course in order to program 3 dimensional rotations of wireframes using matrices.
Before starting his studies at university, Josh was a United States Marine and completed two tours in Iraq, participating in the invasion of the country in 2003, and returning again to the Anbar Province in 2005. The latter deployment was with 3rd Battallion, 25th Marines, as a combat engineer with Bravo Co. 4th CEB, supporting the entire infantry batallion as needed. The stories from the Marines on this deployment were later re-told by the A&E documentary 'Combat Diaries: The Marines of Lima Company'.
