Childs Geoscience Inc.

Latest News

May, 2016
Rex McLachlin presented a poster at meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America in Moscow, Idaho. Rex’s presentation described a unique series of monzonitic intrusive rocks in northern Idaho as an out-growth of his work as a geologist at the Golden Chest Mine in the Murray district north of Coeur d’ Alene. By analogy with similar intrusive rocks in the Yukon-Alaska Tombstone intrusive suite or Reduced Intrusion Related Gold Systems (RIRGS), Rex pointed out the potential for similar deposits In proximity to the intrusives in the Murray district.

September, 2016
In September CGI submitted (and the BCSC accepted) a NI43-101 report prepared for Otis Gold Corp. covering Otis’ Blue Hill Creek and Matrix Creek gold-silver properties south of Oakley, Idaho.

October, 2016
John Childs gave an invited talk on the geology of talc deposits at the 2016 Mining and Mineral Symposium dealing with the mineral deposits on Montana. The conference was organized by the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and Montana Tech.

2015 through Present
John Childs serves on the Montana STATEMAP Advisory Committee with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology and Montana Tech in Butte, Montana. This group provides input and direction for the various geologic mapping programs conducted each year in Montana by the Bureau of Mines, and in cooperative mapping projects between the Bureau and federal and university programs.

2016 though Present
John Childs is serving on the Earth Sciences Department Advisory Council at Montana State University. This group includes members of industry and academia who are providing recommendations and direction to the department and acting as liaison between the faculty, students, and university administration.

Spring, 2017
Sandy Underwood is teaching Igneous Petrology at Montana State University during the spring semester. CGI has provided samples for use as part of the course.

May, 2017
John Childs has been invited to give an update on the talc industry at the annual Mine Design, Operations and Closure Conference to be held in May, 2016 at Fairmont Hot Springs, Montana. This annual conference is an overview of mining science ranging from exploration to reclamation. The conference is sponsored by the BLM, Montana DEQ, USFS, Montana Tech, mining companies and service companies.

Exploration geologists use multi-element geochem analysis to vector in on ore deposits. In order to help expand the geochemical ore deposit signature knowledge base, the Centre for Exploration Targeting recently made available to the public their geochemistry database project OSNACA (Ore Samples Normalized to Average Crustal Abundance). It's an open source database of assay data from 683 samples from ore deposits around the world. The 62 element assay suite includes ore, pathfinder, major and lithochemical elements. They have developed a fascinating technique to quantitatively compare all 683 samples and 24 of their assay values.

Read about it here: http://www.cet.edu.au/projects/osnaca-ore-samples-normalised-to-average-crustal-abundance

Interesting infographic concerning the supply of copper.

Infographic: The Looming Copper Supply Crunch Copper is essential for modern society and green technology, but the long-term future of copper supply has more questions than it does answers.

John is co-chairing the "Talc, Pyrophyllite, and Other Lamellar Minerals" technical session at the Annual SME Conference in Phoenix February 21-24. Both he and Sandy Underwood PhD (CGI Senior Geologist) will be giving presentations on Montana Talc deposits and their genesis on Wednesday, February 23. Their papers will be available on our website here:

http://www.childsgeoscience.com/the-talc-deposits-of-southwestern-montana/

SME Annual Conference & Expo | The Future of Mining in a Data-Driven World SME ACE - Annual Conference & Expo

John is making the trek to Vancouver for the annual Mineral Exploration Roundup and will be attendance the entire week. He will be touting CGI's geology exploration expertise as well as the 3D prospectivity modeling of Kenex. You may catch him at the Nevada Mineral Exploration Coalition Explorer's Lounge on the 2nd floor of the Convention Center or drop him a line through our website (www.childsgeoscience.com) if you'd like to say hi while in Vancouver.

The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia | AME BC

Here is a one page pamphlet outlining our services, products, and tools!

Photos taken by employees of Childs Geoscience Inc.

After a long few days of hunting for Rock samples we come back and show off what we have collected.