Biography
Rock Records is owned and led by Dr Lloyd White, a geologist specialising in tectonic analysis and the integration of complex geoscientific datasets for applied decision-making. His work spans exploration, research, and industry collaboration, with experience across structural geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and spatial analysis.
Lloyd’s career has involved applied geological work in Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the broader Southeast Asian and southwest Pacific region, and the Himalaya, contributing to exploration strategy, regional synthesis, and geological framework development. He began his career with Geoscience Australia, where he worked on structural controls on gold mineralisation in the Yilgarn Craton and on offshore fault systems interpreted from seismic reflection data — a relationship that continues today through Rock Records’ contracted work to support mineral potential mapping.
He completed his PhD at the Australian National University, focusing on the tectonic evolution of the Himalaya through integrated fieldwork, geochronology, and plate tectonic reconstruction. Subsequent research appointments at the ANU, working with Professor Gordon Lister, and at Royal Holloway, University of London, working with Professor Robert Hall, involved leading consortium programs across Southeast Asia and the SW Pacific — including a minerals-exploration program backed by AngloGold Ashanti, Teck and Newmont, and energy-focused programs backed by Shell, Eni, BP, Repsol, Equinor, Engie, Niko Asia and Inpex.
From 2017 to 2025, Lloyd held a tenured academic position at the University of Wollongong, where he led the geology program and trained geoscience students in structural geology, tectonics, and applied data integration.
He currently holds a Visiting Research Fellow position at the ANU and continues to work at the interface of research and industry, applying structural, geochemical, and geophysical data to understand crustal architecture and resource potential.
This combination of research rigour, industry consortium experience, and applied data integration underpins how Rock Records approaches specialist geological consulting and data products today.
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