McLean has worked in senior roles in the mineral exploration industry for junior explorers, consulting groups, and major mining companies since 2005, including Geoinformatics Exploration, First Quantum Minerals, Quantum Pacific Exploration, and GoldSpot Discoveries.
He has explored for various deposit types worldwide, with emphasis on porphyry Cu deposits in the Americas. Currently he is a Senior Geodatascientist / Embedded Researcher at GoldSpot Discoveries, and pursuing a Ph.D. titled “Machine Learning applied to Data Integration in Mineral Exploration” at Queen’s University.
