Stuart McCracken

Dr. McCracken is the Vice President, Exploration & Geoscience at Teck Resources Limited where he leads the greenfields and near-mine exploration teams - and the Geoscience Orebody Knowledge team - focused on maximising and de-risking the value extraction from Teck’s advanced projects and operations.

Stuart completed his BSc (Hons) at MacQuarie University in 1989, and his PhD at the University of Western Australia in 1997 - where his research focused on the genesis of the Admiral Bay Zn-Pb-Ag carbonate hosted deposit. During his PhD studies, Stuart also participated on Leg 150 of the Ocean Drilling Program.

Stuart worked with Pasminco Exploration as a contract geologist from 1996 to 1997, and then joined Western Metals as a Project Exploration Geologist from 1997 to 2000. In July of 2000, Stuart joined Anglo American. Over a 20-year period, Stuart worked in a variety of exploration, operational and corporate roles in Australia, Chile, Peru, Canada, Southern Africa, Europe and London. Stuart joined Teck Resources Limited in April 2020.

Stuart is a current member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Irish Center for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Economic Geologists Foundation from 2013 to 2017.