Collaboration
Bastion Geotechnical uses collaboration as a methodology for promoting current best practices in the mining industry and specifically the discipline of Geotechnical Engineering.
Invited Speaker Presentations and Journal Reviews
1. Australian Centre of Geomechanics Second International Slope Stability in Mining Conference (2021). Invited Technical Reviewer.
2. Australian Centre of Geomechanics Underground Mining Technology (2020). Invited Technical Reviewer.
3. Australian Centre of Geomechanics Slope Stability (2020). Invited Technical Reviewer.
4. BHP Billiton (2019). Invited Speaker. Management of Geotechnical Data – AngloGold Ashanti Experience, Perth, Western Australia.
5. Western Australian Ground Control Group (2019). Invited Speaker. Considerations for Digital Transformation in the Geotechnical Engineering Discipline, Perth, Western Australia.
6. Congreso Internacional de Energía y Recursos Minerales (2018). Invited Speaker. Management of Geotechnical Data – AngloGold Ashanti Experience, Seville, Spain.
7. The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (2015). Invited Speaker. Limit Equilibrium Analysis of a Planar Sliding Example in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia – Comparison of Modelling Discrete Structure to Three Anisotropic Shear Strength Models, Cape Town, South Africa.
8. The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (2015). Invited Technical Reviewer.
9. Western Australian Ground Control Group (2015). Invited Speaker. Introduction to the GeotAgg database and reporting/visualization tools, Perth, Western Australia
10. Australian Centre of Geomechanics Slope Stability (2007). Invited Speaker. Use of an Excavation Compliance Indicator to Assess Conformance to Slope Design, Perth, Western Australia.
Publications
1. Ramires, J.E.F., Batista, G.A.P., Da Silva, J.H., Campos, M.P., and Seery J. (2019). Q-system Classification applied to Geotechnical-Structural Domain Mapping. Proceedings of ISRM 14th International Congress on Rock Mechanics, Foz do Iguaçu.
2. Ramires, J.E.F., Campos, M.P., Batista, G.A.P., Da Silva, J.H., Carvalho, A.S. and Seery J. (2019). RQD Block Modelling for the Identification of a Shear Zone at a Narrow Vein Underground Gold Mine. Proceedings of 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New York.
3. Seery, J.M., Franklin, C. and Hamman, E.C.F. (2018). Management of Geotechnical Data – AngloGold Ashanti Experience. Proceedings of Slope Stability 2018, Seville.
4. Hamman, E.C.F., du Plooy, D.J. and Seery, J. (2017). Data Management and Geotechnical Models. Proceedings of Deep Mining 2017: Eighth International Conference on Deep and High Stress Mining, Perth.
5. Seery, J. (2015). Limit Equilibrium Analysis of a Planar Sliding Example in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia – Comparison of Modelling Discrete Structure to Three Anisotropic Shear Strength Models. Proceedings of SAIMM Slope Stability 2015, Cape Town.
6. Savage, N., Nicholas, L., Wilson, A. and Seery, J. (2013). Visual Communication of Geological Confidence – A Move Toward a Less Subjective Approach. Proceedings of Iron Ore 2013, pp. 169-174.
7. Pere, V, Seery, J, de Graaf, P. and Mould, R. (2011). Development of an acQuire Based Geotechnical Data Management System. Proceedings of the 2011 International Mining Geology Conference, Melbourne, pp. 353-360.
8. Day, A. and Seery, J. (2007). Monitoring of a large wall failure at Tom Price iron ore mine. Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering, Perth, pp. 333-340.
9. Seery, J. and Lapwood, J. (2007). Use of an Excavation Compliance Indicator to assess conformance to slope design. Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Rock Slope Stability in Open Pit Mining and Civil Engineering, Perth, pp. 431-437.
10. Seery, J. (2004). Stress Re-distribution as a Result of Mining of the Kanowna Belle Orebody, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Master’s dissertation, Curtin University School of Mines.
11. Seery, J. (1996). The Petrology, Geochemistry and Alteration Mineralogy of the Lateral Extensions of the Scuddles Orebody, Murchison Region, Western Australia. Undergraduate thesis, Curtin University School of Mines.