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Keynote Neil Bar announced

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Introducing Neil Bar, Keynote speaker at Open Pit Operators 2021

Neil is the co-founder of Gecko Geotechnics and will be presenting on Improving safety to unlock resource value: the role of the geotechnical engineer in the 2020s

Neil provides practical, cost effective and innovative geotechnical engineering solutions and has a diverse range of engineering and related experience in mining, tunnelling and civil engineering projects across Australia and abroad.

View Neil's profile.

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