One world for good or ill; the impact of globalization on mineral exploration
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Abstract
Just as the year 1500 indexed the arrival of One Europe so the year 2000 seems to be indexing the arrival of One World. We can now, if we so choose, explore for minerals over the whole world. We need to learn the lessons of the past, and looking back at four outstanding discoveries of Company Maker deposits it seems that a tenacious geologist with a good exploration idea and a convinced, sympathetic exploration manager to keep the funding flowing may be important ingredients. Experience suggests that there are three species of geoscientists in mineral exploration: the scientific aristocrats who ask How? and want to study the genesis of deposits; the tradesmen who ask Where? and expect to find the next one by association; and the criminal investigators who ask What? and are convinced a deposit will be revealed by the clues the deposit itself leaves. The bulk of the members of a successful mineral exploration team will be tradesmen: most exploration discoveries arc made by association. For mineral exploration to provide the excitement, the challenge, and the fun it deserves, the emphasis must be on the risky game of prediction rather than on the safe, secure world of description. Resume Si l'an 1 500 a preside a la naissance de l'Europe, il semble que l'an 2 000 aura marque le debut de la mondialisation. Dorenavant, on peut maintenant mener des strategies d'exploration minerales d'envergure mondiale. En essayant de profiter des acquis de l'experience, et en nous attardant a l'histoire de cas de 4 gisements d'envergure mondiale, on se rend compte que la meilleure recette pourde couvrir de tels gisements serait une equipe formee d'un geologue tenace ayant une bonne idee d'exploration et dont les efforts seraient appuyes par celles d'un directeur d'exploration convaincu quis'assurerait du financement adequat des activites d'exploration. L'experience montre qu'il existe trois types de geologue dans le domaine de l'exploration : l'aristocrate qui s'interesse au « Comment des choses », un maitre d'oeuvre qui veut savoir « Ou elles se trouvent », et le type inspecteur de police qui ne s'interesse qu'aux « Choses elles-memes » et qui est convaincu qu'on ne decouvrira le gisement qu'en relevant avec minutie les indices de sa presence. La majorite des membres des equipes d'exploration qui ont du succes sont du type homme d'affaire , ce qui demontre que la plupart des decouvertes sont faites par association. D'ailleurs, quand on accepte le risque associe a l'approche predictive plutot que de se cantonner a la securite de l'approche descriptive, l'exploration minerale devient alors beaucoup plus captivante.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".