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Record W2259048606 · doi:10.14288/1.0042478

Creating a sustainable cover for a sand tailings dam using biosolids and log yard debris

2009· article· en· W2259048606 on OpenAlexaff
Greg Smyth

Bibliographic record

VenuecIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTailings Management and Properties
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTailingsYardBiosolidsDebrisTailings damLand reclamationEnvironmental scienceGeologyCover (algebra)Mining engineeringGeotechnical engineeringEngineeringEnvironmental engineeringGeographyArchaeology

Abstract

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A reclamation approach of utilizing two different types of biosolids from the GVRD and log-yard debris from the Weyerhaeuser lumber mill was tested on the sand tailings impoundment of the Smelter Lake Tailings Storage Facility at the Similco Mine, located near Princeton, BC. The purpose of this research study was targeted at creating a sustainable cover by incorporating these two products together with the top layer of the sand on the impoundment. Four test plots, each approximately 0.25 Ha in size, were created with different mixtures of log-yard debris, dewatered biosolids and land-dried biosolids. Parameters such as moisture content at 15cm and 30cm depth, physical and chemical characterization of the growth medium, vegetative yield, vegetative metal uptake and metal bioavailability of the growth medium were evaluated in an attempt to determine the effectiveness of any particular plot, or some other combination, for the reclamation of the sand impoundment. The principles of sustainable development were integral to this research project, in an effort to reclaim an old tailings facility in the most effect manner.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.926
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.171
Teacher spread0.163 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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