Development of the New Afton Copper Gold Mine on a former minesite in the Agricultural Land Reserve, Kamloops, B.C.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
New Gold Inc. is developing the underground New Afton Copper-Gold Mine on the site of the former Afton open pit mine. The Project is located 10 km west of Kamloops, B.C. in the traditional territory of the Secwepemc Nation. Development of the mine involves construction of a new mill and tailings disposal facility separate from the former mining infrastructure. Because the amount of land to be disturbed fell below the EA threshold, the Project was not a reviewable project under the Environmental Assessment Act. Although deemed non-reviewable, the Project’s review and approval as a major mine under the Mines Act required First Nations and public consultation as well as extensive environmental studies. The review process was coordinated through the regional multi-agency South Central Mine Development Review Committee, a committee of government agencies and First Nations who guided the Terms of Reference and consultation process. The property is located in the ALR such that one focus of the reclamation and closure plan is to return the land to an agricultural potential to support agricultural production.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".