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The development of bauxite at Gove, 1955–1975

2014· article· en· W2525256176 on OpenAlex
David Lee

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Bibliographic record

VenueDeakin Research Online (Deakin University) · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBauxite Residue and Utilization
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBauxiteAluminium smeltingSmeltingBayer processMetallurgyNatural resource economicsMaterials scienceEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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\n\t\t\t\t\tIn the early 1950s Australia mined little bauxite and produced no alumina, that being the chemically pure aluminium oxide which is extracted from bauxite and then smelted in electric furnaces to produce aluminium metal. The huge costs of aluminium production meant that, after World War II, six large companies dominated the aluminium industry worldwide, from mining bauxite through to fabricating and selling metal. These were Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser in the United States, Alcan in Canada, Pechiney in France and Alusuisse in Switzerland. In the 1940s the Chifley government planned a small aluminium smelter in Tasmania largely for defence purposes, and originally dependent on imported bauxite. Government co-operation with industry to search for indigenous bauxite feedstock for the smelter saw two discoveries of bauxite at about the same time in northern Australia in the 1950s-the first at Gove in the Northern Territory and the second, much larger find, across the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland. These two discoveries and the proving of bauxite deposits of commercial grade in Western Australia a few years later meant that Australia possessed an astonishing one third of the world's bauxite by the early 1960s.\n\t\t\t\t

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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)0.001
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.933
Threshold uncertainty score0.556

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.242 · 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