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Tough market conditions hit frac sand

2015· article· en· W2767321102 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueIndustrial Minerals · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicNatural Resources and Economic Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVictoryEconomyAgricultural economicsTonneGeographyMathematicsEconomicsNatural resource economicsArchaeologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Rick Shearer, CEO of Emerge Energy and Superior Silica said that the lower crude oil prices were having a chilling effect on the frac sand market, stating in March that Emerge Energy and its Superior Sands subsidiary would work with customers to help them lower their total cost of sand on a delivered cost per-tonne basis. Following disappointing 2014 financial results, frac sand producer Victory Nickel also felt the impact of falling demand as, in mid-April, it temporarily suspended production at its Seven Persons (7P) frac sand plant in Alberta, Canada, due to slower than anticipated frac sand sales. As a result of market uncertainty in Canada and the US, a knee jerk reaction by predominantly the US-based frac sand retailers caused import frac sand prices in Canada to be reduced to levels that do not appear to be sustainable over the long term, Victory Nickel outlined in a statement.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.351
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

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 head0.149
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.107 · 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