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Plentiful potash sector sees no need for change

2019· article· en· W2975553213 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Industrial Minerals

Bibliographic record

VenueIndustrial Minerals · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicCoal and Coke Industries Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPotashBrineMineralogyMetallurgyPotassiumGeologyChemistryMaterials science
DOInot available

Abstract

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[...]there have been acquisitions and sales - the collapse of the Belarusian Potash Company in 2013, the sale of Vale’s fertilizer mineral business to Mosaic in 2016, and the merger of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium in 2018 to form Nutrien, being obvious examples of recent major shake-ups. [...]Sirius has managed to steer the project through the various objections, largely by designing its way around issues of concern, and has gained the approvals necessary to build what is ultimately intended to be a 20 million tonne per year polyhalite operation. Because Sirius will be extracting polyhalite, rather than sylvite - the mineral that traditional muriate of potash (MOP) comes from - the Woodsmith mineral ore also contains sulphur, magnesium and calcium and the resource has a grade of 85.4%, so there is no need to remove any impurities to use it on crops, a step required for MOP. “Current potash production methods - conventional underground mining and conventional solution mining - were developed in the early to mid-1900s and no longer represent the most capital-efficient and environmental efficient way to produce potash,” the company states. Selective dissolution involves injecting a nearly saturated sodium chloride (NaCl) brine, utilizing brackish formation water (ie, water that is more saline than freshwater and is therefore not drinkable) into horizontal caverns.During this process, only the KCl (potash) is dissolved, leaving other minerals intact.The KCl-rich brine is then pumped to a process plant, where an energy-efficient cooling crystallization process removes the KCl, resulting in solid crystals of potassium nutrient.

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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 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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.269
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

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)0.0080.002

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 head0.161
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.149 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
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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