Bibliographic record
Abstract
[...]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- conventional underground mining and conventional solution mining - were developed in the early to mid-1900s and no longer represent the most capital-efficient and environmental efficient way to produce potash,” the company states.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 imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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.
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".