Characterization study of As and Se in pyrites from two historic mines in British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) can be toxic if they occur as soluble species at elevated concentrations. One process that can mobilize these elements into the environment is the oxidation of As- and Se-containing pyrites. This study presents the initial mineralogical (XRD, SEM-EDS, LA-ICP-MS, and synchrotron micro-XRF and micro-XANES) characterization of As- and Se-pyrites from two historic mines in British Columbia, the Sullivan Mine and the Sunro Mine. Results show that As occurs in some of the pyrites from the Sullivan Mine; comparison of the micro-XANES measurements to published data suggests As substitutes for sulphur. Selenium is detected in pyrites from the Sunro Mine but this Se is slightly more oxidized than measured in previous studies on Se-pyrite and further investigation of these samples is required. Results from this characterization study will be incorporated into the next phase of research measuring element mobilization after oxidation reactions to identify the effects of As or Se substitution on these reactions.
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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) | 0.002 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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