Tailings dam closure scenarios, risk communication, monitoring, and surveillance in Alberta
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Tailings dams remain as a part of the landscape in perpetuity following mine closure. As many mines approach closure in the province of Alberta, Canada, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the long-term geotechnical behavior of these facilities and the impact of various loading and environmental scenarios over long time periods. Research surrounding the closure of tailings dams has historically focused on planning for closure, with a limited focus on how the facility may evolve over time. This gap in research has implications for the design and development of policies that adequately account for long-term risk and uncertainty. This paper summarizes key themes identified during interviews conducted with skilled practitioners to leverage their experiences and help fill the knowledge gap surrounding the long-term behavior and policy-making for tailings dams. These include the impact of recent tailings dam failures, long-term monitoring and surveillance, potential closure scenarios, and risk communication.
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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) | 0.000 | 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 it