Investigation of the Mountain River beryl (emerald variety) occurrence, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories
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Abstract
Emerald at the Mountain River emerald occurrence is milky green and occurs in extensional quartz-carbonate veins hosted within organic-poor siliciclastic rocks. Oxygen isotope mineral pair equilibration thermometry indicates mineralization temperatures of 379 to 415°C. Fluid inclusion analyses indicate CO2-N2-bearing brines and homogenization temperatures between 118 and 258°C. Fluid pressures were on the order of 2.4 to 4.0 kbar, corresponding to depths of 9 to 15 km. Pyrite intergrown with emerald yields a 5 point Re-Os model 1 isochron age of 345 ± 20 Ma and an elevated initial 187Os/188Os of 3.2, indicating a crustal source. The fluids involved in emerald mineralization were derived from deep-seated hydrothermal brines, and were likely the same fluids involved in producing the Manetoe facies dolomite and extensive carbonate-hosted zinc-lead occurrences throughout the Mackenzie Platform. The Mountain River emerald occurrence shares many characteristics with Colombian-type emerald deposits. The Colombian emeralds are hosted in organic-rich black shales and formed during compressional deformation via thermochemical sulphate reduction of brines by organic matter. However, the Mountain River occurrence is hosted in organic-poor siliciclastic rocks and formed in an extensional back-arc environment via inorganic sulphate reduction. The Mountain River emerald occurrence thus represents a modification of the Colombian-type deposit model.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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