Advanced tailings dam performance monitoring with seismic noise and stress models
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Tailings dams retain the waste by-products of mining operations and are amongst the world’s largest engineered structures. Recent tailings dam failures highlight important gaps in current monitoring methods and a pressing need to advance research on tailings dam monitoring technologies, considering growth predictions for the mining of metals. At an active tailings dam in northern Canada, we combine ambient noise interferometry with a quantitative stress model to monitor shear wave velocity (V s ) changes. Changes in seismic velocities of less than 1% correlate strongly with water level fluctuations at the adjacent tailings pond. A stress model, calibrated using pond level recordings and V s profiles obtained from cone penetration tests, demonstrates that the seismic velocity changes obtained with ambient noise interferometry are predominantly changes in V s . Furthermore, this model constrains V s changes to a depth of ~16 m, corresponding to uncompacted tailings below the dam. As V s is used to assess the liquefaction potential of soils, this method provides important advances for understanding changes in dam performance over time.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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