Physical and mechanical performance of an HDPE geomembrane in 10 mining solutions with different pHs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The degradation in physical and mechanical properties of a 1.5 mm thick HDPE geomembrane immersed in seven different low pH and three high pH simulated mining solutions is examined at temperatures between 95 and 40 °C for 3 years. The solutions with pH between 0.5 and 13.5 encompass solutions found in copper, nickel, uranium, gold, and silver heap leach pads. The geomembrane did not exhibit any chemical degradation during the three years of incubation in all the low-pH solutions. However, in the solutions with pH 9.5, 11.5, and 13.5, some of the geomembrane’s physical and mechanical properties are shown to reach nominal failure at 95 and 85 °C. While the geomembrane examined shows superior performance in the acidic environments than in the basic solutions examined, its performance in such extremely basic environments is still better than in neutral reduced municipal solid waste leachate. Using Arrhenius’ modelling, the predicted times for the antioxidant depletion stage of the geomembrane examined in composite liner configuration range between 31 years in pH 13.5 to 51 years in pH 0.5 for pad liners at 50 °C, exceeding a typical leaching period of the ore of around 20 years in different heap leaching operations.
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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
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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)
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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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