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Record W4394577824 · doi:10.11647/obp.0373.11

Indigenous Mining

2024· book-chapter· en· W4394577824 on OpenAlex
Melanie Mackay

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Book Publishers · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMining Techniques and Economics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousGeographyBiologyEcology

Abstract

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Although dominant western narratives often imply otherwise, mining is not just a colonial idea or activity. First Nations have been mining and quarrying rocks and minerals for thousands of years, using the extracted materials for cultural, spiritual, medicinal, and practical purposes. The literature documenting the use of rocks and minerals by First Nations peoples has been produced by archaeologists, and very little is known about these activities within the context of mining engineering and geoscience. By documenting the knowledge, resource management and science behind First Nations use of rocks, minerals and mining, we can contribute to the decolonization of the mining sector, while also helping to drive much needed innovation. The mining industry is now evolving to focus more attention on smaller and lower grade deposits, reprocessing of waste, sourcing independent supplies of critical minerals, and Indigenous reconciliation. Continued advances in these areas, inspired from the lessons of First Nations mining, are needed to transition the industry on a path to social and environmental sustainability. Working with Indigenous peoples to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into mine design and reclamation could be the key to overcoming the challenges ahead.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it