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Record W7002332270

Northwestern Ontario gold mining, 1880-1902 : the gold boom that didn't pan out / by Patrick R. Chapin. --

2017· other· en· W7002332270 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueKnowledge Commons (Lakehead University) · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicData Analysis with R
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBoomNothingGovernment (linguistics)Gold rushHappening
DOInot available

Abstract

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In 1878, gold was discovered south of Rat Portage on an island in the Lake of the Woods. After
\na brief flurry of development, excitement waned and Rainy River District mining progressed
\nslowly and fitfully for more than a decade. Then, between 1896 and 1902, thousands of
\nlocations were leased or patented and hundreds of mining companies were formed. There is
\nevery indication that something really big was happening in Northwestern Ontario at the end of
\nthe last century. However, with total production amounting to less than $1.5 million, there is also
\nevery indication that nothing big should have been happening.
\nThis study investigates the factors that affected the development of this unusually "unproductive"
\ngold boom. These include geography, geology, government policies, and "patterns of
\ndevelopment." The research included with this thesis provides details for more than two hundred
\nand thirty different "mines," two hundred companies, and more than a thousand incorporators and
\nmine managers. Numerous photographs, tables, and graphs are also included.

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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), Open science, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.957
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0120.004
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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 head0.035
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.201 · 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