Evaluating Mineral Projects

Evaluating Mineral Projects
Author: Thomas F. Torries
Publisher: SME
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780873351591

Designed to complement traditional engineering texts, this book emphasizes the concepts of mineral project evaluation rather than computational details. It describes various economic evaluation techniques typically employed (including conventional cost analysis, discounted cash flow, and option analysis), their uses, and their relationships with geological, technological, and financial evaluations.

Economic Evaluations in Exploration

Economic Evaluations in Exploration
Author: Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540735593

This fully updated textbook is intended for the economic geologist who deals with the evaluation of deposits at an early stage of development. It offers rules for quick and easy calculations based on the application of approximate data. It provides both the student and the geologist in the field with a complete set of rules and methods enabling them to perform a quick initial evaluation of the deposit without the support of specialists or computers – even if he is left to his own resources. All rules for calculations are illustrated with examples, and mistakes and pitfalls the authors encountered during their careers are pointed out.

Mining Economics and Strategy

Mining Economics and Strategy
Author: Ian C. Runge
Publisher: SME
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780873351652

This book will help direct mining operations through the use of innovative economic strategies. The text covers what is meant by a cost-effective mining scheme, the economics of information, and the procedures for rational evaluation of uncertain projects.

Economic Evaluation of Mineral Projects

Economic Evaluation of Mineral Projects
Author: Peter Arroja Eshun
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2012
Genre: Gold
ISBN: 9783659154164

The policies and laws of the Government of Ghana, intended to attract foreign investment into the country have resulted in the revitalization of the mineral industry. However, there are social and environmental issues that have generated debate as to the real viability of mining projects. This book incorporates social responsibility and environmental liability costs in the evaluation of mineral projects. The model has been tested using two real gold projects in Ghana. Although the projects are profitable, the SEE model gives lower NPVs and IRRs when compared with those of conventional evaluable. But, it presents a more realistic judgement of the viability of the projects as it quantitatively and pragmatically accounts for the social responsibility and environmental liability costs of mining. This is an innovative approach to the problem of estimating social responsibility and environmental liability costs and assessing their effects on the viability of mineral projects prior to mining. This book will therefore be a valuable textbook for students and academics and a useful handbook for government and investors and all who care about sustainable mineral development.