
Selected Readings in Mineral Economics
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1987
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Editor: F.J. Anderson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 8 2 0 - 7
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 3 5 8 6 4 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 6 0 6 2 - 7
Selected Readings in Mineral Economics reviews the economic principles of mineral investment activities and mining decisions. Topics range from mineral reserves and exploration to… Read more

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Request a sales quoteSelected Readings in Mineral Economics reviews the economic principles of mineral investment activities and mining decisions. Topics range from mineral reserves and exploration to the economics of mineral projects, taxation issues, and marketing and finance. This text is comprised of 27 chapters. After explaining the distinction between resources and reserves, this book proposes a concept of mineral reserves. The chapters that follow explore the conversion of resources into reserves through the exploration process, while focusing on the flow from resources to reserves and metal production based on the concept of the ""monitoring curve,"" along with the process of depletion and reserves replacement. The next section illustrates the range of issues associated with rational project evaluation in the minerals sector, considering the discounted cash flow techniques and option pricing as an approach to mine valuation. The effects of Canada's tax system on the mineral supply process are then examined, together with international mineral markets and finance. This text concludes with a chapter that analyzes financing methods for large-scale mining projects, including innovative methods of debt finance involving risk sharing. This book will be of interest to those working in the mining and metallurgical industries.
Reserves, Resources, and Exploration
Introduction
The Concept of Reserves-Expanded
Reflections on the "Expanded Reserves" Concept
Monitoring Canada's Mine Production
Looking for the Improbable Needle in a Haystack: The Economics of Base Metal Exploration in Canada
Exploration Risk
Mineral Exploration Productivity: Focusing to Restore Profitability
Economics of Mineral Projects
Introduction
Project Evaluation-A Key Step to Implementation
Analysis of Risk in Mining Projects
COAIMOD: A Financial Analysis and Policy Simulation Model for Coal Mining Developments
The Effect of Inflation on the Evaluation of Mines
Locational Aspects of Mine Development Economics: Nova Scotia's Competitive Position in Canada
Option Pricing: A New Approach to Mine Valuation
Inter-Provincial Competition and the Canadian Potash Industry
Taxation Issues
Introduction
Rates of Return in the Canadian Mining Industry: A Comparative Study
A Critique of the Saskatchewan Uranium Royalty
Recent New Brunswick Agreements for Oil Shale and Potash: Unique Arrangements or the Beginning of a Trend
Turning Ore into Rock
Flow-Through Shares-A Good Deal Better
An Expanding Family of Flow-through Shares
Improved Flow-through Share Rules
Marketing and Finance
Introduction
Structural Change and Depression in World Metal Industries
Micro Issues But Macro Impacts-Strategic Problems in a Turbulent Mineral Environment
Factors Affecting the Viability of Canada's Copper Producers
Competition and Canadian Coal Prices in the Japanese Coking Coal Market
Managing Metal Price Risks
Mining Risk and International Lending: A Critical Review
Innovative Financing in the Metal Mining Industry: Meeting the Financial Challenge - The Northgate Experience
A Systematic Approach to Political Risk Analysis for Extractive Industries
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1987
- Imprint: Pergamon
- No. of pages: 410
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483128207
- Hardback ISBN: 9780080358642
- eBook ISBN: 9781483160627
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