Courses Handbook 2010

10943 (v.5) Cost and Capital Investment Estimation 602


Area: Department of Mineral Economics and Mine Management
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 16.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 4 x 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 10940 (v.4) Resource Sector Finance 601 or any previous version
Syllabus: Students will be provided with a framework to assist with the estimation of capital and operating costs for preliminary financial modelling and evaluation of mining projects. This will include order of magnitude estimates, top-down modelling of aggregated component costs using empirical cost-throughout curves, and bottom-up estimation of disaggregated component costs from mine plans. A revision of discounted cash flow evaluation techniques will also be carried out.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030303 Mining Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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