10943 (v.3) WASM Cost and Capital Investment Estimation 602

Area:

WASM Mineral Economics Teaching Area

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

16.0

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Lecture:

4 x 4 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

10940 (v.3) WASM 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, Be Hom-up estimation of disaggregated component costs from mine plans. A revision of discounted cash flow (DCF) evaluation techniques will also be carried out.

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Field of Education:

030303 Mining Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External