Principles and procedures in mineral property valuation, time value of money fundamentals. Ore reserve estimation using geostatistics techniques, cut-off determination, and engineering economics. Investment analysis of actual mining and non-mining industries. Development of criteria for Discount Rate selection. Case Studies of actual mining companies and the way they address economic and technical challenges for sustaining the production of mineral commodities. Graduate-level requirements include either a research project, a complete lecture, or a research paper at the discretion of the instructor.
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- vtenorio