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SheepBaaaon Mar 23, 2008 12:13pm
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Thanks for that article!
Thanks for that article!what i found interesting in this article was.....
"To be world class these days a deposit needs to have more than $10 billion worth of contained metals (GMV - "gross metal value") at an economic grade. The key word here is "economic", because there are a fair number of deposits with more than $10 billion in gross metal value using current metal prices that are in fact worthless because the capital cost to turn such deposits into a mine combined with the per tonne based operating cost are greater than the gross revenue the sale of the recovered metals would generate. In discounted cash flow model terms a deposit with a $10 billion GMV and rock value about double operating costs will tend to have a real value, or "net present value" of 10%-20% of the GMV, or $1-$2 billion."