Raw materials as a part of the economic potential of the country. Resources,
reserves, mineable reserves and economic mineable reserves. Principles of the
classification of the reserves and resources. Problems of the cutoff grade of the
mineral deposits. Price raw material in concentrate. Methods of the analysis
relations costs, revenues and profits in mining industry. Cash flows in the raw
materiala complex. Sensitivity analysis. Methods of the estimation of the
recoverable reserves and their assessment. Assessment of the mineral deposits.
Prefeasibility study and feasibility study. Risk analysis
in the assessment of the mineral deposits .
Literature
Runge I.C.: Mining Economics and Strategy. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration Inc., 1998.
Evans A. M.: Ore Geology and Industrial Minerals. Blackwell Science Ltd.,
Malden /Oxford/Carlton, 1993, 389 pp.
Advised literature
Archer, A. A. - Luttig, G. W. - Snezhko, I. I.: Man´s Dependece on the Earth.
Stuttgart, Schweizerbart´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1987, 216 p.