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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Economic Evaluation of Mineral Raw Material Deposits

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 541-0908/03
Abbreviation EHLNS
Course title Economic Evaluation of Mineral Raw Material Deposits
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Antonín Kunz, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Raw materials as a part of the economic potential of the country. Resources,
reserves, mineable reserves and economic mineable reserves. Price raw material in concentrate. Principles of the cash flows in mining industry and raw materials complex.. Problems of the cutoff grade of the mineral deposits. Methods of the estimation of the
recoverable reserves and their assessment. Methods of the analysis
relations costs, revenues and profits in mining industry. Sensitivity analysis.
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.