Mine Investment Analysis

Mine Investment Analysis by Thomas J. O'Neill. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780895204295.

Highly complex topics--mine investment analysis and mine property valuation--are thoroughly examined in this hardbound text. This informative book explains the concepts and principles behind corporate investment decision-making, specifically addressing practices and procedures used in property valuation. This finance (i.e., capital budgeting and evaluating investment opportunities) book emphasizes the business, rather than economic, aspects of the minerals industry. A multi-purpose book, it serves three objectives. First, it is a wonderful tool for teaching mine valuation concepts and procedures, as well as the principles of capital budgeting to undergraduate students studying minerals engineering. Second, the book shows graduate students interested in mine valuation its complexity, intricacies, and interrelationships. The textbook is a solid foundation for graduate work in the area of mine valuation and will stimulate students to pursue work on some of the difficult issues presented. Third, the book provides a timely reference document to the industrial practitioner working in the area of mine investment analysis.