| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2019
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (313 pages)
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| Disciplina |
338.2
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| Soggetto topico |
Mineral industries - Management
Mineral industries - Economic aspects
Business & Economics - Management
Business & management
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| ISBN |
1-78973-789-3
1-78973-787-7
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- MODERN MANAGEMENT IN THE GLOBAL MINING INDUSTRY -- MODERN MANAGEMENT IN THE GLOBAL MINING INDUSTRY -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Mining in Perspective -- Steel-related Minerals -- Power-intensive Industries -- Hard Rock Mining -- Fertilizer Building Blocks -- Identifying the Core Issues -- Chapter 2: Commodity Price Forecasting -- Theoretical Background -- Forecasting the Demand Curve -- Forecasting the Supply Curve -- Short-term Price Forecasting -- Long-term Price Forecasting -- Chapter 3: Recycling -- Chapter 4: The Marketing of Commodities -- Marketing Commodities, Quasi-commodities and Products -- The Supply Chain -- Scope of Marketing Activities -- The Organisation of the Marketing Function -- The Global Structure of Commodity Prices -- Essential Exposure for the Renaissance Man -- Appendix: The Pricing and Trading of Base Metal Concentrates -- The Pricing of Concentrates -- Payments and Deductions -- Treatment and Refining Charges -- Chapter 5: The Role of Commodity Exchanges in Pricing -- Types of Commodity Exchanges -- Why Commodity Exchanges Succeed or Fail -- Price Reporting Services -- The Functions of Commodity Exchanges -- Futures, Forward Prices and Forecasts -- The Mechanics of LME Transactions in Physical Metal -- Issues with the Warehousing Business Model -- Chapter 6: Price Risk Management -- Why Manage Price Risk? -- Producers -- Intermediaries -- Consumers -- Key Elements in Price Risk Management -- How Hedging Works -- Programme Design and Implementation -- Trading and Hedging of Concentrates -- A Long-term Process -- Chapter 7 : Shareholder Value -- The Shareholder Value Revolution -- Value-based Management -- Sustainable Competitive Advantage -- Why the Cost Culture Fails to Deliver Shareholder Value.
Moving to a Value Culture -- Chapter 8 : Measuring Mine Production Costs -- Who Is Interested in Costs and Why? -- The VBC Nomenclature -- Raw Material Costs -- Conversion Costs -- Site Costs -- Realisation Costs -- Business Costs -- Other Costs -- Corporate Costs -- Capital Costs -- Economic Costs -- Costing Mines with Significant By-products or Co-products -- VBC and Traditional Accounting -- Relationship of VBC to Traditional Cost Ranking Concepts -- Chapter 9 : Performance Improvement and Capital Productivity -- Pushing Accountability Down the Organisation -- Basic Principles of Capital Productivity -- Bottleneck Management Potential -- Machine Productivity -- Capital Reduction Potential -- Network Efficiency Potential -- Six Sigma -- Benchmarking -- Conclusions -- Chapter 10: Risk and the Cost of Capital -- Project Risk -- The Capital Asset Pricing Model -- Cost of Equity -- Return on Equity -- Beta Coefficients -- The Cost of Debt -- Tax Rates -- The Overall WACC -- The Effective Cost of Finance for New Projects -- Royalties -- Conclusion: Risk and Return Off Broadway -- Chapter 11: The Mining Cycle -- Value and the Mine Development Cycle -- Junior Mining Companies -- Reserves and Resources -- The Gateway System -- The Perils of Sequential Thinking -- Chapter 12: The Myths and Realities of Resource Depletion -- Resource Depletion and Sustainability -- The History of Metals Prices and Production -- Is Mining Different After All? -- Conclusion: Resource Abundance -- Chapter 13: The Environment: Cost or Constraint? -- Environmental Degradation -- Self-regulation - The Equator Principles and the ICMM (International Council on Mining & -- Metals) -- The Need for a New Metric -- We Can Choose What We Develop -- Where Should the Industry Invest? -- NGOs: Realos and Fundis -- Government Capacity -- Environmental Politics and Conflicts of Interest.
Social Disruption and the Resource Curse -- Artisanal Mining -- The Free Rider Problem -- Conclusion: The Role of the Renaissance Man -- Chapter 14: Unfinished Business -- Last Day's Work -- Index.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828221703321 |
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Mineral valuation, solid minerals : selected references
