How do development, production, grade, recovery, and commodity-price assumptions shape the mine plan?
Model profile
Lithium Mining
Open-pit hard-rock spodumene lithium mine: a reserve-constrained mine plan, grade and recovery driven concentrate production, a full development budget on spend curves, project finance with cover ratios, IFRS three statements, rehabilitation provisioning, and a partnership waterfall.
Decision scope
Questions this model helps you examine
What capital, operating cost, closure provision, and financing structure are required?
How do price, grade, recovery, cost, and schedule downside cases affect investment returns?
Model capabilities
What this model includes
The profile below is generated from the same catalogue and workspace definitions used by the application.
- Reserve-constrained mine plan with dilution, recovery, ramp-up and a declining strip ratio
- Grade and mill recovery drive spodumene concentrate tonnes, so revenue can never exceed the orebody
- Development budget by land, hard and soft cost with contingency and construction spend curves
- Construction funding solved month by month across grant, debt and equity, with borrowing costs capitalised
- Project finance: sculpted, annuity or equal-instalment repayment, DSRA, DSCR, LLCR, PLCR and reserve tail
- IFRS three statements with units-of-production depletion, IFRIC 20 stripping, IAS 37 rehabilitation and deferred tax
- C1 cash cost, all-in sustaining cost, and breakeven concentrate price per tonne
- Tiered limited and general partner distribution waterfall with preferred return and promote
- Named scenarios, goal seek, credit stress thresholds, tornado, VaR/CVaR, correlated Monte Carlo, and an expansion decision tree
Build the case
Inputs and workspaces
- AssumptionsMine plan, metallurgy, cost stack, closure, tax, and cost of capital
- Development budgetLand, hard and soft cost lines with spend curves and depreciation basis
- FinancingSenior facility terms, funding cascade, and the partnership
- AnalyticsNamed scenarios, goal seek, correlated Monte Carlo, and the expansion decision tree
Review the result
Outputs and analysis
- Project NPVUSD
- Project IRRUnlevered, after tax
- Equity IRRLevered
- Limited partner IRRAfter the waterfall
- General partner IRRAfter promote
- Equity multipleMultiple on invested equity
- EBITDA marginFinal producing year
- Minimum DSCRLowest year
- 15 additional metrics in the workspace
- Financial statementsDetailed schedules
- Mine plan, financing & valuationDetailed schedules
- Risk & analyticsDetailed schedules
Designed for review
Who this model is for
- Mine owners and project sponsors
- Technical and operating teams
- Financial advisers
- Investors and lenders
Governed evidence
The review trail stays with the result.
Each completed calculation preserves the model version, saved inputs, reporting-currency snapshot, immutable run, and result fingerprint used for its reports.
- Version-controlled calculation logic
- Saved assumptions and scenarios
- Immutable calculation runs
- Reporting context preserved in exports
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