How do development, production, grade, recovery, and commodity-price assumptions shape the mine plan?
Model profile
Uranium Small-Scale Mining
A small uranium mine that sells its ore to a licensed mill, set up for the United States or for any country you choose: run-of-mine ore from a restarted underground mine on the Colorado Plateau trucked to the White Mesa Mill, the same mine stoped selectively with radiometric ore control, or its ore toll milled with the U3O8 and vanadium sold by the miner. Tested the way a mill and a lender would: the grade, what the mill pays after its charge, the haul, radon and reclamation, and debt sized on the cash the mine can service.
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.
- A 10-year mine plan in per cent U3O8, with a resource limit and an exploration stage
- Ore sold to a licensed mill on the U3O8 it recovers, less the mill's charge, or toll milled
- Vanadium as a co-product, paid when the miner owns the mill's output
- Lime and grade penalties, provisional and final settlement, and the haul to the mill
- A researched United States profile with Utah's severance tax and percentage depletion, and every other country selectable
- Radon ventilation, dosimetry, a radiation safety officer and the reclamation surety
- Debt sized and sculpted on cash available for debt service, with a reserve and an equipment lease
- Cash cost per pound, break-even uranium price, payability and head grade
- A uranium price deck, named scenarios, an NPV tornado and a Monte Carlo
Build the case
Inputs and workspaces
- CasesLoad the ore purchase, selective ore control or toll milling case
- Mine and costsCountry, licence, geology and resource, capacity, the uranium price, unit costs, diesel and the local currency
- Mine planCapacity, utilisation, waste ratio, grade, ore control, price and payability by year
- SeasonalityHow the seasons spread production across the months
- Ore sale and millHow the mill pays, its recovery and charge, vanadium, settlement and a mill outage
- Penalties, royalty and routeLime and other penalties, the grade-price grid, the sliding-scale royalty and the haul to the mill
- Staff and operating costsPositions, pay, start dates, sizing from productivity, and other operating expenses
- Initial costs and assetsStart-up costs, the four asset classes, replacement and the lease share
- FinancingEquity, the start-up gap, the term loan and its sizing, the reserve, the lease and the prepayment
- Fiscal and permitsIncome tax, severance tax, percentage depletion, the reclamation surety and VAT
- Valuation and riskCost of capital, reclamation and closure, the uranium price deck and the Monte Carlo
- Due diligenceTitle and permits, environment, radiation protection, the mill agreement, resource, safety and the community
Review the result
Outputs and analysis
- Project NPVUSD, at WACC
- Project IRRUnlevered, after tax
- WACCDiscount rate
- PaybackMonths
- Minimum DSCRYears principal is repaid
- Loan life cover ratioAt first repayment
- Term loanSized by the model
- Total fundingAll sources
- 17 additional metrics in the workspace
- Financial statementsDetailed schedules
- Lender view, mine plan, funding & 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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