Coal Cost Guide and Mining Cost Service and Mine & Mill Equipment Costs: An Estimator's Guide / Затраты на шахтное и мельничное оборудование: Руководство по оценке

Cost indexes provide a mechanism for adjusting outdated cost information and for tracking cost inflation in the mining industry. Table 1 lists a variety of indexes for specific mining cost centers and provides some guidance for their use. Table 2 lists current and historical values for the indexes. Table 3 lists U.S. Producer Price Indexes and Consumer Price Indexes. These are generally recognized as reliable measures of general inflation in the U.S. economy, and they serve as a comparison to the inflation experienced by the mining industry <...>