Cost Estimation Handbook / Руководство по оценке затрат

While the need to revise this handbook – first published in 1993 – had become glaringly obvious, its general format, level of detail and breadth of coverage has proved to be of enduring value. The original work focused on the Australian mining industry, but it has become clear that its market has been much wider than that over the years, and the authors have tried to keep that in mind in this update.Thanks to the efforts of venerable institutions such as our own Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM – The Minerals Institute), the mining industry has become more professional over the intervening years. It has also become more crossdisciplinary in nature. It is hard enough to keep up-todate in our own specialist fields, or commodities, let alone understand what is happening across the wider industry. Nonetheless, if there is a common language that everyone speaks, it is that of economics, as this is at the heart of decision-making at every stage of a mine’s life from its discovery to closure. Thus, while this volume will provide some technical basics, this is not its greatest aim. Rather, its mission is to help technical specialists from different backgrounds better appreciate the dimensions across the broad spectrum of justifying the potential for developing a mining project, selecting the best alternative from many, detailing the favoured case and securing finance to take that project forward <...>