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Producing mines

20 types of business

Gold mine financial modelMines gold from open-pit and underground operations, processes it through carbon-in-leach mills or heap leach pads, and sells doré at spot or hedged prices.Sample structure in Excel
Copper mine financial modelMines copper (often with gold, silver or molybdenum) and sells concentrate to smelters, earning payable metal less treatment and refining charges plus by-product credits, or produces cathode by heap leaching and solvent extraction-electrowinning.Sample in Excel · live preview
Iron ore mine financial modelMines and beneficiates iron ore and rails and ships lump and fines priced off the 62% Fe index, adjusted for grade and impurities.Sample structure in Excel
Coal mine financial modelMines thermal or metallurgical coal, washes it in a preparation plant and sells it at index-linked prices adjusted for quality.Sample structure in Excel
Lithium mine financial modelProduces spodumene concentrate from hard-rock mines or lithium carbonate from brine evaporation or direct lithium extraction, for the battery supply chain, often under offtake agreements with prepayments and price-linked formulas.Sample in Excel · live preview
Nickel mine financial modelMines sulphide nickel ore for concentrate or matte, or laterite ore processed by high-pressure acid leach into mixed hydroxide precipitate or into nickel pig iron, selling at a payable share of the LME nickel price with cobalt by-products.Sample in Excel · live preview
Zinc and lead mine financial modelMines zinc-lead-silver ore and sells separate zinc and lead concentrates to smelters, earning payable metal less benchmark treatment charges with price escalators and penalties, plus silver credits.Sample in Excel · live preview
Silver mine financial modelMines primary silver or silver-rich polymetallic ore (with lead, zinc or gold), selling doré or concentrate and reporting costs per silver-equivalent ounce net of by-product credits; streams are common.Sample in Excel · live preview
Platinum group metals mine financial modelMines narrow-reef or bulk platinum-group-metal ore, producing concentrate sold to smelters and refiners under purchase-of-concentrate agreements at a share of the basket price, or smelted and refined in-house into platinum, palladium, rhodium and by-product nickel and copper.Sample in Excel · live preview
Uranium mine financial modelProduces uranium oxide from conventional or in-situ recovery operations and sells it under long-term utility contracts and on the spot market.Sample in Excel · live preview
Rare earths producer financial modelMines rare earth ore (hard-rock or ionic clay) and produces mixed rare earth concentrate, carbonate or separated oxides, with value dominated by NdPr and heavy rare earths, often under offtakes with price floors.Sample in Excel · live preview
Graphite producer financial modelMines natural flake graphite and sells concentrate priced by flake size and purity, sometimes processing it further into spherical or active anode material for batteries.Sample in Excel · live preview
Vanadium producer financial modelMines vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite or other ores and produces magnetite concentrate and vanadium pentoxide (or ferrovanadium) by roasting and leaching, with iron and titanium co-products.Sample in Excel · live preview
Mineral sands producer financial modelDredges or dry-mines heavy mineral sands and separates the concentrate into zircon, rutile, ilmenite and monazite sold under contracts and at market prices.Sample in Excel · live preview
Diamond and gemstone mine financial modelMines kimberlite or alluvial deposits for diamonds (or coloured gemstones), recovering carats that are sold in periodic tenders or auctions at prices per carat set by size and quality.Sample in Excel · live preview
Industrial minerals producer financial modelMines and processes non-metallic minerals — silica sand, kaolin, bentonite, diatomite, talc, garnet, zeolite, magnesite, high-purity quartz — sold by grade under contracts or price lists to glass, ceramics, filtration, foundry and chemical customers.Sample structure in Excel
Potash and phosphate mine financial modelMines phosphate rock or potash (muriate or sulphate of potash) by conventional mining, solution mining or brine evaporation, selling fertiliser-grade product at benchmark-linked prices by grade.Sample in Excel · live preview
Salt producer financial modelProduces solar salt by evaporating seawater or brine in ponds and harvesting it, or mines rock salt, selling it for chemical manufacture, de-icing and food under contracts.Sample structure in Excel
Tailings reprocessor financial modelReclaims historical tailings or waste dumps and reprocesses them for residual metal (gold, copper, cobalt, uranium, rare earths) through a new or existing plant, avoiding drilling and blasting and often taking on the rehabilitation of the old storage.Sample in Excel · live preview
Diversified miner financial modelRuns a portfolio of mines (and often smelters, refineries and marketing arms) across several commodities, reporting by commodity segment and allocating capital between sustaining, growth and shareholder returns.Sample structure in Excel

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Explorers, developers and royalties

4 types of business

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Processing, smelting and recycling

7 types of business

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Mining services

2 types of business

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