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Development of Practical Real Option Models And Evaluation Methodologies for Optimisation of Mineral and Petroleum Exploration and Development Investment Decisions

Perth, Western Australia

Investment decisions in the resource industry have traditionally been dominated by deterministic Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) criteria of value. These do not capture the dynamic real option value (ROV) of managerial flexibility created through project design and/or contractual arrangements or inherent in the natural characteristics of mineral and petroleum resources.

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Improving Mining Tax Administration Frameworks In West Africa

West Africa

One of the central challenges many West African countries face relates to their capacity to put in place a framework to collect mineral revenues aligned to contractual agreements and in so doing set the stage for a potential use of mineral revenues for sustainable development. An improved revenue-collection framework would entail a clear identification and strengthening of different levels of administrative capacity required to implement various tax instruments, followed with the development and setting up of effective and co-ordinated, physical and financial control systems for the two key institutions managing the mining sector i.e. the Ministries in charge of Finance and Mining.

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Modelling of the MRRT Impact on Iron Ore Mines

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

The initial proposal for the introduction of a Resource Super Profit Tax (RSPT) first and then of the currently debated Mineral Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) created a critical need for rigorous and independent modelling of their financial impact at the project level. The CET has undertaken to carry out such modelling in the case of small to mid-size iron ore mines and to publish the relevant results and policy advice.

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