# Mining Finance and Investment Analysis

> Analyse mining project economics, financial statements and investment decisions.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Oil, Gas, Mining & Energy
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/oil-gas-mining-energy/mining-finance-analysis
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=mining-finance-analysis

## Overview

This course covers the financial side of mining: reserves and valuation, project economics, capital and operating cost estimation, mining financial statements, fiscal regimes and royalties, and financing mining projects.

## Who should attend

- Mining finance and planning staff
- Investment analysts and bankers
- Government mining and revenue officials
- Mining engineers

## Learning outcomes

- Understand resource and reserve reporting
- Build mining project cash flow models
- Analyse mining financial statements
- Evaluate fiscal regimes and royalties
- Assess financing options

## Course outline

### Day 1: Mining value chain

- Exploration to closure
- Resource and reserve codes
- Commodity markets
- African mining overview

### Day 2: Project economics

- Capex and opex
- Mine plans
- Cash flow models
- NPV and sensitivity

### Day 3: Financial statements

- Mining accounting
- Key ratios
- Impairments
- Benchmarking

### Day 4: Fiscal regimes

- Royalties and taxes
- Stability agreements
- State participation
- Revenue transparency

### Day 5: Financing

- Equity and debt
- Streaming and royalties
- Project finance
- Case study