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Financial Models for Mine Evaluation
This masterclass will provide in depth education and insight into the financial modelling process for mining companies seeking to put together finance for large-scale projects. It is designed to inform mining executives and CFOs of the solutions that can be easily deployed to counteract common problems associated with financing mining projects.
There will be a focus on how best to meet lender’s strict requirements, analysis of the role of the model and why a good one makes so much difference, types of users and conflicting requirements and types of models.
Agenda:
8:30 Registration and welcome coffee
9:00 Commencement of masterclass
Introduction Agenda: A foreword on Best Practice Modelling
“Operational modelling”
• Scope and where to draw the line with detail
• Modelling the overall process
• Pits and Stockpiles
• Grades and Yields
• Costs (capturing fixed and variable)
• Revenue and Price considerations
• Accommodating Scenarios
“The Requirements of a Project Finance Lender”
•When do they need to see the model?
•What do they need to see?
•What will they do with it for Debt Sizing?
•Why is presentation and transparency so important?
• What is a model audit and how to avoid it being very expensive!
“Practical aspects”
• Demonstration of how to build ‘actuals’ into a model
• How to have and maintain confidence in your model
• How to report covenants
• Change control and maintaining confidence in a model
12:30 Close of masterclass
About your workshop leader
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Nick Crawley, Managing Director, Navigator Project Finance |
With a degree in astrophysics and a Masters in Applied Finance, as well as experience in consultancy and banking on both sides of the globe, Nick Crawley is the founder and now Managing Director of Navigator Project Finance. Navigator provides financial modelling and analytical services to companies and investment banks globally who are seeking to put together finance for large-scale projects, such as Mining, Power Stations, Petrochemicals, Infrastructure and toll roads. Nick has spent the past 12 years understanding and improving the financial modelling process, underpinning the complex project finance process. Nick has recruited and managed several highly talented and successful teams and has worked extensively in both consulting and investment banking environments
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Dominic McCormick
