Financing From the Perspective of Mining Companies
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Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to explain financing decisions from the perspective of mining companies. First, all of the major equity and debt financing instruments available to mining companies are presented and analyzed. Each financing method is assessed on a wide range of criteria. Next, these concepts are applied in case studies of four companies: BHP Billiton, Barrick Gold, Teck Resources, and Noront Resources. For each company, the overall choice of financing methods is shown and analyzed. The effect of financing choices on the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is calculated. The final section deals with case studies of individual mine finance decisions during the past two years: Teck Resources’ $4.2 billion private debt placement to escape from the brink of bankruptcy, Barrick Gold’s $3.9 billion equity financing to eliminate hedges, Copper Mountain Mining’s Joint Venture with Mitsubishi, and Xstrata’s $5.9 billion rights issue in 2009. The financing options used by mining companies can be divided in 16 types, many of which are unique to the mining industry. Public equity is the dominant form of financing, followed by bonds and debentures, while many newer types of financing are growing in importance. Important considerations for selecting the type of financing include: time needed to arrange, typical interest rate, position in capital structure, effect on balance sheet, effect on credit rating and equity dilution. In many cases, the best form of financing is highly contentious. Large companies that are able to obtain good credit ratings are able to achieve a lower cost of capital than their junior counterparts, while gold companies currently enjoy the lowest cost of capital.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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