Monday, October 4, 2010

A Glance of Mining Industry

I. Introduction
1.1. Energy Consumption and Distribution
- Worldwide
- ASEAN 
(Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines)
- Indonesia
1.2. Mining Commodity Price
- Coal
- Gold


ASEAN Energy Distribution


Coal Price


Gold Price




II. Investment and Risk
2.1. Concession Owner Vs Contractor
a. Fully by concession owner
b. Sharing with contractor
- Rental
- Mining Contract
- Geological risk by the contractor
- Financial risk by the contractor

2.2. Contractor Vs Equipment Supplier
a.  Cash
b.  Leasing company or bank
c.  Direct credit from equipment supplier
d.  No DP, only monthly installment ?
e.  Equipment owned by equipment 
supplier, operated by the contractor ?

III. Mining Investment Policy and Strategy
3.1. What, Who and When?
a. Type of concession : KUD, KP, PKP2B
b. Mining stage activity ( see attachment for detail)
-  Reconnaissance 
-  General survey   
-  Exploration                                               
-  Feasibility study and AMDAL
-  Construction       
-  Exploitation and production 

c. Who is the Operator ( see attachment of mining operator in Indonesia )
-  Concession owner
-  Mining contractor

MINING STAGE AND WHERE CONTRACTOR INVOLVE ?


CONCESSION LICENCE


Indonesian Coal Production 2003




d. Size or Scale of Production Capacity
- Small : KUD, below one million tons annual production
- Medium : KP, PKP2B  with production capacity 1 million tons up to 5 million tons
- Big : PKP2B, KP with production capacity more than 5 million tons

e. Life of mine
- Short term     :  < 5 years
- Medium term :  5 – 10 years
- Long term      :  > 10 years 

3.2. Technical specification requirement   
a. Geological condition and geotechnical data: type of overburden (clay stone, sandstone, igneous rock etc), dip of seam, thickness, seismic velocity, logging data
b. Weather: rain, slippery, effective hours
c. Mine design :
-  Accuracy: selective mining, general work (sloping, finishing, etc)
-  Open or cut area, wide of pit    
-  Hauling distance 
-  Grade of access road
-  Catchments area and dewatering
-  Safety factor base on geotechnical data 
-  slope (overall and or single slope)
-  Depth of pit
d. Production capacity
e. Equipment specification
- availability, utilization, productivity and safety

3.3. Cost  : 
- Operation cost: labor, consumable good, maintenance and others
- Depreciation 
- Overhead
- etc

IV. Mining is Big
- Big in volume of business
- Big in business capital
- Big in Heavy Equipment
- Big in Risk