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Appendix I<br />
Criteria<br />
Commentary<br />
Infrastructure • The existence of appropriate infrastructure: availability of land for<br />
plant development, power, water, transportation (particularly for bulk<br />
commodities), labour, accommodation; or the ease with which the<br />
infrastructure can be provided, or accessed.<br />
• All necessary infrastructure to support the UHG mine is in place at either the<br />
mine site or at the UHG mine industrial area. Power is supplied from an onsite<br />
coal fired power station, and also from the transmission line connected to the<br />
Mongolian power grid. Water is supplied from a nearby bore field. The workforce<br />
is accommodated in a purpose built camp or in housing provided in the nearby<br />
communities.<br />
Costs • The derivation of, or assumptions made, regarding projected capital<br />
costs in the study.<br />
• The methodology used to estimate operating costs.<br />
• Allowances made for the content of deleterious elements.<br />
• The derivation of assumptions made of metal or commodity price(s), for<br />
the principal minerals and co- products.<br />
• The source of exchange rates used in the study.<br />
• Derivation of transportation charges.<br />
• The basis for forecasting or source of treatment and refining charges,<br />
penalties for failure to meet specification, etc.<br />
• The allowances made for royalties payable, both Government and private.<br />
• Project capital cost estimates for mining plant and equipment have been<br />
provided by MMC.<br />
• Operating cost estimates have been provided from MMC’s assessment of<br />
existing operating costs incurred in the operation and also from MMC’s mining<br />
contractor.<br />
— Actual mining contractor coal mining costs were provided and applied in<br />
the study in $/bcm; however for presentation in Table 5.8 (in Report No.<br />
ADV-MN-00132 ‘Statement of Open Cut Coal Reserves as at 30 November<br />
2015 dated March 2016) RPM converted to $/t ROM using the weight<br />
average relative density of coal in the pit shells).<br />
• Coal processing costs are based on those actually being incurred in the existing<br />
CHPP operation.<br />
• Government royalty costs are based on currently legislated rates applicable to<br />
the forecast sales prices of UHG product coal. There are no private royalties<br />
payable.<br />
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