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Project Economics Benchmark: PEA, PFS, and DFS Comparables with QA Filters
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Project Economics Benchmark: PEA, PFS, and DFS Comparables with QA Filters

A stage-aware benchmark of extracted mine studies, with cleaner comparables, explicit quality flags, and capital context.

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Summary

This benchmark organizes extracted PEA, PFS, and DFS economics into stage-aware comparables across after-tax NPV, initial capital, and after-tax IRR. Each row carries a linkage-confidence flag and passes sanity checks that catch implausible returns, mismatched units, and study-stage misclassification, so the comparison set holds up rather than averaging in bad data. Country and commodity cross-sections place each study against its peers, and a developer shortlist isolates the projects whose economics survive the filters.

Updated Mar 2026 · By Mining Terminal Research

What's inside

Table of contents
  1. 01Executive Summary
  2. 02Economics Dataset Coverage
  3. 03PEA, PFS, and DFS Distribution by Stage
  4. 04After-Tax NPV and Capital Cost Benchmarking
  5. 05IRR Sanity Checks and Outlier Review
  6. 06Linkage Quality and Timestamp Risk
  7. 07Country and Commodity Cross-Sections
  8. 08Developer Shortlist and Watchlist Framework
  9. 09Appendix: Benchmark Methodology
Charts & data tables
  • Study-type distribution and coverage
  • After-tax NPV ranking table
  • Capex burden comparison matrix
  • IRR outlier distribution
  • Country and commodity benchmark heatmap
  • Linkage-quality scorecard