
Mining Industry
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
- 01Executive Summary
- 02Economics Dataset Coverage
- 03PEA, PFS, and DFS Distribution by Stage
- 04After-Tax NPV and Capital Cost Benchmarking
- 05IRR Sanity Checks and Outlier Review
- 06Linkage Quality and Timestamp Risk
- 07Country and Commodity Cross-Sections
- 08Developer Shortlist and Watchlist Framework
- 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
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