What is the Base Metals Cost Service
For each commodity, our cost service offers the greatest depth and breadth of commodity analysis available today, providing data and analysis in quarterly reports that cover production, costs, margins, and cash flows.
What does the Base Metals Cost cover?
Copper (Cu):
Bauxite & Alumina:
Gold (AU)
Lead (Pb):
Zinc (Zn):
Nickel (Ni)
Please contact your account team for details on commodities within your subscription.
What types of information are available in the Base Metals Cost Service?
Understand and anticipate developments with forecasts on copper mine projects
Process flow sheet, feed preparation, and our forecasts for costs, production, and anode allocation out to 2050
Model costs at over 400 mines either utilising the Wood Mackenzie base case or including your own inputs
Reports include details such as global cost drivers, margins, projects, and production
What are the deliverables of the Base Metals Cost Service?
Global Asset Reports:
Mine-level asset reports updated on an annual rolling basis.
Historical data and forecasts for production and costs (such as C1 cash costs), and written analysis on assets such as risk and uncertainties, and fiscal terms
Global Cost Summary Report:
Published on a quarterly basis, this report contains details such as global cost drivers, margins, projects, and productions.
Includes Excel data downloads on production, costs, margins, projects, plus cost benchmarking and workbook where you can filter for specific datasets.
Global Cost Curve Tool:
Online tool showcasing our view of mines, companies, or countries globally on a cost curve
Global Cost Model:
Access online cost models for each mine covered by Wood Mackenzie. Includes our base-case modelling for each asset.
Allows users to input their own assumptions and understanding of the asset, to obtain bespoke cash flows, cost curves/leagues, and valuation
Base Metals Costs Tool:
Spotfire tool providing the ability to screen and filter for cost, production and cashflow data
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