Gold$2,045.30+0.52%
Silver$23.84-0.18%
Copper$3.85+1.23%
Platinum$912.40-0.33%
Iron Ore$118.50+2.14%
Nickel$16,892-0.89%

Copper / Gold Mining Projects Ranked by NPV

After-tax NPV, IRR, initial capex, mine life and AISC for 9 copper / gold projects across 6 companies, extracted from technical reports and ranked. Sort any column to compare copper / gold developers and producers.

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1
Salobo Operations
Vale S.A. (VALE)
Copper / GoldResource Estimate
Dec 2025
$16.61B—$3.92B——
2
Kingking
St Augustine Gold & Copper Ltd. (SAU.TO)
Copper-GoldPre-Feasibility
Jul 2025
$4.18B34.2%$2.37B38 yrs—
3
Mabilo
RTG Mining Inc. (RTG.TO)
Copper & GoldFeasibility
Mar 2016
$1.08B—$25M7 yrs—
4
El Domo
Silvercorp Metals Inc. (SVM.TO)
Copper-GoldFeasibility
2026
$571M46%$284M11.5 yrs—
5
Carmacks
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. (CAM.V)
Copper-GoldPEA
Nov 2022
C$330M38%C$220M9 yrs—
6
Carmacks (Base Case)
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. (CAM.V)
Copper-GoldPEA
Nov 2022
C$231M29%—9 yrs—
7
Oyu Tolgoi – Hugo North Extension (HNE) Lift 1
Entrée Resources Ltd. (ETG.TO)
Copper-GoldFeasibility
May 2021
$185M—$55M17 yrs1.3 USD/lb payable copper
8
Entrée/Oyu Tolgoi Joint Venture Project – Hugo North Extension Lift 1
Entrée Resources Ltd. (ETG.TO)
Copper-GoldFeasibility
Oct 2021
$131M———1.3 USD/lb payable Cu
9
Mabilo Stage 1 DSO
RTG Mining Inc. (RTG.TO)
Copper, GoldFeasibility
2024
——$25M——

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