Let's get discipline and quality into easy to understand evaluations! Project Managers and MetPlant Operators accept poor quality evaluations because they are generally unaware of what they should expect.The 2010 draft AusIMM Guidelines for Techno-Economic Evaluations' were collated by a subcommittee of practitioners and are regarded as best practice.They apply directly to projects and metallurgical plant evaluations, including those with a heavy technical basis._x000D_
They can be applied to technical problem solving where there are no monetary computations._x000D_
Project Managers and MetPlant Operators should demand that economic models and evaluations follow the six principles. They should become working tools which are easy to understand, fit for purpose, consistent, rigorous, record sources of input data, have key graphs and are rapid to audit._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Card, P, 2011._x000D_
Guidelines for economic evaluation of projects, in Proceedings MetPlant 2011, pp 1-11 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).