Metals & Mining - SNL Metals Economics Group

Search continuously updated profiles on thousands of global mining projects and companies-using the most respected source of worldwide project and company information in the mining industry.

• Discover emerging business and corporate development opportunities
• Monitor the details and activities of projects and companies that meet specified criteria
• Track competitors and maintain watching briefs
• Cross reference in-house project and company data

SNL’s Corporate Exploration Strategies is the industry’s benchmark for exploration trends and strategic analysis. Benefit from both a global and a granular view - backed by information you can trust from thousands of companies around the globe.

• Review detailed analyses of budgets by commodity allocations, location, stage of development, origin of funding and as a percentage of adjusted annual sales revenue
• Detect and monitor company, geographic and market trends
• Use the data to plan growth strategy, develop mineral policy and attract exploration spending

Support your deal-making decisions with complete, authoritative and relevant transaction information.

• Perform quick comparisons and evaluations of transactions on a cost per pound or ounce basis
• Quickly initiate valuation processes
• Gain in-depth knowledge of the acquisitions environment with details on significant project and company transactions worldwide.

View junior and intermediate company growth and financing activities. Use this critical information to support and justify exploration, financing and deal-making activites, as well as to monitor the environment for marketing and sales opportunities.

• Identify prospects for financings, asset purchases, partnerships, M&A and marketing
• Track exploration hot spots, new discoveries, developments, early-stage project activites, corporate strategies and locations of interest
• Reference reliable, unbiased information in reports to shareholders and investors

Gain access to a detailed examination of how and at what cost major companies are replacing their reserves. Conduct thorough analysis of reserves and production profiles for major producers, discoveries of large deposits, exploration budgets, acquisitions and divestitures and project pipelines.

• Measure the effectiveness of your reserves replacement and growth strategy
• Identify up-and-coming producers as possible opportunities for acquisition
• Forecast future supply with a well-informed outlook on the pipeline

Get an up-to-date overview of emerging trends in exploration, project development, financings and acquisitions in the precious and base metals pipeline. Visually track developments and analyze data and information only available from SNL – from initial drill results to financing and production.

• Quickly scan industry movements captured in our charts and graphs and review related commentary and analysis.
• See macro trends and leading indicators of how the mining industry is performing
• Locate areas in which to grow your business

Gain insight and deep analysis on critical supply-side issues facing the global mining industry with SNL’s information on analysis of acquisitions, capital costs, exploration, company activity, metals outlooks, supply pipelines, production costs, project status changes and smelting and refining charges.

• Stay on top of developments in the mining industry that may be outside current focus
• Support reports and presentations with access to exclusive SNL analysis on the current industry environment
• Stay current on project status changes worldwide
• Support forecasting initiatives

SNLxl, our powerful Excel Add-In tool, will allow you to pull data from SNL databases directly into Microsoft Excel using SNL functions for streamlined workflow. No more cut-and-paste data extraction.

• Query mining projects on any item in our database and customize output
• Populate your spreadsheets with project data and refresh them in seconds whenever our database updates
• Quickly generate actionable comp tables, updates to your short list of targets and graphs/charts for your weekly reports
• Build your own template or leverage SNL's extensive template library
• Make the right decisions at the right time