Mining

PwC is a leading adviser to the global mining industry. We work with a wide variety of explorers, producers and related service providers to ensure we meet the challenges of the sector.

Over the course of the last year, global economic and political trends have fundamentally changed the Mining industry. It finds itself in a new era with emerging markets causing bullish long-term demand projections while supply remains constrained. There is continuing pressure on the industry to maintain financial discipline and therefore the industry is now receiving more attention from its many and varied stakeholders than ever.

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• Executing a successful listing: Markets for miners
  This publication provides a brief overview of different financial markets and how they serve the mining sector. The fact sheets highlight key features of the London, Toronto, Australian and Hong Kong stock exchanges, and include a high level summary of the listing requirements in each of those international markets applicable to mining companies.
• Cautiously optimistic – a challenging year ahead for miners:
  Our Global mining deals 2012 review and 2013 outlook just published finds that after a slow and cautious 2012, mining M&A activity is expected to continue at a moderate and equally cautious pace in 2013.
• Mining for talent - A study of women on boards in the mining industry
  The first of three reports on the gender diversity on mining company boards currently and impact on the financial and social health of companies in the context of company size and jurisdictions. Click here to download the report.
• 2013 Global Gold Price Report
  Gold is the favoured commodity of 2013 with more than 80% of gold executives expecting to see a rise in the price of gold. Click here to read our latest annual gold price survey findings
• Financial reporting in the mining industry
  The Financial reporting in the mining industry (FRIM) 2012 edition looks at how IFRS is applied in practice by mining companies, identifying unique issues for the industry. In this edition we include a number of examples to demonstrate how companies are responding to the various accounting challenges along the value chain.
• Golden Opportunity - Building an industry commitment to conflict-free gold production
  The Conflict-Free Gold Standard helps boards to decide on their approach to compliance. It gives a basis for principles-based industry self-regulation including third party assurance on implementation.
• Global Mining deals mid-year review 2012
  Global economic uncertainty and a drop in commodity prices has led to marked slowdown in merger and acquisitions (M&A) in 2012, despite the blockbuster start with a Glencore/Xstrata transaction, according to PwC’s new Mining Deals report.
• Understanding new tax reporting rules
  Tax transparency and country-by-country reporting. Have you considered how new reporting requirements and frameworks affect companies in the extractive industries?
• Corporate income taxes, mining royalties and other mining taxes
  This summary should allow you to roughly compare the various governmental costs of investing in a mining operation in a particular country.
• Mine 2012 - The growing disconnect
  PwC’s Mine 2012 analyses the financial performance and position of the global mining industry as represented by the top 40 mining companies by market capitalisation.
• Future Workforce Challenges in Oil, Gas and Mining
  PwC’s report addresses the complexity of managing talent and skills in the oil, gas and mining sectors and highlights some of the headline issues that affect the future oil, gas and mining workforce.
• A PwC IPO Centre publication – helping mining companies assess their choices of listing venues.
  We provide a brief overview of the key characteristics of the key markets in terms of market size and profile, as well as regulation and process.
• Global Mining 2011 Deals Review & 2012 Outlook
  In 2011, more than 2,600 M&A deals worth $149 billion were announced in the global mining sector. Volumes were close to historic highs and values were 33% higher than 2010.
• Competing for Capital - Why and how to make a compelling case for capital
  This publication is the first in a series focusing on the natural resources independents sector.
• Minerals and metals scarcity
  In this report we explore the impact that minerals and metals scarcity is likely to have on seven manufacturing industries. We interviewed senior executives in many of the leading organisations that are central to the future growth of these industries to gauge the relevance and effects of this scarcity.
• Global mining deals - 2010 retrospective & 2011 outlook
  Global Mining Deals is PwC's annual report on mergers and acquisitions activity within the global mining industry and predictions for the sector in 2011.