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Kamberović et al.- <strong>Hydrometallurgical</strong> <strong>process</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>extraction</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>metals</strong>i... 147<br />

Table 4. b) Calculated dependence <strong>of</strong> gold amount vs. payback time, 100 kg <strong>of</strong> waste<br />

input material per batch<br />

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – 100 kg<br />

Total Capital Investment 149,000$<br />

Capital Investment Charged to this Project 149,000$<br />

Operating Cost 144,000$/yr<br />

Gold amount, Total revenues, Return on investment, Payback time,<br />

ppm<br />

$/yr<br />

%<br />

years<br />

200 99,000 -21.68 not feasible<br />

300 129,000 -2.71 not feasible<br />

440 169,000 17.32 5.77<br />

500 188,000 24.88 4.02<br />

600 219,000 37.44 2.67<br />

700 252,000 50.75 1.97<br />

800 281,000 62.30 1.61<br />

890 299,000 69.65 1.44<br />

1000 339,000 85.55 1.17<br />

Gold (ppm)<br />

1000<br />

900<br />

800<br />

700<br />

600<br />

500<br />

2 4 6 8 10 12<br />

Return on investment (year)<br />

Diagram 1. Dependence <strong>of</strong> gold amount vs. payback time, 50 kg <strong>of</strong> waste input material<br />

per batch

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