Southport Mining Corporation is considering a new mining venture in Indonesia. There are two uncertainties associated with this prospect; the metallurgical properties of the ore and the net price (market price minus mining and transportation costs) of the ore in the future.The metallurgical properties of the ore would be classified as either "high grade" or "low grade". Southport's geologists have estimated that there is a 70% chance that the ore will be "high grade", and otherwise, it will be "low grade". Depending on the net price, both ore classifications could be commercially successful.The anticipated net prices depended on market conditions, and also on the metallurgical properties of the ore. Southport's economists have simplified the continuous distribution of possible prices into
a two-outcome discrete distribution ("high" or "low" net price) for the investment analysis. The probabilities of these net prices, and the associated outcomes (in millions of dollars), are summarized below.
High Grade metallurgy (p=0.7)Low Grade metallurgy (p=0.3)PricesProbabilityOutcomeProbabilityOutcomeHigh0.8
$40
0.6
$20
Low0.2
-$20
0.4
-$40
What should the Southport do? What is their expected profit?
What will be an ideal response?
The table shows that the best alternative is to invest in the mine. The EMV of this option is $18.4m.
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