end etn Alt belete Tab-sectionTabs 11 jump to pg go book contents 64,000 41,000 Required payback 5 age 170 Mini Case BULLOCK GOLD MINING Seth Bullock, the owner of Bullock Gold Mining, is evaluating a new gold mine in South Dakota. Dan Dority, the company's geologist, has just finished analysis of the mine site. He has estimated that the mine would be productive for eight years, after which the gold would be completely mined Dan has taken an estimate of the gold deposits to Alma Garrett, the company's financial officer Alma has been asked by Seth to perform an analysis of the new mine and present her recommendation on whether the company should open the new mine Alma has used the estimates provided by Dan to determine the revenues that could be expected from the mine. She has also projected the expense of opening the mine and the annual operating expenses If the company opens the mineit will cost $850 million today, and it will have a cash outflow of $75 million nine years from today in costs associated with closing the mine and reclaiming the area surrounding it. The expected cash flows each year from the mine are shown in the following table. Bullock Mining has a 12 percent required return on all of its gold mines