Michael Samis

Dr. Michael Samis

2 articles
Canada SCM Decisions

Biography

Dr. Michael Samis, P.Eng. is a leading Integrated Valuation and Risk Modelling practitioner in the natural resource industries with more than 25 years of mining experience. He has extensive professional experience valuing base and precious metals, diamond, and petroleum projects with complex forms of flexibility and risk. His assignments have ranged from exploration stage to late-stage capital investments and have also included the analysis of project financing and contingent taxes. Mike has presented more than 30 professional courses on advanced valuation at universities, natural resource companies, and professional organizations world-wide and has published or presented numerous valuation papers about flexible pushback development, multi-stage exploration programs, windfall taxes, and the economic impact of project finance and hedging. Dr Samis is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada, and a qualified person for project valuation under NI43-101 guidelines. In 2013, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy awarded Mike with the Robert Elver Award for his contributions to the Canadian mining industry in the field of mineral economics. He was also the CIM’s 2017 Distinguished Lecturer for Mineral Economics. Mike holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia that combines the fields of mining engineering and finance.

Publications by Year
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Short Course : Using Dynamic DCF and Real Options to Assess the Value and Risk of Mining Investments
Michael Samis SCM Decisions
Vikram Jayaraman DRA Global
Kent Burkholder Decision Frameworks
Mike Paduada SCM Decisions
Short Course
Capital Projects Symposium 2024
Quantifying the impact of market, technical, and country risk exposures on mining corporate portfolios
Michael Samis SCM Decisions
Technical Presentation Video
Session 3 - Project Financing " Whose money to use and how to get it "
Capital Projects Symposium 2024