Based on the Kamoa-Kakula 2023 PFS, the loan is anticipated to be amortized over approximately nine years.

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For example, let’s say you purchase a $500,000 home with a 5% down payment, and your $475,000 mortgage is amortized over 25 years at a fixed interest rate of 2.79%.

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Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized over the useful economic life and assessed for impairment whenever there is an indication that the intangible asset may be impaired.

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Remember, part of what had been suppressing it is the initial ramp-up of promotional investments that gets amortized against your top line service revenue.

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So the great-grandchildren of whoever lives there now, if they will continue to live there, in 80 years’ time, will have amortized the investment that we have made.

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The hedging however is probably not cheap and certainly must be factored into their rate of returns once amortized with these assets.

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You get all the approved money at once and repay it though fixed-rate amortized payments.

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