Does any country or any financial institution have a checklist of major costs and benefits of a mining project from social, economic and ecological point of view.
One of the best brazilian researches in this area is called Dr. Luiz Eduardo Sanchez, he is teaching at Universidade de Sao Paulo. I think you may find lots of articles or published materials from him in the web. Right now I have nothing in this computer, sorry.
As i knew the cost benefit analysis was purely concerned to the economics. And its help to calculate welfare of the people those who are living in the mine sites. The mining is an ancient occupation in the world, and its very dirty dusty occupation. As concerned to the every mining activity should have the cost benefit analysis for the welfare of the people of a country there is a need to study the cost benefit analysis. If you want to explanation about the cost benefit , in many economic theories have a information how to calculate the cost benefit in any project. You go through these.