At the beginning of January 2018, Rock Limited acquired a mine for sh34,000,000. Of this amount, sh. 4,000,000 was ascribed to the land value and the remaining portion to the minerals in the mine. Surveys conducted by geologists have indicated that approximately 480,000,000 units of a precious ore appear to be in the mine. Rock incurred sh. 5,000,000 of development costs associated with this mine prior to any extraction of minerals and estimates that it will require sh. 1,600,000 to prepare the land for an alternative use when all the ore has been removed. During 2018, 40,000,000 units of ore were extracted and 16,000,000 of these units were sold. Compute the total amount of depletion and the cost of the minerals sold in 2018.
At the beginning of January 2018, Rock Limited acquired a mine for sh34,000,000. Of this amount, sh. 4,000,000 was ascribed to the land value and the remaining portion to the minerals in the mine. Surveys conducted by geologists have indicated that approximately 480,000,000 units of a precious ore appear to be in the mine. Rock incurred sh. 5,000,000 of development costs associated with this mine prior to any extraction of minerals and estimates that it will require sh. 1,600,000 to prepare the land for an alternative use when all the ore has been removed. During 2018, 40,000,000 units of ore were extracted and 16,000,000 of these units were sold.
Compute the total amount of depletion and the cost of the minerals sold in 2018.
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