&gt; <i>Well, there&#x27;s some situations where it is so obvious to use debt that you don&#x27;t need a cost&#x2F;benefit analysis.
For example, let&#x27;s say you discover a large deposit of gold on land you own. You could use debt to buy the mining equipment to mine the gold.</i><p>Many leveraged miners are going bankrupt for having not done cost&#x2F;benefit analysis on something so obvious...