United States
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 20-F
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| | | REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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| X | | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
| | | For the fiscal year ended_____________________________________________ |
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| | | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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| | | SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
| | | Date of event requiring this shell company report __________________________________ |
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| | | For the transition period from ________________ to ______________________ |
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Commission file number | 0-31172 | | |
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ALBERTA STAR DEVELOPMENT CORP. |
(Exact name of registrant as specified in this charter) |
Province of Alberta, Canada |
(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
506 - 675 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1N2 Canada |
(Address of principal executive offices) |
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Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to section 12(b) of the Act:
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| Title of each Class | | Name of each exchange on which registered | |
| None | | Not Applicable | |
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Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
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| Common Shares Without Par Value | |
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Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 15(D) of the Act:
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| None | |
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Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer's classes of capital or common stock as of the close |
Of the period covered by the annual report. | 96,901,357 |
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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. |
| Yes | | | No | X |
If this report is an annual or transitional report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. |
| Yes | | | No | X |
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. |
| Yes | X | | No | |
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of "accelerated filer and large accelerated filer" on Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check One): |
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Large accelerated filer | | | Accelerated filer | | | Non-accelerated filer | X |
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Indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow. |
| Item 17 | X | | Item 18 | |
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If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). |
| Yes | | | No | X |
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Table of Contents
PART I
PART II
PART III
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
We caution you that certain important factors (including without limitation those set forth in this Form 20-F) may affect our actual results and could cause such results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements that may be deemed to have been made in this Form 20-F annual report, or that are otherwise made by or on our behalf. For this purpose, any statements contained in this annual report that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "may," "except," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "could," estimate," or "continue," or the negative or other variations of comparable terminology, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
PART I
ITEM 1 - Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisers
All items in this section are not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
ITEM 2 - Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable
All items in this section are not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
ITEM 3 - Key Information
A. Selected Financial Data
The following tables set forth the data of our fiscal years ended November 30, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, and 2002. We derived all figures from our financial statements as prepared by our management, approved by our audit committee and audited by our independent auditor. This information should be read in conjunction with our financial statements included in this annual report.
Our financial statements included in this annual report have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted ("GAAP") in Canada. All amounts are expressed in Canadian dollars. The first table presents this financial data in accordance with United States ("US") GAAP; the second table presents the data in accordance with Canadian GAAP.
All amounts within this annual report are in Canadian funds (CDN), unless otherwise indicated.
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US GAAP | Fiscal Year Ended November 30 |
| 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 (Restated) |
Net operating revenue | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
Loss from operations | ($13,060,169) | ($2,832,810) | ($1,889,340) | ($2,043,936) | ($694,904) |
Loss from continuing operations | ($13,060,169) | ($2,832,810) | ($1,889,340) | ($2,043,936) | ($694,904) |
Net income (loss) | ($13,060,169) | ($2,832,810) | ($1,889,340) | ($2,043,936) | ($694,904) |
Loss from operations per share | ($0.16) | ($0.06) | ($0.07) | ($0.13) | ($ 0.12) |
Loss from continuing operations per share | ($0.16) | ($0.06) | ($0.07) | ($0.13) | ($ 0.12) |
Total assets | $30,798,020 | $11,978,824 | $2,155,878 | $442,927 | $184,409 |
Net assets | $30,332,098 | $11,899,236 | $2,071,876 | $157,242 | $19,034 |
Capital stock | $51,039,462 | $20,976,391 | $8,316,221 | $4,512,247 | $2,330,103 |
Number of shares | 96,251,717 | 70,914,983 | 37,527,290 | 20,735,499 | 9,826,169 |
Dividends per common share | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
Diluted net income (loss) per share | ($0.16) | ($0.06) | ($0.07) | ($0.13) | ($ 0.12) |
Canadian GAAP | Fiscal Year Ended November 30 |
| 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 (Restated) |
Net operating revenue | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
Loss from operations | ($11,630,209) | ($2,832,810) | ($957,202) | ($1,941,606) | ($608,910) |
Loss from continuing operations | ($11,630,209) | ($2,832,810) | ($957,202) | ($1,941,606) | ($608,910) |
Net income (loss) | ($11,630,209) | ($2,832,810) | ($957,202) | ($1,941,606) | ($608,910) |
Loss from operations per share | ($0.14) | ($0.06) | ($0.03) | ($0.12) | ($0.10) |
Loss from continuing operations per share | ($0.14) | ($0.06) | ($0.03) | ($0.12) | ($0.10) |
Total assets | $30,798,020 | $11,978,824 | $2,155,878 | $442,927 | $184,409 |
Net assets | $30,332,098 | $11,899,236 | $2,071,876 | $224,842 | $73,034 |
Capital stock | $49,775,818 | $19,712,747 | $7,052,577 | $4,248,341 | $2,154,927 |
Number of shares | 96,251,717 | 70,914,983 | 37,527,290 | 20,735,499 | 9,826,169 |
Dividends per share | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
Diluted net income (loss) per share | ($0.14) | ($0.06) | ($0.03) | ($0.12) | ($0.10) |
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Since June 1, 1970, the Government of Canada has permitted a floating exchange rate to determine the value of the Canadian dollar as compared to the US dollar. On February 12, 2007, the exchange rate in effect for Canadian dollars exchanged for US dollars, expressed in terms of Canadian dollars was $1.1746. This exchange rate is based on the noon buying rates of the Bank of Canada, as obtained from the website www.bankofcanada.ca.
For the past five fiscal years ended November 30, 2006 and for the six month period between August 31, 2006 and January 31, 2007, the following exchange rates were in effect for Canadian dollars exchanged for US dollars, calculated in the same manner as above:
Period | | Average |
Year ended Nov 30, 2002 | $ | 1.5713 |
Year ended Nov 30, 2003 | $ | 1.4216 |
Year ended Nov 30, 2004 | $ | 1.3093 |
Year ended Nov 30, 2005 | $ | 1.2163 |
Year ended Nov 30, 2006 | $ | 1.1350 |
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Period | | Low | | High |
Month ended August 31, 2006 | $ | 1.1157 | $ | 1.1221 |
Month ended September 30, 2006 | $ | 1.1131 | $ | 1.1191 |
Month ended October 31, 2006 | $ | 1.1260 | $ | 1.1317 |
Month ended Nov. 30, 2006 | $ | 1.1337 | $ | 1.1386 |
Month ended Dec. 31, 2006 | $ | 1.1494 | $ | 1.1548 |
Month ended Jan. 31, 2007 | $ | 1.1732 | $ | 1.1789 |
B. Capitalization and Indebtedness
Not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
C. Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds
Not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
D. Risk Factors
Any investment in our common shares involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully the following information before you decide to buy our common shares.
If any of the events discussed in the following risk factors actually occurs, our business, financial condition or results of operations would likely suffer. In this case, the market price of our common shares could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment in our shares. In particular, you should consider carefully the following risk factors:
We have a history of losses.
We have incurred losses in our business operations since inception, and we expect that we will continue to lose money for the foreseeable future. Since our incorporation on September 6, 1996 to November 30, 2006, we incurred losses determined under United States GAAP totalling $22,137,324. Very few junior mining resource companies ever become profitable. Failure to achieve and maintain profitability may adversely affect the market price of our common stock.
We generally have limited financial resources and no source of cash flow.
With the exception of funds recently raised through private placements and the exercise of options and warrants, we generally have limited financial resources, no source of operating cash flow and no assurance that additional funding will be available to us for further exploration of our projects or to fulfil our obligations under any applicable agreements. Failure to obtain such additional financing could result in delay or indefinite postponement of further exploration of our projects with the possible loss of such properties. We have secured funds that will enable us to meet our current obligations. Raising additional capital resources in the future can not be depended upon.
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Very few mineral properties are ultimately developed into producing mines.
The business of exploration for minerals and mining involves a high degree of risk. Few properties that are explored are ultimately developed into producing mines. At present, our mineral properties have no known significant body of commercial ore. Most exploration projects do not result in the discovery of commercially mineable deposits of ore. The occurrence of unsuccessful exploration efforts may eventually lead to us needing to cease operations.
Substantial expenditures are required for us to establish ore reserves through drilling, to develop metallurgical processes, to extract the metal from the ore and, in the case of new properties, to develop the mining and processing facilities and infrastructure at any site chosen for mining.
Although substantial benefits may be derived from the discovery of a major mineral deposit, no assurance can be given that we will discover minerals in sufficient quantities to justify commercial operations or that we can obtain the funds required for development on a timely basis.
The economics of developing precious and base metal mineral properties is affected by many factors including the cost of operations, variations in the grade of ore mined, fluctuations in metal markets, costs of processing equipment and other factors such as government regulations, including regulations relating to royalties, allowable production, importing and exporting of minerals and environmental protection. We have no producing mines at this time.
If we do not obtain additional financing, our business will fail.
Our current operating funds are less than necessary to complete exploration of our mineral claims, and therefore we will need to obtain additional financing in order to complete our business plan. As at November 30, 2006, we had $30,149,153 in cash on hand. Subsequent to our fiscal year end, we raised further capital through the exercise of warrants and options resulting in an increase in our cash on hand to $30,438,340 as of the date of filing of this annual report.
Our business plan calls for significant expenses in connection with the exploration of our mineral claims. We will require additional financing in order to complete these activities. In addition, we will require additional financing to sustain our business operations if we are not successful in earning revenues once exploration is complete. We do not currently have any arrangements for financing and we can provide no assurance to investors that we will be able to find such financing if required.
We believe the only realistic source of future funds presently available to us is through the sale of equity capital. Any sale of equity capital will result in dilution to existing shareholders. The only other alternative for the financing of further exploration would be the offering by us of an interest in our properties to be earned by another party or parties carrying out further exploration thereof.
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Dilution through contractor, director and consultant options could adversely affect our stockholders.
Because our success is highly dependant on our contractors, we grant some or all of our key contractors, officers, directors and consultants options to purchase common shares, as non-cash incentives. If significant numbers of these options are granted and exercised, the interests of other stockholders may be diluted.
There are currently options outstanding to purchase an additional 5,917,500 common shares, which upon exercise would result in a total of 102,818,857 common shares being issued and outstanding.
Because management has only limited experience in resource exploration, the business has a higher risk of failure.
Our management, while experienced in business operations, has only limited experience in resource exploration. While we try to hire and maintain management with the proper expertise, as we have management with diverse business backgrounds, none of our directors or officers have any significant technical training or experience in resource exploration or mining. Management may not fully be aware of the specific requirements related to working in mineral exploration, whether technical or operational. Therefore, our managerial decisions and choices may not always reflect standard engineering or mineral exploration practices commonly used. We rely on the opinions of consulting geologists and mining experts that we retain from time to time for specific exploration projects or property reviews.
We cannot be certain that the measures we take will ensure that we implement and maintain adequate financial resources or profitability. Management's lack of experience may cause failure to implement appropriate financial decisions, or cause difficulties in implementing proper decisions, ultimately harming our operating results.
As a foreign private issuer, our shareholders may have less complete and timely data.
The submission of proxy and annual meeting of shareholder information (prepared to Canadian standards) in Form 6-K may result in shareholders having less complete and timely information in connection with shareholder actions. The exemption from Section 16 rules regarding reports of beneficial ownership and purchases and sales of common shares by insiders and restrictions on insider trading in our securities may result in shareholders having less data and there being fewer restrictions on insiders' activities in our securities.
Mineral exploration involves a high degree of risk against which we are not currently insured.
Unusual or unexpected rock formations, formation pressures, fires, power outages, labour disruptions, flooding, cave-ins, landslides and the inability to obtain suitable or adequate machinery, equipment or labour are risks involved in the operation of mines and the conduct of exploration programs. We have relied on and will continue to rely upon consultants and others for exploration expertise.
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It is not always possible to fully insure against such risks and we may decide not to take out insurance against such risks as a result of high premiums or other reasons. Should such liabilities arise, they could reduce or eliminate any future profitability and result in increasing costs and a decline in the value of our common shares. We do not currently maintain insurance against environmental risks relating to our mineral property interests, though we have obtained third party liability insurance, to counter the effects of these risks.
There is no assurance of the title to or boundaries of our resource properties.
Our mineral property interests may be subject to prior unregistered agreements of transfers or native land claims and title may be affected by undetected defects. We have not conducted surveys on the property and there is a risk that the boundaries could be challenged.
We may require permits and licenses that we may not be able to obtain.
Our operations may require licenses and permits from various governmental authorities. There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain all of the necessary licenses and permits that may be required to conduct exploration, development and mining operations at our projects on certain properties in the Northwest Territories.
Metal prices fluctuate widely.
Factors beyond our control may affect the marketability of any resource we discover. Metal prices have fluctuated widely, particularly in recent years. The effect of these factors cannot accurately be predicted.
The resource industry is very competitive.
The resource industry is intensely competitive in all its phases. We compete with many companies possessing greater financial resources and technical facilities than us for the acquisition of mineral concessions, claims, leases and other mineral interests as well as for the recruitment and retention of qualified exploration personnel and independent contractors.
Our operations may be adversely affected by government and environmental regulations.
Our operations may be subject to environmental regulations promulgated by government agencies from time to time. Environmental legislation provides for restrictions and prohibitions on spills, release or emissions of various substances produced in association with certain mining industry operations, such as seepage from tailings disposal areas, which would result in environmental pollution. A breach of such legislation may result in the imposition of fines and penalties. In addition, certain types of operations require the submission and approval of environmental impact assessments.
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Environmental legislation is evolving in a manner which means that standards, enforcements, fines and penalties for non-compliance are more stringent. Environmental assessments of proposed projects carry a heightened degree of responsibility for us and our directors, officers and consultants. The cost of compliance with changes in governmental regulations has a potential to reduce the profitability of our operations. We do not maintain environmental liability insurance.
The trading market for our shares is not always liquid.
Although our shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V") and the NASD Over the Counter Bulletin Board ("OTCBB"), the volume of shares traded at any one time can be limited, and, as a result, there may not be a liquid trading market for our shares.
Our securities may be subject to penny stock regulation in the US.
Because the current market price of our common stock is below US $5.00 per share, we are subject to "penny stock" regulation under US securities laws. "Penny stock" rules impose additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers who sell such securities to persons other than established customers and accredited investors (generally those with assets in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000 or $300,000 together with a spouse).
For transactions covered by these rules, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchase of such securities and have received the purchaser's written consent to the transaction prior to the purchase. Additionally, for any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the rules require the delivery, prior to the transaction, of a disclosure schedule prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to the penny stock market. The broker-dealer also must disclose the commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative and current quotations for the securities. Finally, monthly statements must be sent disclosing recent price information on the limited market in penny stocks. Consequently, the "penny stock" rules restrict the ability of broker-dealers to sell our shares of common stock.
Certain directors may be in a position of conflicts of interest.
Certain members of our board also serve as directors of other companies involved in natural resource exploration and development. Consequently, there exists the possibility that those directors may be in a position of conflict. Any decision made by those directors will be made in accordance with their duties and obligations to deal fairly and in good faith of our company and such other companies. In addition, such directors will declare, and refrain from voting on, any matter in which such directors may have a conflict of interest.
Enforcement of legal process may be difficult.
All members of our board of directors and management reside in Canada. As well, our address for service is a Canadian address. Accordingly, service of process upon us, or upon individuals related to us, may be difficult or impossible to obtain within the US.
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All of our assets are located outside of the US. Any judgment obtained in the US against us may not be collectible within the US.
As we are incorporated pursuant to the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada, duties of our directors and officers, and the ability of shareholders to initiate a lawsuit on our behalf, are governed by the Alberta Business Corporations Act.
ITEM 4 - Information on the Company
A. History and Development of the Company
We were incorporated under the name "Alberta Star Mining Corp." pursuant to the Business Corporations Act in the Province of Alberta, Canada by registration of our articles of incorporation and the issuance by the Registrar of Corporations of a Certificate of Incorporation on September 6, 1996. On September 20, 2001, we consolidated our share capital such that every five common shares in our capital stock pre-consolidation were exchanged for one post-consolidation common share. Concurrently, we changed our name to "Alberta Star Development Corp."
Our head office is located at 506 - 675 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6B 1N2. Our telephone number is (604) 488 0860.
We have not been involved in any bankruptcy, receivership or similar proceedings, nor have we been a party to any material reclassification, merger, consolidation or purchase or sale of a significant amount of assets.
We are engaged in the business of the acquisition, exploration and development of resource properties. At present, our properties are in the exploration stage and further exploration will be required before final evaluations as to the economic and legal feasibility can be determined.
Our properties have no known significant body of commercial ore, nor are any such properties at the commercial development or production stage. No assurance can be given that commercially viable mineral deposits exist on any of our properties. Further, our interest in joint ventures which own properties will be subject to dilution if we fail to expend further funds on the projects. We have not generated cash flows from operations. These facts increase the uncertainty and risks faced by investors in our company. For more information see Item 3D - Risk Factors.
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Our principal mineral property assets are located in the Northwest Territories and include an interest in:
- the Contact Lake Mineral Claims;
- the Port Radium - Glacier Lake Mineral Claims;
- the Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims;
- the Port Radium - Eldorado Mineral Claims (Uranium Lease Claims);
- the North Contact Lake Mineral Claims;
- the Longtom Property;
- the Longtom Property (Target 1); and
- the MacInnis Lake Property.
As these projects are in the exploration stage, we have no current operating income or cash flow.
B. Business Overview
Background
All disclosure about our exploration properties in this annual report conforms to the standards of US SEC Industry Guide 7, Description of Property by Issuers Engaged or to be Engaged in Significant Mining Operations, other than disclosure of "Mineral Resource", "Measured Mineral Resource", "Indicated Mineral Resource" and "Inferred Mineral Resource", which are geological and mining terms as defined in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 under the guidelines adopted by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum ("CIM"), as CIM Standards in Mineral Resources and Reserve Definition and Guidelines adopted by the CIM. US investors in particular are advised to read carefully the definitions of these terms as well as the cautionary notes below, regarding use of these terms.
We are engaged in the exploration and acquisition of mineral properties in Canada, and specifically, hold a majority of our interests in the Northwest Territories. We are a junior mining company in the exploration stage and none of our properties are currently beyond the initial exploration stage. There is no assurance that a commercially viable mineral deposit exists on any of our properties and further exploration work may be required before a final evaluation as to the economic and legal feasibility is determined. For further information, see Item 3D - Risk Factors.
We have conducted acquisitions and initial surveys for the purpose of determining the viability of exploration work on properties located in the Northwest Territories, Canada. We intend to develop our IOCG and uranium exploration projects in Canada. The equity markets for junior mineral exploration companies are unpredictable. We may also and have historically entered into cost sharing arrangements through joint venture agreements and interest agreements in the form of letters of intent. For detailed property descriptions please refer to Item 4D - Property, Plants and Equipment.
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At present we have no income from our operations and none of our properties have significant reserves nor are in production. Our ability to finance the future acquisition, exploration and development, if warranted, of our mineral properties, to make concession payments and to fund general and administrative expenses is therefore dependent upon our ability to secure additional financing.
Competition
The mineral property exploration business, in general, is intensively competitive and there is not any assurance that even if commercial quantities of ore are discovered, a ready market will exist for sale of same. Numerous factors beyond our control may affect the marketability of any substances discovered. These factors include market fluctuations; the proximity and capacity of natural resource markets and processing equipment; and government regulations, including regulations relating to prices, taxes, royalties, land tenure, land use, importing and exporting of mineral and environmental protection. The exact effect of these factors cannot be accurately predicted, but the combination of these factors may make it difficult for us to receive an adequate return on investment.
We compete with many companies possessing greater financial resources and technical facilities for the acquisition of mineral concessions, claims, leases and other mineral interests as well as for the recruitment and retention of qualified employees.
Management and Contractors
Our president and chief executive officer, Tim Coupland, devotes 80% of his business time to our affairs. We have a management agreement dated December 1, 2000 with a private company owned by Mr. Coupland whereby he provides management services to us for $5,000 per month. The initial term of this agreement was for one year. Thereafter, it continues in force on a month-to-month basis until terminated by us or Mr. Coupland on 30 days written notice. As of February 1, 2006, this fee has been increased to $12,500 per month. On February 22, 2007 this amount was increased to $16,667 per month, retroactive to January 1, 2007.
Office Space
We utilize about 1,467 square feet of office space in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our rent and related office expenses total approximately $3,575 per month. In May 2006, we negotiated with a property management firm to expand our office facility, due to the growth of our company; we moved office locations during September 2006.
Environmental Regulations
Mineral property exploration in the Northwest Territories is governed by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, a Federal Government office which is responsible for negotiating the development of healthy and sustainable communities on behalf of the Native and Inuit peoples. Applicable statutes are the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
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In order to conduct exploration on any of our properties, we obtain land use permits. When exploration ceases on a Northwest Territories property, the land affected needs to be reclaimed in order to protect public health and safety, to reduce or prevent environmental degradation and to allow future productive land use of the property.
The reclamation plan for any property is site specific. In general, the reclamation plan consists of ensuring that the physical structures that remain do not impose a long-term hazard to public health and safety and the environment, which includes ensuring that the land and watercourses are returned to a safe and environmentally sound state. We do not anticipate incurring any reclamation costs in connection with our other mineral property interests.
Organizational Structure
This item is not applicable, as we are not part of a group, nor do we hold any subsidiary companies.
Property, Plants and Equipment
We are engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral property interests in Canada, and specifically hold all of our current property interests within the Northwest Territories, Canada (Figures A and B). What follows is a description of our current and former properties, including information on expenses for the years ended November 30, 2006 and, if applicable, November 30, 2005. We have also included information on exploration work completed and if applicable, planned for the upcoming fiscal year.
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1. Contact Lake Mineral Claims - Contact Lake, Northwest Territories ("NT")
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 1% net smelter return royalty ("NSR"), in five mineral claims totalling 1,801.82 hectares ("ha") (4,450.50 acres) (figure 1) called the Contact Lake Mineral Claims, by making cash payments of $60,000 (paid) and issuing 300,000 of our common shares (issued and valued at $72,000). We may purchase the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
During the same period we staked on an additional 8,799.75 ha (21,735.38 acres) and increased the size of Contact Lake Mineral Claims to 10,601.57 contiguous ha (26,185.88 acres). Our claims now consist of 16 contiguous claims located 5 km southeast of Port Radium on the east side of Great Bear Lake and 680.75 km north of the city of Yellowknife, NT.
Our expenditures related to the Contact Lake Mineral Claims can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 $ | For the year ended November 30 |
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$ | 2004
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Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Assaying | | 175,970 | | 165,073 | | 10,897 | | - |
Camp and field costs | | 1,927,147 | | 1,809,771 | | 117,376 | | - |
Consulting fees | | 570,598 | | 362,148 | | 208,450 | | - |
Drilling | | 1,458,060 | | 1,458,060 | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 1,273,316 | | 1,088,850 | | 184,466 | | - |
Surveying | | 1,233,289 | | 1,004,991 | | 228,298 | | - |
Transportation | | 2,606,594 | | 2,420,519 | | 186,075 | | - |
Travel | | 69,243 | | 50,513 | | 18,730 | | - |
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| | 9,314,217 | | 8,359,925 | | 954,292 | | - |
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Acquisition costs | | 132,000 | | - | | 132,000 | | - |
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| | 9,446,217 | | 8,359,925 | | 1,086,292 | | - |
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Two former past-producing silver and radium mines, Echo Bay (produced 23,779,178 ounces of silver) and Eldorado (produced 15 million pounds of uranium and 8 million ounces of silver) are situated on claims, which the Company owns. The claim is comprised of extensive alteration zones that include intensely mineralized gossans, traceable for over one km in length and 200 meters in lateral extent.
The area has traditionally been underexplored, but encompasses a mineral rich portion of the Great Bear Magmatic Zone, and includes the Contact Lake Mineral Belt itself, approximately 15 km long and the same belt whose northern extension hosts Fortune Minerals NICO Gold deposit.
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Accessibility, Local Resources and Infrastructure
The best access to the area is from Yellowknife, NT, using charter fixed wing aircraft which can land at the 900 meter long unmaintained gravel airstrip at the western shore of Glacier Lake, which lies in the centre of the project area. A road extends west from the airstrip to the area of the Echo Bay and Eldorado Mines. Bulk freight has also previously been mobilized by seasonal barge access along the Mackenzie River, from Waterways, Alberta to Tulita (Fort Norman), NT, on the western shore of Great Bear Lake. When mining was active in the area, a barge service also operated along the Bear River from Tulita to Deline, and across Great Bear Lake to the various mining operations. Lake barging service is in limited operation.
Currently, the Northwest Territories Department of Transport maintains a winter road from Yellowknife to Rae-Edzo and beyond, to Rae Lakes which is approximately 100 km south of the property. Recent records indicate that local conditions have allowed this road to be open for a period of approximately 6 weeks, from mid- February to late March/early April. During operation of the silver mines at Camsell River and Echo Bay prior to 1984, the winter road was extended to Port Radium, via Marian Lake and Camsell River.
Although there lacks major infrastructure in the immediate area of the property, significant logistical support and supplies are available from Yellowknife. Established fishing camps on the eastern side of Great Bear Lake also provide some support. The town of Yellowknife has a long history of mining, where the services of many experienced explorers can be obtained. As well, personnel may be available from several smaller communities within the Great Bear Lake area.
We planned for immediate airborne and radiometric surveying, including the completion of a National Instrument NI 43-101 compliant report, the results of which included the outline of five large anomalous zones with secondary anomalies that can be viewed on www.sedar.com.
In June 2005, we appointed Dr. Hamid Mumin as senior consulting geologist and qualified person on the project, to provide additional strategic expertise in planning for the summer's ground exploration, mapping, sampling, geophysics and locating of high-priority drilling targets.
Dr. Mumin graduated from the University of Toronto, specializing in mineral exploration, went on to complete a MASc in economic geology, then completed his doctorate and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. He has worked for Noranda at Sturgeon Lake, Ontario; was Chief Geologist and site manager during the exploration and feasibility stages if the Bogosu Gold mine in Ghana; as well, he has participated in the discovery of iron oxide, copper, gold and poly-metallic deposits in the Northwest Territories. He is a professional engineer, Manitoba director to the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists, a member of the Manitoba Exploration Liaison Committee, and a member of server Canadian and International professional societies.
In a news release dated November 23, 2005, we announced our formal submission and filing of the legal plan of survey and application for lease, and notice of lease to the Government of Canada Mine Recorders office. The survey to lease was completed in accordance with Canadian Mining Regulations by Sub-Arctic Surveys Ltd. of Yellowknife, NT.
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In fiscal 2006, a five-year Cooperation and Benefits Agreement was signed with the Deline Land Corporation, representing the Sahtu Dene and Metis people of the Deline District, located at Great Bear Lake, NT.
In April 2006, we were granted a 15,000 meter five year Sahtu Land & Water Board Class "A" Land Use Permit for diamond drilling on the Contact Lake Project. The diamond drilling permit is valid until August 24, 2010. We are the first mineral exploration company in over 10 years to receive a Class "A"-5 Year drill permit in the Great Bear Lake Sahtu Dene Land settlement area for mineral exploration and diamond drilling. We are fully permitted for diamond drilling in the Sahtu Dene Land Settlement Area at Contact Lake, NT.
In April 2006, we were granted permission to drill on the Contact Lake property by the Chief Inspector of Mines for the Northwest Territories. Dr. Hamid Mumin of Brandon University completed an interpretation report which recommended the execution of a comprehensive exploration program. The exploration program included additional ground and airborne geophysics such as localized Induced Polarization/Resistivity (IP/Res) geophysics over selected portions of the high-amplitude magnetic anomalies, mapping, line-cutting followed by a comprehensive 15,000 meter drill program at Contact Lake, targeting the high -priority areas.
In May 2006, we contracted the services of Mr. John Camier B.Sc. (Specialist) M.Sc., a principal of South Bay Exploration Ltd., a geological services company of Brandon, Manitoba, to supervise our Summer 2006 diamond drilling program at the Contact Lake and Eldorado IOCG and uranium projects "(the Projects)".
Drilling commenced on the Projects in early June 2006. Our drill contractor was Connor's Drilling Ltd., which operated three Boyles BBS-25A drills. The scheduled holes were drilled to an average depth of 200-500 meters per-hole.
In July 2006, Geotech Ltd. completed a helicopter-borne VTEM geophysical survey at the Projects. The VTEM airborne survey covered an area that included four former past producing high grade silver & uranium mines, the Eldorado, Echo Bay, Bonanza and El Bonanza Mines. The survey area also included the Thompson Lake-Mile Lake region south of the Bonanza and El Bonanza silver and uranium mines.
A ground based study was also conducted over a three km by one km block of the Contact Lake belt along 100 meters spaced cut lines with 12.5 meter spaced stations. The surveys successfully identified five large anomalous zones with several secondary anomalies.
Detected were large, strongly anomalous zones that are coincident with known showings of IOGC-type and related poly-metallic mineralization, including uranium, and hosted within regionally extensive IOCG-type hydrothermal alteration.
The company targeted five large strongly anomalous zones with several secondary anomalies within the intensely altered target areas for detailed follow-up exploration and diamond drilling. These geophysical anomalies (figure 2) are coincident with large areas of exposed IOCG associated hydrothermal alterations, as well as zones of poly-metallic mineralization that include iron oxide, copper, gold, silver, uranium, cobalt and bismuth.
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In August 2006, we were advised by the Surveyor-General's office of the Department of Natural Resources that the legal survey to lease at Contact Lake was approved. The survey to lease was performed in accordance with Canadian Mining Regulations by Sub-Arctic Surveys Ltd. of Yellowknife, NT on our behalf. The total lease claim survey are completed consisted of 1,801.82 ha (4,450.50 acres) and includes our Contact Lake Mine site.
In August 2006, Terraquest Ltd. completed a Regional High Resolution Aeromagnetic Gradiometer-Radiometric Survey over the entire Eldorado and Contact Lake uranium belt. This airborne geophysical survey consisted of 16,708 line-kilometres at 100 meter line spacing's and was completed under very favorable weather conditions. Several of the larger anomalies show uranium radiometric signatures of comparable or greater in strength, to the known zones of uranium mineralization already identified on our properties. In addition, the survey has also identified several secondary uranium anomalies. We also completed a detailed regional reconnaissance scale sampling and mapping program that has confirmed the uranium potential of the Eldorado & Contact Lake region. The results of this recent 5 month program will be released when assays have been received and compiled. This airborne survey will now allow us to properly evaluate the mineral potential of our properties and assist in our drill targeting of the Projects.
In October 2006, we completed Phase 1 & 2 drilling and field exploration work program at our Eldorado-Glacier Lake permit area located on the north side of Echo Bay and Contact Lake permit area located south of Echo Bay. Our work program has confirmed widespread poly-metallic mineralization at the various target areas in both drill core and exploration sampling. All drill core and surface exploration samples were prepared, bagged and sealed by the Company's supervised personnel and were transported by plane to ACME Analytical Laboratories Ltd. ("ACME") in Yellowknife, NT where they were crushed and pulped and then transported to ACME's main laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia for assaying. ACME is a fully registered lab for analysis by ICP-MS and ICP-FA techniques. We have been reporting our drill results as we receive them.
In November 2006, we appointed Roger Watson P. Eng as our Chief Geophysicist. He will assume this position as part of his consulting activities in the Canadian Uranium Exploration industry. Mr. Watson is a leading specialist in the collection and interpretation of airborne radiometric data used for advanced uranium exploration purposes. Mr. Watson was a founding partner of the firm Paterson, Grant and Watson Ltd., one of Canada's leading providers of geophysical consulting services. The addition of Mr. Watson to our experienced IOCG & Uranium technical team reinforces our commitment to retain industry professionals who have advanced Uranium exploration expertise.
In November 2006, we reported that we discovered a new high grade poly-metallic breccia that is rich in copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, silver and tungsten, known as the Mile Lake Breccia situated on our Contact Lake property on the south side of Echo Bay (figure 3). Preliminary drilling of the Mile Lake Breccia has yielded some significant poly-metallic drill results from an 8 hole drill program. Drilling and field work has confirmed widespread poly-metallic mineralization at several target areas at Mile Lake, in both exploration rock sampling and in drill core.
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The Mile Lake Breccia is a new discovery in which poly-metallic mineralization and alteration is intermittently exposed for over 2 kilometers in strike length, within a regionally extensive laminated volcaniclastic tuff. The mineralization occurs within the same suite of volcano-plutonic rocks that host other poly-metallic zones in the Eldorado & Contact lake mineral belt, including the former El Bonanza Silver- Uranium (U-Ag) and the Eldorado Uranium (U-Ag- Cu- Co- Ni- Bi) mines.
The accompanying table gives a summary of drilling highlights and assay results from the initial 2 drill holes of an 8 hole program reporting from Mile Lake, NT. As of November 15, 2006 the Company is awaiting assays of six more drill holes at Mile Lake:
Mile Lake Drill Summary
DRILL HOLE RESULTS |
Drill Hole | Length | Copper (Cu) | Lead (Pb) | Zinc (Zn) | Silver (Ag) | Molybdenum (Mo) | Tungsten (W) |
| m (ft) | wt % | Wt % | wt% | g/t(Ounces/t) | wt % | wt % |
CLMB 06-01 | 8.62 (28.3) | 1.81% | 0.64% | 1.19% | 29.1 (0.94) | 0.053% | 0.032% |
CLMB 06-02 | 9.90 (32.48) | 1.64% | 1.00% | 2.30% | 42.0 (1.35) | 0.071% | 0.164% |
The drill results confirm the poly-metallic nature of the mineralization and demonstrate the widespread distribution of IOCG associated mineralization in the Eldorado & Contact Lake district. The Mile Lake Breccia is open for drilling along a strike length of greater than 2 kilometers within a 100 to 200 meter wide horizon. This is one of a number of large IOCG & uranium targets that are emerging at Contact Lake, that are characterized by two to six different metals within a target horizon.
We collected over 60 surface rock samples from the Mile Lake property that were analyzed during the program which assayed values to a maximum of 15.34% copper, 1.90% lead, 5.71% zinc, and 293.0 g/ton (9.43 oz/ton) silver. In addition to grab sampling, chip sampling was carried out along an exposed trench which produced the following average values over 3 meters (9.84 feet). The samples returned values of 3.48% copper, 0.70% lead, 0.78% zinc, and 23.0 g/ton (0.74 oz/ton) silver and 0.12% molybdenum.
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Summary of high-grade grab samples from Mile Lake, NT are listed below:
Mile Lake Breccia Surface Sample- Results
| | Copper | Lead | Zinc | Silver | Silver |
| | (Cu) | (Pb) | (Zn) | (Ag) | (Ag) |
Sample # | Location | wt % | wt % | wt% | g/t | Ounces/t |
158332 | Western area | 3.51 | 0.84 | 1.61 | 45.10 | 1.45 |
158333 | Western area | 0.35 | 0.04 | 0.2 | 26.30 | 0.85 |
158334 | Main showing | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.70 | 0.02 |
158335 | Main showing | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 10.20 | 0.33 |
160851 | Main showing | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.26 | 4.20 | 0.14 |
160878 | Main showing | 11.72 | 0.98 | 0.11 | 84.30 | 2.71 |
160879 | Main showing | 15.34 | 0.99 | 0.06 | 95.50 | 3.07 |
160880 | Main showing | 1.28 | 0.8 | 0.38 | 12.50 | 0.40 |
160881 | Main showing | 5.64 | 1.74 | 5.71 | 126.90 | 4.08 |
160882 | Main showing | 11.5 | 1.90 | 4.07 | 293.00 | 9.42 |
160883 | Main showing | 1.28 | 1.20 | 2.37 | 23.00 | 0.74 |
368957 | Main showing | 0.64 | 0.22 | 1.32 | 13.00 | 0.42 |
368961 | Main showing | 0.69 | 0.72 | 0.34 | 9.00 | 0.29 |
368962 | Main showing | 1.38 | 0.26 | 0.72 | 10.90 | 0.35 |
368964 | Main showing | 0.21 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1.20 | 0.04 |
368982 | Main showing | 0.45 | 0.42 | 0.06 | 11.50 | 0.37 |
368984 | Main showing | 0.27 | 0.03 | 0.21 | 43.80 | 1.41 |
368985 | Main showing | 0.71 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 12.40 | 0.40 |
368986 | Main showing | 0.56 | 0.26 | 0.31 | 5.50 | 0.18 |
368988 | Main showing | 0.86 | - | - | 2.20 | 0.07 |
368989 | Main showing | 0.11 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 3.00 | 0.10 |
368990 | Main showing | 0.12 | - | 0.09 | 0.20 | 0.01 |
434618 | Main showing | 0.28 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 1.90 | 0.06 |
434619 | Main showing | 0.39 | 0.02 | 0.42 | 6.20 | 0.20 |
434965 | Mile Lake | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 23.40 | 0.75 |
434966 | Mile Lake | 0.03 | 0.18 | 0.21 | 2.30 | 0.07 |
434970 | Main showing | 0.33 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 4.90 | 0.16 |
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A summary of our claims can be found below:
Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
CONTACT | | F59505 | | 100.33 |
SC | | F59504 | | 376.24 |
SC 1 | | F54380 | | 582.75 |
SC 2 | | F54517 | | 501.65 |
SC 3 | | F59518 | | 240.85 |
COBALT 1 | | F91852 | | 1,045.10 |
COBALT 2 | | F91853 | | 1,045.10 |
COBALT 3 | | F91854 | | 250.82 |
COBALT 4 | | F91855 | | 418.04 |
COBALT 5 | | F91856 | | 752.47 |
COBALT 6 | | F91857 | | 522.55 |
BEN 1 | | F91861 | | 1,003.30 |
BEN 2 | | F91862 | | 752.47 |
BON 1 | | F91863 | | 1,003.30 |
BON 2 | | F91864 | | 1,003.30 |
BON 3 | | F91865 | | 1,003.30 |
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| | | | 10,601.57 |
Subsequent to fiscal 2006, in December, we reported that we discovered a new large zone of hydrothermal and structurally controlled poly-metallic breccias. The breccias are enriched in copper, gold, silver and cobalt situated on our K2 target site. The K2 target is located on the Contact Lake property, on the south side of Echo Bay (figure 4). Preliminary drilling of the K2 Target area has yielded significant poly-metallic drill results from a recently completed eight hole drill program. Drilling and fieldwork has confirmed widespread poly-metallic mineralization at several areas at the K2 target. All four drill holes reporting from a recently completed eight hole summer 2006 drill program intersected multiple zones of altered and highly mineralized breccias with disseminated and vein hosted copper, gold, silver, cobalt sulphide mineralization. Assays are pending for an additional 4 holes from the K2 target zone.
Highlights from significant mineralized down hole intervals from the first four holes reporting, include 49.52 meters (162.47 feet) of .25% copper (including 19.5 meters (63.98 feet) of .37% copper, 2.6 g/ton silver and ..03% cobalt), 21.45 meters (70.37 feet) of .49% copper and 2.3 g/ton silver, 24.0 meters (78.74 feet)of .40% copper, 3.3 g/ton silver and 0.4 g/ton gold, 2 meters (6.56 feet) of .29% copper, 5.15 g/ton silver and 0.21% cobalt, and 1 meter (3.28 feet) of 3.19% copper, 0.44% lead, 0.75% zinc and 164.8 g/ton silver.
The K2 target area is a new discovery in which significant poly-metallic copper, gold, silver and cobalt mineralization was encountered in a preliminary drilling program along a 250 meter strike length to a vertical depth of 300 meters. The mineralized zone remains un-delineated and open at depth and along strike in both directions. The mineralized zone is part of a regionally extensive linear zone of phyllic, potassic, hematite and magnetite, magnetite-actinolite alteration zones, often appearing at surface as phyllic-potassic gossans. The mineralization occurs within the same suite of volcano-plutonic rocks that host other poly-metallic zones in the Eldorado & Contact lake mineral belt, including the former El Bonanza Silver- Uranium (U-Ag) and the Eldorado Uranium (U-Ag- Cu- Co- Ni- Bi) mines.
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The accompanying table gives a summary of drilling highlights and assay results from the initial 4 drill holes of an 8 hole program reporting from the K2 Target Zone, NT:
K2 Discovery Zone -Drill Summary
| Interval | Length | Copper (Cu) | Silver (Ag) | Cobalt (Co) | Gold (Au) |
| From | To |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLK2-06-01 | 12.30 | 13.20 | 0.90 | 0.18 | 0.46 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 21.18 | 70.70 | 49.52 | 0.25 | 1.86 | 0.02 | 0.04 |
| 49.99 | 69.52 | 19.53 | 0.37 | 2.63 | 0.03 | 0.06 |
| 77.42 | 88.82 | 11.40 | 0.17 | 1.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 99.24 | 108.82 | 9.58 | 0.34 | 1.16 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| 136.90 | 146.20 | 9.30 | 0.42 | 0.83 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 175.40 | 203.10 | 27.70 | 0.20 | 0.90 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 245.00 | 250.20 | 5.20 | 0.28 | 3.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 401.92 | 402.32 | 0.40 | 0.02 | 2.00 | 0.27 | 0.00 |
| Interval | Length | Copper (Cu) | Silver (Ag) | Cobalt (Co) | Gold (Au) |
| From | To |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLK2-06-02 | 14.10 | 17.10 | 3.00 | 0.24 | 0.63 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 57.90 | 59.05 | 1.15 | 0.53 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 264.05 | 277.00 | 12.95 | 0.29 | 1.95 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| 272.00 | 276.00 | 4.00 | 0.54 | 3.48 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
| 282.55 | 304.00 | 21.45 | 0.49 | 2.32 | 0.01 | 0.04 |
| 310.00 | 312.00 | 2.00 | 0.36 | 1.33 | 0.01 | 0.53 |
| 347.30 | 347.60 | 0.30 | 2.29 | 8.20 | 0.02 | 0.20 |
| 410.50 | 414.50 | 4.00 | 0.18 | 2.60 | 0.10 | 0.08 |
| Interval | Length | Copper (Cu) | Silver (Ag) | Cobalt (Co) | Gold (Au) | Zinc (Zn) | Lead (Pb) |
| From | To | |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) |
CLK2-06-03 | 32.0 | 40.0 | 8.0 | 0.36 | 1.9 | 0.03 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 68.5 | 74.5 | 6.0 | 0.25 | 2.3 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 80.0 | 81.0 | 1.0 | 0.53 | 3.8 | 0.04 | 0.2 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 151.6 | 154.6 | 3.0 | 0.24 | 6.3 | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 267.7 | 271.8 | 4.1 | 0.84 | 42.3 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.20 | 0.12 |
| 270.2 | 271.2 | 1.0 | 3.19 | 164.8 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.75 | 0.44 |
| 279.0 | 295.5 | 16.5 | 0.15 | 6.2 | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| 300.0 | 300.5 | 0.5 | 0.17 | 7.6 | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.07 | 0.05 |
| 319.5 | 320.3 | 0.8 | 0.45 | 10.0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
| 421.0 | 445.0 | 24.0 | 0.40 | 3.3 | 0.01 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 421.0 | 434.0 | 13.0 | 0.45 | 4.7 | 0.01 | 0.6 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| 427.5 | 434.0 | 6.5 | 0.73 | 3.6 | 0.01 | 0.9 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 461.5 | 469.5 | 8.0 | 0.38 | 3.6 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
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| Interval | Length | Copper (Cu) | Silver (Ag) | Cobalt (Co) | Gold (Au) |
| From | To |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLK2-06-04 | 13.00 | 18.90 | 5.90 | 0.23 | 1.60 | 0.08 | 0.14 |
| 38.00 | 42.50 | 4.50 | 0.44 | 3.26 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| 45.80 | 58.00 | 12.20 | 0.17 | 0.87 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 65.90 | 68.50 | 2.60 | 0.67 | 4.11 | 0.04 | 0.08 |
| 95.80 | 97.20 | 1.40 | 0.52 | 3.16 | 0.04 | 0.09 |
| 120.00 | 122.00 | 2.00 | 0.29 | 5.15 | 0.21 | 0.10 |
| 128.65 | 134.10 | 5.45 | 0.25 | 4.20 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
| 175.50 | 178.80 | 3.30 | 0.26 | 10.37 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 205.90 | 208.90 | 3.00 | 0.36 | 3.35 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Note: True thickness has not been calculated for these holes.
The K2 mineralized breccia is open for drilling along strike for a presently undetermined length, and within a 200 to 300 meter wide horizon. This is the second large poly-metallic IOCG target zone that has emerged within the Eldorado & Contact Lake districts that are characterized by six or more different metals within a target horizon. The K2 Zone will be drill tested in 2007, to determine its potential as a large bulk tonnage prospect.
In January 2007, we reported the results of our summer 2006 surface exploration sampling program at the Mag Hill target area. The Mag Hill target area is located at the southern end of Echo Bay, approximately 15 kilometers from the Eldorado uranium mine and 3 kilometers east of the Contact Lake silver & uranium mine (figure 5). The Eldorado uranium mine (1933-1960) formerly mined and produced 15 million pounds of U3O8 at an average head grade of 0.75% U3O8 and 8 million ounces of silver, plus copper, cobalt, nickel and lead. (Normin NTGO: SENES Report 2005). The Mag Hill target area is an IOCG plus uranium drill prospect now emerging at Contact Lake.
The Mag Hill target is the site of the most extensive hydrothermal magnetite-actinolite- feldspar-apatite plus sulphide alteration along the Contact Lake Mineral Belt in the northern part of the Great Bear Magmatic Zone. The host rocks are alkali (sodic or potassic) and or actinolite-epidote altered andesites. The core zone comprises a pervasive alkali feldspar-scapolite-magnetite-actinolite-apatite hydrothermal assemblage.
The alteration signature and zone at Mag Hill is similar to that of the Port Radium- Eldorado uranium mine area situated on Labine Point, NT. The Mag Hill discovery zone and target area is defined by predominately pyrite mineralization, which is present intermittently throughout the Mag Hill region and in an extensive gossan at the southeast end of Echo Bay, with minor amounts of visible malachite. In addition, uranium, cobalt, nickel, copper, silver, lead and zinc enrichments are present locally as veins, veinlets and disseminations that extend outward in the southern and eastern extensions of the Mag Hill area.
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Mag Hill Target area -Contact Lake, NT- grab samples assayed
- 0.69% U3O8 and 30.9 g/ton silver and 0.32% lead (the maximum uranium values returned from the assayed samples)
- 0.38% U3O8 and 30.5 g/ton silver and 0.24 % lead
- 0.31% U3O8 and 7.8 g/ton silver
This region is being targeted for detailed uranium exploration due to its notable similarities to the Port Radium-Eldorado mine region with regard to hydrothermal alteration and mineralization and large size of the associated hydrothermal system, 1-2 km2 core zone of magnetite-actinolite-apatite alteration, kilometre-scale surface gossans and distinct lenses of poly-metallic sulphide mineralization.
We analyzed over 121 surface grab samples from the Mag Hill Grid over a 5 square kilometer area in the southern portion of the Contact Lake belt. 25 samples collected were variably enriched in uranium, silver, copper, lead, zinc, nickel and cobalt. The rock samples assayed to a maximum of 0.69% uranium, 68.0 g/ton silver, 4.98% copper, 0.40% lead, 0.49% zinc, 0.23% nickel, 0.58% cobalt, 0.4 g/ton gold and 0.10% bismuth.
*(See table below for analytical results of surface grab samples)
Assay highlights from the Mag Hill IOCG Target Area, Contact Lake, NT
| Uranium (U) | Silver (Ag) | Copper (Cu) | Lead (Pb) | Zinc (Zn) | Nickel (Ni) | Cobalt (Co) | Gold (Au) | Bismuth (Bi) |
Sample No. | % | g/ton | % | % | % | % | % | g/ton | % |
158305 | 0 | 3.7 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.23 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 |
158359 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.23 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
158364 | 0 | 1.7 | 0.81 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
158368 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368065 | 0 | 8.2 | 3.82 | 0 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.4 | 0 |
368067 | 0.31 | 7.8 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
368068 | 0.69 | 30.9 | 0.02 | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
368069 | 0.38 | 30.5 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.2 | 0 |
368072 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.26 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368208 | 0 | 1.6 | 0.41 | 0 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368213 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368219 | 0 | 0.8 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368221 | 0 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.2 | 0 |
368222 | 0 | 44.5 | 0.12 | 0.4 | 0.17 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.4 | 0.01 |
368226 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.18 | 0 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368228 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.41 | 0 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368229 | 0 | 9.2 | 1.21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.02 |
368230 | 0.03 | 24.9 | 0.58 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.42 | 0.1 | 0.08 |
368231 | 0.01 | 29.3 | 1.33 | 0.01 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.58 | 0 | 0.09 |
368232 | 0 | 10.8 | 1.84 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.04 |
368233 | 0.03 | 21.9 | 4.98 | 0 | 0.05 | 0 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.1 |
368237 | 0 | 8.1 | 1.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.02 |
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| Uranium (U) | Silver (Ag) | Copper (Cu) | Lead (Pb) | Zinc (Zn) | Nickel (Ni) | Cobalt (Co) | Gold (Au) | Bismuth (Bi) |
| % | g/ton | % | % | % | % | % | g/ton | % |
368244 | 0 | 68 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
368033 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Maximum Values | 0.69 | 68 | 4.98 | 0.4 | 0.49 | 0.23 | 0.58 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
Also in January 2007, we reported that we received assays on a further four holes completing our eight hole summer/fall 2006 preliminary drill program at the K2 discovery at Contact Lake, NT (figure 6). Completion of an additional four drill holes has confirmed and expanded the widespread poly-metallic mineralization at the K2 target. All eight drill holes reporting from a recently completed eight hole summer 2006 drill program intersected multiple zones of altered and highly mineralized breccias with disseminated and vein hosted copper, gold, silver, cobalt sulphide mineralization. All drill cores were prepared, bagged and sealed by our supervised personnel and were transported by plane to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. ("ACME") in Yellowknife, NT where they were crushed and pulped, and then transported to ACME's main laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia for assaying. Acme is a fully registered analytical lab for analysis by ICP-MS and ICP-FA techniques.
Highlights from significant mineralized down hole intervals from the four new holes reporting, include 14.5 meters (47.85 feet) of .28% copper, 1.1 g/ton silver and .04% cobalt and 0.12 g/ton gold, 17.5 meters (57.75 feet) of .28% copper and 5.2 g/ton silver, 17.4 meters of .41% copper, 2.7 g/ton silver, 0.01 % cobalt (including 0.5 meters 3.13 % copper, 16.8 g/ton silver) 46.5 meters (153.45 feet) of .22% copper, 0.94 g/ton silver and 0.01 g/ton gold, 3 meters (9.9 feet) of .73% copper, 1.8 g/ton silver and 0.01% cobalt, and 1 meter (3.28 feet) of 3.19% copper.
The K2 target area is a new discovery in which significant IOCG style poly-metallic copper, gold, silver and cobalt mineralization was encountered in all eight drill holes in a preliminary drilling program along a 250 meter strike length to a vertical depth of 300 meters. The mineralized zone remains un-delineated and open at depth and along strike in both directions. The mineralized zone is part of a regionally extensive linear zone of phyllic, potassic, hematite and magnetite, magnetite-actinolite alteration zones, often appearing at surface as phyllic-potassic gossans. The mineralization occurs within the same suite of volcano-plutonic rocks that host other poly-metallic zones in the Eldorado & Contact lake mineral belt, including the former El Bonanza Silver- Uranium (U-Ag) and the Eldorado Uranium (U-Ag- Cu- Co- Ni- Bi) mines.
The accompanying table gives a summary of drilling highlights and assay results returned from the balance of holes from an 8 hole program reporting from the K2 Target Discovery Zone at Contact Lake, NT.
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K2 Discovery Zone -Drill Summary (Holes 5-6-7-8)
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Cobalt | Gold |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Co) | (Au) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLK2-06-05 | 2.5 | 56.5 | 54 | 0.2 | 1.08 | 0.03 | 0.08 |
| 2.5 | 8.5 | 6 | 0.42 | 1.32 | 0.05 | 0.23 |
| 2.5 | 17 | 14.5 | 0.28 | 1.1 | 0.04 | 0.12 |
| 20 | 31 | 11 | 0.23 | 1.39 | 0.05 | 0.08 |
| 27.5 | 30 | 2.5 | 0.53 | 3 | 0.13 | 0.24 |
| 35.5 | 56.5 | 21 | 0.17 | 1.1 | 0.02 | 0.07 |
| 43 | 46 | 3 | 0.21 | 1.65 | 0.03 | 0.5 |
| 59 | 63 | 4 | 0.11 | 0.58 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| 152 | 153.7 | 1.7 | 0.14 | 0.72 | 0.06 | 0 |
| 156.2 | 156.7 | 0.5 | 0.38 | 1.4 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 190.5 | 191.5 | 1 | 0.04 | 2.9 | 0.05 | 0 |
| 222 | 223.5 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 |
| 226 | 227.5 | 1.5 | 0.21 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Cobalt | Gold |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Co) | (Au) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLK2-06-06 | 20.5 | 20.8 | 0.3 | 1.21 | 1.2 | 0.01 | 0.1 |
| 88 | 89 | 1 | 0.11 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | 93.6 | 3.6 | 0.24 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 |
| 118.5 | 121.5 | 3 | 0.29 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 123 | 124.5 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
| 211 | 212 | 1 | 1.04 | 3.7 | 0 | 0 |
| 269 | 270.5 | 1.5 | 0.14 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 290 | 299 | 9 | 0.11 | 0.63 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 304.4 | 309 | 4.6 | 0.29 | 1.46 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| 323.5 | 331 | 7.5 | 0.15 | 0.64 | 0 | 0 |
| 338.5 | 340 | 1.5 | 0.24 | 2.8 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 343 | 349 | 6 | 0.24 | 1.35 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 356.5 | 359.5 | 3 | 0.39 | 1.45 | 0.02 | 0 |
| 361 | 362.5 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 368.5 | 371.5 | 3 | 0.14 | 0.6 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 374.5 | 377 | 2.5 | 0.17 | 1.8 | 0.02 | 0 |
| 397.2 | 402.3 | 5.1 | 0.34 | 0.68 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 407.5 | 425 | 17.5 | 0.28 | 5.29 | 0.01 | 0.03 |
| 407.5 | 411.5 | 4 | 0.64 | 5.89 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
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| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Cobalt | Gold | Bismuth |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Co) | (Au) | (Bi) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) |
CLK2-06-07 | 5 | 12.5 | 7.5 | 0.13 | 1 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| 24.5 | 25.5 | 1 | 1 | 5.6 | 0.04 | 0.2 | 0.11 |
| 34 | 45.3 | 11.3 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 51.5 | 52.5 | 1 | 0.26 | 0.9 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| 69.5 | 72.5 | 3 | 0.27 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| 86 | 103.4 | 17.4 | 0.41 | 2.7 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |
| 94.1 | 94.6 | 0.5 | 3.13 | 16.8 | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.19 |
| 104.4 | 108.9 | 4.5 | 0.15 | 1.1 | 0.02 | 0.03 | |
| 138 | 139 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.05 | 0 | |
| 168.4 | 170.9 | 2.5 | 0.18 | 2.5 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| 191 | 196.5 | 5.5 | 0.18 | 4.8 | 0.01 | 0.05 | |
| 202 | 203 | 1 | 0.11 | 2.9 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| 242 | 245 | 3 | 0.17 | 7.7 | 0 | 0 | |
| 266 | 267.5 | 1.5 | 0.11 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| 323 | 326 | 3 | 0.27 | 1.9 | 0.01 | 0.1 | |
| 347 | 348.5 | 1.5 | 0.12 | 2.3 | 0.03 | 0 | |
| 377 | 378.5 | 1.5 | 0.14 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Cobalt | Gold |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Co) | (Au) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLK2-06-10 | 5.5 | 6.5 | 1 | 0.14 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 54.5 | 37.5 | 0.2 | 1.26 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 30.5 | 33.5 | 3 | 0.73 | 1.8 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 71 | 83 | 12 | 0.18 | 1.53 | 0.03 | 0.06 |
| 71 | 74 | 3 | 0.59 | 2.85 | 0.03 | 0.25 |
| 93.5 | 140 | 46.5 | 0.22 | 0.94 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| 93.5 | 125 | 31.5 | 0.27 | 1.15 | 0.02 | 0 |
| 99.5 | 119 | 19.5 | 0.33 | 1.28 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| 128 | 140 | 12 | 0.12 | 0.5 | 0.02 | 0.03 |
| 150.5 | 155 | 4.5 | 0.25 | 0.47 | 0 | 0 |
| 162.5 | 182 | 19.5 | 0.22 | 0.67 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 162.5 | 170 | 7.5 | 0.35 | 0.98 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 192.5 | 195.5 | 3 | 0.16 | 0.75 | 0 | 0 |
| 203 | 204.5 | 1.5 | 0.11 | 0.7 | 0.01 | 0 |
| 218 | 219.5 | 1.5 | 0.21 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
| 287 | 288 | 1 | 0.18 | 2.2 | 0.03 | 0 |
| 320 | 324 | 4 | 0.02 | 0.79 | 0.03 | 0 |
| 381 | 382.5 | 1.5 | 0.51 | 8.9 | 0.03 | 0.1 |
| 393 | 394.5 | 1.5 | 0.09 | 1 | 0.02 | 0 |
| 465 | 473.7 | 8.7 | 0.11 | 3.09 | 0.04 | 0 |
| 503 | 506 | 3 | 0.12 | 0.55 | 0 | 0.2 |
| 510.5 | 516.5 | 6 | 0.16 | 1.23 | 0 | 0.1 |
Note: True thickness has not been calculated for these holes.
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The K2 mineralized breccia is open for drilling along strike for a presently undetermined length, and within a 200 to 300 meter wide horizon. This is the second large poly-metallic IOCG target zone that has emerged within the Eldorado & Contact Lake districts that are characterized by two to six different metals within a target horizon. We intend to conduct further drilling on the K2 Discovery Zone in 2007, to determine its potential as a significant poly-metallic bulk tonnage prospect.
In March 2007, we reported that we received the assay results from an additional seven drill holes from the summer/fall drill program at the South Echo Bay gossan ("Echo Bay Program") and from the Mag Hill VTEM anomaly ("Mag Hill Program") (figure 7). The Echo Bay and Mag Hill drill programs were designed to evaluate the silver, uranium and poly-metallic potential of this newly emerging mineralized region. The region is situated at the southern end of the southeast arm of Echo Bay and is viewed by us as having the potential to host bulk tonnage mineralization. The drill results were successful in intercepting significant silver mineralization beneath a large pyretic gossan. The silver is contained in pyrite, chalcopyrite veins and disseminations within a kilometer scale phyllic and potassic alteration halo. The alteration zone is peripheral to an extensive zone of intense magnetite-actinolite-apatite alteration that was intersected in all holes drilled in the Mag Hill Program. The South Echo Bay gossan silver-uranium target is located on our property, on the southern end of Echo Bay and 3 km due east of the Contact Lake Silver & Uranium mine.
We intersected 133 meters (439 feet) of 8.78 g/ton silver in hole number six in the Echo Bay silver discovery in Canada's Northwest Territories. This interval also includes 13.5 meters (44.6 feet) of 17.73 g/t silver, 6.0 meters (19.8 feet) of 22.13 g/t silver, 7.5 meters (24.7 feet) of 20.54 g/t within this interval. Hole number four intersected 37.5 meters (123.7 feet) of 20.69 g/t silver including a 3.0 meter high grade zone of 195.7 g/ton silver (6.29 oz/t). A further 1.5 meters (44.6 feet) of 51.1 g/t (1.64 oz/t) silver were intersected in hole number five.
We believe that the results of the drill holes from the Echo Bay Program and the drill holes from the Mag Hill Program confirms the extensive nature of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization in the Port Radium-Echo Bay-Contact Lake poly-metallic belt. All drill cores from the Echo Bay Program and the Mag Hill Program were prepared, bagged and sealed by our supervised personnel and were transported by plane to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. ("ACME") in Yellowknife, NT where they were crushed and pulped, and then transported to ACME's main laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia for assaying. ACME is a fully registered analytical lab compliant with the International Standards Organization (ISO) for quality assurance.
Highlights from significant mineralized down-hole intervals from the Echo Bay Program reporting significant high grade silver values, include drill hole number:
- CLEBG-06-04 intersected 37.5 meters (123.75 Feet) of 20.69 g/ton silver (.65 oz/t).
- Including 12 meters (39.6 feet) of 55.7 g/ton silver (1.79 oz/t).
- Including 3.0 meters (9.9 feet) of 195.7 g/ton silver.(6.29 oz/t).
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- CLEBG-06-05 intersected 13.5 meters (44.5 feet) of 11.53 g/ton silver (0.15 ounces/ton).
- Including 1.50 meters (4.95 feet) of 51.10 g/t silver (1.64 oz/t).
- Including 28.5 meters (94 feet) of 10.31 g/t silver.
- Including 10.5 meters (34.6 feet) of 17.14 g/t silver.
- CLEBG-06-06 intersected 133.0 meters (439 feet) of 8.78 g/t silver. (0.28 ounces/ton).
- Including 9.0 meters of 21.32 g/ton silver (0.67 oz/t).
- Including 6.0 meters of 22.13 g/ton silver (0.69 oz/t).
- Including 7.5 meters of 20.54 g/ton silver (0.64 oz/t).
The Contact Lake & Eldorado district is being targeted by us for silver and uranium and poly-metallic exploration. The mineralization occurs within the same suite of volcano-plutonic rocks that host other poly-metallic zones in the Eldorado & Contact lake mineral belt, including the former El Bonanza Silver (Ag) and the Eldorado Uranium (U-Ag-Cu-Co-Ni-Bi) mines. Veins of the former Eldorado and Echo Bay mines are situated in metasedimentary rocks, near the margins and apices of porphyry stocks, between underlying batholiths and overlying volcanic rocks. The cores and intermediate zones of the hydrothermal systems that are responsible for these veins are possible loci for larger, more typical, bulk-mineable IOCG-type deposits. Additional drill results are pending and will be released when we receive them.
The accompanying table gives a summary of drilling highlights and assay results returned from seven holes reporting from the south Echo Bay Program at Contact Lake, NT.
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SOUTH ECHO BAY GOSSAN DRILL SUMMARY (Holes 2, 4, 5, and 6)
DRILL HOLE RESULTS |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) |
CLEBG-06-02 | 66.20 | 69.20 | 3.00 | 0.02 | 7.65 |
CLEBG-06-04 | 57.00 | 94.50 | 37.5 | 0.04 | 20.69 |
81.00 | 93.0 | 12.0 | 0.01 | 55.70 |
90.00 | 93.00 | 3.00 | 0.02 | 195.70 |
CLEBG-06-05 | 9.00 | 22.5 | 13.5 | 0.12 | 11.53 |
18.0 | 19.5 | 1.5 | 0.58 | 51.10 |
49.5 | 78.0 | 28.5 | 0.04 | 10.31 |
55.5 | 66.0 | 10.5 | 0.04 | 17.14 |
93.0 | 99.0 | 6.0 | 0.01 | 9.83 |
135.0 | 139.5 | 4.5 | 0.04 | 5.2 |
173.0 | 177.5 | 4.5 | 0.02 | 7.0 |
CLEBG-06-06 | 19.5 | 20.0 | 0.5 | 0.73 | 0.40 |
19.5 | 20.5 | 1.0 | 0.42 | 0.30 |
28.0 | 29.5 | 1.5 | 0.04 | 3.60 |
34.0 | 35.5 | 1.5 | 0.04 | 3.10 |
37.0 | 40.0 | 3.0 | 0.35 | 1.75 |
47.5 | 180.5 | 133.0 | 0.02 | 8.78 |
90.5 | 99.5 | 9.0 | 0.02 | 21.32 |
90.5 | 104.5 | 13.5 | 0.01 | 17.73 |
126.5 | 132.5 | 6.0 | 0.02 | 22.13 |
144.5 | 152.0 | 7.5 | 0.01 | 20.54 |
204.5 | 212.0 | 7.5 | 0.01 | 4.46 |
298.0 | 300.5 | 2.5 | 0.27 | 0.48 |
No significant interval in drill holes number CLEBG-06-01, CLEBG-06-03, and CLEBG-06-07.
Note: True thickness has not been calculated for these holes.
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2. Port Radium - Glacier Lake Mineral Claims, NT
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in four mineral claims, totalling 2,424.23 ha (5,987.85 acres) and located one half km southeast of Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, NT (figure 8), for a cash payments of $30,000 (paid) and the issuance of 360,000 of our common shares (issued and valued at $72,000). We may purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
The property contains a fully operational all-seasons airstrip and base camp, situated at Contact Lake. The Echo Bay claim (produced 23,779,178 ounces of silver) and the Port Radium - Eldorado claim (produced 15 million pounds of uranium and 8 million ounces of silver) are situated on our property. The Port Radium uranium belt was formerly one of Canada's principal producers of Pitchblende uranium in the 1930s and 1940s.
Our expenditures related to the Port Radium - Glacier Lake Mineral Claims can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 $ | For the year ended November 30 |
2006 $ | 2005 $ | 2004 $ |
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Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Camp and field costs | | 320,762 | | 320,762 | | - | | - |
Consulting fees | | 27,477 | | 27,477 | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 22,896 | | 22,896 | | - | | - |
Surveying | | 17,309 | | 17,309 | | - | | - |
Transportation | | 866,963 | | 866,963 | | - | | - |
Travel | | 6,274 | | 6,274 | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 1,261,681 | | 1,261,681 | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Acquisition costs | | 102,000 | | - | | 102,000 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Recoveries | | (417,099) | | (417,099) | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 946,582 | | 844,582 | | 102,000 | | - |
In May 2006, we received formal approval from the Sahtu Land and Water Board for a second 25,000 meter "Class A-5 year drill permit at the Eldorado Iron oxide, copper, gold, silver, and uranium Project. We have completed all of the requirements for our drill permitting which included the finalization of a comprehensive First Nations Traditional Educational Knowledge Report ("TEK"). The TEK report was completed in collaboration with the Deline Land Corporation and was prepared with detailed input from many of the Sahtu Dene Elders from the community of Deline, NT.
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In August 2006, we successfully completed a formal legal and land survey on our Glacier Lake silver and uranium properties. We formally submitted our legal plan of survey and application for lease, and notice of lease for the Glacier Lake mineral properties to the Government of Canada Mine Recorders office. The survey to lease was performed in accordance with Canadian Mining Regulations by Sub-Arctic Surveys Ltd. of Yellowknife, NT. The total lease claim survey area consists of 2,424.23 hectares (5,987.85 acres) and includes our Echo Bay Gossan and the Echo Bay Mine site.
In November 2006, we completed a preliminary sampling of the uranium-silver tailings and waste dumps located at the Company's Eldorado IOCG and uranium project. The tailings are from the former producing Eldorado uranium mine (1933-1960) and Echo Bay Uranium, silver, copper mines (1962-1982). These mines are located in our project area.
We completed a detailed sampling program of the Uranium-silver mine tailings and waste dumps and as a result of the sampling program we have begun preparation for a definition de-lineation drill program of the un-mined areas and extensions of the Eldorado uranium-silver mine to determine if there is a potential resource to support the recommencement of commercial production at the mine sites. Assay results are pending for copper, gold, silver, nickel, cobalt and uranium.
These mines are reported to have milled approximately 2.2 million tons of high grade uranium-silver ores leaving behind approximately 1.7 million tons of uranium-silver tailings. (Normin NTGO; SENES Report 2005). The Eldorado Uranium Mine formerly mined and produced 15,000,000 pounds of uranium at a head grade of 0.75% U308 and 8 million ounces of silver, plus, copper, nickel, lead at Eldorado, Port Radium commencing in 1933. The Echo Bay mine produced over 23,779,178 million ounces of silver at an average head grade of approximately 66 ounces per ton up until its closure in 1982.
Approximately 910,000 tons of uranium-silver tailings are currently contained in the Radium Lake and Cobalt Channel areas and additional 800,000 tons of silver tailings are stored in the McDonough Lake containment area (SENES/CDUT Report 2005). An estimated 170,000 tons of uranium tailings were placed in surface depressions and in the Silver Point area and the remaining 740,000 tons were placed in the Cobalt Channel area of the Great Bear Lake.
Preliminary assay results were completed by us under the supervision of Dr. H. Mumin Ph.D., P.Eng., our designated Qualified Person for the Eldorado & Contact Lake IOCG & uranium projects. The uranium-silver mine tailings samples were taken from 5 separate containment areas at 83 different sample sites produced the following results:
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Eldorado / Echo Bay Mine - Uranium & Silver Tailings
Summary of Tailings Assays from Summer 2006 Field Work |
| Number of | Copper (Cu) | U3O8 | U3O8 | Silver (Ag) | Cobalt (Co) | Nickel (Ni) |
Location of Sampling | Samples | wt % | wt % | lb/t | g/t(Ounces/t) | wt % | wt % |
Radium Lake Spill Zone | 8 | 0.500 | 0.257 | 5.66 | 12 ( 0.38) | 0.280 | 0.090 |
Radium Lake | 16 | 0.254 | 0.062 | 1.37 | 70 (2.24) | 0.060 | 0.026 |
McDonough Lake | 44 | 0.143 | 0.025 | 0.55 | 131 (4.22) | 0.035 | 0.045 |
| Average of 68 | 0.211% | 0.061% | 1.34 | 130 (3.30) | 0.070% | 0.046% |
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Labine Point Causeway | 11 | 0.649 | 0.207 | 4.56 | 210 (6.76) | 0.108 | 0.075 |
Great Bear Lake | 4 | 0.295 | 0.041 | 0.90 | 878 (28.23) | 0.031 | 0.050 |
| Average of 15 | 0.555% | 0.163% | 3.58 | 388 (12.49) | 0.087% | 0.068% |
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Labine Point Causeway | 2 oversize | 0.088 | 0.015 | 0.33 | 75 (2.40) | 0.016 | 0.022 |
Radium Lake | 5 oversize | 0.240 | 0.108 | 2.38 | 31 (0.99) | 0.126 | 0.055 |
| Average of 7 | 0.197% | 0.081% | 1.79 | 43 (1.40) | 0.095% | 0.046% |
Eldorado / Echo Bay Mine - Uranium & Silver Tailings Summary
Average of 83 tailings sample sites at Port Radium |
Copper (Cu) | U3O8 | U3O8 | Silver (Ag) | Cobalt (Co) | Nickel (Ni) |
Wt % | wt % | lb/t | g/t(Ounces/t) | wt % | wt % |
0.273% | 0.079% | 1.75 | 154 (4.96) | 0.073% | 0.050% |
Notes:
*Sample spacing is irregular and taken where available
*Assay results are preliminary and subject to natural metal leaching and/or enrichment
*Tailings samples ranged in size from ~1 to 5 Kg
*Tailings from Radium Lake and Labine Point causeway are contaminated with waste rock and were sieved to -20 mesh to remove most of the waste rock gangue
*The oversize material (assumed waste rock) carries metal values
*The results of this work are interpreted to indicate that full tailings delineation and assaying is warranted
The sampling of tailings and drill core was prepared and analyzed in accordance with industry standards. All uranium-silver mine tailings samples were sent to ACME Analytical Laboratories located in Vancouver, BC for analysis. ACME is a registered analytical lab for analysis of ICP-MS and ICP-FA techniques.
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We intend to quantify the precious metals situated in ground and in the surrounding surface waste areas and to assess the re-processing of the uranium-silver tailings and blending additional ore from the various project areas. The Company intends to work closely with Canadian Federal Government, Indian & Northern Affairs Canada, First Nations peoples and industry and the Company will commence any and all environmental baseline studies that would eliminate any environmental concerns and re-mediate any areas that would be currently affected by proposed development.
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A summary of our claims can be found below:
Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
GLAC 1 | | F54373 | | 835.68 |
GLAC 2 | | F54374 | | 731.57 |
ECHO | | F54519 | | 83.61 |
WATT | | F59517 | | 773.37 |
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| | | | 2,424.23 |
Subsequent to fiscal 2006, in December 2006, we appointed SGS Lakefield Research Ltd. ("SGS"), to conduct mineral processing and metallurgical testing of silver & uranium tailings collected by us during the summer of 2006 from the Eldorado & Echo Bay silver and uranium mines. The SGS report is expected to include an investigation of the mineralogical properties, physical characterization, tailings composite, and an assessment of the leachability of the tailings to determine the potential recovery of uranium, silver, cobalt, nickel and copper. Uranium leaching will establish if the uranium values are economically leachable using conventional oxidative atmospheric acid leaching at ambient temperature. SGS is an ISO-accredited Canadian based research facility in Lakefield, Ontario that has extensive experience in mineral processing and metallurgical testing of base, precious metals and uranium.
In January 2007, we were advised by the Surveyor-General's office of the Department of Natural Resources that the legal survey to lease at the Glacier Lake uranium claims has been provisionally approved.
Also in January 2007, we reported that we intersected 5.0 meters (16.5 feet) of 0.22% U308 at Eldorado (figure 9). The latest results are from a recent nine-hole preliminary drill program completed in the fall of 2006. The program was designed to re-evaluate the economic potential of the former Eldorado-Echo Bay silver and uranium mines. The initial drill results from the first nine holes have discovered a new zone of hydrothermal and structurally controlled polymetallic vein breccias that are enriched in uranium, silver, gold, copper, nickel, cobalt, lead and zinc. The Eldorado uranium target is located on the Company's property, on the north side of Echo Bay. The completion of the drilling has confirmed additional widespread polymetallic and uranium mineralization. Seven drill holes intersected multiple zones of intensely altered and mineralized polymetallic breccias with disseminated and vein hosted mineralization. All drill cores were prepared, bagged and sealed by the our supervised personnel and were transported by plane to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. ("ACME") in Yellowknife, NT where they were crushed and pulped, and then transported to ACME's main laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia for assaying. Acme is a fully registered analytical lab for analysis by ICP-MS and ICP-FA techniques.
Highlights from significant mineralized down hole intervals from the seven new holes reporting include hole number:
- PR-06-03 intersected 1.5 meters (4.95 feet) of 0.15% U308 and within that 1.0 meter (3.3 feet) of 0.21% U308.
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- PR-06-09 which intersected 5.0 meters (16.5 feet) of 0.22% U308 and within that 0.70% U308 over 1.5 meters (4.95 feet)as well as 1.05 % U308 over 1.0 meter (3.3 feet) and 2.07% U308 over 0.5 meters (1.65 feet).
Other significant poly-metallic IOCG style mineralized down hole intervals at Eldorado/Echo Bay district include:
- PR-06-01 which intersected 1.5 meters (4.95 feet) of 514.0 g/ton silver (16.54 ounces per ton) and 0.81% copper, 3.0 meters (9.9 feet) of 1.27% zinc and 20.8 g/ton silver, 15.37 meters (50.72 feet) of 0.61% lead, 0.35% zinc and 2.3 g/ton silver and 3.0 meters (9.9 feet) of 17.9 g/ton silver, 1.34% zinc.
- PR-06-02 13.5 meters (44.5 feet) of 3.7 g/ton silver, 0.67% zinc and 0.18% lead, and 1.5 meters of 5.5 g/ton silver, 4.1 g/ton gold, 1.47% zinc and 0.58% lead.
Previous mining in the Eldorado-Echo Bay district (1933-1960) exploited high-grade uranium, silver and copper mineralization that occurred locally as complex polymetallic arsenide and sulfide assemblages in quartz-carbonate veins. The arsenide-sulfide veins are also typically enriched in one or more metals including silver, uranium, nickel, cobalt, bismuth, gold, zinc, lead, and radium. Economic veins are hosted within East-North-East-striking structures and an extensive IOCG style poly-metallic hydrothermal alteration system.
The accompanying table gives a summary of drilling highlights and assay results returned from seven of nine holes reporting from Eldorado, NT. No significant intervals have been reported from holes PR-06-07 and PR-06-08.
ELDORADO Drill Summary (Holes 1,2,3,4,5,6,9)
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Lead | Zinc |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Pb) | (Zn) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) |
PR-06-01 | 53.77 | 55.27 | 1.50 | 0.26 | 0.7 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| 68.77 | 70.27 | 1.50 | 0.03 | 1.6 | 0.25 | 0.10 |
| 70.27 | 71.77 | 1.50 | 0.05 | 1.6 | 0.07 | 0.29 |
| 110.45 | 132.45 | 22.00 | 0.07 | 1.9 | 0.16 | 0.29 |
| 151.95 | 153.95 | 2.00 | 0.06 | 6.4 | 1.06 | 0.97 |
| 152.95 | 153.95 | 1.00 | 0.09 | 9.4 | 1.95 | 1.43 |
| 159.95 | 161.45 | 1.50 | 0.05 | 3.6 | 1.75 | 0.75 |
| 151.95 | 167.32 | 15.37 | 0.06 | 2.3 | 0.61 | 0.35 |
| 159.95 | 163.95 | 4.00 | 0.04 | 2.7 | 1.28 | 0.42 |
| 162.95 | 163.95 | 1.00 | 0.07 | 3.8 | 2.07 | 0.27 |
| 180.32 | 182.32 | 2.00 | 0.08 | 1.4 | 0.08 | 0.33 |
| 184.32 | 186.32 | 2.00 | 0.09 | 3.7 | 0.17 | 0.64 |
| 200.82 | 205.32 | 4.50 | 0.06 | 1.0 | 0.11 | 0.23 |
| 250.00 | 255.00 | 5.00 | 0.03 | 4.2 | 0.13 | 0.33 |
| 258.00 | 264.00 | 6.00 | 0.03 | 0.5 | 0.11 | 0.32 |
| 261.00 | 262.50 | 1.50 | 0.04 | 0.8 | 0.18 | 0.44 |
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| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Lead | Zinc |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Pb) | (Zn) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) |
PR-06-01 | 267.00 | 271.50 | 4.50 | 0.15 | 2.0 | 0.25 | 0.60 |
(continued) | 379.50 | 382.50 | 3.00 | 0.04 | 1.0 | 0.03 | 0.22 |
| 395.50 | 401.50 | 6.00 | 0.02 | 0.7 | 0.05 | 0.19 |
| 406.00 | 409.00 | 3.00 | 0.04 | 1.0 | 0.11 | 0.25 |
| 413.50 | 417.00 | 3.50 | 0.14 | 1.3 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| 420.00 | 421.50 | 1.50 | 0.05 | 2.7 | 0.20 | 0.95 |
| 445.50 | 451.50 | 6.00 | 0.05 | 12.7 | 0.31 | 0.75 |
| 445.50 | 448.50 | 3.00 | 0.04 | 20.8 | 0.50 | 1.27 |
| 459.00 | 462.00 | 3.00 | 0.03 | 4.1 | 0.11 | 0.81 |
| 465.00 | 466.50 | 1.50 | 0.81 | 514.0 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
| 493.50 | 496.50 | 3.00 | 0.09 | 17.9 | 0.34 | 1.34 |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Lead | Zinc | Gold |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Pb) | (Zn) | (Au) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) | (g/ton) |
PR-06-02 | 54.0 | 57.0 | 3.00 | 0.05 | 1.9 | 0.09 | 0.21 | - |
| 82.5 | 85.5 | 3.00 | 0.05 | 1.4 | 0.10 | 0.14 | - |
| 100.5 | 105.0 | 4.50 | 0.04 | 0.4 | 0.00 | 0.01 | - |
| 111.0 | 118.5 | 7.50 | 0.07 | 1.0 | 0.13 | 0.16 | - |
| 111.0 | 112.5 | 1.50 | 0.10 | 1.9 | 0.47 | 0.47 | - |
| 112.5 | 118.5 | 6.00 | 0.06 | 0.8 | 0.04 | 0.08 | - |
| 121.5 | 139.5 | 18.00 | 0.04 | 1.4 | 0.18 | 0.37 | 0.22 |
| 121.5 | 135.0 | 13.50 | 0.04 | 1.5 | 0.21 | 0.42 | - |
| 127.5 | 129.0 | 1.50 | 0.19 | 4.5 | 1.08 | 0.77 | - |
| 148.5 | 150.0 | 1.50 | 0.04 | 2.6 | 0.08 | 0.19 | - |
| 151.5 | 156.0 | 4.50 | 0.05 | 4.4 | 0.32 | 1.37 | - |
| 171.0 | 174.0 | 3.00 | 0.07 | 6.2 | 0.36 | 0.46 | - |
| 172.5 | 174.0 | 1.50 | 0.08 | 11.7 | 0.65 | 0.70 | - |
| 177.0 | 190.5 | 13.50 | 0.07 | 3.7 | 0.18 | 0.67 | - |
| 180.0 | 183.0 | 3.00 | 0.10 | 7.5 | 0.37 | 1.50 | - |
| 208.5 | 211.5 | 3.00 | 0.01 | 2.1 | 0.32 | 0.22 | - |
| 208.5 | 210.0 | 1.50 | 0.01 | 3.4 | 0.56 | 0.27 | - |
| 219.0 | 220.5 | 1.50 | 0.08 | 2.6 | 0.13 | 0.50 | - |
| 237.0 | 238.5 | 1.50 | 0.09 | 1.2 | 0.16 | 0.26 | - |
| 249.0 | 250.5 | 1.50 | 0.13 | 5.5 | 0.58 | 1.47 | 4.1 |
| 244.5 | 252.0 | 7.50 | 0.12 | 2.7 | 0.18 | 0.45 | 0.82 |
| 247.5 | 252.0 | 4.50 | 0.11 | 3.3 | 0.28 | 0.71 | - |
| 267.0 | 268.5 | 1.50 | 0.20 | 1.7 | 0.04 | 0.35 | - |
| 295.5 | 298.5 | 3.00 | 0.11 | 1.4 | 0.09 | 0.02 | - |
| 363.0 | 364.5 | 1.50 | 0.36 | 14.1 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.20 |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Cobalt | Uranium |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Co) | (U3O8) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) |
PR-06-03 | 175.0 | 178.5 | 3.50 | 0.26 | 1.4 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 228.0 | 229.5 | 1.50 | 0.68 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
| 228.5 | 229.5 | 1.00 | 1.01 | 1.1 | 0.00 | 0.21 |
| 324.5 | 326.0 | 1.50 | 0.57 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 387.5 | 390.5 | 3.00 | 0.99 | 4.2 | 0.27 | 0.01 |
| 387.5 | 388.5 | 1.00 | 0.09 | 4.0 | 0.79 | 0.03 |
| 388.5 | 390.0 | 1.50 | 1.81 | 5.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Lead | Zinc |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Pb) | (Zn) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) |
PR-06-04 | 71.5 | 73.0 | 1.50 | 0.04 | 0.6 | 0.02 | 0.09 |
| 86.5 | 88.0 | 1.50 | 0.02 | 0.5 | 0.03 | 0.10 |
| 92.5 | 95.5 | 3.00 | 0.02 | 1.1 | 0.21 | 0.42 |
| 101.5 | 103.0 | 1.50 | 0.02 | 1.8 | 0.04 | 0.23 |
| 175.0 | 176.5 | 1.50 | 0.03 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0.12 |
| 187.0 | 188.5 | 1.50 | 0.04 | 1.0 | 0.02 | 0.12 |
| 226.0 | 227.5 | 1.50 | 0.03 | 0.5 | 0.02 | 0.11 |
| 236.5 | 239.5 | 3.00 | 0.03 | 1.9 | 0.08 | 0.18 |
| 241.0 | 242.5 | 1.50 | 0.06 | 0.8 | 0.01 | 0.20 |
| 301.0 | 304.0 | 3.00 | 0.10 | 0.2 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Zinc |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Zn) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) |
PR-06-05 | 24.0 | 25.5 | 1.50 | 0.25 | 0.4 | 0.06 |
| 115.5 | 120.0 | 4.50 | 0.03 | 0.6 | 0.18 |
| 292.5 | 294.0 | 1.50 | 0.02 | 0.2 | 0.01 |
| 356.5 | 359.5 | 3.00 | 0.36 | 0.4 | 0.02 |
| 366.0 | 367.5 | 1.50 | 0.68 | 0.2 | 0.02 |
| 370.5 | 385.5 | 15.00 | 0.11 | <.1 | 0.01 |
| 374.5 | 376.0 | 1.50 | 0.32 | 0.5 | 0.01 |
| 374.5 | 375.0 | 0.50 | 0.91 | 0.3 | 0.00 |
| 375.5 | 376.0 | 0.50 | 0.04 | 1.0 | 0.01 |
| 380.0 | 384.5 | 4.50 | 0.23 | 0.2 | 0.01 |
| 380.0 | 380.5 | 0.50 | 0.60 | 0.3 | 0.03 |
| 438.5 | 440.0 | 1.50 | 0.06 | 1.1 | 0.27 |
| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Zinc |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Zn) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) |
PR-06-06 | 99.0 | 100.5 | 1.50 | 0.19 | 0.7 | 0.03 |
| 232.5 | 234.0 | 1.50 | 0.02 | 0.8 | 0.40 |
| 283.5 | 286.5 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.15 |
| 288.0 | 291.0 | 3.00 | 0.01 | 0.4 | 0.54 |
| 399.0 | 406.5 | 7.50 | 0.03 | 0.4 | 0.18 |
| 403.5 | 406.5 | 3.00 | 0.02 | 0.4 | 0.20 |
| 418.5 | 423.0 | 4.50 | 0.39 | 1.0 | 0.02 |
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| Interval | Length | Copper | Silver | Cobalt | Lead | Zinc | Nickel | Uranium |
| From | To | (Cu) | (Ag) | (Co) | (Pb) | (Zn) | (Ni) | (U3O8) |
Drill Hole | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/ton) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) |
PR-06-09 | 105.5 | 110.5 | 5.00 | 0.18 | 0.5 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.22 |
| 105.5 | 107.0 | 1.50 | 0.37 | 0.9 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.70 |
| 106.0 | 107.0 | 1.00 | 0.54 | 1.3 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 1.05 |
| 106.0 | 106.5 | 0.50 | 0.95 | 2.0 | 0.03 | 0.29 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 2.07 |
| 108.5 | 110.5 | 2.00 | 0.17 | 0.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| 128.5 | 131.0 | 2.50 | 0.50 | 0.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| 129.5 | 130.0 | 0.50 | 0.73 | 0.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.06 |
| 378.5 | 380.0 | 1.50 | 0.03 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.20 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 387.5 | 389.0 | 1.50 | 0.36 | 1.5 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 419.0 | 429.5 | 10.50 | 0.03 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.22 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 428.0 | 429.5 | 1.50 | 0.05 | 0.8 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.00 |
| 450.5 | 453.5 | 3.00 | 0.36 | 3.1 | 0.20 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.00 |
| 450.5 | 452.0 | 1.50 | 0.58 | 4.7 | 0.38 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.00 |
Note: True thickness has not been calculated for these holes.
In February 2007, we reported that we received the results from a five-hole summer/fall 2006 preliminary drill program at Echo Bay (figure 10). The program was designed to re-evaluate the economic potential of the former Eldorado-Echo Bay silver and uranium mining district. The initial drill results discovered a new zone of hydrothermal and structurally controlled poly-metallic vein breccias that are enriched in silver, copper, nickel, cobalt, lead and zinc. The Echo Bay silver-uranium target is located on our property, on the north side of Echo Bay. The Company has intersected 10.5 meters (34.7 feet) of 117.1 g/ton silver (3.77 ounces per ton), 0.14% copper, 0.46% lead. 0.21% zinc and 0.18% nickel at Echo Bay in Canada's Northwest Territories. This interval also included 5.0 meters (16.5 feet) of 237.9 g/ton silver (7.65 ounces per ton), 0.24% copper, 0.45% lead, 0.20% zinc, 0.37% nickel and 0.09% cobalt which includes 1.50 meters (4.95 feet) of 739.5 g/ton silver (23.79 ounce/ton), 0.19% copper, 0.56% lead, 0.45% zinc, 1.20% nickel, 0.22% cobalt. A half meter zone of high grade 2,186.0 g/ton silver (70.33 ounce per/ton), 0.78% zinc, 3.57% nickel, 0.31% copper and 0.65% cobalt was also intersected in this interval.
Completion of the five drill holes confirms additional poly-metallic mineralization at Echo Bay. Three of five drill holes intersected multiple zones of altered and highly mineralized poly-metallic breccias with disseminated and vein hosted copper, silver, cobalt, nickel, lead and zinc mineralization. One hole was abandoned and one did not return significant results. All drill cores were prepared, bagged and sealed by our supervised personnel and were transported by plane to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. ("ACME") in Yellowknife, NT where they were crushed and pulped, and then transported to ACME's main laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia for assaying. Acme is a fully registered analytical lab compliant with the International Standards Organization (ISO) for quality assurance.
Highlights from significant mineralized down-hole intervals from the three new holes reporting significant values, include hole number:
- EBM-06-02 intersected 10.5 meters (34.7 Feet) of 117.1 g/ton silver (3.77 ounces per ton), 0.14 copper, 0.46% lead, 0.21% zinc and 0.18% nickel
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- including 5.0 meters (16.5 Feet) of 237.9 g/ton silver (7.65 ounces per ton), 0.24% copper, 0.45% lead, 0.20% zinc, 0.37% nickel, 0.09% cobalt,
- including 1.50 meters (4.95 feet) of 739.5 g/ton silver (23.79 ounces per ton), 0.30% copper, 0.47% lead, 0.45% zinc, 1.20% nickel, 0.22% cobalt.
- including 0.50 meters (1.65 Feet) of 2186.0 g/ton silver (70.33 ounces per ton), 0.78% zinc, 3.57% nickel, 0.31% copper, 0.65% cobalt.
- EBM-06-03 intersected 22.50 meters (73.8 feet) of 2.7 g/ton silver, 0.21% lead, 0.72% zinc.
Other significant poly-metallic IOCG style mineralized down-hole intervals at: EBM-06-02 included 3.0 meters (9.9 feet) of 1.26% lead, 2.75% zinc and 8.2 g/ton silver.
The Echo Bay Mine district is being targeted for silver and uranium exploration. The mineralization occurs within the same suite of volcano-plutonic rocks that host other poly-metallic zones in the Eldorado & Contact lake mineral belt, including the former El Bonanza Silver (Ag) and the Eldorado Uranium (U-Ag- Cu- Co- Ni- Bi) mines. Veins of the former Eldorado and Echo Bay mines are situated in metasedimentary rocks, near the margins and apices of porphyry stocks, between underlying batholiths and overlying volcanic rocks. The cores and intermediate zones of the hydrothermal systems that are responsible for these veins are possible loci for larger, more typical, bulk-mineable IOCG-type deposits. Additional drill results are pending and will be released when they are received by us.
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The accompanying table gives a summary of drilling highlights and assay results returned from three out of five holes reporting from Echo Bay at Eldorado, NT.
ECHO BAY Drill Summary (Holes 2-3-5)
Note: True thickness has not been calculated for these holes.
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3. Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims, NT
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest in 1,447.26 ha (3,574.73 acres) called the Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims (figure 11), subject to a 2% NSR and by paying $60,000 (paid) and issuing 450,000 of our common shares (issued and valued at $297,000). We may purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
The Crossfault Lake claim block, located to the north of Contact Lake Project, includes five contiguous claims located on the east side of Great Bear Lake, which include over 40 different metallic minerals, as identified by past geologists. The Port Radium uranium belt was formerly one of Canada's principal producers of Pitchblende uranium in the 1930s and 1940s.
Total expenditures related to the Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims consist of acquisition costs of $357,000, made during the year ended November 30, 2005.
A summary of our claims can be found below:
Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
GOSSAN 1 | | F91851 | | 418.04 |
GOSSAN 2 | | F91858 | | 418.04 |
CROSS | | F91458 | | 33.44 |
RAD 1 | | F91859 | | 253.76 |
RAD 2 | | F91860 | | 323.98 |
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4. Port Radium - Eldorado Mineral Claims, NT
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we entered into an agreement with South Malartic Exploration Inc. ("South Malartic") to purchase a 50% undivided right, title and interest in three mineral leases, totalling in 106.53 ha (263.13 acres) called the Eldorado Uranium Mine Mineral Leases (figure 12), for a cash payment $20,000 (paid). Acquisition of the properties also entitled us to all property and historical data in South Malartic's possession, including reports, maps, historical uranium production records, and uranium assay reports.
The property is located on Labine Point at Port Radium, NT. Starting in 1933, the mine produced 15 million pounds of high grade uranium and 8 million ounces of silver, plus copper, nickel, radium, lead and polonium. The mine currently has about 40 km of existing underground workings on 14 levels.
Total expenditures related to the Port Radium - Eldorado Uranium Mineral Claims consist of acquisition costs of $20,000, made during the year ended November 30, 2005.
J. Fingler, P.Geo., of Vancouver, British Columbia completed a National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report dated August 10, 2006 ("Technical Report") on the Eldorado-Port Radium Property. The Technical Report provides a comprehensive description of the Eldorado-Port Radium Property including previous work, geology and mineralization and also makes recommendations for further work on the Property.
A summary of our claims can be found below:
Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
ELDORADO | | Lease 3032 | | 30.32 |
ELDORADO | | Lease 3033 | | 44.81 |
ELDORADO | | Lease 3034 | | 31.40 |
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| | | | 106.53 |
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5. North Contact Lake Mineral Claims - Contact Lake, NT
During the year ended November 30, 2006, we acquired a 100% interest in 11 contiguous claims, comprising 5,867.23 ha (14,492.06 acres), called the North Contact Lake Mineral Claims, in the Port Uranium Belt located on Contact Lake on the east side of Great Bear Lake, NT (figure 13). The acquisition increases our Eldorado & Contact Lake Mineral IOCG & Uranium Project to 20,446.82 ha (50,503.65 acres).
The purchase from three individuals is subject to a 2% NSR, and includes our issuance of 250,000 shares (issued and valued at $182,500) and payment of $75,000 (paid). We may also purchase one half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
The property is the northern extension of the Contact Lake Project and includes the Contact Lake - Echo Bay Stato-volcanic complex, having hundreds of known or recorded copper, gold, silver, nickel, cobalt, REE and high grade uranium occurrences identified in Proterozoic rocks.
Total expenditures related to the North Contact Lake Mineral Claims consist of acquisition costs of $257,500 made during the year ended November 30, 2006.
A summary of our claims can be found below:
Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
EC 1 | | F98661 | | 250.82 |
EC 2 | | F98662 | | 731.57 |
EC 3 | | F98663 | | 836.08 |
EC 4 | | F98664 | | 587.35 |
EC 5 | | F98665 | | 55.60 |
EC 6 | | F98666 | | 192.30 |
EC 7 | | F98667 | | 477.82 |
EC 8 | | F98668 | | 1,045.10 |
EC 9 | | F98669 | | 1,045.10 |
EC 10 | | F98670 | | 627.06 |
EC 24 | | F98369 | | 18.43 |
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6. Longtom Property - Longtom Lake, NT
By way of an option agreement dated February 12, 1998, Mongolia Gold Resources Ltd. ("Mongolia Gold"), now known as Tyhee Development Corp. ("Tyhee"), granted us an option to acquire a 50% interest, subject to a 2% NSR in favour of Tyhee, in a group of contiguous mining claims known as the Longtom Property.
The interest covers an area of 361.38 ha (892.61 acres) which is located about 350 km northwest of Yellowknife, NT (figure 14). At the time of the transaction, we did not have any directors in common with Mongolia Gold.
We exercised this option by incurring expenditures on the Longtom Property of $200,000, by issuing 4,000,000 common shares in our capital stock to Mongolia Gold and by paying surveying, filing and camp maintenance costs totalling $30,000. We have the option to acquire the remaining 50% interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in the Longtom Property from Tyhee by paying $315,000. We may exercise this option at any time, though we are compelled to exercise the option within 90 days from the date that we have incurred $5,000,000 in exploration expenditures on the Longtom Property ($1,403,164 incurred, as of November 30, 2006). At our option, we may pay half of the exercise price in our common shares. The deemed price of our common shares would be the average TSX-V closing market price of our shares on the five trading days immediately preceding and the five trading days immediately following the date that the option exercise is triggered. We have the right to joint venture the entire 100% interest in the Longtom Property prior to the exercise of the option.
During the year ended November 30, 2003, we entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Fronteer Development Group Inc. ("Fronteer"), which furnishes Fronteer with up to a 75% interest in the property, by paying $15,000 in cash over 3 years ($15,000 received) and incurring exploration expenditures of $500,000 ($500,000 incurred).
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Our expenditures related to the Longtom Property are summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 $ | For the year ended November 30 |
| 2006
$ | 2005
$ | 2004
$ |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Assays | | 335 | | - | | 335 | | - |
Camp and Field costs | | 147,024 | | - | | - | | - |
Consulting fees | | 190,273 | | - | | 10,359 | | 125,948 |
Drilling | | 210,057 | | - | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering (recovery) | | 419,891 | | 893 | | 2,194 | | (11,624) |
Travel | | 322,529 | | - | | 12 | | 20,489 |
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| | 1,290,109 | | 893 | | 12,900 | | 134,813 |
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Recoveries | | (52,497) | | (4,000) | | (3,000) | | (8,000) |
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Sales of mineral property interests | | (55,000) | | - | | - | | - |
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Write-off of mineral properties and related costs | | 220,552 | | - | | - | | - |
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| | 1,403,164 | | (3,107) | | 9,900 | | 126,813 |
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The Longtom Property is located 50 km southeast of Great Bear Lake, NT.
The area comprising the property was not explored in detail until 1985 when Central Electricity Generating Board Exploration (Canada) Ltd. ("CEGB") conducted a three-year intensive program.
This exploration led to the discovery of the Damp polymetallic prospect and the Maia and DW uranium showings on the Longtom Property. In 1986, CEGB mapped the Damp-Fog grid in detail and conducted detailed radiometric, magnetic and VLF-EM surveys over the area. The mineralized outcrops were sampled by chipping and coring with a hand drill. Soil samples were taken in the overburden-covered part of the grid. The data was compiled on 1:1000 scale maps. Additional prospecting and geological mapping on scale 1:12500 were conducted in the surrounding area.
The 1988 exploration program on the Longtom Property included drilling of 1,016 meters in 16 holes at the Damp-Fog grid. The drilling comprised 12 holes totalling 808 meters on the exposed part of the Damp breccia zone and its strike projection to the east, two holes totalling 104 m on a conductor zone at the northwest end of Seahorse Lake and one hole of 52 meters on the Fog and DW uranium showings.
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Surface working during 1988 on an island and west shore of Devil's Lake resulted in the discovery of showings containing significant amounts of copper, molybdenum, cobalt, gold, silver, arsenic and nickel. Most of the showings were magnetite-bearing veins, but one occurrence of copper/molybdenum appears to be granite-related or porphyry copper-type. The results of the exploration were regarded as not sufficiently encouraging in view of declining uranium prices at that time. Consequently, CEGB allowed the prospecting permits to lapse, but retained the Damp claim.
In 1996, Mongolia Gold acquired the Longtom Property and conducted a surface exploration program that included examination of old and new showings, a resampling of the Damp breccia zone and an airborne multiparameter geophysical survey of the property. Channel cut sampling of the Damp breccia zone confirmed the polymetallic nature of the prospect, but gold assays were somewhat lower than the corresponding ones reported by CEGB. Prospecting and trenching in the Devil's Lake area revealed extensions of gold-bearing arsenopyrite veins, adding to the exploration potential of the area.
Mongolia Gold drilled four holes totalling 944.6 meters on the Damp breccia zone in early 1997; three of the holes intersected mineralization. The drilling extended the copper-cobalt-silver-uranium-gold-bismuth mineralization to 150 meters, deeper than tested previously. The mineralized zone is open at depth. The drilling also encountered several mineralized intersections in other previously unknown parts of the breccia zone.
Upon optioning the Longtom Property in 1998, we conducted a Phase I exploration program on the property consisting of 157 km of line cutting on a control grid covering a 12 km long "target belt," originating at the Damp showing. A follow-up ground magnetic survey was also completed which more precisely defines the magnetic anomalies on the showing.
In October 2002, we conducted a gravity survey of the Longtom Property to detect potential anomalies caused by the presence of iron oxide, copper and gold mineralization. The ground-helicopter supported gravity survey was conducted over selected portions of the 7,948.84 hectares claim-block. The data obtained from the survey is complimented by gravity data collected for Hudson's Bay Exploration and Development Co. Ltd. in 2000 along the shores of Longtom Lake, and by a comprehensive regional 10 km by 10 km gravity survey completed by the Geological Survey of Canada. The objective of the survey was to map the distribution of large masses of variable density.
A total of 243 detailed gravity stations were recorded at 500 m and some detail infill stations at 250 m. The gravity survey confirmed the extent of what may be economic mineralization along a large structurally controlled faulting system. The results show two significant 2.5-3.0 milligal gravity anomalies. These two gravity anomalies are coincident with the strong magnetic anomalies. The gravity anomalies occur along a 7.5 km long trend and are up to 1.5 km in width. Combined gravity, magnetic and radiometric anomalies are a common targeting criterion for iron-oxide/copper/gold mineralization, a necessary component used to identify an economic ore body.
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In 2003, we conducted a 12 hole, 2,634 m drill program on the Longtom Property. Two hundred forty three drill core samples were analyzed for 36 elements by a registered analytical laboratory using standard assay techniques. Drill testing confirmed the polymetallic nature of the property with appreciable copper, gold, cobalt, silver, uranium and iron over considerable areas. Additional drilling is recommended to determine whether or not the Longtom Property hosts economic uranium mineralization.
On September 14, 2004, we announced that drilling had intersected high-grade uranium mineralization. During July and early August 2004, Fronteer completed a nine hole NQ diamond drilling program, realizing 2,132 meters of drilling designed to target iron oxide copper gold ("IOCG") style mineralization, during which high grade uranium mineralization was found. Fronteer's drilling intersected 1.68% U3O8 over three meters and 0.16% U3O8 over one meter at a depth of 51 meters in the same hole.
Previous drill programs by other operators had previously intersected high-grade uranium. Specifically, within a 300 meters radius of the Fronteer drilling, eight past drilling holes had intersected uranium mineralization. Based on these historical results, there is an implied near-surface uranium system of size and high-grade potential.
In January 2005, Fronteer carried out a five-day reconnaissance program to re-examine drill core from past operations. Fronteer planned for no work on the Longtom Property in 2005 as of the publications of their 2004 annual report, stipulating that any work done would be carried out by Northwestern Mineral Ventures, with whom Fronteer had signed a letter of agreement pertaining to an interest in the Longtom Property, on May 25, 2004.
During fiscal 2006, we let the following nine property claims lapse:
Claim Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
WET 1 | | F59401 | | 376.24 |
WET 2 | | F59402 | | 689.77 |
WET 3 | | F59403 | | 940.59 |
WET 4 | | F59404 | | 522.55 |
WET 5 | | F59405 | | 1,003.30 |
WET 6 | | F59406 | | 1,003.30 |
DEV 1 | | F59422 | | 1,024.20 |
DEV 2 | | F48179 | | 1,024.20 |
DEV 3 | | F49139 | | 1,003.30 |
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A summary of our Damp mineral lease claim can be found below:
Claim Name | | Tag Number | | |
DAMP | | ML3759 | | 361.38 |
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7. Longtom Property (Target 1) - Longtom Lake, NT
In the year ended November 30, 2003, we acquired a 50% interest in the Longtom Property (Target 1) for issuing 200,000 of our common shares to the vendor and by paying $15,000. The claim is located on the east side of Longtom Lake and covers 721.42 ha (1,781.90 acres). Figure 15 shows the Target 1 claim boundaries. Figure 16 shows the geology of the Longtom Properties.
This area is part of what is known as the Great Bear Magmatic Zone (Figure 13), a north-trending belt 350 km long and 120 km wide, 350 km southeast of Yellowknife that experiences long, cold winters and short, warm summers.
Travel to the Target 1 claim can be accessed via aircraft. As of December 31, 2004, it was known that no electricity was available at the site and that surface water was plentiful within the boundaries of the property. No known mineralization had been found in this target, nor were there any known resources or reserves; sufficiency of surface rights and availability of power, water, tailings storage and waste disposal areas, heap leach pad sites and potential processing plant sites had not been addressed.
The potential of the Target 1 claim is based upon our exploration results of the Longtom Property.
Total expenditures related to the Longtom Property (Target 1) can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 $ | For the year ended November 30 |
| 2006
$ | 2005
$ | 2004
$ |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Consulting fees | | 21,648 | | - | | 9,468 | | 12,180 |
Geology and engineering | | 2,103 | | - | | 2,103 | | - |
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| | 23,751 | | - | | 11,571 | | 12,180 |
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Acquisition of mineral property interests | | 71,000 | | - | | - | | - |
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Recoveries | | (3,530) | | - | | (3,530) | | - |
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| | 91,221 | | - | | 8,041 | | 12,180 |
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A summary of our claim can be found below:
Claim Name | | Tag Number | | Acreage |
TARGET 1 | | F71013 | | 1,781.90 |
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8. MacInnis Lake Property - MacInnis Lake, Northwest Territories
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% interest in twelve mineral claims called the MacInnis Lake Uranium Claims for cash payments of $60,000 (paid) and the issuance of 300,000 of our common shares (issued and valued at $70,500). The claims, depicted in figure 17 are subject to a 2% NSR. The claims are comprised of 7,670.07 ha (18,945.07 acres). We are able to purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
We also acquired a 100% interest in three additional claims, totalling 2,926.28 ha (7,227.91 acres) and adjacent to the MacInnis Lake Property, subject to a 2% NSR, payment of $40,000 (paid) and issuing 350,000 of our shares (issued and valued at $87,500). After completion of both of the transactions, the MacInnis Lake Property covers 10,596.35 ha (26,172.98 acres).
In 2005, we also entered onto an option agreement with Max Resource Corp. ("Max Resource"), whereby Max Resource may earn up to a 50% undivided, right, title and interest in the MacInnis Lake Property by paying us $30,000 cash ($15,000 paid), issuing us 200,000 common shares of their company (received and valued at $82,000) and completing $2 million in exploration work over five years according to the following schedule:
- Pay $15,000 on signing (received);
- Pay $15,000 and incur exploration expenditures of $750,000 ($319,748 to date) by April 1, 2006;
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $1,000,000 by April 1, 2007;
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $1,250,000 by April 1, 2008;
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $1,500,000 by April 1, 2009; and
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $2,000,000 by April 1, 2010.
In addition to the above, Max Resource is responsible for all cash payments to the underlying property vendor during the option period. We are the operator of the project and as such, incur all costs and recover the costs from Max Resource until such time as Max Resource has earned into the project.
We have halted exploration activities on this property pending resolution and governmental clarification of permit issues in this region.
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Our expenditures related to the MacInnis Lake Property can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 $ | For the year ended November 30 |
| 2006 $ | 2005 $ | 2004 $ |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Consulting fees | | 71,026 | | 1,500 | | 69,526 | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 12,176 | | 1,731 | | 10,445 | | - |
Surveying | | 213,025 | | - | | 213,025 | | - |
Travel | | 8,734 | | - | | 8,734 | | - |
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| | 304,961 | | 3,231 | | 301,730 | | - |
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Acquisition costs | | 258,000 | | - | | 258,000 | | - |
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Recoveries | | (349,748) | | (15,000) | | (334,748) | | - |
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| | 213,213 | | (11,769) | | 224,982 | | - |
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The MacInnis Lake uranium block is located in the Nonacho Basin, 150 km northeast of Fort Smith, which is 275 km southeast of Yellowknife, NT. The area contains 28 known high-grade uranium showings, discovered between 1954 and 1988, by previous explorers Cominco, Shell, PNC and Uranerz. The basin itself is a sandstone terrain of the Proterozoic age, geographically analogous with the Athabasca Basin in Northwest Saskatchewan.
In June 2005, an airborne survey was completed of the area by Fugro Airborne Surveys, with a focus on uranium deposits discovery and a emphasis on unconformity related deposits. The surveys covered 950 line km along east-west orientation, with 200 meters spacings, using a specially modified Dash-7 aircraft. Max Resources also planned regional mapping, trenching, review of archived drill data and follow up ground geophysics. Diamond drilling will commence upon receipt of the necessary permits.
A summary of our claims can be found below:
Name | | Tag Number | | Size (ha) |
KULT 2 | | F90257 | | 1,045.10 |
KULT 3 | | F90258 | | 1,045.10 |
KULT 4 | | F70809 | | 836.08 |
KULT 5 | | F90260 | | 1,045.10 |
INN 2 | | F79832 | | 167.22 |
INN 3 | | F79833 | | 250.74 |
INN 4 | | F79834 | | 940.59 |
INN 5 | | F67474 | | 940.59 |
INN 6 | | F79836 | | 652.98 |
INN 7 | | F79837 | | 1,024.20 |
INN 8 | | F79838 | | 1,003.30 |
INN 9 | | F79839 | | 42.20 |
INN 10 | | F79840 | | 235.43 |
INN 11 | | F79808 | | 1,024.00 |
INN 12 | | F79809 | | 343.72
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Contact Lake - Eldorado Area Geological Setting
1. Regional Geology
Adapted from Hildebrand, 1981; Hildebrand et al.1987; and Hoffman and Hall, 1993
The Port Radium-Echo Bay Project is located in the northern portion of the Great Bear Magmatic Zone (GBMZ), part of the Bear Structural Province of the Canadian Shield (Figure 18). The Bear province covers some 40,000 square kilometres (100 x 400 km) and consists of the gneissic Coronation Geosyncline to the east, and the GBMZ to the west, with the long-lived, polyphase Wopmay Deformation Zone (WDZ) separating the two terranes (Hildebrand, 1986) (Figure 19). This orogenic zone developed on the western side of the Archean Slave craton between 2.1 and 1.8 Ga. Hoffman (1980a) divided the Wopmay Deformation Zone into four distinct tectonic zones: (1) a thin autochthonous cratonic cover and foreland basal sequence overlies the northwestern area of the Slave Craton (2) the Asiak fold and thrust belt of of continental shelf and carbonate sequences overthrust on the Craton (3) the Hepburn orthotectonic zone of deformed rift sediment-volcanic sequences intruded by post tectonic S-type plutons (4) the little deformed GBMZ, of subgreenschist facies volcano-sedimentary sequences intruded by I-type plutons. The GBMZ is onlapped by platformal Paleozoic cover sequences to the west. The Port Radium-Echo Bay Property is situated in the western part of the GBMZ.
The Hottah Terrane is a basement continental calc-alkaline volcano-plutonic arc and associated sedimentary rocks which formed above an eastward subducting plate along the western margin of the Slave Province (Hildebrand et al. 1987; Clowes, 1997). The volcano-sedimentary rocks of this terrane were cut by calc-alkaline biotite-hornblende bearing plutons with ages ranging from 1.914 Ga to 1.902 Ga.. A depositional prism of geosynclinal shelf and slope sediments (Epworth, Snare and Akaitcho Groups) of the Coronation Supergroup formed at the edge of the continental margin and at about 1.90 Ga, arc magmatism stopped and a bimodal suite of submarine volcanic rocks erupted onto the block faulted and subsided sediments of the margin. This tectono-magmatic episode lasted only 5-10 Ma, related to intra-arc extension which also generated a marginal basin originally to the east of the Hottah arc. The basin filled with siliciclastic and carbonate rocks overlying the volcanic succession and lapping on to the Slave craton to the east.
Within 5-10 Ma, the sedimentary basin was simultaneously shortened and intruded by peraluminous to metalumious plutons of the Hepburn intrusive suite (1.896-1.879 Ma). The shortening resulted in detachment and eastward thrusting of the imbricated basinal sediments into the Calderian accretionary wedge forming the Asiak Fold belt in the east and the Hepburn plutonic and metamorphic zone (Turmoil Klippe) in the west part of the former basin. As the hot plutons of the Hepburn suite were emplaced over the colder authochton of the western Slave craton, inverted metamorphic isograds developed.
The 1.878 Ga closure of the marginal basin resulted in the initiation and growth of the 1.876 -1.850 Ga continental, arc complex of the GBMZ at the suture between the Hottah arc to the west and the Hepburn suite to the east. The Great Bear Magmatic Zone is a 400 meter long x 100 meter wide corridor which is the product of the final stages of continental volcanism and related plutonic activity.
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It consists of low titanium/high aluminum calc-alkaline volcano-plutonic rocks which have been intruded by a suite of hornblende and biotite bearing plutons of similar age (Hoffman and Bowring, 1984; Hildebrand and Bowring, 1084). The thick supracrustal sequences are referred to as the McTavish Supergroup, and consist of sub-greenschist facies, calc-alkaline andesitic to rhyolitic volcanic, volcaniclastic and sedimentary rocks, which have been interpreted as remnants of ancient stratovolcanoes and the products of caldera collapse (Hildebrand, 1984).
The occurrence of these sequences as isolated roof pendants within larger batholiths of the GBMZ hinders regional stratigraphic correlations between widely spaced regions. The northern part of the GBMZ is underlain by a 10 km thick section of supracrustal rocks of the MacTavish Supergroup, which comprises three Groups: the Labine, Dumas and Sloan, in ascending order. The southern part of the GBMZ is underlain by a 5 km thick section of the Faber Group, which has been interpreted as broadly correlatable with the Sloan Group. These units occupy the central core of the GBMZ, and are flanked to the west and east, by rocks of the Labine and Dumas Groups, respectively. Cannuli (1989) also suggested that the Labine and Dumas may be broadly correlative and that the distribution of supracrustal sequences define a regional scale syncline within the GBMZ volcano-plutonic complex. Ghandi (1994) noted that synvolcanic quartz monzonitic plutons within the stratigraphy of both the Labine and Faber Groups were closely coeval; however, the predominantly basaltic and less andesitic strata of the Labine Group contrasts with the more felsic strata of the Faber and Sloan Groups. The Faber Group volcanic sequences were suggested to be texturally and chemically similar to products formed in anorogenic extensional settings, such as in the Missouri granite-rhyolite terrane and the Gawler ranges of South Australia, rather than a subduction setting (Ghandi, 1994).
The Labine Group, which represents the main magmatic arc in the western part of the GBMZ, consists of a 7 km thick section of volcanic-derived rocks which is exposed in the Port Radium-Echo Bay area. The Labine Group consists of the lower Port Radium Formation and the overlying Echo Bay and Cameron Bay Formations, which collectively define a minimum of two caldera collapse sequences. The rocks of the Labine Group have been intruded along a minimum of two stratigraphic levels, by intermediate plutons and largely concordant sills of the Mystery Island Intrusive Complex. The lower sheet includes the Bertrand and Mystery Island plutons and the upper sheet includes the Contact Lake and Glacier/Tut plutons. These intrusive typically have pronounced zoned alteration haloes within the intrusions and/or their flanking host rocks. Large, felsic syn- to post-volcanic, granite to monzonite plutons of the Great Bear batholith also intrude this sequence. These intrusions have locally developed hornfels aureoles but lack the strong alteration associated with the earlier intermediate sills.
The cessation of volcanism in the GBMZ may have been the result of subduction of an oceanic spreading ridge or other high topographic features such as remnant arcs. Gravity studies have suggested the presence of another arc further to the west (Fort Simpson arc) existed on the western side of the ocean, and now under Paleozoic cover. The cessation of arc magmatism due to ridge subduction is common to Mesozoic-Cenozoic volcanic arcs worldwide, such as in South America, where the Chile Rise and Nazca Ridge were subducted into the Peru-Chile Trench and in California, where the East Pacific Rise was subducted under North America (Hildebrand, et al. 1987). Such an event may also have resulted in a change in plate motion in the GBMZ, to transpression (dextral wrenching) and folding oblique to the original subduction direction (Bowring, 1984). As a result, the concordant plutons and their host rocks were folded around NW trending axes at about 1.843 Ga (Bowring, 1984), exposing the plutons and their altered waIlrocks in oblique cross-section.
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Post-dating the development of the northwest trending folds, large, discordant, epizonal, biotite bearing granites and quartz diorites were emplaced between about 1.858 and 1.843 Ga (Bowring and van Schmus, 1987), formed as a result of melting due to crustal thickening from folding (Hildebrand et al, 1987). Bodies of this syenogranitic suite are also offset by continued movement on a swarm of later transcurrent, predominantly north to northeast trending faults. These structures were developed as a result of east-west shortening which generated the northeast trending, dextral strike-slip structures (Hoffman, 1980; Hildebrand et al., 1987). Evidence of plutonism in this setting is noted as swarms of related northeast trending dykes.
Movement on these northeast faults is related to displacement on north-south, transcurrent fault zones, parallel to the Wopmay Deformation Zone. Displacement along these structures continued after the development of the igneous and sedimentary rock assemblages in the GBMZ, commonly resulting in kilometre scale offset of units.
The northeast trending faults are also cut by Cleaver diabase (Hoffman, 1984; Hildebrand, 1982), and both are unconformably overlain by the sedimentary basin of the 1.663 Ga Hornby Bay Group (McGrath and Hildebrand, 1984; Bowring and Ross, 1985) . Hildebrand (1988) noted that many of the northeasterly faults were reactivated during a period of normal faulting which occurred during the late stages of, or after, the deposition of the Hornby Bay Group (Hildebrand, 1988). Gabbro sills known as Western Channel diabase are considered to be the youngest rocks in the area (Hildebrand, 1982).
2. Local Geology
Adapted from Hoffman & McGlynn, 1977;Hildebrand, 1981; Reardon, 1992; Robinson & Ohmoto, 1971. The geology of the Port Radium-Echo Bay area, as shown in Figure 15, has been compiled from mapping completed by Hildebrand, 1981 and Reardon, 1992.
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Stratigraphy
The Port Radium-Echo Bay area is underlain by volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Labine Group, which is subdivided into 3 main formations: Port Radium, Echo Bay, Cameron Bay (Table 2). These are further subdivided into members which represent two main eruptive caldera phases: an early phase characterized by relatively gas-poor eruptions of andesitic lavas (Port Radium and Echo Bay Formations) and a younger, more gas-charged phase of voluminous siliceous volcanics and volcaniclastics (within the Cameron Bay and Feniak Formations) (Hildebrand, 1981). The stratigraphy can be locally isolated into distinct calderas, 3 to 5 km in diameter. The two cycles of caldera collapse, resurgence and intermediate plutonism are characterized by cone facies andesite, marr diatreme breccias and caldera fill sediments.
Lithogeochemical studies indicate that the Labine sequence is high in potassium (K), calc-alkaline belt of stratavolcanoes similar to Andean continental arc sequences (Ewart and LeMaitre, 1980). The sequence has only been subjected to low grade metamorphism (zeolite facies), with local contact metamorphic effects (i.e. hornfels) noted in supracrustal rocks flanking large plutons of the Great Bear Batholith series.
The Eldorado & Contact Lake IOCG & Uranium Projects 2007 Explorations Program
Proposed personnel requirements and budgets for the 2007 drilling and exploration programs are illustrated in the Tables below.
| | # Personnel | | Days |
Diamond Drillers (three drills) | | 12 | | 120 |
Drill Foreman | | 1 | | 120 |
Geologists - Drill support | | 4 | | 120 |
Core samplers, splitters, sawers, geo-assistants | | 6 | | 120 |
Field Geologists - experienced | | 4 | | 75 |
Student geo-assistants | | 3 | | 75 |
Geophysics crew | | 4 | | 60 |
Line cutters | | 4 | | 50 |
Cook | | 2 | | 120 |
Camp, Logistics, Project Handyman | | 1 | | 120 |
Helicopter Pilot | | 2 | | 120 |
Miscellaneous Project Support (helicopter-mechanic, Government geologists, remote sensing mechanics, etc) | | 2 - 4 | | variable |
Visitors (Alberta-Star, investors, community leaders, etc) | | 2 - 4 | | variable |
Project Manager | | 1 | | 120 |
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Total | | 50 | | |
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The Eldorado & Contact Lake IOCG & Uranium Projects 2007 - Budget
Field Geology | | |
| Geologists, line cutting | | 2,000,000 |
| Reconnaissance mapping, sampling, ground I.P. | | |
| Detailed mapping and sampling, geological support | | |
Geophysics | | |
| IP and surveying | | 300,000 |
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Camp and Logistics, Fixed-wing Air Support | | |
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Diamond Drilling | | |
| 30,000 meters (80-90 holes) | | |
| Sampling and assaying | | |
| Helicopter support | | 5,800,000 |
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Program Total | | $15,000,000 |
Mineral Claim and Lease Claim Payments in the Northwest Territories
In order to retain property title or mineral claims in the Northwest Territories, the Company must file at least $4 per acre during the two-year period immediately following the date the claim is recorded. In respect to the representation of work, the types of undertakings on the claims are as follows:
- Drilling
- Trenching
- Sinking shafts
- Geochemical and geophysical investigation made on the ground or by aircraft
- Surveyor claims must be proved by the surveyor general
- Work done in constructing roads and airstrips
The Company must pay annual payments to the federal government in order to maintain lease claims.
ITEM 4A - Unresolved Staff Comments
This item is not applicable as we are not an accelerated filer or a large accelerated filer or a well-seasoned issuer.
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ITEM 5 - Operating and Financial Review and Prospects
Our company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of resource properties. As we are currently in the exploration stage, we have had no operating revenue during the years ended November 30, 2006, 2005 and 2004. As of November 30, 2006, we have conducted exploration work on several properties located in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
This discussion and analysis of the operating results and financial position of our company for the three years ended November 30, 2006, 2005 and 2004 should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the related notes included in Item 17.
Exchange Rates
Transaction amounts denominated in foreign currencies are translated into functional currency at exchange rates prevailing at transaction dates.
Inflation
Based on prior history for at least the past two fiscal years, we do not believe that inflation will have a materially adverse effect on our financial condition. However, no assurance can be given that we will not experience a substantial increase in inflation.
Financial Instruments and Other Instruments
Fair Value
The fair value of cash and cash equivalents, amounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates their carrying value due to the short-term nature of these financial instruments. The fair value of available for sale investments is equivalent to market value, although available for sale investments are carried at the lower of cost or market value.
Exchange Risk
We operate in Canada and so are not subject to foreign currency risk arising from changes in exchange rates with other currencies.
Interest Rate Risk
We are exposed to interest rate risk on our short-term investments, but this risk relates only to investments held to fund future activities and does not affect our current operating activities.
Credit Risk
We place our temporary investment funds with Government and bank debt securities and are subject to minimal credit risk with regard to temporary investments.
We do not have any risk associated with other instruments, as in those that may be settled by the delivery of non-financial assets.
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A. Operating Results
Year ended November 30, 2006 compared to year ended November 30, 2005
We incurred a net loss of $13,060,169 under United States GAAP for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2006 as compared to a loss of $2,832,810 for fiscal 2005. The increase in our net loss in the 2006 fiscal year over 2005 can be attributed to the acceleration of our exploration costs, relating to our mineral property interests in the Northwest Territories, and in particular, to our Contact Lake Mineral Claims and Eldorado/Port Radium - Glacier Lake Mineral Claims, on which we spent a total of $8,359,925 and $844,582 respectively.
This increase in development activities incurred a corresponding increase in general and administration expenses for the year ended November 30, 2006 of $3,522,606; a total of $4,402,693 was spent in fiscal year 2006, as compared to $880,087 in the comparable period of 2005. This amount includes advertising and promotion costs of $247,563, office and miscellaneous costs of $181,523 and stock-based compensation, a non-cash expense, of $3,237,869. These costs in the 2005 comparable period were $124,842, $57,321 and $185,580, respectively, with notable increases in the areas of directors fees (2006 - $30,950, 2005 - $Nil), filing and financing fees (2006 - $93,387, 2005 - $56,587), legal and accounting expenses (2006 - $178,794, 2005 - $149,959), management fees (2006 - $135,000, 2005 - $60,000), rent and utilities expenses (2006 - $38,656, 2005 - $9,350) and transfer fees and shareholder information (2006 - $102,543, 2005 - $79,438); notable decreases between fiscal year 2006 versus 2005 were found in consulting fees which decreased by $16,448.
Contact Lake Mineral Claims
In the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest in five mineral claims totalling 1,801.02 ha (4,450.50 acres) in the Northwest Territories. During the year, we staked an additional 8,799.75 ha (21,735.38 acres) in the area and the Contact Lake Mineral Claims now consist of 16 contiguous claims.
In the year ended November 30, 2006, expenditures, net of recoveries, comprised of assays, camp and field costs, consulting fees, drilling, geology and engineering, surveying, transportation, travel and acquisition costs increased by $7,273,633 from the comparable period of 2005, to $8,359,925 from $1,086,292.
Port Radium - Glacier Lake Mineral Claims
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest in four mineral claims in the Northwest Territories, for cash payments of $30,000 and the issuance of 360,000 of our common shares.
In the year ended November 30, 2006, expenditures, net of recoveries, comprised of camp and field costs, consulting fees, geology and engineering, surveying, transportation, travel and acquisition costs increased by $742,582 from the comparable period of 2005, to $844,582 from $102,000.
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Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest in five mineral claims in the Northwest Territories for cash payments of $60,000 and the issuance of 450,000 of our common shares.
Total expenditures related to this property consist solely of acquisition costs of $357,000 from November 30, 2005.
Port Radium - Eldorado Mineral Claims (Uranium Lease Claims)
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we entered into a lease agreement to purchase a 50% undivided right, title and interest in three mineral claims in the Northwest Territories, for cash payment of $20,000.
Total expenditures related to this property consist solely of acquisition costs of $20,000 from November 30, 2005.
North Contact Lake Mineral Claims
During the year ended November 30, 2006, we acquired a 100% right, title and interest in eleven mineral claims in the Northwest Territories for cash payments of $75,000 and the issuance of 250,000 of our common shares.
Total expenditures related to this property consist solely of acquisition costs of $257,000 from November 30, 2005.
Longtom Property
During the year ended November 30, 2003, we acquired a 50% undivided interest in the Longtom Property, located about 350 km northwest of Yellowknife, in the NT.
During the year ended November 30, 2006, our operating costs for the property decreased to $893 from $12,900 for the year ended November 30, 2005, pursuant to our entering into a letter of intent with Fronteer. Fronteer will be the operator of the Longtom Property through its payment to us of $15,000 cash (received) and by spending an aggregate of $500,000 (incurred) on exploration expenditures over the three year period from October 27, 2004 to October 27, 2006.
In the year ended November 30, 2006, expenditures, net of recoveries, comprised of assays, consulting fees, geology and engineering and travel declined by $13,007 from the comparable period of 2005, to a recovery of $3,107 from an expenditure of $9,900.
Longtom Property (Target 1)
During the year ended November 30, 2003, we acquired a 50% interest in a mineral property located in the Longtom Lake area of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
In the year ended November 30, 2006, expenditures, net of recoveries, comprised of consulting fees and geology and engineering expenses declined by $8,041 from the comparable period of 2005, to $Nil.
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MacInnis Lake Property
During the year ended November 30, 2005, we acquired a 100% interest in a total of 15 mineral claims southeast of Yellowknife, NT. During the same period, we entered into an agreement with Max Resource, whereby Max Resource may earn up to a 50% interest in all of the claims by paying us $30,000 in cash, issuing us 200,000 shares in their company and expending $2 million in exploration work over a five year period, beginning April 1, 2006. In addition, Max Resource is responsible for all cash payments the to the underlying property vendor for the option period.
In the year ended November 30, 2006, expenditures, net of recoveries, comprised of consulting fees, geology and engineering, surveying, travel and acquisition costs declined by $236,751 from the comparable period of 2005, to a recovery of $11,769 from an expenditure of $224,982.
Abandoned Properties
During the year ended November 30, 2006, we abandoned our interest in two additional properties: the Longtom Property Target 2 - Longtom Lake, NT; and the Meridian Lake Property - Reliance, NT. Expenditures, net of recoveries, for the year ended November 30, 2006 for these two properties were $Nil and $Nil, respectively, as compared to $8,041 and $10,000, respectively, for the year ended November 30, 2005.
During 2007 we plan to continue with acquiring and exploring new and existing claims and disposing of claims that we find geologically insignificant.
Year ended November 30, 2005 compared to year ended November 30, 2004
We incurred a net loss of $2,832,810 under United States GAAP for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2005 as compared to a loss of $1,889,340 for fiscal 2004. The increase in our net loss in the 2005 fiscal year over 2004 can be attributed to the acceleration of our acquisition and exploration costs, relating to our mineral property interests in the Northwest Territories, and in particular, to our Contact Lake Property, on which we spent a total of $1,086,292.
This increase in development activities incurred a corresponding increase in general and administration expenses for the year ended November 30, 2005 of $238,058; a total of $880,087 was spent in fiscal year 2005, as compared to $642,029 in the comparable period of 2004. This amount includes advertising and promotion costs of $124,842, legal and accounting fees of $149,959, transfer fees and shareholder information costs of $79,438, office and miscellaneous costs of $57,321, consulting fees of $43,900 and management fees of $60,000. These costs in the 2004 comparable period were $142,905, $106,587, $78,332, $70,547, $66,528 and $60,000, respectively, with notable increases in the areas of bank charges and interest (2005 - $8,146, 2004 - $3,967), filing and financing fees (2005 - $56,587, 2004 - $28,280), legal and accounting expenses (2005 - $149,959, 2004 - $106,587) and stock based compensation expenses (2005 - $185,580, 2004 - $Nil); notable decreases between fiscal year 2005 versus 2004 were found in office and miscellaneous expenses, a decrease of $13,226.
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Year Ended November 30, 2004 Compared to Year Ended November 30, 2003
We incurred a net loss of $1,889,340 under United States GAAP for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2004 as compared to a loss of $2,043,936 for fiscal 2003. The decrease in net loss is primarily a result of a deferred tax recovery in 2004 of $141,100 relating to the issue of flow-through shares. At November 30, 2004, we had working capital of $2,056,476 as opposed to $209,163 at November 30, 2003.
B. Liquidity and Capital Resources
General
Since our incorporation, we have financed our operations almost exclusively through the sale of our common shares to investors. As we are a mining exploration and development company with no producing resource properties, we do not generate operating income or cash flow from our business operations. Until a significant body of ore is found, our working capital requirements are not significant, and we expect to continue to finance operations through the sale of equity in fiscal 2007. There is no guarantee that we will be successful in arranging financing on acceptable terms.
To a significant extent, our ability to raise capital is affected by trends and uncertainties beyond our control. These include the market prices for base and precious metals and results from our exploration programs. Our ability to attain our business objectives may be significantly impaired if prices for metals such as gold and uranium fall or if results from our intended exploration programs on our properties are unsuccessful.
At November 30, 2006, we had cash on hand of $30,149,153, available for sale investments of $72,000, amounts receivable of $358,427 and prepaid expenses of $111,016; liabilities consisted of accounts payable and accrued liabilities totalling $465,922. Amounts for the comparable period of 2005 were $11,841,868, $82,000, $40,843, $Nil and $79,588 representing cash on hand, available for sale investments, amounts receivable, prepaid expenses and liabilities consisting of accounts payable and accrued liabilities, respectively.
At November 30, 2006, we had working capital of $30,224,674. During fiscal 2006, we generated $6,987,056 through the exercise of outstanding warrants and incentive stock options, though we spent $1,218,894 in relation to share issuance costs. Management has estimated that we will have adequate funds from existing working capital to meet our corporate, administrative and property obligations for the coming year. If we are to advance or develop our mineral properties further, it will be necessary to obtain additional financing and while we have been successful in the past, there can be no assurance that we will be able to do so in the future.
We do not have any loans outstanding at this time.
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Financing Activities
A total of $28,065,162 in equity was raised in fiscal 2006. A summary of the components of the funds raised in 2006 and the two prior years is as follows:
| 2006 $ | 2005 $ | 2004 $ |
Issuance of common shares | -- | 3,460,875 | -- |
Issuance of flow-through shares | 16,556,290 | 2,936,950 | 2,695,560 |
Issuance of Warrants | 5,740,710 | 4,102,176 | 544,720 |
Warrants exercised | 6,467,056 | 1,361,462 | 784,492 |
Options exercised | 520,000 | 355,149 | 40,600 |
Share issuance costs | (1,218,894) | (341,022) | (217,898) |
| 28,065,162 | 11,875,590 | 3,847,474 |
The particulars of all capital raising transactions for the last two years are detailed below. Proceeds of these financings have been used for exploration and for development expenditures (only when and if warranted) in connection with our mineral projects, for working capital and for acquisition of additional projects.
- On April 25, 2006, we issued 5,500,000 units at a price of $1.85 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half-share purchase warrant. Each share purchase entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.10 up to October 25, 2007. At November 30, 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants remained outstanding. All of these common shares were issued as flow-through shares under the Income Tax Act (Canada) and were not yet renounced to the investors at November 30, 2006.
- On October 18, 2006, we issued 6,380,000 units at a price of $1.90 per unit. Each unit consist of one common share and one half-share purchase warrant. Each share purchase entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.15 up to April 17, 2008. At November 30, 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants remained outstanding. All of these common shares were issued as flow-through shares under the Income tax Act (Canada) and were not yet renounced to the investors at November 30, 2006.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 227,500 common shares valued at a price of $0.55 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30 2006, no share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 683,500 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. During the year ended November 30, 2006, a total of 100,000 share purchase warrants expired. As at November 30, 2006, no share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
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- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 1,853,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2006, no share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 3,155,550 common shares valued at a price of $0.75 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2006, 1,844,450 share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 1,228,750 common shares valued at a price of $0.65 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2006, 6,271,250 share purchase warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 21,581 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at November 30, 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 51,622 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at November 30, 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 200,468 common shares valued at a price of $0.36 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at November 30, 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 106,396 common shares valued at a price of $0.36 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at November 30, 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 656,787 common shares valued at a price of $0.65 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at November 30, 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 1,985,664 units valued at a price of $0.45 per unit upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. Each unit consists of one common share and one half purchase warrant (the "Additional Share Purchase Warrant"). Each whole Additional Share Purchase Warrant can be used to purchase an additional common share of the Company of $0.75 up to September 20, 2007. As at November 30, 2006, 9,336 agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 935,691 common shares valued at a price of $0.75 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at November 30, 2006, 57,142 agent compensation warrants in this series remained outstanding.
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- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 1,550,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.20 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding stock options. As at November 30, 2006, 300,000 stock options in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, we issued 350,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.60 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding stock options. As at November 30, 2006, 2,900,000 stock options in this series remained outstanding.
- On December 5, 2005, we issued 250,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.73 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests.
- On April 25, 2006 we issued 200,225 units at a price of $1.85 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half-purchase warrant. Each whole-share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.10 up to October 25, 2007. These units were issued for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. As at November 30, 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- On April 25, 2006, we issued 435,680 share purchase warrants. Each share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.15 up to October 25, 2007. These share purchase warrants were issued as consideration for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. As at November 30, 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- On October 18, 2006, we issued 508,296 share purchase warrants. Each share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.20 up to April 17, 2008. These share purchase warrants were issued as consideration for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. As at November 30, 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants in this series remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2006, a total of 10,000 previously outstanding stock options expired.
- On January 27, 2006, we issued 3,250,000 stock options. Each stock option entitles the holder to purchase a common share at a price of $0.60 up to January 27, 2009.
- On September 27, 2006, we issued 3,250,000 stock options. Each stock option entitles the holder to purchase a common share at a price of $1.57 up to January 27, 2008. As at November 30, 2006, all of the related stock options in this series remained outstanding.
- On September 20, 2005, we issued 10,000,000 units at a price of $0.45 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half share purchase warrant. Each whole-share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $0.75 up to September 20, 2007. At November 30, 2005, all of the related share purchase warrants remained outstanding. All of these common shares were issued as flow-through shares under the Income Tax Act (Canada) and were not yet renounced to the investors at November 30, 2005.
- On September 20, 2005, we issued 15,000,000 units at a price of $0.40 per unit, each consisting of one common share and one half-share purchase warrant. Each whole-share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $0.65 up to September 20, 2007. At November 30, 2005, all of the related share purchase warrants remained outstanding.
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- On September 20, 2005, we issued 1,313,574 units at a price of $0.40 per unit, each consisting of one common share and one half-purchase warrant. Each whole-share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $0.65 up to September 20, 2007. These units were issued for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. At November 30, 2005, all of the related share purchase warrants remained outstanding.
- On September 20, 2005, we issued 1,995,000 share purchase warrants, each entitling the holder to purchase an additional common share and one half-purchase warrant (the "Additional Share Purchase Warrant") at a price of $0.45 up to September 20, 2007. Each whole Additional Share Purchase Warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $0.75 up to September 20, 2007. These share purchase warrants were issued as consideration for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. At November 30, 2005, all of the related share purchase warrants remained outstanding.
- On February 21, 2005, we issued 300,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.235 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests.
- On March 21, 2005, we issued 350,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.25 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests.
- On May 6, 2005, we issued 300,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.24 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests.
- On July 13, 2005, we issued 360,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.20 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests.
- On October 20, 2005, we issued 450,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.66 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 937,667 common shares at a price of $0.20 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2005, no share purchase warrants to acquire common shares at a price of $0.20 per share remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 745,963 common shares at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2005, 2,636,500 share purchase warrants to acquire common shares at a price of $0.40 per share remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 1,130,000 common shares at a price of $0.55 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2005, 227,500 share purchase warrants to acquire common shares at a price of $0.55 per share remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 677,875 common shares at a price of $0.36 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2005, 306,864 share purchase warrants to acquire common shares at a price of $0.36 per share remained outstanding.
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- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 25,024 common shares at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at November 30, 2005, 73,203 share purchase warrants remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 72,808 common shares at a price of $0.14 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding options. As at November 30, 2005, a total of 10,000 options remained outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we issued 1,724,782 common shares at a price of $0.20 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding options. During the year ended November 30, 2005, a total of 150,000 outstanding options expired; a total of 1,850,000 options were outstanding.
- During the year ended November 30, 2005, we returned to treasury and cancelled 520,000 common shares issued in error.
Financial Instruments
All financial instruments we use are predominantly denominated in Canadian dollars. We do not engage in any hedging operations with respect to currency or in-situ minerals. Funds which are currently in excess of our current expenditures are invested in low risk, highly liquid investments with original maturations of three months or less.
Capital Expenditure Commitments
At November 30, 2006, we were not party to any capital expenditure commitments, though we do anticipate expenses to subcontractors over the eight-month period from April to October, 2007 of over $6.5 million, in relation to drilling fees and further exploration costs.
C. Research and Development, Patents and Licenses, etc.
This item is not applicable, as we do not conduct business requiring research and development activities.
D. Trend Information
As we are an exploration company with no producing properties, information regarding trends in: production, sales and inventory, and similar are not meaningful. We have recently acquired interests in properties and it is likely that we will expand our exploration activities. As a result, we expect that our company's operating losses will increase over the next 12 months.
E. Off-balance Sheet Arrangements
We have no off-balance sheet arrangements that would require disclosure.
F. Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations
In the year ended November 30, 2006, we were not party to any contractually obligated payments.
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G. Safe Harbour
Certain statements contained in this annual report may be viewed as "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the US Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual events, and/or the actual performance, financial condition or results of operations of our company to be materially different from any future performance, financial condition or results of operations implied by such forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these risks, uncertainties and other factors is included in this form 20-F under Item 3D and such other documents that we may file with the US SEC from time to time.
ITEM 6 - Directors, Senior Management and Employees
A. Directors and Senior Management
Directors
Name of Director | | | Age | | |
Tim Coupland | | 48 | | |
Michael Bogin | | 61 | |
Tracy A. Moore | | 53 | |
Robert Hall | | 29 |
Stuart Rogers | | 50 |
Executive Officers and Management
Name of Officer | | Age | | Office |
Tim Coupland | | 48 | | President, Chief Executive Officer |
Michael Bogin | | 61 | | Chief Financial Officer |
Robert Hall | | 29 | | Director |
Ann-Marie Cederholm | | 31 | | Corporate Secretary |
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The following describes the business experience of our directors and executive officers, including other directorships held in reporting companies:
Tim Coupland, President and Chief Executive Officer
Tim Coupland has acted as our President and Chief Executive Officer since September 14, 2000. Mr. Coupland has held numerous officer and directorship positions with TSX-V listed companies and OTCBB listed junior mining companies.
Since 1996, he has acted as President, Secretary and sole director of T8X Capital Ltd., a private British Columbia company involved in public company structuring and reorganization, preparing business plans, sourcing public and private financing and completing due diligence reviews of companies. Mr. Coupland acts as a director and officer of Dynamic Gold Corp. which is a reporting issuer in the U.S. He also acted as director of Anglo-Sierra Resources Corp., a non-reporting junior resource company whose shares were quoted on the OTCBB. Mr. Coupland was appointed director of Max Resource Corp. (TSX-V-MXR) (OTCBB-MXROF) on September 5, 2006.
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Mr. Coupland has over 20 years of business experience with both public and private companies and has been successfully involved in raising both debt and equity financings of over $50 million dollars. He brings expertise in raising equity capital and then assembling highly seasoned teams of professionals, consultants, financial consultants and mineral exploration advisors who have proven track records in financing, negotiation and promotion required to secure and develop successful mineral exploration projects. Mr. Coupland brings a wealth of technical and financial experience as well as long-term business relationships with many First Nations and Metis groups operating in Canada's Northwest Territories. Mr. Coupland has a Bachelor's degree in Geography from Simon Fraser University.
Michael Bogin, Chief Financial Officer
Michael Bogin has over 25 years of diversified experience in asset-based lending and raisings financings related to accounts receivable, inventory, equipment and real estate assets, trade financing, special purpose capital, mezzanine and equity transactions. Since November 2003, he has owned and operated North Brooklyn Capital, an investment banking entity in Toronto, which provides a range of financial solutions and consulting services for commercial enterprises and entrepreneurs in the public and private sectors, covering a variety of business segments.
From September 2002 to November 2003, he acted as vice president of asset based lending and factoring for Kingsdale Capital Corporation. From August 2000 to June 2002, he was employed as the business development manager for TCE Capital Corporation, a financing company based in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to this, Mr. Bogin acted as senior manager of Laurentian Bank of Canada (January 2000 to May 2000), vice president of originations for G.E. Capital Canada (August 1998 to January 2000) and vice president of Accord Business Credit Inc. (February 1995 to August 1998).
Robert Hall, Director of Field Operations
In September of 2006, Mr Hall joined us as a director. Mr. Hall holds a Bachelor's degree in Education from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Hall has over 14 years of industry experience, nine of which were in a senior management capacity, with the Keg Steakhouse Restaurants of Canada. His accomplishments as a senior manager included receiving the "Top Keg Restaurant Franchise Award" for all of Canada in 2005. Mr. Hall was the recipient of "The Franchise of the Year" award exemplifying excellence in all fields including sales, teamwork, leadership, human resources management, administration, financial analysis and the ability to follow the Keg Restaurants rigorous high standards of excellence.
Tracy A. Moore, Director
Tracy A. Moore is the president of MCSI Consulting Group, a Vancouver, BC-based firm he founded in 1990, specializing in corporate finance matters, strategic planning and business planning services. Between 1976 and 1990, Mr. Moore worked for three international accounting firms in restructuring, consulting and audit positions. In addition to his consulting practice, he has owned and operated a variety of businesses. He serves on boards of directors and advises boards on corporate finance matters, business planning issues, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
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In September of 2005, Mr. Moore joined us as a director. From June to December of 2005, he served as COO and a director of Mexoro Minerals Ltd. (OTCBB-MXOM), formerly known as Sunburst Acquisitions IV, Inc. (OTCBB); since December 2005, he has served as CFO and director. Mr. Moore resigned from his position as Chief Financial Officer on February 6, 2007 but still continues as a director. Mr. Moore also acts as director and Chief Financial Officer of New Legend Group Limited which came to trade on the TSX-Venture Exchange in 2006. (TSX-V-NLA. P) From January 2003 through February 2004, Mr. Moore served as a director of Buffalo Gold Ltd. (TSX-V-BUF). From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Moore acted as Chief Financial Officer and director of SHEP Technologies Inc. (OTCBB). From September 2000 to October 2002, he was a director of Illusion Systems, Inc. (TSX-V). From October 2000 to May 2002, he was a director of Avance Venture Capital (TSX-V).
Mr. Moore received a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and management information systems from the University of British Columbia in May 1976 and was admitted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in British Columbia in 1979.
Stuart Rogers, Director
In March 2007, Stuart Rogers joined us as a director. Mr. Rogers has been involved in the venture capital community since 1987. He is currently the President of West Oak Capital Group, Inc., a privately held investment banking firm specializing in early stage finance of technology projects through the junior capital markets in Canada and the United States, and has served as a director of client companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Small Capital Market and NASD OTC Bulletin Board. Currently Mr. Rogers acts as a director or officer of the following companies which are reporting issuers in Canada: MAX Resources Corp., Consolidated Global Cable Systems, Inc., Randsburg International Gold Corp., Mexivada Mining Corp., Prophecy Resource Corp., and IGC Resource Corp.
Ann-Marie Cederholm, Corporate Secretary
Ann-Marie Cederholm, CGA, joined our company in 2004 and currently serves as our Corporate Secretary. Ms. Cederholm graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor's degree in Education in 2006. Ms. Cederholm also received a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Royal Roads University in 1997. She was admitted as a member of the Certified General Accountants of British Columbia in 2003. Ms. Cederholm has a combined ten years of work experience in public practice and industry with a variety of companies.
Family Relationships
President and CEO Tim Coupland, and former Corporate Secretary Tamiko Coupland are married, though no other familial or marital relationships exist amongst our officers and directors.
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Arrangements
There are no arrangements or understandings between any of our directors or executive officers, and with our major shareholders, customers, suppliers or others, pursuant to which they were selected to be a director or executive officers.
B. Compensation
We are required, under applicable securities legislation in Canada, to disclose to our shareholders details of compensation paid to our directors. The following fairly reflects all material information regarding compensation paid to our directors in our fiscal year ended November 30, 2006.
We have no formal plan for compensating our directors for their services in their capacity as directors. The board of directors may award special remuneration to any director undertaking any special services on our behalf other than services ordinarily required of a director. Other than indicated below, no director received any compensation for his or her services as a director, including committee participation and/or special assignments.
2006 Summary Compensation Table
NAME AND PRINCIPAL POSITION | ANNUAL COMPENSATION | LONG-TERM COMPENSATION |
| Management Fees | Bonus | Other Annual Compen- sation(1) | Awards | LTIP payouts | Other |
| | | | Restricted Stocks | Options/ SARs(2) | | |
Tim Coupland President and CEO | $135,000(3) | Nil | Nil | Nil | 3,850,000(4) | Nil | $27,452(5) |
Michael Bogin Director | Nil | Nil | $7,500 | Nil | 50,000(4) | Nil | Nil |
Tracy A. Moore Director | Nil | Nil | $21,950 | Nil | 150,000(4) | Nil | Nil |
Robert Hall Director | Nil | Nil | $9,000 | Nil | 150,000(4) | Nil | Nil |
Notes: | |
| (1) | These amounts are accrued directors fees paid to entities controlled by the named director. |
| (2) | "Securities Under Options/SARs Granted" are grants made under the stock option plan of the Corporation. "SAR" means stock appreciation rights. |
| (3) | This amount represents the annual management fee paid to a company controlled by Mr. Coupland. |
| (4) | These options were granted on January 27, 2006 and September 27, 2006 and are vested and the options expire on January 27, 2009 and September 27, 2008 and are exercisable at $0.60 and $1.57 per share respectively. |
| (5) | Fee paid to a company controlled by Mr. Coupland for consulting and exploration services. |
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In accordance with our stock option plan, summarized below, we award the above members of the board of directors with the annual compensation, in the form of employee incentive stock options, as is set forth beside their names. Each option is exercisable from $0.60 to $1.57 per common share, exercisable for a maximum period of up to five years, excepting those terms, found below.
Stock Option Plan
Our stock option plan provides for equity participation by eligible directors, officers, employees and consultants through the acquisition of common shares pursuant to the grant of options. Our board of directors administers the plan. Options may be granted to purchase common shares on terms that the directors may determine, subject to the limitations of the stock option plan and the requirements of the TSX-Venture Exchange.
The following is a summary of the terms of the stock option plan and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the stock option plan which is available for review our offices:
- The number of common shares to be reserved and authorized for issuance, pursuant to options granted under the stock option plan, is 10% of our issued and outstanding common shares from time to time;
- Under the stock option plan, the aggregate number of optioned common shares granted to any one optionee in a 12-month period must not exceed 5% of the issued and outstanding common shares. The number of optioned common shares granted to any one consultant in a 12-month period must not exceed 2% of the issued and outstanding common shares. The aggregate number of optioned common shares granted to optionees who are employed to provide investor relations activities must not exceed 2% of our issued and outstanding common shares in any 12-month period;
- The exercise price for options granted under the our stock option plan will not be less than the market price of the common shares less applicable discounts permitted by the TSX-V;
- Options will be exercisable for a term of up to five years, subject to earlier termination in the event of death or the optionee's cessation of services to us; and
- Options granted under the stock option plan are non-assignable, except by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
See Item 6.E. - "Share Ownership of Director and Officers" for table setting out the stock options currently outstanding to our directors and officers.
Pension or Retirement Benefits
We do not have a pension, retirement fund or similar benefits plan or other arrangement for non-cash compensation to our directors or senior officers, with the exception of incentive stock options.
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C. Board Practices
General
Tim Coupland and Michael Bogin have acted as our directors since September 14, 2000. Tracy A. Moore was appointed as our director on September 2, 2005 and Robert Hall was appointed as our director on September 27, 2006. Stuart Rogers was appointed as our director on March 1, 2007. The directors hold office until the next annual general meeting of the shareholders, at which time they may stand for re-election. We are required to hold an annual general meeting once in every calendar year and not longer than fifteen months from the last annual general meeting.
Service Contracts
We are a party to a management contract with a private company owned by Tim Coupland whereby we pay him $5,000 per month for his management services, which effective February 1, 2006 was increased to $12,500 per month. . On February 22, 2007 this amount was increased to $16,667 per month, retroactive to January 1, 2007. The employment agreement with Mr. Coupland will contain provisions for stock options, benefits and entitlement of bonuses, severance payments and indemnity by the Company. Tracy A. Moore receives $1,000 per month for serving as a director paid to his private company. Michael Bogin will also receive $1,000 per month for serving as a director and Chief Financial Officer. No other directors have a service contract with us.
Committees
Our Board of Directors has one committee, an audit committee. We do not have a compensation or remuneration committee.
Our audit committee is comprised of Tim Coupland, Michael Bogin, Tracy A. Moore, Robert Hall and Stuart Rogers. The audit committee performs the following functions, among others:
- Directly appoints, retains and compensates our independent auditor and pre-approves all auditing and non-auditing services of the independent auditor;
- Evaluates the independent auditor's qualifications, performance and independence;
- Discusses the scope of the independent auditors' examination;
- Reviews and discusses the annual audited financial statements and quarterly financial statements with management and the independent auditor and the report of the independent auditor thereon;
- Assesses our accounting practices and policies;
- Reviews and approves of all related-party transactions, including transactions between our company and our officers or directors or affiliates of officers or directors;
- Develops, and monitors compliance with, a code of ethics for senior financial officers;
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- Develops, and monitors compliance with, a code of conduct for all our employees, officers and directors;
- Establishes procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters; and
- Establishes procedures for the confidential, anonymous submission by employees of concerns regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters.
The specific functions and responsibilities of the audit committee are set forth in our audit committee charter. We have determined that Tracy A. Moore qualifies as an audit committee financial expert, pursuant to SEC regulations and the other members of the audit committee satisfy the financial literacy requirements for audit committee members under the SEC rules and regulations.
In order to act in a forward-thinking manner, our board of directors intends to elect in 2007 a compensation committee, whose members will include members of the audit committee, to complete the following functions, among others:
- Develops executive compensation philosophy and establishes and annually reviews and approves policies regarding executive compensation programs and practices;
- Reviews and approves corporate goals and objectives relevant to the Chief Executive Officer's compensation, evaluates the Chief Executive Officer's performance in light of those goals and objectives and sets the Chief Executive Officer's compensation based on this evaluation;
- Reviews the Chief Executive Officer's recommendations with respect to, and approves annual compensation for, our other executive officers;
- Establishes and administers annual and long-term incentive compensation plans for key executives;
- Recommends to the board for its approval and, where appropriate, submission to our stockholders, incentive compensation plans and equity-based plans;
- Recommends to the board for its approval changes to executive compensation policies and programs; and
- Reviews and approves all special executive employment, compensation and retirement arrangements.
D. Employees
For each of the years ended November 30, 2006, 2005 and 2004, our company did not hire or use the services of employees. However, we hire contractors on an as-needed basis for geological services and other trades. We historically have had two contractors who provide their services on a part-time basis and continue to do so. One provides us with corporate secretarial services and one fulfills controllership responsibilities. Our President receives compensation through a consulting agreement with a company that he controls. All are classified as independent contractors.
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When required, we have retained geological and other consultants to conduct work programs on our mineral property interests.
E. Share Ownership of Directors and Officers
Our directors and officers beneficially own the following shares as of the date of this annual report:
Common Shares
Director or Officer | Number of Common Shares Owned(1) | Percentage of Outstanding (%)(1)(2) |
Tim Coupland(3) | 6,836,788 | 7.06 |
Michael Bogin(4) | 82,500 | 0.09 |
Tracy A. Moore(5) | 284,300 | 0.29 |
Robert Hall(6) | 172,000 | 0.18 |
Ann-Marie Cederholm(7) | 66,500 | 0.07 |
Notes:
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| (1) | Shares of common stock subject to options or warrants currently exercisable, or exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007, are deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of the person holding such option or warrants, but are not deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. |
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| (2) | Percentages are based on 96,901,357 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of March 15, 2007 unless otherwise noted. |
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| (3) | Includes 3,550,000 common shares Tim Coupland has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding stock options and 204,734 warrants which are exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007. Tim Coupland holds 2,542,394 shares, 3,550,000 stock options, and 71,400 warrants directly and T8X Capital Ltd., of which Tim Coupland is a 100% owner, holds 539,660 shares and 133,334 warrants.. |
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| (4) | Includes 50,000 common shares Michale Bogin has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding stock options which are exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007. |
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| (5) | Includes 250,000 common shares Tracy A. Moore has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding stock options which are exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007. Tracy A. Moore holds 22,500 shares and 250,000 stock options directly and MCSI Capital Corporation, of which Tracy A. Moore is a 50% owner, holds 11,800 shares. |
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| (6) | Includes 150,000 common shares Robert Hall has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding stock options which are exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007. |
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| (7) | Includes 50,000 common shares Ann-Marie Cederholm has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding stock options which are exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007. |
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Stock Options
The following incentive stock options are currently outstanding to our directors and officers:
Shares that may be Purchased Upon Exercise of Stock Options
Director or Officer | Number of Common Shares | Exercise Price ($) | Expiry Date |
Tim Coupland | 2,050,000 | 0.60 | January 27, 2009 |
| 1,500,000 | 1.57 | September 27, 2008 |
Michael Bogin | 50,000 | 1.57 | September 27, 2008 |
Tracy A. Moore | 100,000 | 0.20 | July 7, 2008 |
| 25,000 | 0.60 | January 27, 2009 |
| 125,000 | 1.57 | September 27, 2008 |
Robert Hall | 150,000 | 1.57 | September 27, 2008 |
Ann-Marie Cederholm | 50,000 | 1.57 | September 27, 2008 |
At the 2003 annual general meeting of our shareholders, held on September 2, 2003, our company's stock option plan was proposed, and approved, and subsequently filed with the TSX-V.
We grant share options in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. Under the general guidelines of the TSX Venture Exchange, we may reserve up to 10% of our issued and outstanding shares to our employees, directors or consultants to purchase.
Our stock option plan provides for equity participation by eligible directors, officers, employees and consultants through the acquisition of common shares pursuant to the grant of options. Our board of directors administers the plan. Options may be granted to purchase common shares on terms that the directors may determine, subject to the limitations of the stock option plan and the requirements of the TSX-V. For a summary of the terms of the stock option plan, see Item 6B.
ITEM 7 - Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions
A. Major Shareholders
Table of Major Shareholders
We are a publicly-held corporation, with our common shares held by residents of Canada, the United States of America and other countries. As of the date of filing this annual report, we are authorized to issued an unlimited number of common shares without par value, of which 96,901,357 common shares were issued and outstanding and unlimited number of preferred shares without par value, of which no preferred share was issued and outstanding.
The following table sets forth certain information with respect to beneficial ownership of the our common stock as of March 15, 2007, by each shareholder known to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common shares.
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Identity of Person or Group(1) | Total shares owned | Percentage of total shares issued and outstanding(1)(2) | Citizenship |
Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd.(3) | 9,164,200 | 9.46% | Canadian |
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| (1) | Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Shares of common stock subject to options or warrants currently exercisable, or exercisable within 60 days of March 15, 2007, are deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of the person holding such option or warrants, but are not deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. |
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| (2) | Percentages are based on 96,901,357 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of March 15, 2007 unless otherwise noted. |
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| (3) | Includes 3,332,500 common shares Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding warrants which are immediately exercisable. |
Changes in Ownership Percentage
The following table shows changes over the last three years in the percentage of the issued share capital for the Group held by major shareholders, either directly or by virtue of ownership of our common shares.
Identity of Person or Group(1) | | 2006(1)(2) | | 2005(1)(2) | | 2004(1)(2) |
Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd.(3) | | 9.46% | | 10.53% | | 0% |
Passport Master Fund LP.(4) | | 4.59% | | 6.04% | | 0% |
David W. Tice & Associates, LLC | | 3.3% | | 5.8% | | 0% |
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| (1) | Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Shares of common stock subject to options or warrants currently exercisable, or exercisable within 60 days, are deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of the person holding such option or warrants, but are not deemed outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. |
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| (2) | Percentages are based on in: (1) 2006: 96,901,357 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of March 15, 2007; (2) 75,193,064 shares issued and outstanding as of November 14, 2006; and 2004: 37,527,290 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of May 11, 2005; unless otherwise noted. |
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| (3) | Includes 1,666,650 common shares Goodman & Company, Investment Counsel Ltd. has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding warrants which are immediately exercisable. |
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| (4) | Based on 13G with date of event 12/31/05 |
With the exception of the above-noted transactions, there has not been a significant change in the ownership percentage held by any major shareholders during the past three years.
Voting Rights
Our major shareholders do not have any different voting rights than other shareholders.
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Corporate or Foreign Government Ownership
We are not controlled directly or indirectly by any other corporation or any other foreign government or by any other natural or legal person, severally or jointly.
Geographic Breakdown of Shareholders
The following lists the geographical distribution of shareholders at March 15, 2007:
| Number of registered | |
Location | shareholders | Number of shares |
Canada | 22 | 95,271,107 |
United States | 11 | 1,525,000 |
Other | 2 | 105,000 |
Total | 35 | 96,901,357 |
Shares registered in intermediaries were assumed to be held by residents of the same country in which the clearing-house was located.
Change of Control
There are no arrangements for which through their operation, at a subsequent date, may result in a change in our control.
B. Related Party Transactions
During fiscal year ended November 30, 2006, the following amounts were incurred by us under related party transactions, none of which we deem material to us or the related party:
- We paid or accrued office secretarial fees of $36,037 to Tamiko Coupland, the wife of our President, Tim Coupland;
- We paid or accrued consulting fees of $27,452 to a company controlled by Tim Coupland;
- We paid or accrued management fees of $135,000 to a company controlled by Tim Coupland;
- We paid or accrued director fees of $21,950 to a company controlled by Tracy A. Moore;
- We paid or accrued director fees of $7,500 to a partnership controlled by Michael Bogin;
- We paid or accrued director fees of $9,000 to a company controlled by Robert Hall; and
- We paid or accrued accounting fees of $38,375 to a proprietorship controlled by Ann-Marie Cederholm.
The amounts charged to us for the services provided have been determined by negotiation among the parties, and in certain cases, are covered by signed agreements. It is the position of management that these transactions were in the normal course of operations and were measured at the exchange value which represented the amount of consideration established and agreed to by the related parties.
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Other than disclosed herein, no director or senior officer, and no associate or affiliate of the foregoing persons, and no insider has or has had any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transactions, or in any other proposed transaction, during the year ended November 30, 2006.
C. Interests of Experts and Counsel
Not required, as this form 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
ITEM 8 - Financial Information
A. Statements and Other Financial Information
Financial Statements
As required, we have included the following (see Item 17), as audited by an independent auditor and accompanied by an audit report, as of November 30, 2006:
- Balance sheets;
- Statement of operations and deficit;
- Statement of cash flows;
- Statement of changes in shareholders' equity; and
- Related notes and schedules.
Legal Proceedings
We are not involved in any litigation or legal proceedings and to our knowledge, no material legal proceedings involving us are to be initiated against us.
Dividends
We have never paid any dividends and do not intend to pay any dividends in the near future.
B. Significant Changes - Subsequent Events
Since the fiscal period ended November 30, 2006, the following changes have taken place which may materially affect the interpretation of our company's financial statements:
- We issued an additional 587,500 common shares, for total cash proceeds of $312,500 for options exercised.
- We issued an additional 25,000 common shares, for total cash proceeds of $16,250 for warrants exercised.
- We issued an additional 37,140 common shares, for total cash proceeds of $27,855 for agent compensation warrants exercised.
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- On December 31, 2006, we renounced mineral property expenditures of $10,120,000, which resulted in the transfer of the income tax deductibility of such expenditures to the investors who purchased flow-through common shares on April 25, 2006.
- On December 31, 2006, we renounced mineral property expenditures of $12,058,200, which resulted in the transfer of the income tax deductibility of such expenditures to the investors who purchased flow-through common shares on October 18, 2006.
- The Company entered into a contract for director services with a partnership controlled by a director of the Company requiring the payment of $1,000 on a month to month basis.
- The Company terminated a contract for management services with a company controlled by a director of the Company which required the payment of $12,500 per month. The Company entered into a contract for employment with the director of the Company requiring the remuneration of $16,667 per month, retroactive to January 1, 2007.
- The Company entered into a contract for employment with a director of the Company requiring the remuneration of $5,500 per month, retroactive to January 1, 2007.
- The Company entered into a contract for employment with an officer of the Company requiring the remuneration of $5,500 per month, retroactive to January 1, 2007.
- The Company entered into a contract for employment with an individual related to a director of the Company requiring the remuneration of $4,000 per month, retroactive to January 1, 2007.
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ITEM 9 - The Offer and Listing
A. Offer and Listing Details
Our common shares trade on the TSX-V under symbol "ASX" and on the OTCBB under symbol "ASXSF". Our shares have traded on the TSX-V, and on its predecessor, the Alberta Stock Exchange, since December 5, 1997. The following table sets forth the high and low closing prices in Canadian funds of our common shares traded on the TSX-V and its predecessor:
Period | | High | | Low |
December 1, 2001 to November 30, 2002 | $ | 0.25 | $ | 0.10 |
December 1, 2002 to November 30, 2003 | $ | 0.33 | $ | 0.13 |
December 1, 2003 to November 30, 2004 | $ | 0.39 | $ | 0.19 |
December 1, 2004 to November 30, 2005 | $ | 0.96 | $ | 0.18 |
December 1, 2005 to November 30, 2006 | $ | 2.76 | $ | 0.60 |
Period | | High | | Low |
December 2004 to February 2005 | $ | 0.30 | $ | 0.20 |
March 2005 to May 2005 | $ | 0.28 | $ | 0.21 |
June 2005 to August 2005 | $ | 0.60 | $ | 0.18 |
September 2005 to November 2005 | $ | 0.96 | $ | 0.50 |
December 2005 to February 2006 | $ | 1.58 | $ | 0.60 |
March 2006 to May 2006 | $ | 2.76 | $ | 1.55 |
June 2006 to August 2006 | $ | 1.94 | $ | 1.18 |
September 2006 to November 2006 | $ | 2.23 | $ | 1.47 |
December 2006 to February 2007 | $ | 2.62 | | 1.68 |
Period | | High | | Low |
August 2006 | $ | 1.69 | $ | 1.50 |
September 2006 | $ | 2.23 | $ | 1.59 |
October 2006 | $ | 2.10 | $ | 1.47 |
November 2006 | $ | 2.13 | $ | 1.76 |
December 2006 | $ | 2.16 | $ | 1.68 |
January 2007 | $ | 2.25 | $ | 1.78 |
February 2007 | $ | 2.62 | $ | 1.81 |
Effective September 20, 2001, our common shares were consolidated such that every five pre-consolidation common shares were exchanged for one post-consolidation common share.
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Concurrently, our name was changed from "Alberta Star Mining Corp." to "Alberta Star Development Corp."
Our common shares have been quoted for trading on the OTCBB since July 16, 2002; no trades in our common shares occurred on this quotation system until January 29, 2003. The following sets forth the high and low closing prices in United States funds of our common shares traded on the OTCBB since this date:
Period | | High | | Low |
December 1, 2002 to November 30, 2003 | US$ | 0.235 | US$ | 0.09 |
December 1, 2003 to November 30, 2004 | US$ | 0.32 | US$ | 0.13 |
December 1, 2004 to November 30, 2005 | US$ | 0.82 | US$ | 0.12 |
December 1, 2005 to November 30, 2006 | US$ | 2.45 | US$ | 0.516 |
Period | | High | | Low |
December 2004 to February 2005 | US$ | 0.24 | US$ | 0.12 |
March 2005 to May 2005 | US$ | 0.23 | US$ | 0.16 |
June 2005 to August 2005 | US$ | 0.51 | US$ | 0.15 |
September 2005 to November 2005 | US$ | 0.82 | US$ | 0.43 |
December 2005 to February 2006 | US$ | 1.35 | US$ | 0.516 |
March 2006 to May 2006 | US$ | 2.45 | US$ | 1.32 |
June 2006 to August 2006 | US$ | 1.74 | US$ | 1.06 |
September 2006 to November 2006 | US$ | 2.01 | US$ | 1.30 |
December 2006 to February 2007 | US$ | 2.28 | US$ | 1.45 |
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Period | | High | | Low |
August 2006 | US$ | 1.74 | US$ | 1.32 |
September 2006 | US$ | 2.01 | US$ | 1.40 |
October 2006 | US$ | 1.88 | US$ | 1.30 |
November 2006 | US$ | 1.89 | US$ | 1.55 |
December 2006 | US$ | 1.87 | US$ | 1.45 |
January 2007 | US$ | 1.73 | US$ | 1.52 |
February 2007 | US$ | 2.30 | US$ | 1.56 |
B. Plan of Distribution
Not required, as this form 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
C. Markets
Our common shares trade on the TSX-V under symbol "ASX" and on the OTCBB under symbol "ASXSF". Our shares have traded on the TSX-V and on its predecessor, the Alberta Stock Exchange, since December 5, 1997; the OTCBB since July 16, 2002. However, no trades in our common shares occurred on the OTCBB market until January 29, 2003.
D. Selling Shareholders
Not required, as this form 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
E. Dilution
Not required, as this form 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
F. Expenses of the Issue
Not required, as this form 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
ITEM 10 - Additional Information
A. Share Capital
Not required, as this form 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
B. Bylaws and Articles of Association
Our Certificate of Incorporation, Certificate of Amendment, Registration of Restated Articles, Bylaws and Articles of Association are incorporated by reference to certain exhibits to our Form 20-F registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2001.
C. Material Contracts
We are a party to the following material contracts for the two years preceding publication of this annual report, all of which are referred to in the exhibits section of this annual report:
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- Service Agreement with Connors Drilling Ltd. On January 10, 2006, we entered into an agreement with Connors Drilling Ltd. for diamond core drilling services on the Contact Lake and Port Radium properties. The agreement specifies that Connors Drilling Ltd. will drill 15,000 m in approximately 60 to 70 holes with a maximum length of 300 m; invoices will be rendered periodically. Commencement of the drilling program is planned for late April or early May 2006 or at a mutually agreeable date.
- Investor Relations Agreement with Michael Baybak and Company, Inc. On January 1, 2006, we entered into an agreement with Michael Baybak and Company, Inc. for media and investor relations services. According to the agreement, Michael Baybak and Company Inc. is to generate publicity for us in specific business, natural resources and financial communities. The term of the agreement is for an initial period of six months, which may be extended on mutually agreeable terms. Fees for the fixed term contract are US $3,000 per month and the issuance of 200,000 options total, exercisable at $0.60 per share to two principals of Michael Baybak and Company Inc., Michael Baybak and George Duggan.
- Purchase and Sale Agreement with Kalac Holdings Ltd. Et Al. On November 21, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Kalac Holdings Ltd., Trevor Teed and David Lorne to acquire a 100% interest in 11 contiguous claims, comprising 6,200.74 ha, called the North Contact Lake Mineral Claims, in the Port Uranium Belt. The purchase was subject to a 2% NSR, and included our issuance of 250,000 shares and payment of $75,000. We may also purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
- Purchase and Sale Agreement with South Malartic. On November 14, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with South Malartic to purchase a 50% undivided right, title and interest in three mineral leases, totalling in 106.52 hectares called the Eldorado Uranium Mine Mineral Leases, for cash payment $20,000. Acquisition of the properties will also entitle us to all property and historical data in South Malartic's possession, including reports, maps, historical uranium production records, and uranium assay reports.
- Purchase and Sale Agreement with Messrs. Dewar, Teed and Burylo. On October 2, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed and Ted Burylo to acquire a 100% undivided right, title and interest in 1,497.44 hectares called the Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims, subject to a 2% NSR and by paying $60,000 and issuing 450,000 of our common shares. We may purchase the half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
- Purchase and Sale Agreement Messrs. Dewar, Teed, Dupras, and Burylo. On July 6, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed, Andy Dupras and Ted Burylo to acquire a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in four mineral claims, totalling 2,425.26 hectares called Port Radium - Glacier Lake Mineral Claims, located one half km southeast of Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, for our cash payments of $30,000 and the issuance of 360,000 of our common shares. We may purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
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- Purchase and Sale Agreement with Messrs. Dewar, Teed and Burylo. On April 22, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed and Ted Burylo to acquire a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 1% NSR, in five mineral claims totalling 1,801.81 hectares called the Contact Lake Property, by making cash payments of $60,000 and issuing 300,000 of our common shares. We may purchase the 1% NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
- Property Option Agreement with Max Resource Corp. On April 1, 2005, we entered into a mineral property option agreement with Max Resource whereby Max Resource may earn up to a 50% undivided, right, title and interest in the MacInnis Lake Property and the Kult Claims by paying us $30,000 cash, issuing us 200,000 common shares of their company and completing $2 million in exploration work over five years by April 1, 2010.
- Property Option and Joint Venture Agreement with Fortunes Minerals Limited. On March 18, 2005, we entered into an option and joint venture agreement with Fortune Minerals Limited whereby we purchased an exclusive option to earn a 50% interest in two properties in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Upon earning the 50% property interest, we agreed to form a joint venture with Fortune Minerals Limited, to further explore and develop the property. In consideration for the option, we agreed to pay $10,000 to Fortune Minerals Limited, and an additional $10,000 on each of the first, second, third and fourth anniversary dates of the agreement, provided that we have incurred cumulative property expenditures in the amounts of $250,000, $500,000, $750,000 and $1,200, by the first, second, third and fourth anniversaries, respectively, of the agreement.
- Purchase and Sale Agreement with Kalac Holdings Ltd. Et Al. On March 15, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Kalac Holdings Ltd. and David G. Lorne to whereby we purchased a 100% interest in three mineral claims, known as the Kult Claims, located at MacInnis Lake, Northwest Territories. In consideration of the purchase, we agreed to pay $40,000 in cash and to issue 350,000 of our common shares.
- Purchase and Sale Agreement Messrs. Dewar, Teed, Dupras, and Burylo. On February 8, 2005, we entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed and Ted Burylo whereby we purchased a 100% right, interest and title in 12 mineral claims, known as the MacInnis Lake Uranium Claims, Northwest Territories. In consideration of the purchase, we agreed to pay $60,000 in cash and to issue 300,000 of our common shares.
D. Exchange Controls and other Limitations Affecting Security Holders
There is no law or governmental decree or regulation in Canada that restricts the export or import of capital, or affects the remittance of dividends, interest or other payments to a non-resident holder of Common Shares, other than withholding tax requirements. Any such remittances to United States residents are generally subject to withholding tax, however no such remittances are likely in the foreseeable future. See "Taxation", below.
There is no limitation imposed by the laws of Canada or by our charter or other constituent documents on the right of a non-resident to hold or vote the Common Shares, other than as provided in the Investment Canada Act (Canada) (the "Investment Act"). The following discussion summarizes the material features of the Investment Act for a non-resident who proposes to acquire a controlling number of our Common Shares. It is general only, it is not a substitute for independent advice from an investor's own advisor, and it does not anticipate statutory or regulatory amendments.
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We do not believe the Investment Act will have any affect on us or on our non-Canadian shareholders due to a number of factors including the nature of our operations and our relatively small capitalization.
The Investment Act generally prohibits implementation of a "reviewable" investment by an individual, government or agency thereof, corporation, partnership, trust or joint venture (each an "entity") that is not a "Canadian" as defined in the Investment Act (a "non-Canadian"), unless after review the Director of Investments appointed by the minister responsible for the Investment Act is satisfied that the investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada. The size and nature of a proposed transaction may give rise to an obligation to notify the Director to seek an advance ruling. An investment in our Common Shares by a non-Canadian (other than a "WTO Investor" as that term is defined in the Investment Act and which term includes entities which are nationals of or are controlled by nationals of member states of the World Trade Organization) when we are not controlled by a WTO Investor, would be reviewable under the Investment Act if it was an investment to acquire control of us and the value of our assets, as determined in accordance with the regulations promulgated under the Investment Act, was over a certain figure, or if an order for review was made by the federal cabinet on the grounds that the investment related to Canada's cultural heritage or national identity, regardless of the value of our assets. An investment in our Common Shares by a WTO Investor, or by a non-Canadian when we are controlled by a WTO Investor, would be reviewable under the Investment Act if it was an investment to acquire control of us and the value of our assets, as determined in accordance with the regulations promulgated under the Investment Act, was not less than a specified amount, which for 2006 exceeds CAD$250 million. A non-Canadian would acquire control of us for the purposes of the Investment Act if the non-Canadian acquired a majority of our Common Shares. The acquisition of less than a majority but one-third or more of our Common Shares would be presumed to be an acquisition of control of us unless it could be established that, on the acquisition, we were not controlled in fact by the acquiror through the ownership of our Common Shares.
E. Taxation
A brief description of certain provisions of the tax treaty between Canada and the US is included below, together with a brief outline of certain taxes, including withholding provisions to which US security holders are subject under existing laws and regulations of Canada and US; the consequences, if any, of state and local taxes are not considered. The following information is general and security holders are urged to seek the advice of their own tax advisors, tax counsel or accountants with respect to the applicability or effect on their own individual circumstances of not only the matters referred to herein, but also any state or local taxes.
Canadian federal tax legislation generally requires a 25% withholding from dividends paid or deemed to be paid to our non-resident shareholders. However, shareholders resident in the US will generally have this rate reduced to 15% through the tax treaty between Canada and the US. The amount of stock dividends paid to non-residents of Canada will be subject to withholding tax at the same rate as cash dividends. The amount of stock dividend (for tax purposes) would generally be equal to the amount by which our stated capital has increased by reason of the payment of such dividend. We will furnish additional tax information to shareholders in the event of such a dividend.
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Interest paid or deemed to be paid on our debt securities held by non-Canadian residents may also be subject to Canadian withholding tax, depending upon the terms and provisions of such securities and any applicable tax treaty. Under present legislation in the US, we are generally not subject to US back up withholding rules, which would require withholding at a rate of 20% on dividends and interest paid to certain US persons who have not provided us with a taxpayer identification number.
Gains derived from a disposition of shares of the company by a non-resident shareholder will be subject to tax in Canada only if not less than 25% of any class of our shares was owned by the non-resident shareholder and/or persons with whom the non-resident did not deal at arm's length at any time during the five-year period immediately preceding the disposition. In such cases gains derived by a US shareholder from a disposition of our shares would likely be exempt from tax in Canada by virtue of the Canada-US tax treaty.
ALL PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS ARE URGED TO CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE SPECIFIC TAX CONSEQUENCES OF PURCHASING THE COMMON SHARES.
F. Dividends and Paying Agents
Not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
G. Statement by Experts
Not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
H. Documents on Display
You may review a copy of our filings with the SEC, including exhibits and schedules filed with it, in the SEC's Public Reference Room at 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 or the Conventional Reading Rooms' Headquarters Office at 212-551-8090 for further information on the public reference rooms. The SEC maintains a web site (www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC.
I. Subsidiary Information
Not applicable, as we do not own any subsidiary companies.
ITEM 11 - Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
A. Transaction Risk and Currency Risk Management
The Company's operations do not employ financial instruments or derivatives and given that the Company keeps its excess funds in high-grade short-term instruments it does not have significant or unusual financial market risks.
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B. Exchange Rate Sensitivity
A significant portion of our administrative operations and other operations are denominated in Canadian funds, there is little exposure to foreign exchange movements between the Canadian and international currencies.
We typically hold most of our funds in Canadian dollars and report the results of our operations in Canadian dollars and are therefore are not subject to any material exchange rate risk.
We do not hedge foreign currency risk, and it does not consider this exposure to be material in the context of its operations.
There has been virtually no difference in our operations due to the affect of foreign exchange rate fluctuation in the period ended November 30, 2006.
C. Interest Rate Risk and Equity Price Risk
We are primarily equity financed and do not have any long term debt and, therefore, do not believe that the interest rate market's risk is material.
D. Commodity Price Risk
While the value of the Company's resource properties, if any, can always be said to relate to the price of precious metals and the outlook for same, the Company does not have any operating mines and hence does not have any hedging or other commodity based operations risks respecting its business activities. We are exposed to market risk, primarily related to fluctuating prices in our common stock.
ITEM 12 - Descriptions of Securities Other than Equity Securities
Not required, as this 20-F filing is made as an annual report.
PART II
ITEM 13 - Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies
Not applicable.
ITEM 14 - Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds
Not applicable.
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ITEM 15 - Controls and Procedures
A. Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including Tim Coupland, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Michael Bogin, our Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(b) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures are effective. There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the year ended November 30, 2006 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
B. Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the company. Internal control over financial reporting is a process to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Internal control over financial reporting includes maintaining records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect our transactions; providing reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary for preparation of our financial statements; providing reasonable assurance that receipts and expenditures of company assets are made in accordance with management authorization; and providing reasonable assurance that unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of company assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements would be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting is not intended to provide absolute assurance that a misstatement of our financial statements would be prevented or detected.
Management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, management concluded that the company's internal control over financial reporting was effective as of November 30, 2006.
This annual report does not include an attestation report of the company's registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management's report was not subject to attestation by the company's registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the company to provide only management's report in this annual report.
There was no change during the fiscal year ended November 30, 2006 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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ITEM 16A - Audit Committee Financial Expert
Our Board of Directors has determined that Tracy A. Moore, a member of our audit committee, is the audit committee financial expert and an independent director as defined in the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.
ITEM 16B - Code of Ethics
We have adopted a written Code of Ethics that applies to all employees and executive officers, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. A copy of the Code of Ethics is attached as Exhibit No. 11.1 "Code of Ethics".
During the most recently completed fiscal year, the Company has neither: (a) amended its Code of Ethics; nor (b) granted any waiver (including any implicit waiver) form any provision of its Code of Ethics.
ITEM 16C - Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Fees and Services
James Stafford, Chartered Accountants, audited our financial statements for fiscal 2006 and 2005, as well as the quarterly statements for fiscal 2006. The following is an aggregate of fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for professional services rendered by our principal accountants:
| 2006 | 2005 |
Audit fees - auditing of our annual financial statements and preparation of auditors' report. | $59,762 | $56,660 |
Audit-related fees - review of each of the quarterly financial statements. | 34,954 | 17,822 |
Tax fees - preparation and filing of three major tax-related forms. | 31,406 | 18,851 |
All other fees - other services provided by our principal accountants. | - | - |
Total fees paid or accrued to our principal accountants | $126,122 | $93,333 |
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Pre-Approval Polices and Procedures
We understand the need for our principal accountants to maintain objectivity and independence in their audit of our financial statements. To minimize relationships that could appear to impair the objectivity of our principal accountants, our audit committee has restricted the non-audit services that our principal accountants may provide to us primarily to tax services and review assurance services.
We are only to obtain non-audit services from our principal accountants when the services offered by our principal accountants are more effective or economical than services available from other service providers, and, to the extent possible, only after competitive bidding. These determinations are among the key practices adopted by the audit committee effective during fiscal 2006. The board has adopted policies and procedures for pre-approving work performed by our principal accountants.
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After careful consideration, the audit committee of the board of directors has determined that payment of the above audit fees is in conformance with the independent status of our company's principal independent accountants. Before engaging the auditors in additional services, the audit committee considers how these services will impact the entire engagement and independence factors.
The Audit Committee has pre-approved specifically identified non-audit related services, including tax compliance, review of tax returns, documentation of processes and controls as submitted to the Audited Committee from time to time.
ITEM 16D - Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees
Not applicable.
ITEM 16E - Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuers and Affiliated Purchasers
Not applicable.
PART III
ITEM 17 - Financial Statements
Our audited financial statements as prepared by our management and approved by the audit committee include:
- our balance sheets as at November 30, 2006 and 2005;
- the following statements for the fiscal years ended November 30, 2006, 2005, and 2004, as well as information from our inception to November 30, 2006:
- statements of operations and deficit
- statements of cash flows; and
- statements of changes in shareholders' equity.
All of these were audited by our auditor, James Stafford, Chartered Accountants.
The financial statements are prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP and are reconciled to US GAAP in note 18 to the financial statements. All figures are expressed in Canadian dollars.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
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JAMES STAFFORD | |
| James StaffordChartered Accountants*Suite 350 - 1111 Melville StreetVancouver, British ColumbiaCanada V6E 3V6Telephone +1 604 669 0711Facsimile +1 604 669 0754*Incorporated professional |
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
We have audited the balance sheets of Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") (an exploration stage company) as at 30 November 2006 and 2005 and the related statements of operations and deficit, cash flows and changes in shareholders' equity for the period from 6 September 1996 (Date of Inception) to 30 November 2006 and for each of the years in the three-year period ended 30 November 2006. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards and the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States of America). These standards require that we plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, these financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as at 30 November 2006 and 2005 and the results of its operations, its cash flows, and its changes in shareholders' equity for the period from 6 September 1996 (Date of Inception) to 30 November 2006 and for each of the years in the three-year period ended 30 November 2006 in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles.
| /s/ James Stafford |
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Chartered Accountants |
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27 January 2007 | |
Comments by Independent Registered Chartered Accountants for United States of America Readers on Canada - United States of America Reporting Differences
The standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States of America) require the addition of an explanatory paragraph (following the opinion paragraph) when the financial statements are affected by conditions and events that cast substantial doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, such as those described in Note 1 to the financial statements. Although we conducted our audits in accordance with both Canadian generally accepted auditing standards and the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States of America), our report to the Shareholders and Board of Directors dated 29 January 2006 is expressed in accordance with Canadian reporting standards, which do not permit a reference to such conditions and events in the report when these are adequately disclosed in the financial statements.
| /s/ James Stafford |
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Chartered Accountants |
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27 January 2006 | |
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Balance Sheets
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
As at 30 November
| | 2006 | | 2005 |
| | $ | | $ |
| | | | |
Assets | | | | |
| | | | |
Current | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents (Note 4) | | 30,149,153 | | 11,841,868 |
Available for sale investments (Note 5) | | 72,000 | | 82,000 |
Amounts receivable (Note 6) | | 358,427 | | 40,843 |
Prepaid expenses | | 111,016 | | - |
| | | | |
| | 30,690,596 | | 11,964,711 |
| | | | |
Property, plant and equipment (Note 7) | | 107,424 | | 14,113 |
| | | | |
| | 30,798,020 | | 11,978,824 |
| | | | |
Liabilities | | | | |
| | | | |
Current | | | | |
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (Note 9) | | 465,922 | | 79,588 |
| | | | |
Shareholders' equity | | | | |
Capital stock (Note 11) | | | | |
Authorized | | | | |
Unlimited number of preferred shares | | | | |
Unlimited number of voting common shares | | | | |
Issued and outstanding | | | | |
2006 - 96,251,717 common shares | | | | |
2005 - 70,914,983 common shares | | 36,879,416 | | 13,776,121 |
Contributed surplus (Note 11) | | 3,429,508 | | 464,003 |
Share subscriptions received in advance (Note 11) | | 7,500 | | - |
Warrants (Note 11) | | 9,459,394 | | 5,472,623 |
Deficit, accumulated during the exploration stage | | (19,443,720) | | (7,813,511) |
| | | | |
| | 30,332,098 | | 11,899,236 |
| | | | |
| | 30,798,020 | | 11,978,824 |
Nature and Continuance of Operations (Note 1), Commitments (Note 13), and Subsequent Events (Note 17)
Reconciliation of Canadian and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Note 18)
On behalf of the Board:
"/s/ Tim Coupland" Director "/s/ Michael Bogin" Director
Tim Coupland Michael Bogin
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Operations and Deficit
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Expenses | | | | | | | | |
Mineral properties (Schedule 1) | | 14,557,622 | | 9,447,131 | | 1,950,187 | | 1,387,282 |
General and administrative (Schedule 2) | | 7,716,359 | | 4,402,693 | | 880,087 | | 642,029 |
| | | | | | | | |
Net loss before other items and income taxes | | (22,273,981) | | (13,849,824) | | (2,830,274) | | (2,029,311) |
| | | | | | | | |
Other items | | | | | | | | |
Interest income | | 802,010 | | 802,010 | | - | | - |
Loss on sale of property, plant and equipment | | (428) | | - | | (428) | | - |
Write-down of available for sale investments | | (10,000) | | (10,000) | | - | | - |
Write-off of property, plant and equipment | | (5,592) | | (2,355) | | (2,108) | | (1,129) |
| | | | | | | | |
Net loss before income taxes | | (21,487,991) | | (13,060,169) | | (2,832,810) | | (2,030,440) |
| | | | | | | | |
Future income tax recovery | | 2,605,528 | | 1,429,960 | | - | | 1,073,238 |
| | | | | | | | |
Net loss for the year | | (18,882,463) | | (11,630,209) | | (2,832,810) | | (957,202) |
| | | | | | | | |
Deficit, accumulated during the exploration stage, beginning of year | | - | | (7,813,511) | | (4,980,701) | | (4,023,499) |
| | | | | | | | |
Adjustment for change in accounting policy (Note 2) | | (561,257) | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Deficit, accumulated during the exploration stage, end of year | | (19,443,720) | | (19,443,720) | | (7,813,511) | | (4,980,701) |
| | | | | | | | |
Basic and diluted loss per share (Note 3) | | | | (0.14) | | (0.06) | | (0.03) |
| | | | | | | | |
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding | | | | 83,573,546 | | 44,249,632 | | 27,557,850 |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Cash Flows
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash flows from operating activities | | | | | | | | |
Net loss for the year | | (19,443,720) | | (11,630,209) | | (2,832,810) | | (957,202) |
Adjustments to reconcile loss to net cash used by operating activities | | | | | | | | |
Acquisition of mineral property interests (Notes 8, 11 and 15) | | 1,241,000 | | 182,500 | | 599,000 | | 30,000 |
Accrued interest income | | (159,551) | | (159,551) | | - | | - |
Amortization of property, plant and equipment | | 43,064 | | 15,838 | | 6,684 | | 8,796 |
Financing fee | | 38,000 | | - | | - | | - |
Future income tax recovery (Note 14) | | (2,605,528) | | (1,429,960) | | - | | (1,073,238) |
Loss on sales of property, plant and equipment | | 428 | | - | | 428 | | - |
Recovery of mineral property costs (Notes 5, 8 and 15) | | (82,000) | | - | | (82,000) | | - |
Stock-based compensation (Note 12) | | 3,645,114 | | 3,237,869 | | 185,580 | | - |
Write-down of available for sale investments | | 10,000 | | 10,000 | | - | | - |
Write-off of plant, property and equipment | | 5,592 | | 2,355 | | 2,108 | | 1,129 |
Gain on sale of mineral property interests (Note 15) | | (16,565) | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | (17,324,166) | | (9,771,158) | | (2,121,010) | | (1,990,515) |
| | | | | | | | |
Changes in operating assets and liabilities | | | | | | | | |
(Increase) decrease in amounts receivable | | (198,876) | | (158,033) | | 65,341 | | (21,753) |
(Increase) decrease in prepaid expenses | | (111,016) | | (111,016) | | 92,735 | | (92,735) |
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and accrued liabilities | | 532,840 | | 386,334 | | (4,414) | | (134,083) |
| | | | | | | | |
| | (17,101,218) | | (9,653,873) | | (1,967,348) | | (2,239,086) |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash flows from investing activities | | | | | | | | |
Purchase of property, plant and equipment | | (156,936) | | (111,504) | | (8,361) | | (9,646) |
Proceeds on sale of property, plant and equipment | | 428 | | - | | 428 | | - |
Proceeds on sale of marketable securities | | 16,565 | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | (139,943) | | (111,504) | | (7,933) | | (9,646) |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash flows from financing activities | | | | | | | | |
Issuance of common shares for cash | | 5,612,822 | | - | | 3,460,875 | | - |
Issuance of flow-through shares for cash | | 22,334,064 | | 16,556,290 | | 2,936,950 | | 2,695,560 |
Issuance of warrants for cash | | 11,099,845 | | 5,740,710 | | 4,102,176 | | 544,720 |
Warrants exercised | | 9,260,185 | | 6,467,056 | | 1,361,462 | | 784,492 |
Options exercised | | 1,082,442 | | 520,000 | | 355,149 | | 40,600 |
Share issuance costs | | (2,006,544) | | (1,218,894) | | (341,022) | | (217,898) |
Share subscriptions received in advance | | 7,500 | | 7,500 | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 47,390,314 | | 28,072,662 | | 11,875,590 | | 3,847,474 |
| | | | | | | | |
Increase in cash and cash equivalents (Note 4) | | 30,149,153 | | 18,307,285 | | 9,900,309 | | 1,598,742 |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year | | - | | 11,841,868 | | 1,941,559 | | 342,817 |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year | | 30,149,153 | | 30,149,153 | | 11,841,868 | | 1,941,559 |
Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents (Note 4)
Supplemental Disclosures with Respect to Cash Flows (Note 15)
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Number of shares issued | | Share capital | | Contributed surplus | | Warrants | | Deficit accumulated during the exploration stage | | Total Shareholders' equity |
| | | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 6 September 1996 | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - |
Shares issued - cash ($0.05 per share) | | 5,800,000 | | 290,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 290,000 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.10 per share) | | 2,000,000 | | 200,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 200,000 |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (59,613) | | - | | - | | - | | (59,613) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 1997 | | 7,800,000 | | 430,387 | | - | | - | | - | | 430,387 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.20 per share) | | 150,000 | | 30,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 30,000 |
Shares issued - mineral property ($0.07925 per share) | | 4,000,000 | | 317,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 317,000 |
Stock options exercised ($0.10 per share) | | 80,000 | | 8,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 8,000 |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (19,870) | | - | | - | | - | | (19,870) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (72,773) | | (72,773) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 1998 | | 12,030,000 | | 765,517 | | - | | - | | (72,773) | | 692,744 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.10 per share) | | 345,000 | | 34,500 | | - | | - | | - | | 34,500 |
Stock options exercised ($0.10 per share) | | 70,000 | | 7,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 7,000 |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (150) | | - | | - | | - | | (150) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (291,216) | | (291,216) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 1999 | | 12,445,000 | | 806,867 | | - | | - | | (363,989) | | 442,878 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.10 per share) | | 2,000,000 | | 200,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 200,000 |
Shares issued for settlement of debt ($0.10 per share) (Note 15) | | 669,180 | | 66,918 | | - | | - | | - | | 66,918 |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (3,977) | | - | | - | | - | | (3,977) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (143,787) | | (143,787) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2000 | | 15,114,180 | | 1,069,808 | | - | | - | | (507,776) | | 562,032 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.10 per unit) | | 2,450,000 | | 245,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 245,000 |
Stock options exercised ($0.10 per share) | | 550,000 | | 55,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 55,000 |
Share consolidation 5:1 | | (14,491,344) | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - |
Shares issued - cash ($0.15 per unit) | | 633,333 | | 81,902 | | - | | - | | - | | 81,902 |
Warrants granted | | - | | - | | - | | 13,098 | | - | | 13,098 |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (2,306) | | - | | - | | - | | (2,306) |
Adjustment for change in accounting policy (Note 2) | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (561,257) | | (561,257) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (403,950) | | (403,950) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2001 | | 4,256,169 | | 1,449,404 | | - | | 13,098 | | (1,472,983) | | (10,481) |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Number of shares issued | Share capital | Contributed surplus | Warrants | Deficit accumulated during the exploration stage | Total Shareholders' equity |
| | | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance forward at 30 November 2001 | | 4,256,169 | | 1,449,404 | | - | | 13,098 | | (1,472,983) | | (10,481) |
Shares issued - cash ($0.10 per unit) | | 1,750,000 | | 41,700 | | - | | - | | - | | 41,700 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.15 per unit) | | 3,500,000 | | 417,900 | | - | | - | | - | | 417,900 |
Stock options exercised ($0.14 per share) | | 220,000 | | 30,800 | | - | | - | | - | | 30,800 |
Shares issued for service ($0.15 per share) | | 100,000 | | 15,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 15,000 |
Warrants granted | | - | | - | | - | | 240,400 | | - | | 240,400 |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (53,375) | | - | | - | | - | | (53,375) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (608,910) | | (608,910) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2002 | | 9,826,169 | | 1,901,429 | | - | | 253,498 | | (2,081,893) | | 73,034 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($0.15 per unit) | | 666,667 | | 26,747 | | - | | - | | - | | 26,747 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($0.25 per unit) | | 680,000 | | 118,517 | | - | | - | | - | | 118,517 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.15 per unit) | | 666,333 | | 26,733 | | - | | - | | - | | 26,733 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.23 per unit) | | 3,500,000 | | 556,325 | | - | | - | | - | | 556,325 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.25 per unit) | | 160,000 | | 27,887 | | - | | - | | - | | 27,887 |
Warrants exercised ($0.10 per share) | | 250,000 | | 34,010 | | - | | (9,010) | | - | | 25,000 |
Warrants exercised ($0.14 per share) | | 425,000 | | 94,715 | | - | | (35,215) | | - | | 59,500 |
Warrants exercised ($0.15 per share) | | 3,500,000 | | 632,100 | | - | | (107,100) | | - | | 525,000 |
Warrants exercised ($0.19 per share) | | 50,000 | | 9,893 | | - | | (393) | | - | | 9,500 |
Warrants exercised ($0.20 per share) | | 100,000 | | 21,629 | | - | | (1,629) | | - | | 20,000 |
Stock options exercised ($0.14 per share) | | 82,808 | | 11,593 | | - | | - | | - | | 11,593 |
Stock options exercised ($0.15 per share) | | 362,000 | | 54,300 | | - | | - | | - | | 54,300 |
Agent compensation warrants exercised ($0.15 per share) | | 54,500 | | 8,175 | | - | | - | | - | | 8,175 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.17 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 50,000 | | 8,500 | | - | | - | | - | | 8,500 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.24 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 200,000 | | 48,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 48,000 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.28 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 200,000 | | 56,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 56,000 |
Shares issued for agent services rendered ($0.23 per share) (Note 15) | | 100,000 | | 23,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 23,000 |
Warrants granted | | - | | - | | - | | 517,219 | | - | | 517,219 |
Warrants expired | | - | | - | | 11,076 | | (11,076) | | - | | - |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (89,439) | | - | | - | | - | | (89,439) |
Share issue costs - warrants | | - | | (58,478) | | - | | - | | - | | (58,478) |
Stock-based compensation | | - | | - | | 221,665 | | - | | - | | 221,665 |
Tax benefits renounced to flow-through share subscribers | | - | | (102,330) | | - | | - | | - | | (102,330) |
Escrow shares cancelled | | (137,978) | | - | | - | | - | | - | | - |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (1,941,606) | | (1,941,606) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2003 | | 20,735,499 | | 3,409,306 | | 232,741 | | 606,294 | | (4,023,499) | | 224,842 |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Number of shares issued | Share capital | Contributed surplus | Warrants | Deficit accumulated during the exploration stage | Total Shareholders' equity |
| | | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance forward at 30 November 2003 | | 20,735,499 | | 3,409,306 | | 232,741 | | 606,294 | | (4,023,499) | | 224,842 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($0.25 per unit) | | 5,655,000 | | 1,211,456 | | - | | - | | - | | 1,211,456 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($0.27 per unit) | | 6,764,926 | | 1,484,104 | | - | | - | | - | | 1,484,104 |
Warrants exercised ($0.14 per share) | | 1,075,000 | | 239,574 | | - | | (89,074) | | - | | 150,500 |
Warrants exercised ($0.20 per share) | | 395,333 | | 122,506 | | - | | (43,439) | | - | | 79,067 |
Warrants exercised ($0.28 per share) | | 400,000 | | 142,284 | | - | | (30,284) | | - | | 112,000 |
Warrants exercised ($0.30 per share) | | 571,000 | | 211,870 | | - | | (40,570) | | - | | 171,300 |
Agent compensation warrants exercised ($0.15 per share) | | 645,500 | | 96,825 | | - | | - | | - | | 96,825 |
Agent compensation warrants exercised ($0.25 per share) | | 699,200 | | 233,211 | | - | | (58,411) | | - | | 174,800 |
Stock options exercised ($0.14 per share) | | 40,000 | | 5,600 | | - | | - | | - | | 5,600 |
Stock options exercised ($0.20 per share) | | 175,000 | | 35,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 35,000 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.17 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 100,000 | | 17,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 17,000 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.26 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 50,000 | | 13,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 13,000 |
Shares issued for agent services rendered ($0.25 per share) (Note 15) | | 24,376 | | 6,094 | | - | | - | | - | | 6,094 |
Shares issued for agent services rendered ($0.27 per unit) (Note 15) | | 196,456 | | 43,059 | | - | | - | | - | | 43,059 |
Warrants granted | | - | | - | | - | | 684,934 | | - | | 684,934 |
Warrants expired | | - | | - | | 241,418 | | (241,418) | | - | | - |
Agent compensation warrants expired | | - | | - | | 67 | | (67) | | - | | - |
Share issue costs - cash paid | | - | | (217,898) | | - | | - | | - | | (217,898) |
Share issue costs - shares | | - | | (49,153) | | - | | - | | - | | (49,153) |
Share issue costs - warrants | | - | | (140,214) | | - | | - | | - | | (140,214) |
Tax benefits renounced to flow- through share subscribers (Note 14) | | - | | (1,073,238) | | - | | - | | - | | (1,073,238) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (957,202) | | (957,202) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2004 | | 37,527,290 | | 5,790,386 | | 474,226 | | 787,965 | | (4,980,701) | | 2,071,876 |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Number of shares issued | Share capital | Contributed surplus | Warrants | Deficit accumulated during the exploration stage | Total Shareholders' equity |
| | | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance forward at 30 November 2004 | | 37,527,290 | | 5,790,386 | | 474,226 | | 787,965 | | (4,980,701) | | 2,071,876 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($0.45 per unit) | | 10,000,000 | | 2,936,950 | | - | | - | | - | | 2,936,950 |
Shares issued - cash ($0.40 per unit) | | 15,000,000 | | 3,460,875 | | - | | - | | - | | 3,460,875 |
Warrants exercised ($0.20 per share) | | 937,667 | | 290,564 | | - | | (103,031) | | - | | 187,533 |
Warrants exercised ($0.40 per share) | | 745,963 | | 372,743 | | - | | (74,358) | | - | | 298,385 |
Warrants exercised ($0.55 per share) | | 1,130,000 | | 789,893 | | - | | (168,393) | | - | | 621,500 |
Agent compensation warrants exercised ($0.36 per share) | | 677,875 | | 318,273 | | - | | (74,238) | | - | | 244,035 |
Agent compensation warrants exercised ($0.40 per share) | | 25,024 | | 12,550 | | - | | (2,541) | | - | | 10,009 |
Stock options exercised ($0.14 per share) | | 72,808 | | 10,193 | | - | | - | | - | | 10,193 |
Stock options exercised ($0.20 per share) | | 1,724,782 | | 563,034 | | (218,078) | | - | | - | | 344,956 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.20 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 360,000 | | 72,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 72,000 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.235 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 300,000 | | 70,500 | | - | | - | | - | | 70,500 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.24 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 300,000 | | 72,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 72,000 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.25 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 350,000 | | 87,500 | | - | | - | | - | | 87,500 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.66 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 450,000 | | 297,000 | | - | | - | | - | | 297,000 |
Shares issued for agent services rendered ($0.40 per share) (Note 15) | | 1,313,574 | | 303,074 | | - | | - | | - | | 303,074 |
Warrants granted | | - | | - | | - | | 5,129,494 | | - | | 5,129,494 |
Agent compensation warrants expired | | - | | - | | 22,275 | | (22,275) | | - | | - |
Share issue cost - cash paid | | - | | (341,022) | | - | | - | | - | | (341,022) |
Share issue cost - shares | | - | | (303,074) | | - | | - | | - | | (303,074) |
Share issue cost - warrants | | - | | (1,027,318) | | - | | - | | - | | (1,027,318) |
Stock based-compensation (Note 12) | | - | | - | | 185,580 | | - | | - | | 185,580 |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (2,832,810) | | (2,832,810) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2005 | | 70,914,983 | | 13,776,121 | | 464,003 | | 5,472,623 | | (7,813,511) | | 11,899,236 |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Number of shares issued | Share capital | Contributed surplus and share subscriptions received in advance | Warrants | Deficit accumulated during the exploration stage | Total Shareholders' equity |
| | | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2005 | | 70,914,983 | | 13,776,121 | | 464,003 | | 5,472,623 | | (7,813,511) | | 11,899,236 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($1.85 per unit) (Note 11) | | 5,500,000 | | 6,942,843 | | - | | - | | - | | 6,942,843 |
Flow-through shares issued - cash ($1.90 per unit) (Note 11) | | 6,380,000 | | 9,613,448 | | - | | - | | - | | 9,613,448 |
Warrants exercised ($0.55 per share) | | 227,500 | | 159,027 | | - | | (33,902) | | - | | 125,125 |
Warrants exercised ($0.40 per share) | | 683,500 | | 341,401 | | - | | (68,001) | | - | | 273,400 |
Warrants exercised ($0.40 per share) | | 1,853,000 | | 931,318 | | - | | (190,118) | | - | | 741,200 |
Warrants exercised ($0.75 per share) | | 3,155,550 | | 3,353,119 | | - | | (986,456) | | - | | 2,366,663 |
Warrants exercised ($0.65 per share) | | 1,228,750 | | 1,214,681 | | - | | (415,994) | | - | | 798,687 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.40 per share) | | 21,581 | | 10,780 | | - | | (2,147) | | - | | 8,633 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.40 per share) | | 51,622 | | 25,945 | | - | | (5,296) | | | | 20,649 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.36 per share) | | 200,468 | | 94,422 | | - | | (22,254) | | - | | 72,168 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.36 per share) | | 106,396 | | 49,765 | | - | | (11,462) | | - | | 38,303 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.65 per unit) | | 656,787 | | 649,266 | | - | | (222,355) | | - | | 426,911 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.45 per unit) | | 1,985,664 | | 1,694,744 | | - | | (801,196) | | - | | 893,548 |
Agents compensation warrants exercised ($0.75 per share) | | 935,691 | | 701,768 | | - | | - | | - | | 701,768 |
Stock options exercised ($0.20 per share) | | 1,550,000 | | 453,825 | | (143,825) | | - | | - | | 310,000 |
Stock options exercised ($0.60 per share) | | 350,000 | | 348,488 | | (138,488) | | - | | - | | 210,000 |
Shares issued for mineral property ($0.73 per share) (Notes 8 and 15) | | 250,000 | | 182,500 | | - | | - | | - | | 182,500 |
Shares issued for agent services rendered ($1.85 per share) (Note 15) | | 200,225 | | 252,751 | | - | | - | | - | | 252,751 |
Warrants granted | | - | | - | | - | | 6,755,901 | | - | | 6,755,901 |
Warrants expired | | - | | - | | 9,949 | | (9,949) | | - | | - |
Share issuance cost - cash | | - | | (1,218,894) | | - | | - | | - | | (1,218,894) |
Share issuance cost - share | | - | | (252,751) | | - | | - | | - | | (252,751) |
Share issuance cost - warrant | | - | | (1,015,191) | | - | | - | | - | | (1,015,191) |
Stock based compensation (Note 12) | | - | | - | | 3,237,869 | | - | | - | | 3,237,869 |
Subscriptions received in advance (Note 11) | | - | | - | | 7,500 | | - | | - | | 7,500 |
Tax benefits renounced to flow-through share subscribers (Note 14) | | - | | (1,429,960) | | - | | - | | - | | (1,429,960) |
Net loss for the year | | - | | - | | - | | - | | (11,630,209) | | (11,630,209) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Balance at 30 November 2006 | | 96,251,717 | | 36,879,416 | | 3,437,008 | | 9,459,394 | | (19,443,720) | | 30,332,098 |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Schedule 1 - Summary of Mineral Properties Expenditures
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Exploration operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Assays | | 176,305 | | 165,073 | | 11,232 | | - |
Camp and field costs | | 2,420,327 | | 2,130,533 | | 117,376 | | 980 |
Consulting fees (Note 10) | | 1,024,299 | | 391,125 | | 336,331 | | 240,309 |
Drilling | | 1,668,117 | | 1,458,060 | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 1,757,147 | | 1,114,370 | | 210,549 | | (10,085) |
Surveying | | 1,463,623 | | 1,022,300 | | 441,323 | | - |
Transportation | | 3,473,557 | | 3,287,482 | | 186,075 | | - |
Travel | | 423,070 | | 56,787 | | 27,476 | | 21,231 |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 12,406,445 | | 9,625,730 | | 1,330,362 | | 252,435 |
| | | | | | | | |
Acquisition of mineral property interests (Notes 8 and 15) | | 2,831,197 | | 257,500 | | 967,236 | | 1,142,847 |
| | | | | | | | |
Recovery of mineral property costs (Notes 8 and 15) | | (829,007) | | (436,099) | | (347,411) | | (8,000) |
| | | | | | | | |
Sales of mineral property interests (Notes 8 and 15) | | (71,565) | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Write-off of mineral properties and related costs | | 220,552 | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 14,557,622 | | 9,447,131 | | 1,950,187 | | 1,387,282 |
Details on Mineral Properties Expenditures (Note 8)
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
119
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Schedule 2 - General and Administrative Expenses
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 594,016 | | 247,563 | | 124,842 | | 142,905 |
Amortization | | 43,064 | | 15,838 | | 6,684 | | 8,796 |
Automotive | | 39,370 | | 4,245 | | 3,809 | | 3,823 |
Bank charges and interest (Note 15) | | 20,572 | | 4,665 | | 8,146 | | 3,967 |
Consulting fees (Note 10) | | 488,526 | | 27,452 | | 43,900 | | 66,528 |
Directors fees (Note 10) | | 30,950 | | 30,950 | | - | | - |
Filing and financing fees (Note 15) | | 251,735 | | 93,387 | | 56,587 | | 28,280 |
Legal and accounting (Note 10) | | 741,795 | | 178,794 | | 149,959 | | 106,587 |
Management fees (Note 10) | | 543,387 | | 135,000 | | 60,000 | | 60,000 |
Meals and entertainment | | 119,166 | | 22,857 | | 27,439 | | 25,561 |
Office and miscellaneous | | 379,981 | | 181,523 | | 57,321 | | 70,547 |
Rent and utilities | | 100,311 | | 38,656 | | 9,350 | | 8,564 |
Secretarial fees (Note 10) | | 226,471 | | 36,037 | | 38,304 | | 32,019 |
Stock-based compensation (Note 12) | | 3,645,114 | | 3,237,869 | | 185,580 | | - |
Telephone and internet | | 38,057 | | 10,808 | | 6,274 | | 6,120 |
Transfer fees and shareholder information | | 382,668 | | 102,543 | | 79,438 | | 78,332 |
Travel | | 71,176 | | 34,506 | | 22,454 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 7,716,359 | | 4,402,693 | | 880,087 | | 642,029 |
The accompany notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- Nature and Continuance of Operations
Alberta Star Development Corp. (the "Company") was incorporated under the laws of the province of Alberta on 6 September 1996 and is in the exploration stage.
The Company is in the business of acquiring and exploring mineral properties. The recoverability of the amounts expended by the Company on acquiring and exploring mineral properties is dependent upon the existence of economically recoverable reserves, the ability of the Company to complete the acquisition and/or development of the properties and upon future profitable production.
The Company's financial statements as at 30 November 2006 and for the year then ended have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the settlement of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. The Company has a loss of $11,630,209 for the year ended 30 November 2006 (2005 - $2,832,810, 2004 - $957,202) and has working capital of $30,224,674 at 30 November 2006 (2005 - $11,885,123).
The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $30,149,153 at 30 November 2006 (2005 - $11,841,868), but management cannot provide assurance that the Company will ultimately achieve profitable operations or become cash flow positive, or raise additional debt and/or equity capital. However, based on its prior demonstrated ability to raise capital, management believes that the Company's capital resources should be adequate to continue operating and maintain its business strategy during fiscal 2007. However, if the Company is unable to raise additional capital in the near future, due to the Company's liquidity problems, management expects that the Company will need to curtail operations, liquidate assets, seek additional capital on less favourable terms and/or pursue other remedial measures. These financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
- Changes in Accounting Policies
In 2001, the CICA issued Accounting Guideline No. 11, which covers the Company's exploration activities. In the past, the Company has capitalized certain exploration costs on mineral properties that were not covered by feasibility studies, whereas under the new guideline, the Company was required to expense these amounts in the year incurred. Effective 1 January 2001, the Company adopted these new recommendations on a retroactive basis. The impact as at 1 January 2001 of the adoption of these new recommendations was to reduce mineral properties by $561,257 and to increase deficit, accumulated during the exploration stage by $561,257.
- Significant Accounting Policies
The accounting policies of the Company are in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles ("Canadian GAAP"). These policies conform, in all material respects, with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("United States GAAP"), except as discussed in Note 18. Outlined below are those policies considered particularly significant.
121
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.
Available for sale investments
The available for sale investments consist of shares of a public company that the Company expects to sell in the near future. The investments are recorded at the lower of cost and fair market value.
Property, plant and equipment
Property, plant and equipment are recorded at cost and are amortized over their estimated useful lives at the following annual rates, with half the rate being applied in the year of acquisition:
Computer equipment | 30% | declining balance |
Equipment | 20% | declining balance |
Furniture and fixtures | 20 % | declining balance |
Mineral properties and deferred exploration costs
Mineral exploration costs are expensed as incurred. When it has been determined that a mineral property can be economically developed as a result of establishing proven and probable reserves, costs incurred prospectively to develop the property are capitalized as incurred and are depreciated using the unit-of-production depreciation method over the estimated life of the ore body based on proven and probable reserves.
Major development costs incurred after the commencement of production, are capitalized as incurred and are depreciated using the unit-of-production depreciation method based on proven and probable reserves.
Ongoing development expenditures to maintain production are charged to operations as incurred.
Mineral property and deferred exploration costs are currently charged to operations as incurred since the Company has not met the criteria for deferral of acquisition and development costs under Canadian GAAP.
Although the Company has taken steps to verify title to mineral properties in which it has an interest, according to the usual industry standards for the stage of exploration of such properties, these procedures do not guarantee the Company's title. Such properties may be subject to prior agreements or transfers and title may be affected by undetected defects.
122
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Reclamation costs
The Company's policy for recording reclamation costs is to record a liability for the estimated costs to reclaim mined land by recording charges to production costs for each tonne of ore mined over the life of the mine. The amount charged is based on management's estimation of reclamation costs to be incurred. The accrued liability is reduced as reclamation expenditures are made. Certain reclamation work is performed concurrently with mining and these expenditures are charged to operations at that time.
Stock-based compensation
Effective 1 December 2002, the Company adopted, on a prospective basis, the provisions of Section 3870, "Stock-Based Compensation and Other Stock Based Payments", of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' ("CICA") Handbook ("Section 3870"). Section 3870 establishes standards for the recognition, measurement and disclosure of stock-based compensation and other stock-based payments to both employees and non-employees. Section 3870 recommends that certain stock-based transactions, such as the grant of stock options, be accounted for at fair value. The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to estimate the fair value of each stock option at the granted date. Any consideration received from the exercise of stock options is credited to share capital. This section is only applicable to transactions that occurred on or after 1 December 2002.
Loss per share
Basic loss per share is calculated based on the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period. The treasury stock method is used for determining the dilutive effect of options and warrants issued in calculating diluted earnings per share. Under this method, the dilutive effect on loss per share is recognized on the use of the proceeds that could be obtained upon exercise of options, warrants and similar instruments. It assumes that the proceeds would be used to purchase common shares at the average market price during the year. For the periods presented, this calculation proved to be anti-dilutive.
Impairment of long-lived assets
Long-lived assets are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. An impairment loss would be recognized when the carrying amount of an asset exceeds the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition. The amount of the impairment loss to be recorded is calculated by the excess of the assets carrying value over its fair value. Fair value is determined using a discounted cash flow analysis.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Asset retirement obligation
Effective 1 December 2004, the Company adopted the recommendations of CICA Handbook Section 3110, "Asset Retirement Obligations". This new section requires recognition of a legal liability for obligations relating to retirement of property, plant and equipment, and arising from the acquisition, construction, development or normal operation of those assets. Such asset retirement cost must be recognized at fair value in the period in which it is incurred, added to the carrying value of the asset, and amortized into income on a systematic basis over its useful life. Adoption of this standard has not affected the Company's financial statements.
Flow-through common shares
The Company has financed a portion of its exploration activities through the issue of flow-through shares, which transfers the income tax deductibility of exploration expenditures to the investor. Proceeds received on the issue of such shares have been credited to share capital and the related exploration costs have been charged to exploration properties and deferred exploration expenditures. A future income tax liability is recognized, and shareholders' equity reduced on the date the Company renounces the expenditures, provided there is reasonable assurance that the expenditures will be made.
Income taxes
Future income tax assets and liabilities are determined based on temporary differences between the accounting and the tax bases of the assets and liabilities and for loss carry forwards and are measured using the tax rates expected to apply when these differences reverse. A valuation allowance is recorded against any future income tax asset if it is not more likely than not that the asset will be realized. As at 30 November 2006, the Company's net future income tax assets are fully offset by a valuation allowance.
Foreign currency translation
Revenue and expenses are translated at the exchange rates prevailing at the transactions dates. Transaction amounts denominated in foreign currencies are translated into functional currency at exchange rates prevailing at transaction dates.
Use of estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with Canadian GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenditures during the reported period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Financial instruments
The Company's financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, available for sale investments, amounts receivable, prepaid expenses and accounts payable and accrued liabilities. The carrying value of the financial instruments is approximate fair value due to their short term to maturity. Unless otherwise noted, it is management's opinion that the Company is not exposed to significant interest, currency or credit risk arising from these financial instruments.
Values
The amounts shown for mineral properties and for deferred exploration costs represent costs to date, and do not necessarily represent present or future values, as they are entirely dependent upon the economic recovery of future reserves.
Comparative figures
Certain comparative figures have been adjusted to conform to the current period's presentation.
- Restricted cash and cash equivalents
A total of $19,822,747 of the Company's cash and cash equivalents at 30 November 2006 relates to proceeds from the issuance of flow-through shares and is restricted to future expenditures on Canadian mineral property operating expenditures.
- Available for Sale Investments
| 2006 | 2005 |
| | Carrying value | | Fair market value | | Carrying value | | Fair market value |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Max Resource Corp. - 200,000 shares | | 72,000 | | 110,000 | | 82,000 | | 120,000 |
Pursuant to an exploration property option agreement referred to in Note 8, the Company received 200,000 common shares of Max Resource Corp. valued at $82,000 (Note 15). During the period ended 31 August 2006, the carrying value of the shares was written down to the fair market value of $72,000 ($0.36 per share). This value represents the lower of cost and fair market value. As at 30 November 2006 the fair value of the shares was $110,000.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- Amounts Receivable
Amounts receivable are non-interest bearing, unsecured and have settlement dates within one year.
| | | | 2006 | | 2005 |
| | | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | |
Goods and Services Tax receivable | | | | 198,876 | | 32,056 |
Interest receivable | | | | 159,551 | | - |
Mineral property expenditures recovery | | | | - | | 8,787 |
| | | | | | |
| | | | 358,427 | | 40,843 |
- Property, Plant and Equipment
| | | | Accumulated | | Net book value |
| | Cost | | amortization | | 2006 | | 2005 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Computer equipment | | 42,487 | | 11,429 | | | | 9,916 |
Equipment | | 59,834 | | 6,603 | | | | 4,197 |
Furniture and fixtures | | 25,705 | | 2,570 | | 23,135 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 128,026 | | 20,602 | | 107,424 | | 14,113 |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|
During the year ended 30 November 2006, total additions to property, plant and equipment were $111,504 (2005 - $8,361).
- Mineral Properties
Contact Lake Property - Contact Lake, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 1% net smelter return royalty ("NSR"), in five mineral claims, totalling 1,801.82 hectares ("ha") (4,450.50 acres) (the "Contact Lake Mineral Claims") located five miles southeast of Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories ("NT"), Canada, for cash payments of $60,000 (paid) and 300,000 common shares (issued and valued at $72,000) of the Company (Note 15). The Company may purchase the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company staked an additional 8,799.95 ha (21,735.38 acres) and increased the size of the Contact Lake Mineral Claims to 10,601.57 ha (26,185.88 acres). The Contact Lake Mineral Claims now consists of sixteen contiguous claims located 5 kilometers ("km") southeast of Port Radium on the east side of Great Bear Lake and 423 miles north of the city of Yellowknife, NT.
126
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Expenditures related to the Contact Lake Mineral Claims can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Assays | | 175,970 | | 165,073 | | 10,897 | | - |
Camp and field costs | | 1,927,147 | | 1,809,771 | | 117,376 | | - |
Consulting fees | | 570,598 | | 362,148 | | 208,450 | | - |
Drilling | | 1,458,060 | | 1,458,060 | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 1,273,316 | | 1,088,850 | | 184,466 | | - |
Surveying | | 1,233,289 | | 1,004,991 | | 228,298 | | - |
Transportation | | 2,606,594 | | 2,420,519 | | 186,075 | | - |
Travel | | 69,243 | | 50,513 | | 18,730 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 9,314,217 | | 8,359,925 | | 954,292 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Acquisition costs | | 132,000 | | - | | 132,000 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 9,446,217 | | 8,359,925 | | 1,086,292 | | - |
Port Radium - Glacier Lake Property, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in four mineral claims, totalling 2,424.23 ha (5,987.85 acres) (the "Glacier Lake Mineral Claims") located one mile east of Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, NT, for cash payments of $30,000 (paid) and 360,000 common shares (issued and valued at $72,000) of the Company (Note 15). The Company may purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Expenditures related to the Glacier Lake Mineral Claims can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Camp and field costs | | 320,762 | | 320,762 | | - | | - |
Consulting fees | | 27,477 | | 27,477 | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 22,896 | | 22,896 | | - | | - |
Surveying | | 17,309 | | 17,309 | | - | | - |
Transportation | | 866,963 | | 866,963 | | - | | - |
Travel | | 6,274 | | 6,274 | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 1,261,681 | | 1,261,681 | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Acquisition costs | | 102,000 | | - | | 102,000 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Recoveries | | (417,099) | | (417,099) | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 946,582 | | 844,582 | | 102,000 | | - |
Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Property, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company acquired a 100% undivided right, title and interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in five mineral claims, totalling 1,447.26 ha (3,574.73 acres) (the "Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims") located north of Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, NT, for cash payments of $60,000 (paid) and 450,000 common shares (issued and valued at $297,000) of the Company (Note 15). The Company may purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000.
Total expenditures related to the Port Radium - Crossfault Lake Mineral Claims consist of acquisition costs of $357,000 made during the year ended 30 November 2005.
Port Radium - Eldorado Property, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company entered into a lease agreement with South Malartic Exploration Inc. ("South Malartic"), to purchase a 50% undivided right, title and interest in three mineral claims, totalling 106.53 ha (263.13 acres) (the "Eldorado Uranium Mineral Claims") located at Port Radium on Great Bear Lake, NT, for a cash payment of $20,000 (paid).
Total expenditures related to the Eldorado Uranium Mineral Claims consist of acquisition costs of $20,000 made during the year ended 30 November 2005.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
North Contact Lake Mineral Claims - Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company acquired a 100% right, interest and title, subject to a 2% NSR, in eleven mineral claims (the "North Contact Lake Mineral Claims"), for cash payments of $75,000 and the issue of 250,000 common shares of the Company valued at $182,500 (Notes 11 and 15). The Company may purchase one-half of the NSR for a one-time payment of $1,000,000. The North Contact Lake Mineral Claims are situated north of Contact Lake on Great Bear Lake approximately 263 miles north of Yellowknife, NT, totalling 5,867.23 ha (14,492.06 acres).
Total expenditures related to the North Contact Lake Mineral Claims consist of acquisition costs of $257,500 made during the year ended 30 November 2006.
Longtom Property - Longtom Lake, Northwest Territories
The Company holds a 50% undivided interest subject to a 2% NSR, totalling 361.38 ha (892.61 acres), in the Longtom Property (the "Longtom Property") located about 350 km northwest of Yellowknife, NT. The Longtom Property is registered 100% in the name of the Company and the Company is the operator of the Longtom Property.
The Company has the right to acquire the remaining 50% interest in the Longtom Property (the "Longtom Option") for $315,000 payable either in cash or 50% ($157,500) in cash and 50% in common shares of the Company. The deemed price of the Company's shares issued on the exercise of the Longtom Option would be the average TSX Venture Exchange closing market price of its common shares on the five trading days immediately preceding and the five trading days immediately following the date that the option is exercised. The Company is compelled to exercise the Longtom Option: 1) within 90 days from the date it has incurred $5,000,000 in exploration expenditures on the Longtom Property; or 2) at the date the Company advises the optionor in writing that it will complete the Longtom Option to purchase the remaining 50% interest in the Longtom Property (Note 13).
The Company has the right to enter into joint venture or option agreements related to the Longtom Property with third parties prior to the exercise of the Longtom Option.
During the year ended 30 November 2003, the Company entered into a non-binding letter of intent (the "Letter of Intent") with Fronteer Development Group Inc. ("Fronteer"). Under the Letter of Intent, Fronteer may earn up to a 75% interest in the Longtom Property by paying the Company $15,000 cash and spending an aggregate of $500,000 on exploration expenditures over three years according to the following schedule:
- Pay $5,000 cash on signing (received);
- Pay $3,000 cash (received) and incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $50,000 by 27 October 2004 (incurred);
- Pay $3,000 cash (received) and incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $200,000 (incurred) by 27 October 2005; and
- Pay $4,000 cash (received) and incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $500,000 (incurred) by 27 October 2006.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Fronteer will be the operator of the program during the earn-in period. In the event that Fronteer fails to meet its obligations, Fronteer shall forfeit all interest in the Longtom Property.
This Letter of Intent was finalized during the year ended 30 November 2004 and was approved by TSX Venture Exchange.
Expenditures related to the Longtom Property can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Assays | | 335 | | - | | 335 | | - |
Camp and field costs | | 147,024 | | - | | - | | - |
Consulting fees | | 190,273 | | - | | 10,359 | | 125,948 |
Drilling | | 210,057 | | - | | - | | - |
Geology and engineering (recovery) | | 419,891 | | 893 | | 2,194 | | (11,624) |
Travel | | 322,529 | | - | | 12 | | 20,489 |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 1,290,109 | | 893 | | 12,900 | | 134,813 |
| | | | | | | | |
Recoveries | | (52,497) | | (4,000) | | (3,000) | | (8,000) |
| | | | | | | | |
Sales of mineral property interests | | (55,000) | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Write-off of mineral properties and related costs (Note 2) | | 220,552 | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 1,403,164 | | (3,107) | | 9,900 | | 126,813 |
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Longtom Property (Target 1) - Longtom Lake, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2003, the Company acquired a 50% interest in a 721.42 ha (1,781.90 acres) mineral property located in the Longtom Lake area of the NT, Canada, for cash proceeds of $15,000 and 200,000 common shares of the Company valued at $56,000 (Note 15).
Expenditures related to the Longtom Property Target 1 can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Consulting fees | | 21,648 | | - | | 9,468 | | 12,180 |
Geology and engineering | | 2,103 | | - | | 2,103 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 23,751 | | - | | 11,571 | | 12,180 |
| | | | | | | | |
Acquisition of mineral property interests | | 71,000 | | - | | - | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Recoveries | | (3,530) | | - | | (3,530) | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 91,221 | | - | | 8,041 | | 12,180 |
Longtom Property (Target 2) - Longtom Lake, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company abandoned its interest in Longtom Property (Target 2).
MacInnis Lake Property - MacInnis Lake, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company acquired a 100% interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in 12 mineral claims (the "MacInnis Lake Uranium Claims") located in the Nonacho Basin, 275 km southeast of Yellowknife, NT, for cash proceeds of $60,000 (paid) and 300,000 common shares (issued and valued at $70,500) of the Company (Note 15).
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company acquired a 100% interest, subject to a 2% NSR, in three additional mineral claims (the "Kult Claims") for cash payments of $40,000 (paid) and 350,000 common shares (issued and valued at $87,500) of the Company (Note 15). The MacInnis Lake Property now consists of 15 mineral claims totaling 10,596.35 ha (26,172.98 acres).
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company entered into an option agreement with Max Resource Corp. ("Max Resource"), wherein Max Resource may earn up to a 50% undivided, right, title and interest in the MacInnis Lake Uranium Claims and the Kult Claims (together called "MacInnis Lake Property") by paying the Company $30,000 cash (received), issuing 200,000 common shares of Max Resource (received and now valued at $72,000 (Note 5)) and completing $2 million in exploration work over five years according to the following schedule:
- Pay $15,000 cash (received) on signing;
- Pay $15,000 cash (received) and incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $750,000 by 1 April 2006;
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $1,000,000 by 1 April 2007;
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $1,250,000 by 1 April 2008;
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $1,500,000 by 1 April 2009; and
- Incur cumulative exploration expenditures of $2,000,000 by 1 April 2010.
In addition to the above, Max Resource is responsible for all cash payments to the underlying property vendor, during the option period. The Company is the operator of the project. The Company incurs all costs and recovers the costs from Max Resource until Max Resource has earned its option in the project.
The Company has halted exploration activities on this property pending resolution of permit issues.
Expenditures related to the MacInnis Lake Property can be summarized as follows:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Operating expenses | | | | | | | | |
Consulting fees | | 71,026 | | 1,500 | | 69,526 | | - |
Geology and engineering | | 12,176 | | 1,731 | | 10,445 | | - |
Surveying | | 213,025 | | - | | 213,025 | | - |
Travel | | 8,734 | | - | | 8,734 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 304,961 | | 3,231 | | 301,730 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Acquisition costs | | 258,000 | | - | | 258,000 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Recoveries | | ( 349,748) | | (15,000) | | (334,748) | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 213,213 | | (11,769) | | 224,982 | | - |
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Meridian Lake Property - Reliance, Northwest Territories
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company abandoned its interest in Meridian Lake Property.
Recovery of Mineral Property Costs
Recovery of Mineral Property Costs consists mainly of amounts paid to the Company under existing option agreements and camp rental fees paid to the Company:
| Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2006 | For the year ended 30 November 2005 | For the year ended 30 November 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
General cash payments related to mineral property option agreements | | 45,000 | | 19,000 | | 18,000 | | 8,000 |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash reimbursements of mineral property expenditures related to mineral properties | | 702,007 | | 417,099 | | 247,411 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
Shares received - 200,000 common shares of Max Resource Corp. (Note 15) | | 82,000 | | - | | 82,000 | | - |
| | | | | | | | |
| | 829,007 | | 436,099 | | 347,411 | | 8,000 |
- Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities are non-interest bearing, unsecured and have settlement dates within one year.
Included in the accounts payable and accrued liabilities at 30 November 2006 is $10,013 (2005 - $489) payable to directors and officers of the Company.
133
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- Related Parties Transactions
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company entered into the following transactions with related parties:
- Paid or accrued office secretarial fees of $36,037 (2005 - $38,304, 2004 - $32,019) to an individual related to a director of the Company.
- Paid or accrued accounting fees of $38,375 (2005 - $Nil, 2004 - $Nil) to a proprietorship controlled by a corporate secretary of the Company.
- Paid or accrued consulting fees of $27,452 (2005 - $43,900, 2004 - $66,528) to a company controlled by a director of the Company.
- Paid accrued management fees of $135,000 (2005 - $60,000, 2004 - $60,000) to a company controlled by a director of the Company.
- Paid or accrued directors fees of $7,500 (2005 - $Nil, 2004 - $Nil) to a partnership controlled by a director of the Company.
- Paid or accrued directors fees of $21,950 (2005 - $Nil, 2004 - $Nil) to a company controlled by a director of the Company.
- Paid or accrued directors fees of $9,000 (2005 - $Nil, 2004 - $Nil) to a company controlled by a director of the Company.
The amounts charged to the Company for the services provided have been determined by negotiation among the parties and in certain cases, are covered by signed agreements. It is the position of the management of the Company that these transactions were in the normal course of operations and were measured at the exchange value which represented the amount of consideration established and agreed to by the related parties.
- Capital Stock
Authorized capital stock consists of an unlimited number of voting common shares. Authorized capital stock also consists of an unlimited number of preferred shares, to be issued in series, with the directors being authorized to determine the designation, rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions attached to all of the preferred shares.
134
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Capital stock transactions of the Company during the year ended 30 November 2006 are summarized as follows:
- On 25 April 2006, the Company issued 5,500,000 units at a price of $1.85 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half-share purchase warrant. Each whole share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.10 up to 25 October 2007. At 30 November 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants remain outstanding. All of these common shares are flow-through shares for which the Company had not yet renounced the associated expenditures to the investors at 30 November 2006 (Note 17).
- On 18 October 2006, the Company issued 6,380,000 units at a price of $1.90 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half-share purchase warrant. Each whole share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.15 up to 17 April 2008. At 30 November 2006, all of the related share purchase warrants remain outstanding. All of these common shares are flow-through shares for which the Company had not yet renounced the associated expenditures to the investors at 30 November 2006 (Note 17).
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 227,500 common shares valued at a price of $0.55 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no share purchase warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 683,500 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. During the year ended 30 November 2006, a total of 100,000 share purchase warrants expired. As at 30 November 2006, no share purchase warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 1,853,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no share purchase warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 3,155,550 common shares valued at a price of $0.75 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at 30 November 2006, 1,844,450 share purchase warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 1,228,750 common shares valued at a price of $0.65 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding share purchase warrants. As at 30 November 2006, 6,271,250 share purchase warrants in this series remain outstanding.
135
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 21,581 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 51,622 common shares valued at a price of $0.40 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 200,468 common shares valued at a price of $0.36 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 106,396 common shares valued at a price of $0.36 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 656,787 common shares valued at a price of $0.65 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at 30 November 2006, no agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 1,985,664 units valued at a price of $0.45 per unit upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. Each unit consists of one common share and one half purchase warrant (the "Additional Share Purchase Warrant"). Each whole Additional Share Purchase Warrant can be used to purchase an additional common share of the Company of $0.75 up to 20 September 2007 (Note 11xiv). As at 30 November 2006, 9,336 agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 935,691 common shares valued at a price of $0.75 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding agent compensation warrants. As at 30 November 2006, 57,142 agent compensation warrants in this series remain outstanding. (Note 11 xiii).
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 1,550,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.20 per share upon exercise of previously outstanding stock options. As at 30 November 2006, 300,000 stock options in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 350,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.60 per share upon the exercise of previously outstanding stock options. As at 30 November 2006, 2,900,000 stock options in this series remain outstanding (Note 11xxii).
136
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- On 5 December 2005, the Company issued 250,000 common shares valued at a price of $0.73 per share for the acquisition of mineral property interests (Note 8).
- On 25 April 2006, the Company issued 200,225 units at a price of $1.85 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one half-share purchase warrant. Each whole share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.10 up to 25 October 2007. These units were issued for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. As at 30 November 2006, all of the related warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- On 25 April 2006, the Company issued 435,680 share purchase warrants. Each share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.15 up to 25 October 2007. These share purchase warrants were issued as consideration for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. As at 30 November 2006, all of the related warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- On 18 October 2006, the Company issued 508,296 share purchase warrants. Each share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase an additional common share at a price of $2.20 up to 17 April 2008. These share purchase warrants were issued as consideration for payment for services rendered by a private placement agent. As at 30 November 2006, all of the related warrants in this series remain outstanding.
- During the year ended 30 November 2006, a total of 10,000 previously outstanding stock options expired.
- On 27 January 2006, the Company issued 3,250,000 stock options. Each stock option entitles the holder to purchase a common share at a price of $0.60 up to 27 January 2009 (Note 11xvi.).
- On 27 September 2006, the Company issued 3,250,000 stock options. Each stock option entitles the holder to purchase a common share at a price of $1.57 up to 27 January 2008. As at 30 November 2006, all of the related stock options in this series remain outstanding.
Share subscriptions received in advance
Share subscriptions received in advance consists of $7,500 cash received by the Company for 12,500 common shares that were not yet issued at 30 November 2006. These shares were issued subsequent to 30 November 2006.
Stock options
The Company grants share options in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. Under the general guidelines of the TSX Venture Exchange, the Company may reserve up to 10% of its issued and outstanding shares for its employees, directors or consultants to purchase shares of the Company.
137
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
The following incentive stock options were outstanding at 30 November 2006:
| | Exercise price | | Number of options | | Remaining contractual life (years) |
| | $ | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Options | | 0.15 | | 55,000 | | 0.59 |
| | 0.20 | | 300,000 | | 1.60 |
| | 0.60 | | 2,900,000 | | 2.17 |
| | 1.57 | | 3,250,000 | | 1.83 |
| | | | | | |
| | | | 6,505,000 | | |
The following is a summary of stock based compensation activities during the years ended 30 November 2006 and 2005:
| | Number of shares | | Weighted average exercise price |
| | | | $ |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 1 December 2004 | | 1,862,590 | | 0.20 |
| | | | |
Granted | | 2,000,000 | | 0.20 |
Exercised | | (1,797,590) | | 0.20 |
Expired | | (150,000) | | 0.20 |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 30 November 2005 | | 1,915,000 | | 0.20 |
| | | | |
Weighted average fair value of options granted during the year | | | | 0.09 |
| | Number of shares | | Weighted average exercise price |
| | | | $ |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 1 December 2005 | | 1,915,000 | | 0.20 |
| | | | |
Granted | | 6,500,000 | | 1.09 |
Exercised | | (1,900,000) | | 0.27 |
Expired | | (10,000) | | 0.14 |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 30 November 2006 | | 6,505,000 | | 1.06 |
| | | | |
Weighted average fair value of options granted during the year | | | | 0.63 |
138
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Warrants and agent compensation warrants
The following share purchase warrants and agent compensation warrants were outstanding at 30 November 2006:
| | Exercise price | | Number of warrants | | Remaining contractual life (years) |
| | $ | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Warrants | | 0.75 | | 1,844,450 | | 0.81 |
Warrants | | 0.65 | | 6,271,250 | | 0.81 |
Agent compensation warrants | | 0.45 | | 9,336 | | 0.81 |
Agent compensation warrants | | 0.75 | | 57,142 | | 0.81 |
Agent compensation warrants | | 2.15 | | 435,680 | | 0.90 |
Agent compensation warrants | | 2.10 | | 100,112 | | 0.90 |
Warrants | | 2.10 | | 2,750,000 | | 0.90 |
Agent compensation warrants | | 2.20 | | 508,296 | | 1.38 |
Warrants | | 2.15 | | 3,190,000 | | 1.38 |
| | | | | | |
| | | | 15,166,266 | | |
The following is a summary of warrant activities during the years ended 30 November 2006 and 2005:
| | Number of warrants | | Weighted average exercise price |
| | | | $ |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 1 December 2004 | | 7,186,596 | | 0.39 |
| | | | |
Granted | | 15,151,787 | | 0.66 |
Exercised | | (3,516,529) | | 0.39 |
Expired | | (426,000) | | 0.30 |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 30 November 2005 | | 18,395,854 | | 0.61 |
| | | | |
Weighted average fair value of warrants granted during the year | | | | 0.34 |
139
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Outstanding and exercisable at 1 December 2005 | | 18,395,854 | | 0.61 |
| | | | |
Granted | | 7,976,921 | | 1.96 |
Exercised | | (11,106,509) | | 0.58 |
Expired | | (100,000) | | 0.40 |
| | | | |
Outstanding and exercisable at 30 November 2006 | | 15,166,266 | | 1.35 |
| | | | |
Weighted average fair value of warrants granted during the year | | | | 0.85 |
The weighted average grant date fair value of warrants issued during the year ended 30 November 2006, amounted to $0.85 per warrant (2005 - $0.34 per warrant). The fair value of each warrant granted was determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model and the following weighted average assumptions:
| | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | | | | | |
Risk free interest rate | | 4.61% | | 3.73% | | 2.07% |
Expected life | | 1.5 years | | 2.00 years | | 1.57 years |
Annualized volatility | | 88.42% | | 87.89% | | 93.00% |
Expected dividends | | - | | - | | - |
- Stock-Based Compensation
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company granted 6,500,000 stock options (2005 - 2,000,000, 2004 - Nil). The estimated fair value of these options was $0.63 per share (2005 - $0.09, 2004 - $Nil) for a total of $4,088,532 (2005 - $185,580, 2004 - $Nil). The fair value of the portion of these options which vested in the year, estimated using the Black Scholes model, was $3,237,869 (2005 - $185,580, 2004 - $Nil). This amount has been expensed as stock-based compensation in the statement of operations with a corresponding amount recorded as contributed surplus in shareholder's equity.
The following assumptions were used for the Black-Scholes valuation of stock options granted during the year:
| | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | | | | | |
Risk free interest rate | | 4.36% | | 3.22% | | - |
Expected life | | 1.75 years | | 2.00 years | | - |
Annualized volatility | | 94.98% | | 83.75% | | - |
Expected dividends | | - | | - | | - |
140
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- Commitments
- On 1 December 2000, the Company entered into a contract for management services with a company controlled by a director of the Company requiring the payment of $5,000 per month. This amount was increased to $12,500 per month effective 1 February 2006 (Note 10).
- On 14 July 2003, the Company entered into a contract for investor relations services with an individual requiring the payment of $4,000 per month. This amount was increased to $6,000 per month effective 1 February 2006 (Note 10).
- On 10 January 2006, the Company entered into a contract for media and investor relations services with a company requiring the payment of US$3,000 per month and the issue of 200,000 stock options exercisable at $0.60 per common share. The options were issued during the year ended 30 November 2006 (Notes 11 and 12).
- The Company has outstanding and future commitments under mineral property option agreements to pay cash and issue common shares of the Company (Note 8).
- The Company must incur mineral property operating expenditures equal to the proceeds of all flow-through shares issued by the Company. These mineral property operating expenditures must be incurred within a period of two years from the date of issue of the flow-through shares (Note 14).
- The Company entered into a five year lease for premise with minimum lease commitments of approximately $3,575 per month.
- Income Taxes
Provision for income taxes
The provision for (recovery of) income taxes differs from the amount that would have resulted by applying Canadian federal and provincial statutory tax rates of 32.49% (2005 - 33.6%, 2004 - 34.12%).
| | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | |
Net loss before income taxes | | (13,060,169) | | (2,832,810) | | (2,030,440) |
| | | | | | |
Income tax recovery at statutory rates | | 3,778,655 | | 951,824 | | 692,786 |
Adjustments to benefits resulting from: | | | | | | |
Amortization | | (5,145) | | (2,246) | | (3,001) |
Resource expenses | | (3,069,372) | | (655,263) | | (473,341) |
Stock-based compensation not deductible for income tax purposes | | (1,051,983) | | (63,320) | | - |
Share issue costs | | 123,827 | | 46,149 | | (19,228) |
(Unrecognized) benefits of non-capital losses | | 1,653,978 | | (277,144) | | 876,022 |
| | | | | | |
Future income tax recovery | | 1,429,960 | | - | | 1,073,238 |
141
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Future tax balances
The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to future income tax assets and liabilities are as follows:
| | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | |
Future tax assets: | | | | | | |
Non-capital loss carryforwards | | 1,207,190 | | 1,022,422 | | 702,714 |
Plant, property and equipment | | 15,130 | | 10,486 | | 6,931 |
Resource expenses | | 2,365,376 | | 761,961 | | 96,530 |
Share issue costs | | 417,423 | | 152,518 | | 63,525 |
| | | | | | |
| | 4,005,119 | | 1,947,387 | | 869,700 |
Less: valuation allowance | | (4,005,119) | | (1,947,387) | | (869,700) |
| | | | | | |
Actual income taxes | | - | | - | | - |
As at 30 November 2006, the Company had available for deduction against future taxable income, non-capital losses of approximately $3,715,575. The potential income tax benefit of these losses has been offset by a full valuation allowance. These losses, if unutilized will expire as follows:
Year | | Amount |
| | $ |
| | |
2006 | | 77,637 |
2007 | | 140,557 |
2008 | | 237,222 |
2009 | | 433,274 |
2010 | | 614,232 |
2011 | | 689,595 |
2012 | | 804,030 |
2013 | | 719,028 |
Additionally, the Company has approximately $7,280,319 of Canadian development expenses and Canadian Exploration expenditures as at 30 November 2006 which, under certain circumstances, may be utilized to reduce taxable income of future years. The potential income tax benefits of these losses have been offset by a full valuation allowance.
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company renounced the tax benefits of a total of 10,000,000 flow-through common shares issued prior to 30 November 2005 resulting in an income tax recovery of $1,429,960 (2005 - $Nil).
142
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 11,880,000 common shares (30 November 2005 - 10,000,000) on a flow-through basis for gross proceeds of $22,297,000 (30 November 2005 - $4,500,000). The flow-through agreements require the Company to renounce certain tax deductions for Canadian exploration expenditures incurred on the Company's mineral properties to the flow-through participants.
- Supplemental Disclosures with Respect to Cash Flows
| | Cumulative amounts from inception to 30 November 2006 | | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | | | |
Cash paid during the year for interest | | 14,246 | | 5,759 | | 726 | | 3,967 |
Cash paid during the year for income taxes | | - | | - | | - | | - |
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the company issued 200,225 common shares valued at $252,751 and 2,036,921 warrants valued at $1,015,191 for agent services rendered.
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 250,000 common shares valued at $182,500 for the acquisition of the mineral property interests (Note 8).
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company issued 1,313,574 common shares valued at $303,074 and 2,651,787 warrants valued at $1,027,318 for agent services rendered.
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company issued 1,760,000 common shares valued at $599,000 for the acquisition of the mineral property interests (Note 8).
During the year ended 30 November 2004, the Company issued 220,832 common shares valued at $49,153 and warrants valued at $140,214 for agent services rendered.
During the year ended 30 November 2004, the Company issued 150,000 common shares valued at $30,000 for the acquisition of the mineral property interests (Note 8).
During the year ended 30 November 2004, the Company received 200,000 common shares of Max Resource Corp. valued at $82,000 as payment under a mineral property option agreement (Note 8).
During the year ended 30 November 2003, the Company issued 100,000 common shares valued at $23,000 for financing fees and 700,000 warrants valued at $58,478 for agent services rendered.
During the year ended 30 November 2003, the Company issued 450,000 common shares valued at $112,500 for the acquisition of the mineral property interests (Note 8).
143
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
On 21 January 2003, the Company sold its interest in the Harrison Lake Property to Candorado for proceeds of 200,000 shares of Candorado valued at $16,565. These shares were sold for proceeds of $16,565 on the same date.
During the year ended 30 November 2000, the Company issued 669,180 common shares valued at $66,918 for the settlement of debt.
- Segmented Information
The Company operates solely in Canada in one reporting segment, mineral production and related activities.
- Subsequent Events
The following events occurred subsequent to 30 November 2006:
- The Company issued an additional 587,500 common shares for total cash proceeds of $312,500 for options exercised.
- The Company issued an additional 25,000 common shares for total cash proceeds of $16,250 for warrants exercised.
- The Company issued an additional 37,140 common shares for total cash proceeds of $27,855 for agent compensation warrants exercised.
- The Company renounced mineral property expenditures of $10,120,000 which resulted in the transfer of the income tax deductibility of such expenditures to the investors who purchased flow-through common shares of the Company on 25 April 2006.
- The Company renounced mineral property expenditures of $12,058,200 which resulted in the transfer of the income tax deductibility of such expenditures to the investors who purchased flow-through common shares of the Company on 18 October 2006.
144
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- Reconciliation of Canadian and United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
The financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with Canadian GAAP, which differ in certain material respects from US GAAP. Had the Company prepared the financial statements in accordance with US GAAP, certain items on the balance sheets and statements of operations, deficit and cash flows would have been reported as follows:
| | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | |
Statement of loss | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Net loss for the year based on Canadian GAAP | | (11,630,209) | | (2,832,810) | | (957,202) |
Stock based compensation (Note 18(ii)) | | - | | - | | - |
Income tax expense on current year United States GAAP adjustments - Flow-through shares (Note 18(i)) | | (1,429,960) | | - | | (932,138) |
| | | | | | |
Net loss for the year based on United States GAAP | | (13,060,169) | | (2,832,810) | | (1,889,340) |
| | | | | | |
Other comprehensive income (Note 18(iv)) | | 38,000 | | 48,000 | | - |
| | | | | | |
Comprehensive loss for the year based on United States GAAP | | (13,022,169) | | (2,784,810) | | (1,889,340) |
| | 2006 | | 2005 | | 2004 |
| | $ | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | |
Loss per share, basic and diluted | | (0.16) | | (0.06) | | (0.07) |
| | | | | | |
Comprehensive loss per share, basic and diluted | | (0.16) | | (0.06) | | (0.07) |
| | | | | | |
Shareholders' equity | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Canadian GAAP | | 30,332,098 | | 11,899,236 | | 2,071,876 |
Flow-through shares (Note 18(i)) | | - | | - | | - |
Other comprehensive income (Note 18(iv)) | | 38,000 | | 48,000 | | - |
| | | | | | |
United States GAAP | | 30,370,098 | | 11,947,236 | | 2,071,876 |
145
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Balance sheet difference
| | | | 2006 | | 2005 |
| | | | $ | | $ |
| | | | | | |
Share capital | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Canadian GAAP | | | | 49,775,818 | | 19,712,747 |
Flow-through shares (Note 18(i)) | | | | 2,504,428 | | 1,074,468 |
Stock-based compensation (Note 18(ii)) | | | | 189,176 | | 189,176 |
Other comprehensive income (Note 18(iv)) | | | | 38,000 | | 48,000 |
| | | | | | |
United States GAAP | | | | 52,507,422 | | 21,024,391 |
| | | | | | |
Deficit | | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
Canadian GAAP | | | | (19,443,720) | | (7,813,511) |
Flow-through shares (Note 18(i)) | | | | (2,504,428) | | (1,074,468) |
Stock-based compensation (Note 18(ii)) | | | | (189,176) | | (189,176) |
| | | | | | |
United States GAAP | | | | (22,137,324) | | (9,077,155) |
| | | | | | | | |
Statement of cash flow difference
Under United States GAAP, separate subtotals within cash flow from operating activities are not presented.
- Flow-through shares
Flow-through shares are typically issued by Canadian Exploration Stage Companies. The flow-through shares permit the investor to claim deductions for tax purposes related to expenditures incurred by the issuer. The issuer explicitly renounces the right to claim these deductions. The investor's tax base is reduced by the amount of deductions taken.
Under Canadian GAAP, when the flow-through shares are issued they are recorded at their face value. When the entity acquires assets the carrying value may exceed the tax basis as a result of the enterprise renouncing the deductions to the investors. The tax effect of the temporary difference is recorded as a reduction in share capital.
United States GAAP directs that when flow-through shares are issued, the proceeds should be allocated between the offering of shares and the sale of tax benefits. The allocation is made based on the difference between the quoted price of the existing shares and the amount the investor pays for the flow-through shares. A liability is recognized for this difference. The liability is reversed when tax benefits are renounced and a deferred tax liability is recognized at that time. Income tax expense is the difference between the amount of the deferred tax liability and the liability recognized on issuance.
146
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
During the years ended 30 November 2004 and 2003, the Company issued 12,419,926 and 1,346,667 flow-through common shares for total proceeds of $3,240,280 and $270,000 respectively. All of these amounts were renounced to the respective investors during the year ended 30 November 2004.
During the year ended 30 November 2005, the Company issued 10,000,000 flow-through common shares for total proceeds of $4,500,000. All of these amounts were renounced to the respective investors during the year ended 30 November 2006.
During the year ended 30 November 2006, the Company issued 5,500,000 and 6,380,000 flow-through common shares for total proceeds of $10,175,000 and $12,122,000 respectively. All of these amounts were renounced to the respective investors subsequent to the year ended 30 November 2006 (Note 17).
Proceeds from the sale of flow-through shares would be classified as restricted cash until the expenditure actually occurs. As at 30 November 2006, for United States GAAP purposes, cash of approximately $19,822,747 would be classified as restricted (Note 4).
- Stock based compensation
The Company records compensation expense for United States GAAP purposes following the fair value method of accounting for stock options as prescribed under FSAS No. 123 "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation". The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to value its stock options as described in Notes 3 and 12.
Prior to 1 December 2002, the Company accounted for stock options under Canadian GAAP as capital transactions when the options were recognized. Effective 1 December 2002, the Company began accounting for stock option expense on a prospective basis under Canadian GAAP following the fair value method of accounting for stock options. The Company's reported increase of $186,176 in both share capital and deficit as at 30 November 2006 and 2005 is the result of the difference in accounting for stock options under Canadian GAAP and United States GAAP prior to 1 December 2002.
- Earnings (loss) per share
Under both Canadian and United States GAAP, basic earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing the earnings (loss) to common shareholders by the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the year. For Canadian reporting purposes, fully diluted earnings per share is calculated under the assumption that any convertible notes are converted at the date issued, and stock options and warrants are exercised at the date of grant.
Under United States GAAP, diluted earnings per share takes into consideration the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the year and the potentially dilutive common shares. For the years ended 30 November 2006, 2005 and 2004, this calculation proved to be anti-dilutive.
147
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
Under United States GAAP, the weighted average number of common shares outstanding excludes any shares that remain in escrow, but may be earned out based on the Company incurring a certain amount of exploration and development expenditures.
The weighted average number of common shares outstanding for calculating basic earnings (loss) per share under United States GAAP for the years ended 30 November 2006, 2005 and 2004 were 83,573,546, 44,249,632 and 27,557,850, respectively. The calculation of diluted earnings per share for the years ended 30 November 2006, 2005 and 2004 proved to be anti-dilutive.
- Comprehensive income
SFAS No. 130, "Reporting Comprehensive Income", establishes standards for the reporting and display of comprehensive income and its components (revenues, expenses, gains, and losses). SFAS No. 130 requires that all items that are required to be recognized under accounting standards as components of comprehensive income be reported in the financial statements for the Company. At 30 November 2006 the Company would have recognized an unrealized gain of $38,000 on available for sale investments in comprehensive income (2005 - $48,000, 2004 - $Nil) (Note 5).
- Mineral property expenditures
Mineral properties are accounted for in accordance with Canadian GAAP as discussed in Note 3. For US GAAP purposes, exploration costs related to unproven mineral properties, leases and permits as well as acquisition costs for properties, leases and permits that do not provide for unrestricted exploration, are expensed as incurred. The Company tracks expenditures on its mineral properties as exploration or development and under US GAAP capitalizes costs relating to the development of proven reserves. Capitalized exploration costs are then assessed to determine if a write down in the carrying value is necessary and any write down would be considered an operating expense and included in the determination of operating loss for the period in which the write down occurred.
- Accounting for impairment of long-lived assets and for long-lived assets to be disposed of
For United States reporting purposes, the Company has adopted SFAS No. 144, "Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets". In the event that facts and circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable and an estimate of future and undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying amount of the asset, an impairment loss will be recognized.
- Concentration of credit risk
The Company is exposed to credit losses in the event of non-performance by the counter-parties to the financial instruments but does not expect any counter-parties to fail to meet their obligations. The Company generally does not obtain collateral or other security to support financial instruments subject to credit risk, but monitors the credit standing of counter-parties.
148
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
- Asset retirement obligations
In June 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 143 - "Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations." SFAS No. 143, effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after 15 June 2002, is substantially consistent with CICA Handbook Section 3110, "Asset Retirement Obligations," which is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after 1 January 2004. The Company adopted CICA 3110 for Canadian GAAP purposes effective 1 December 2004, and SFAS No. 143 for US GAAP purposes effective 1 December 2004.
- Costs associated with exit or disposal activities
On 1 December 2003, the Company adopted SFAS No. 146, "Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities". This standard requires that a liability associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred rather than at the date of the Company's commitment to an exit plan.
- Accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity
On 1 December 2003, the Company adopted SFAS No. 150, "Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equity". This standard requires that certain financial instruments embodying an obligation to transfer assets or to issue equity securities be classified as liabilities. This standard has no impact on the Company's financial statements.
- Income taxes
Under United States GAAP, deferred income tax assets and liabilities are revalued for all enacted changes in tax rates. Under Canadian GAAP, deferred income tax assets and liabilities are revalued for all enacted or substantially enacted changes in tax rates.
- Recent pronouncements
In February 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 155, "Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments-an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140", to simplify and make more consistent the accounting for certain financial instruments. SFAS No. 155 amends SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities", to permit fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument with an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation, provided that the whole instrument is accounted for on a fair value basis. SFAS No. 155 amends SFAS No. 140, "Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets", to allow a qualifying special-purpose entity to hold a derivative financial instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. SFAS No. 155 applies to all financial instruments acquired or issued after the beginning of an entity's first fiscal year that begins after September 14, 2006, with earlier application allowed. This standard is not expected to have a significant effect on the Company's future reported financial position or results of operations.
149
Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
In March 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 156, "Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets, an amendment of FASB Statement No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities". This statement requires all separately recognized servicing assets and servicing liabilities be initially measured at fair value, if practicable, and permits for subsequent measurement using either fair value measurement with changes in fair value reflected in earnings or the amortization and impairment requirements of Statement No. 140. The subsequent measurement of separately recognized servicing assets and servicing liabilities at fair value eliminates the necessity for entities that manage the risks inherent in servicing assets and servicing liabilities with derivatives to qualify for hedge accounting treatment and eliminates the characterization of declines in fair value as impairments or direct write-downs. SFAS No. 156 is effective for an entity's first fiscal year beginning after September 15, 2006. This adoption of this statement is not expected to have a significant effect on the Company's future reported financial position or results of operations.
In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, "Fair Value Measures". This Statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), expands disclosures about fair value measurements, and applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 does not require any new fair value measurements. However, the FASB anticipates that for some entities, the application of SFAS No. 157 will change current practice. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, which for the Company would be the first fiscal year beginning January 1, 2008. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of SFAS No. 157 but does not expect that it will have a material impact on its financial statements.
In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, "Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans." This Statement requires an employer to recognize the over funded or under funded status of a defined benefit post retirement plan (other than a multiemployer plan) as an asset or liability in its statement of financial position, and to recognize changes in that funded status in the year in which the changes occur through comprehensive income. SFAS No. 158 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2006. The Company does not expect that the implementation of SFAS No. 158 will have any material impact on its financial position and results of operations.
In September 2006, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 108, "Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements." SAB No. 108 addresses how the effects of prior year uncorrected misstatements should be considered when quantifying misstatement in current year financial statements. SAB No. 108 requires companies to quantify misstatement using a balance sheet and income statement approach and to evaluate whether either approach results in quantifying an error that is material in light of relevant quantitative and qualitative factors. SAB No. 108 is effective for periods ending after November 15, 2006. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting SAB No. 108 but does not expect that it will have a material effect on its financial statements.
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Alberta Star Development Corp.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Financial Statements
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
30 November 2006
In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, "Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities". This Statement permits entities to choose to measure many financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value. Unrealized gains and losses on items for which the fair value option has been elected are reported in earnings. SFAS No. 159 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The Company is currently assessing the impact of SFAS No. 159 on its financial position and results of operations.
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ITEM 18 - Financial Statements
See "Item 17 - Financial Statements."
ITEM 19 - Exhibits
The following exhibits are included herein, except for the exhibits marked with an asterisk, which are incorporated herein by reference.
Exhibit No. | Exhibit Title |
1.1 | Certificate of Incorporation and Certificate of Amendment and Registration of Restated Articles* |
1.2 | Bylaws* |
1.3 | Articles of Association* |
4.1 | Purchase and Sale Agreement dated February 8, 2005 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed and Ted Burylo.**** |
4.2 | Mineral Property Option Agreement - Dent Claims dated May 5, 2004 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and 130485 Ontario Inc.**** |
4.3 | Mineral Property Option Agreement - Shabu Lake Claims dated May 5, 2004 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and 130485 Ontario Inc.**** |
4.4 | Option and Joint Venture Agreement dated March 18, 2005 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and Fortune Minerals Limited.**** |
4.5 | Purchase and Sale Agreement dated March 15, 2005 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and Kalac Holdings Ltd. and David G. Lorne.**** |
4.6 | Purchase and Sale Agreement dated April 22, 2005 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed and Ted Burylo.**** |
4.7 | Investor Relations Agreement dated February 17, 2003 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and National Media Associates.** |
4.8 | Investor Relations Agreement dated June 9, 2003 between Alberta Star Development Corp. and Mr. Allan Feldman.*** |
4.9 | Management Agreement dated December 1, 2000 between Alberta Star Mining Corp. and Tim Coupland.* |
4.10 | Property Option Agreement dated July 2, 2004 between Alberta Star and Fronteer Development Group Inc. |
4.11 | Mineral Property Option Agreement dated April 1, 2005 between Alberta Star and Max Resource Corp. |
4.12 | Purchase and Sales agreement dated November 14, 2005 between Alberta Star and South Malartic Exploration Inc. |
4.13 | Purchase and Sale agreement dated November 21, 2005 between Alberta Star and Kalac Holdings Ltd., Trevor Teed and David Lorne. |
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Exhibit No. | Exhibit Title (continued) |
4.14 | Service agreement dated January 1, 2006 between Alberta Star and Michael Baybak and Company in relation to media and investor relations services. |
4.15 | Service agreement dated January 10, 2006 between Alberta Star and Connors Drilling Ltd. in relation to the drilling of Contact Lake and Port Radium properties. |
4.16 | Purchase and Sale agreement dated October 2, 2005 between Alberta Star and Lane Delwar, Trevor Teed and Ted Burylo. |
4.17 | Purchase and Sale Agreement dated July 6, 2005 between Alberta Star and Lane Dewar, Trevor Teed, Andy Dupras and Ted Burylo. |
11.1 | Code of Ethics |
12.1 | Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
12.2 | Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
13.1 | Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
15.1 | Management's Discussion and Analysis for the Year Ended November 30, 2006 |
15.2 | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |
Notes:
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| * | incorporated by reference from our Form 20-F that was filed with the commission on June 8, 2001. |
| ** | incorporated by reference from our Form 20-F that was filed with the commission on April 7, 2003. |
| *** | incorporated by reference from our Form 20-F that was filed with the commission on June 1, 2004. |
| **** | incorporated by reference from our Form 20-F that was filed with the commission on October 27, 2004. |
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SIGNATURE
The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for annual report filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.
ALBERTA STAR DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Dated: March 15, 2007
By: /s/ Tim Coupland
Tim Coupland, President
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