CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
THREE AND SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2007
(Expressed in Canadian Dollars)
(Unaudited)
These financial statements have not been reviewed by the Company's auditors
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Consolidated Balance Sheets |
| (Expressed in Canadian Dollars) |
| June 30 | December 31 | |||||
| 2007 | 2006 | |||||
| (unaudited) | ||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||
| Current assets | ||||||
| Cash and equivalents | $ | 58,423,921 | $ | 93,689,667 | ||
| Marketable securities (note 3) | 25,500 | – | ||||
| Amounts receivable and prepaids | 1,226,056 | 489,846 | ||||
| Options exercised proceeds receivable (note 5) | – | 3,740,000 | ||||
| Balance receivable from related parties (note 5) | 237,845 | 192,480 | ||||
| 59,913,322 | 98,111,993 | |||||
| Equipment | 668,830 | 633,445 | ||||
| Mineral property interests | 168,221,821 | 168,221,821 | ||||
| Total Assets | $ | 228,803,973 | $ | 266,967,259 | ||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | ||||||
| Current liabilities | ||||||
| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | $ | 7,311,048 | $ | 7,839,372 | ||
| Future income tax liability | 58,663,132 | 61,601,069 | ||||
| 65,974,180 | 69,440,441 | |||||
| Shareholders' equity | ||||||
| Share capital | 359,996,957 | 357,364,087 | ||||
| Contributed surplus | 16,157,722 | 10,061,913 | ||||
| Deficit | (213,330,136 | ) | (169,899,182 | ) | ||
| Accumulated other comprehensive income (note 2) | 5,250 | – | ||||
| 162,829,793 | 197,526,818 | |||||
| Subsequent event (note 6) | ||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity | $ | 228,803,973 | $ | 266,967,259 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
Approved by the Board of Directors
| /s/ Ronald W. Thiessen | /s/ Jeffrey R. Mason |
| Ronald W. Thiessen | Jeffrey R. Mason |
| Director | Director |
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. | ||||||||||||
| Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss | ||||||||||||
| (Unaudited - Expressed in Canadian Dollars) | ||||||||||||
| Three months ended June 30 | Six months ended June 30 | |||||||||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | |||||||||
| Expenses | ||||||||||||
| Amortization | $ | 46,759 | $ | 19,407 | $ | 76,759 | $ | 36,976 | ||||
| Conference and travel | 281,063 | 183,930 | 448,923 | 362,031 | ||||||||
| Exploration (see schedule of exploration expenses) | 21,760,568 | 11,054,758 | 35,498,146 | 17,931,818 | ||||||||
| Foreign exchange loss | 1,947,133 | 267,686 | 1,845,412 | 203,085 | ||||||||
| Interest income | (821,338 | ) | (177,457 | ) | (1,789,722 | ) | (309,848 | ) | ||||
| Legal, accounting and audit | 174,583 | 204,657 | 461,250 | 367,916 | ||||||||
| Office and administration | 826,115 | 865,218 | 2,110,931 | 1,613,724 | ||||||||
| Shareholder communication | 263,352 | 94,534 | 382,642 | 177,876 | ||||||||
| Stock-based compensation - exploration (note 4(b)) | 1,294,830 | 861,865 | 2,933,931 | 1,244,638 | ||||||||
| Stock-based compensation - administration (note 4(b)) | 1,872,533 | 1,693,029 | 4,170,262 | 2,412,803 | ||||||||
| Trust and filing | 138,000 | 11,416 | 230,357 | 118,206 | ||||||||
| Net loss before the following | 27,783,598 | 15,079,043 | 46,368,891 | 24,159,225 | ||||||||
| Gain on sale of marketable securities | – | – | – | (194,381 | ) | |||||||
| Net loss before taxes | 27,783,598 | 15,079,043 | 46,368,891 | 23,964,844 | ||||||||
| Future income tax recovery | (1,955,842 | ) | – | (2,937,937 | ) | – | ||||||
| Loss for the period | $ | 25,827,756 | $ | 15,079,043 | $ | 43,430,954 | $ | 23,964,844 | ||||
| Other comprehensive (income) | ||||||||||||
| Unrealized gain on available-for-sale marketable securities (note 3) | (6,750 | ) | – | (5,250 | ) | – | ||||||
| Other comprehensive (income) | $ | (6,750 | ) | $ | – | $ | (5,250 | ) | $ | – | ||
| Total comprehensive (income) loss | $ | 25,821,006 | $ | 15,079,043 | $ | 43,425,704 | $ | 23,964,844 | ||||
| Basic and diluted loss per common share | $ | 0.28 | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.47 | $ | 0.36 | ||||
| Weighted average number of | ||||||||||||
| common shares outstanding | 91,921,762 | 71,976,922 | 91,839,217 | 66,421,105 | ||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. | ||||||||||||
| Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows | ||||||||||||
| (Unaudited - Expressed in Canadian Dollars) | ||||||||||||
| Three months ended June 30 | Six months ended June 30 | |||||||||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | |||||||||
| Operating activities | ||||||||||||
| Loss for the period | $ | (25,827,756 | ) | $ | (15,079,043 | ) | $ | (43,430,954 | ) | $ | (23,964,844 | ) |
| Items not involving cash | ||||||||||||
| Amortization | 46,759 | 19,407 | 76,759 | 36,976 | ||||||||
| Future income tax recovery | (1,955,842 | ) | – | (2,937,937 | ) | – | ||||||
| Gain on sale of marketable securities | – | – | – | (194,381 | ) | |||||||
| Shares received for property option agreement (note 3) | – | – | (20,250 | ) | – | |||||||
| Stock-based compensation | 3,167,363 | 2,554,894 | 7,104,193 | 3,657,441 | ||||||||
| Changes in non-cash working capital items | ||||||||||||
| Amounts receivable and prepaids | 78,749 | (45,338 | ) | (736,210 | ) | (273,046 | ) | |||||
| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | 1,490,342 | 1,179,139 | (528,324 | ) | 1,004,639 | |||||||
| Balances receivable from and payable to related parties | 258,641 | (81,686 | ) | (45,365 | ) | (150,673 | ) | |||||
| Cash and equivalents used in operating activities | (22,741,744 | ) | (11,452,627 | ) | (40,518,088 | ) | (19,883,888 | ) | ||||
| Investing activities | ||||||||||||
| Purchase of equipment | – | (17,499 | ) | (112,143 | ) | (17,499 | ) | |||||
| Proceeds on sale of marketable securities | – | – | – | 558,287 | ||||||||
| Cash and equivalents provided by (used for) investing activities | – | (17,499 | ) | (112,143 | ) | 540,788 | ||||||
| Financing activities | ||||||||||||
| Common shares issued for cash, net of issue costs | 375,022 | 21,973,926 | 1,624,485 | 27,621,114 | ||||||||
| Options exercised proceeds received (note 5) | – | – | 3,740,000 | – | ||||||||
| Cash provided from financing activities | 375,022 | 21,973,926 | 5,364,485 | 27,621,114 | ||||||||
| Decrease in cash and equivalents | (22,366,722 | ) | 10,503,800 | (35,265,746 | ) | 8,278,014 | ||||||
| Cash and equivalents, beginning of period | 80,790,643 | 10,722,854 | 93,689,667 | 12,948,640 | ||||||||
| Cash and equivalents, end of period | $ | 58,423,921 | $ | 21,226,654 | $ | 58,423,921 | $ | 21,226,654 | ||||
| Supplementary information | ||||||||||||
| Taxes paid | $ | – | $ | – | $ | – | $ | – | ||||
| Interest paid | $ | – | $ | – | $ | – | $ | – | ||||
| Interest received | $ | 821,338 | $ | 177,457 | $ | 1,789,722 | $ | 309,848 | ||||
| Non-cash investing and financing activities | ||||||||||||
| Fair value of stock options allocated to shares issued upon | ||||||||||||
| exercise | $ | 313,812 | $ | 2,450,002 | $ | 1,008,384 | $ | 2,450,002 | ||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. | ||||||||||||
| Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity and Deficit | ||||||||||||
| (Expressed in Canadian Dollars) | ||||||||||||
| Six months ended | Year ended | |||||||||||
| June 30, 2007 | December 31, 2006 | |||||||||||
| (unaudited) | ||||||||||||
| Share capital | Number of shares | Number of shares | ||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of the period | 91,685,519 | $ | 357,364,087 | 60,092,607 | $ | 132,361,949 | ||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $4.50 per share | 19,068 | 85,806 | 19,932 | 89,694 | ||||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $4.65 per share | – | – | 100,000 | 465,000 | ||||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $5.00 per share | – | – | 1,897,500 | 9,487,500 | ||||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $5.31 per share | 125,066 | 664,100 | 99,932 | 530,639 | ||||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $5.37 per share | 10,000 | 53,700 | – | – | ||||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $5.40 per share | 17,900 | 96,660 | 64,933 | 350,638 | ||||||||
| Share purchase options exercised at $7.25 per share | 100,400 | 727,900 | 22,498 | 163,111 | ||||||||
| Fair value of stock options allocated to shares issued on exercise | – | 1,008,384 | – | 5,045,304 | ||||||||
| Warrants exercised at $5.00 per share, net of issue costs | – | – | 6,985,344 | 34,004,171 | ||||||||
| Common shares issued pursuant to share purchase | ||||||||||||
| agreement, net of issue costs | – | (3,680 | ) | 8,745,845 | 87,444,410 | |||||||
| Common shares issued upon acquisition | – | – | 14,002,268 | 89,194,447 | ||||||||
| Common shares returned to treasury | – | – | (345,340 | ) | (1,772,776 | ) | ||||||
| Balance at end of the period | 91,957,953 | $ | 359,996,957 | 91,685,519 | $ | 357,364,087 | ||||||
| Contibuted surplus | ||||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of the period | 10,061,913 | 7,289,377 | ||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | 7,104,193 | 6,045,064 | ||||||||||
| Common shares returned to treasury | – | 1,772,776 | ||||||||||
| Fair value of stock options allocated to shares issued on exercise | (1,008,384 | ) | (5,045,304 | ) | ||||||||
| Balance at end of the period | $ | 16,157,722 | $ | 10,061,913 | ||||||||
| Deficit | ||||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of the period | (169,899,182 | ) | (111,516,326 | ) | ||||||||
| Loss for the period | (43,430,954 | ) | (58,382,856 | ) | ||||||||
| Balance at end of the period | $ | (213,330,136 | ) | $ | (169,899,182 | ) | ||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive income | ||||||||||||
| Unrealized gain on available-for-sale marketable securities (note 2) | 5,250 | – | ||||||||||
| Balance at end of the period | $ | 5,250 | $ | – | ||||||||
| TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | $ | 162,829,793 | $ | 197,526,818 | ||||||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. | ||||||||||||
| Consolidated Schedules of Exploration Expenses | ||||||||||||
| (Unaudited - Expressed in Canadian Dollars) | ||||||||||||
| Three months ended June 30 | Six months ended June 30 | |||||||||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | |||||||||
| Assays and analysis | $ | 314,764 | $ | 49,171 | $ | 501,607 | $ | 99,682 | ||||
| Drilling | 4,050,471 | 1,574,431 | 6,786,840 | 1,583,468 | ||||||||
| Engineering | 1,500,014 | 926,718 | 2,024,840 | 3,290,623 | ||||||||
| Environmental | 4,847,977 | 3,320,177 | 8,147,115 | 5,990,434 | ||||||||
| Equipment rental | 37,806 | 14,028 | 63,317 | 27,245 | ||||||||
| Freight | 679,766 | 278,182 | 1,004,567 | 365,112 | ||||||||
| Geological | 511,403 | 274,729 | 855,055 | 438,122 | ||||||||
| Graphics | 40,137 | 3,669 | 67,122 | 11,457 | ||||||||
| Helicopter | 3,024,035 | 1,431,686 | 4,563,622 | 1,527,072 | ||||||||
| Option payments | – | – | (20,250 | ) | – | |||||||
| Property fees and assessments | 49,059 | 39,125 | 98,119 | 78,309 | ||||||||
| Site activities | 4,285,189 | 1,667,989 | 7,338,618 | 2,090,855 | ||||||||
| Socioeconomic | 2,132,249 | 1,320,729 | 3,636,378 | 2,157,379 | ||||||||
| Travel and accommodation | 287,698 | 154,124 | 431,196 | 272,060 | ||||||||
| Incurred during the period | 21,760,568 | 11,054,758 | 35,498,146 | 17,931,818 | ||||||||
| Cumulative expenditures, beginning of period | 151,011,370 | 93,538,436 | 137,273,792 | 86,661,376 | ||||||||
| Cumulative expenditures, end of period | $ | 172,771,938 | $ | 104,593,194 | $ | 172,771,938 | $ | 104,593,194 | ||||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
| Three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 |
| (Unaudited – Expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated) |
| 1. | BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION | ||
These interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles. They do not include all the disclosures as required for annual financial statements under generally accepted accounting principles. However, these interim consolidated financial statements follow the same accounting policies and methods of application as the Company’s most recent audited annual financial statements except for the changes described in note 2 below. These interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited annual consolidated financial statements. | |||
Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2007 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2007. | |||
| 2. | CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICIES | ||
Effective January 1, 2007, the Company adopted the following new accounting standards issued by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (“CICA”) relating to financial instruments. These new standards have been adopted on a prospective basis with no restatement to prior period financial statements. | |||
| (a) | Section 3855 – Financial Instruments – Recognition and Measurement. | ||
This standard sets out criteria for the recognition and measurement of financial instruments for fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 2006. This standard requires all financial instruments within its scope, including derivatives, to be included on a Company’s balance sheet and measured either at fair value or, in certain circumstances when fair value may not be considered most relevant, at cost or amortized cost. Changes in fair value are to be recognized in the statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss). | |||
All financial assets and liabilities are recognized when the entity becomes a party to the contract creating the item. As such, any of the Company’s outstanding financial assets and liabilities at the effective date of adoption are recognized and measured in accordance with the new requirements as if these requirements had always been in effect. Any changes to the fair values of assets and liabilities prior to January 1, 2007 are recognized by adjusting opening deficit or opening accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). | |||
All financial instruments are classified into one of the following five categories: held for trading, held-to-maturity, loans and receivables, available-for-sale financial assets, or other financial liabilities. Initial and subsequent measurement and recognition of changes in the value of financial instruments depends on their initial classification: | |||
| • | Held-to-maturity investments, loans and receivables, and other financial liabilities are initially measured at fair value and subsequently measured at amortized cost. | ||
| • | Available-for-sale financial assets are measured at fair value. Revaluation gains and losses are included in other comprehensive income (loss) until the asset is removed from the balance sheet. | ||
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
| Three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 |
| (Unaudited – Expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated) |
| • | Held for trading financial instruments are measured at fair value. All gains and losses are included in net earnings (loss) in the period in which they arise. | ||
| • | All derivative financial instruments are measured at fair value, even when they are part of a hedging relationship. All gains and losses are included in net earnings (loss) in the period in which they arise. | ||
| In accordance with this new standard, the Company has classified its financial instruments as follows: | |||
| • | Marketable securities are classified as available-for-sale securities. Such securities are measured at fair market value in the consolidated financial statements with unrealized gains or losses recorded in comprehensive income (loss). At the time securities are sold or otherwise disposed of, gains or losses are included in net earnings (loss). | ||
| (b) | Section 3865 – Hedges. | |
This new standard specifies the circumstances under which hedge accounting is permissible and how hedge accounting may be performed. The Company currently does not have any hedges. | ||
| (c) | Section 1530 – Comprehensive Income (Loss). | |
Comprehensive income (loss) is the change in in the Company’s net assets that results from transactions, events, and circumstances from other than the Company’s shareholders. This standard requires certain gains and losses that would otherwise be recorded as part of net earnings to be presented in other “comprehensive income (loss)” until it is considered appropriate to recognize into net earnings (loss). This standard requires the presentation of comprehensive income (loss), and its components in a separate financial statement that is displayed with the same prominence as the other financial statements. | ||
Accordingly, the Company now reports a consolidated statement of comprehensive income and includes the account “accumulated other comprehensive income” in the shareholders’ equity section of the consolidated balance sheet. |
| 3. | MARKETABLE SECURITIES |
| Number of | |||||||
| Available for sale | shares | Amount | |||||
| Solomon Resources Limited | |||||||
| Cost – common shares | 75,000 | $ | 20,250 | ||||
| Unrealized loss recognized March 2007 | (1,500 | ) | |||||
| Balance, March 31, 2007 | 18,750 | ||||||
| Unrealized gain recognized June 2007 | 6,750 | ||||||
| Balance, June 30, 2007 | 75,000 | $ | 25,500 |
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
| Three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 |
| (Unaudited – Expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated) |
In October 2006, the Company entered into an option agreement with Solomon Resources Limited (“Solomon”), a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, whereby Solomon will have the right to earn up to a 60% interest in the Eyapamikama Lake property (formerly Arseno Lake), a non core property of the Company. Under the option agreement, Solomon is granted an exclusive option to earn a minimum 50% interest in the property by funding an initial exploration program of $25,600 (completed). Under the option agreement to earn its 50% interest, Solomon must:
| • | Issue to the Partners a total of 100,000 shares of Solomon and $35,000 or 200,000 common shares of Solomon (“Solomon shares”) by January 31, 2007 (completed). Solomon has opted to issue 200,000 Solomon shares, of which 75,000 were issued to the Company and 125,000 to Energold. | ||
| • | Incur exploration expenditures totaling $1,000,000 and issue to the Partners 200,000 Solomon shares and $35,000 or 400,000 Solomon shares by January 31, 2008. | ||
| • | Incur exploration expenditures cumulatively totaling $2,000,000 by January 31, 2009. |
Solomon has the option to increase its interest to 60% by issuing to the Partners 300,000 Solomon shares and $100,000 by January 31, 2009 and incurring additional $1,000,000 in exploration expenditures by January 31, 2010.
| 4. | SHARE CAPITAL |
| (a) | Authorized share capital |
The Company's authorized share capital consists of an unlimited number of common shares, without par value.
| (b) | Share purchase options |
The continuity of share purchase options for the period ended June 30, 2007 is:
| Exercise | Dec 31 | Expired / | June 30 | ||||||||||||||||
| Expiry date | price | 2006 | Granted | Exercised | cancelled | 2007 | |||||||||||||
| September 28, 2007 | $ | 5.40 | 85,067 | – | (17,900 | ) | (16,667 | ) | 50,500 | ||||||||||
| November 30, 2007 | $ | 4.50 | 150,068 | – | (19,068 | ) | – | 131,000 | |||||||||||
| November 30, 2007 | $ | 5.31 | 515,066 | – | (125,066 | ) | – | 390,000 | |||||||||||
| December 14, 2007 | $ | 5.37 | 15,000 | – | (10,000 | ) | – | 5,000 | |||||||||||
| April 30, 2009 | $ | 7.25 | 410,670 | – | (40,400 | ) | (2,500 | ) | 367,770 | ||||||||||
| April 30, 2009 | $ | 9.81 | 62,500 | – | – | (10,000 | ) | 52,500 | |||||||||||
| April 30, 2009 | $ | 10.32 | – | 613,000 | – | – | 613,000 | ||||||||||||
| April 30, 2011 | $ | 7.25 | 1,125,000 | – | (60,000 | ) | (120,000 | ) | 945,000 | ||||||||||
| February 20, 2012 | $ | 10.95 | – | 828,000 | – | – | 828,000 | ||||||||||||
| 2,363,371 | 1,441,000 | (272,434 | ) | (149,167 | ) | 3,382,770 | |||||||||||||
| Weighted average exercise price | $ | 6.64 | $ | 10.68 | $ | 5.98 | $ | 7.21 | $ | 8.39 | |||||||||
At June 30, 2007, there were 1,436,270 options exercisable, with a weighted average price of $6.40 per share.
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
| Three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 |
| (Unaudited – Expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated) |
The exercise prices of all share purchase options granted during the period ended June 30, 2007 were equal to the market price at the grant date. Using an option pricing model the estimated fair value of options have been recognized in the statement of operations based on the assumptions noted below:
| Three months ended | Six months ended | ||||||||||||
| June 30 | June 30 | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | ||||||||||
| Exploration | |||||||||||||
| Engineering | $ | 385,474 | $ | 317,692 | $ | 843,442 | $ | 509,151 | |||||
| Environmental, socioeconomic and land | 249,165 | 112,320 | 545,654 | 148,588 | |||||||||
| Geological | 660,191 | 431,853 | 1,544,835 | 586,899 | |||||||||
| Exploration | 1,294,830 | 861,865 | 2,933,931 | 1,244,638 | |||||||||
| Operations and administration | 1,872,533 | 1,693,029 | 4,170,262 | 2,412,803 | |||||||||
| Total compensation cost recognized in | |||||||||||||
| operations, credited to contributed | |||||||||||||
| surplus | $ | 3,167,363 | $ | 2,554,894 | $ | 7,104,193 | $ | 3,657,441 | |||||
The weighted average assumptions used to estimate the fair value of options for the period ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 were:
| Three months ended | Six months ended | ||||
| June 30 | June 30 | ||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | ||
| Risk-free interest rate | 4% | 4% | 4% | 4% | |
| Expected life | 3.8 years | 4.4 years | 3.8 years | 4.4 years | |
| Vesting period | 0 – 60 months | 0 – 18 months | 0 – 60 months | 0 – 18 months | |
| Expected volatility | 60% | 53% | 60% | 53% | |
| Expected dividend yield | nil | nil | nil | nil | |
Option pricing models require the input of highly subjective assumptions including the expected price volatility. Changes in the subjective input assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimate, and therefore the existing models do not necessarily provide a reliable measure of the fair value of the Company's share purchase options.
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
| Three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 |
| (Unaudited – Expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated) |
| 5. | RELATED PARTY BALANCES AND TRANSACTIONS |
| Three months ended | Six months ended | ||||||||||||
| June 30 | June 30 | ||||||||||||
| Transactions | 2007 | 2006 | 2007 | 2006 | |||||||||
| Services rendered and expenses reimbursed | |||||||||||||
| Hunter Dickinson Inc. | $ | 1,261,824 | $ | 897,746 | $ | 2,501,380 | $ | 1,662,149 | |||||
| Sidev Holdings Ltd. | 42,291 | 59,649 | 77,268 | 111,361 | |||||||||
| Beattie Consulting Ltd. | – | – | – | 1,950 | |||||||||
| At June 30 | At December 31 | ||||||
| Balances receivable | 2007 | 2006 | |||||
| Hunter Dickinson Inc. (a) | $ | 237,845 | $ | 192,480 | |||
| Northern Dynasty directors and employees (c) | – | 3,740,000 | |||||
| $ | 237,845 | $ | 3,932,480 |
| (a) | Hunter Dickinson Inc. ("HDI") is a private company owned equally by ten public companies, one of which is Northern Dynasty. HDI has certain directors in common with the Company and provides geological, corporate development, administrative and management services to, and incurs third party costs on behalf of, the Company and its subsidiaries on a full cost recovery basis pursuant to an agreement dated December 31, 1996. Balances receivable from HDI result from advances to HDI by the Company for services to be rendered subsequent to the period reported. | |
| (b) | Sidev Holdings Ltd. is a private company controlled by the Chief Operating Officer and a director of Northern Dynasty Mines Inc., a wholly owned private US subsidiary of the Company, and provides project management services at market rates. | |
| (c) | On November 30, 2006, the Company received irrevocable notifications of exercise from holders of 748,000 common share purchase options. Under the Company's incentive option plan, as amended, the persons exercising these options were permitted to defer paying to the Company the required exercise proceeds of $5.00 per share for a period up until 10 days after an internally imposed share trading blackout period applicable to these persons had been lifted (but within 90 days in any event unless a regulatory approval for an further extension was obtained). The common share certificates in respect of these exercised options were held by the Company and was not released until the required cash payment was received. In February 2007, the blackout was lifted and the said cash payment was received by the Company. |
| NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD. |
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
| Three and six months ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 |
| (Unaudited – Expressed in Canadian Dollars unless otherwise stated) |
| 6. | SUBSEQUENT EVENT |
On July 31, 2007, the Company signed and completed a transaction with Anglo American plc (“Anglo American”) whereby a wholly owned subsidiary of Anglo American (“Anglo”) became a 50% partner with The Nothern Dynasty Partnership (a wholly owned affiliate of the Company) in a limited partnership with equal rights in the Company’s Pebble Project in southwestern Alaska, USA, by making a staged cash investment of US$1.425 billion.
Anglo’s staged investment includes a committed expenditure of US$125 million to complete a pre-feasibility study targeted at the end of 2008. After the completion of the pre-feasibility study, Anglo must, in order to retain its 50% interest, elect to commit to a further US$325 million for a feasibility study, the completion and approval of which is targeted for 2011, and this is expected to take the partnership to a production decision. Upon the decision to develop a mine, Anglo must elect to commit to the next US$975 million of expenditures to retain its 50% interest, completion of which will meet the US$1.425 billion requirement. Thereafter, any further expenditure will be funded on a 50:50 basis. If the feasibility study is completed after 2011, Anglo’s overall funding requirement increases to US$1.5 billion. Northern Dynasty will assess its 50% share of any project debt financing when a production decision is made. The partnership agreement provides for equal project control rights with no operator’s fees payable to either party.