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Note 3 - Mineral Properties
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
Notes  
Note 3 - Mineral Properties

NOTE 3 – MINERAL PROPERTIES

 

On September 20, 2010, Spectral Capital Corporation entered into a Definitive Financing Agreement ("Agreement")  with Gamma Investment Holdings Ltd. (“Gamma”) regarding the acquisition of a 47% undivided interest in two mineral properties in the Chita region of the Russian Federation.  Spectral owns 47% of the License for prospecting, exploration and production of gold and all other metals. The length of the License runs to August 31, 2031. The size of the License is 186 square kilometers or 18,200 hectares. Under the Agreement, Spectral has agreed to invest a minimum of $35,000,000 into the development of the mineral properties over the next two years as follows: March 20, 2011 - $2,500,000; September 20, 2011 - $2,500,000; September 20, 2012 - $30,000,000, plus additional investments as determined by a Joint Venture Board that is to be formed under the terms and conditions of the Agreement. Spectral also granted a net smelter royalty of 2% on gold and 1% on other minerals extracted from the property to Gamma.   The Company is currently evaluating the feasibility of its involvement in the project and may abandon its interest in exchange for the cancellation of the outstanding warrants.

 

Concurrently, the parties entered into a Joint Venture Agreement that specifies how the development of the mineral properties is to take place.  Under the Agreement and the Joint Venture Agreement, Spectral has agreed to provide all of the financing that the Joint Venture requires to develop the mineral properties.  

On July 8, 2011, the Company entered into an agreement with Gamma Investment Holdings Ltd. to convey to Gamma it’s 52% interest in a gold mining property in the Chita region of Russia previously granted under the agreement of September 20, 2010 and related agreements thereto.  The conveyance was in exchange for the cancellation of Gamma’s 5,000,000 outstanding warrants in the Company and the reimbursement of the Company by Gamma of all expenditures on the project to date. Spectral has not sought reimbursement under the agreement.

 

On January 14, 2011, Spectral entered into a Definitive Financing Agreement with International Asset Holding Corp. (“IAHC”) whereby Spectral acquired a 65% interest in a gold mining property in the Bayankol River region of Kazakhstan.  In order to facilitate license transfer of this property and financing, Spectral formed a wholly-owned Delaware subsidiary called Extractive Resources Corporation, which was the party to this Definitive Financing Agreement.  Under this Agreement, IAHC was entitled to 5,000,000 warrants of Spectral with a five year term for $3.50 per share.  Extractive also agreed to provide $200,000,000 in financing over a five year term to maintain its rights in the property and to pay a 1% net smelter royalty on minerals extracted from the property.

Effective March 31, 2012, Spectral and IAHC entered into a Property Acquisition Option Agreement and Definitive Financing Agreement Rescission restating Spectral’s position in the Bayankol property in light of the difficulties with local regulation and title transfer.  The agreement rescinded the original transaction of January 14, 2011 and the previous warrants were cancelled.