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Commitments
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Notes to Financial Statements  
Note 15 - Commitments

15.    Commitments

 

Land Lease Agreement

 

Prior to deconsolidation as discussed in Note 3, on May 13, 2013, MAB-Z entered into a 20 year agreement with Ettie Magadzire, owner of Palm Grove Farm whereby rights of unrestricted access to claims of MAB-Z were granted (“Land Lease Agreement”). Magadzire possessing surface rights to the property on which the claims were located under this agreement conveyed the right of use for MAB-Z to explore, test, sample, verify, assess the full nature and extent of the deposit, and to develop the mineral resources of aforesaid claims. In consideration for those rights MAB-Z agreed to pay to Magadzire $70,000 payable quarterly in arrears after the first annual installment is paid in the following manner: (a) $17,500 payable in $5,000 cash (paid), $5,000 for a vehicle (paid by officer of MAB-Z and included in related party payable) and $7,500 in fuel (paid); (b) $17,500 payable six months after commencement of mining operations at the Claims; (c) $17,500 payable nine months after commencement of mining operations; and (d) $17,500 payable one-year after commencement of mining operations. Then payments by MAB-Z were to be made in quarterly installments of $17,500 (or $70,000 per year). The agreement had a total value of $1,400,000.

 

Letter of Credit

 

Prior to deconsolidation as discussed in Note 3, on February 8, 2013, MAB-Z was issued as beneficiary an irrevocable documentary letter of credit from Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. in the documentary credit amount of $3,000,000 per lot of crude barite (or a total of $9,000,000) to pay for shipments from Beira, Mozambique to any U.S. Gulf port of three lots of barite meeting the specifications set forth in the letter of credit. The first shipment was to be made between June 1, 2013 and August 31, 2013, the second shipment was to be made between September 1, 2013 and November 30, 2013 and the third shipment must be made between December 1, 2013 and March 1, 2014. MAB-Z was discussing with Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations revised shipment dates in light of the delays experienced in obtaining the Environmental Impact Assessment Certificate dated July 4, 2013 from the Environmental Management Agency of Zimbabwe to allow it to commence mining operations for barite. No update on these discussions is available as of the date of this filing.