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Note 8 - Equity-accounted Investment
9 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2021
Notes to Financial Statements  
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE
8:
EQUITY-ACCOUNTED INVESTMENT
 
As of 
April 30, 2021,
we owned
14,000,000
shares of Uranium Royalty Corp. (“URC”), representing a
18.8%
(
July 31, 2020:
19.5%
) interest in URC. In addition,
two
of our officers are members of URC's board of directors, and
one
of which is also an executive officer of URC. As a consequence, our ability to exercise significant influence over URC's operating and financing policies continued to exist during the
three
and
nine
months ended
April 30, 2021.
URC is a public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange with the trading symbol “URC.V” and on NASDAQ with the trading symbol “UROY”.
 
For the
three
and
nine
months ended
April 30, 2021
and
2020,
income (loss) from investment in URC consisted of the following:
 
   
Three Months Ended April 30,
   
Nine Months Ended April 30,
 
   
2021
   
2020
   
2021
   
2020
 
Share of income (loss) from URC
 
$
456,132
    $
684,443
   
$
353,440
    $
(8,437
)
Gain on ownership interest dilution
 
 
413,881
     
-
   
 
413,881
     
3,056,656
 
Total
 
$
870,013
    $
684,443
   
$
767,321
    $
3,048,219
 
 
For the
three
and
nine
months ended
April 30, 2021
and
2020,
we recorded a gain on ownership interest dilution as a result of URC issuing more shares from the exercises of URC's share purchase warrants.
 
For the
three
and
nine
months ended
April 30, 2021,
we recorded translation gains of
$493,101
and
$1,041,900,
respectively, and for
three
and
nine
months ended
April 30, 2020,
we recorded translation losses of
$479,148
and
$528,690,
respectively, as a result of translating the ending balance of the investment in URC denominated in Canadian Dollars to U.S. Dollars using the period end exchange rate, which was included in other comprehensive income (loss) in our condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. 
 
During the
nine
months ended
April 30, 2021,
the change in carrying value of our investment in URC is summarized as follows:
 
Balance, July 31, 2020
  $
11,515,327
 
Income from investment in URC
   
353,440
 
Gain on ownership interest dilution
   
413,881
 
Translation gain
   
1,041,900
 
Balance, April 30, 2021
 
$
13,324,548
 
 
As of 
April 30, 2021,
the fair value of our investment in URC was approximately
$49.3
million.
 
Subsequent to
April 30, 2021,
on
May 20, 2021,
we participated in an equity financing and acquired an additional
1,000,000
common shares of URC at a price of
CAD$4.10
per share for total consideration of
$3,396,852.