Income taxes and mining tax credits (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Major components of tax expense (income) [abstract]

Disclosure of detailed information about effective income tax expense recovery [Table Text Block]

	Year ended December 31, 2019 $		Year ended December 31, 2018 $
(Loss) income before income taxes	(1,663,674	)	1,150,637
Statutory tax rate	27%		27%
Expected income tax (recovery) expense at the statutory tax rate	(449,192	)	310,672
Items not deductible for tax and other	52,943		618,099
True-up	(287,716	)	-
Change in unrecognized tax benefits	683,965		(928,771	)
Income tax recovery	-		-

Disclosure of deferred taxes [Table Text Block]

	December 31, 2019 $		December 31, 2018 $
Federal investment tax credits	654,183		654,183
Exploration and evaluation assets	3,309,945		1,832,035
Marketable securities	-		450,106
Reclamation obligation	54,000		-
Non-capital loss carryforwards	3,804,719		4,742,207
Other	611,555		71,906
Unrecognized deferred tax assets	(8,434,402	)	(7,750,437	)
	-		-

Disclosure of detailed information about tax pools available [Table Text Block]

	Canadian resource pools $	Non-capital losses $	Other $	Canadian federal investment tax credit losses $
2025	-	-	-	24,847
2026	-	1,175	-	-
2027	-	1,381,861	-	91,030
2028	-	2,559,941	-	57,677
2029	-	2,621,029	-	234,667
2030	-	2,388,895	-	245,962
2031	-	1,392,745	-	-
2032	-	818,329	-	-
2033	-	202,411	-	-
2034	-	266,149	-	-
2035	-	173,814	-	-
2036	-	152,243	-	-
2037	-	307,139	-	-
2038	-	-	-	-
2039	-	1,825,822	-	-
No expiry	16,649,369	-	4,088,060	-
	16,649,369	14,091,553	4,088,060	654,183