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Note 3 - Significant accounting policies
6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]
Note 3 – Significant Accounting Policies

These unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared by the Company in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (US GAAP) for interim financial information, as well as the instructions to Form 10-Q.  Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by US GAAP for complete financial statements.  In the opinion of the Company’s management, all adjustments (consisting solely of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the interim financial statements have been included.

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with US GAAP requires the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities known to exist as of the date the financial statements are published, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.  Uncertainties with respect to such estimates and assumptions are inherent in the preparation of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements; accordingly, it is possible that the actual results could differ from these estimates and assumptions, which could have a material effect on the reported amounts of the Company’s consolidated financial position and results of operations.  Operating results for the three and six months ended September 30, 2011, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2012.

For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the year ended March 31, 2011.

a) Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts and operations of GRC, its wholly owned subsidiary, GRI, and the operations of ASEC from the date of the reverse merger, June 3, 2011, through September 30, 2011.  All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

b) Mineral Leases

In certain cases, the Company capitalizes costs related to investments in mineral lease interests on a property-by-property basis.  Such costs include mineral lease acquisition costs.  Costs are deferred until such time as the extent of proved developed reserves has been determined and mineral lease interests are either developed, the property sold or the mineral lease rights are allowed to lapse.  To date all exploration and lease costs have been expensed.

c) Income Taxes

The Company applies the guidance in ASC 740, Income Taxes, which requires an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes, and the recognition of deferred income tax assets and liabilities for the temporary differences between the financial reporting basis and tax basis of the Company’s assets and liabilities at enacted tax rates expected to be in effect when such amounts are realized or settled.

ASC 740 clarifies the accounting and disclosure for uncertainty in tax positions, as defined.  The Company has analyzed filing positions in all of the federal and state jurisdictions where it is required to file income tax returns, as well as all open tax years in these jurisdictions.  The Company believes that its income tax filing positions and deductions will be sustained on audit and does not anticipate any adjustments that will result in a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.  Therefore, no reserves for uncertain income tax positions have been recorded.

d) Reverse Stock Split

As more fully described in Note 14, effective October 19, 2011, the Company implemented a 1-for-2 reverse stock split of its issued and outstanding common stock.  All common share and per common share information in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been retroactively restated to reflect the reverse common stock split.

e) Stock-based Compensation

The Company measures and records the costs of employee services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments based on the grant-date fair value of the award, recognized over the period during which an employee is required to provide services in exchange for such award.

The Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the grant date fair-value of stock-based awards.

f) Net Loss Per Common Share

Basic earnings or loss per common share is computed on the basis of the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the periods.  Diluted earnings or loss per common share is calculated on the basis of the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period plus the effect of potential dilutive shares during the period.  Potential dilutive shares include outstanding stock options and warrants and convertible debt instruments.  For periods in which a net loss is reported, potential dilutive shares are excluded because they are antidilutive.  Therefore, basic loss per common share is the same as diluted loss per common share for the periods ended September 30, 2011 and 2010.

g) Recent Accounting Pronouncements

On January 21, 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2010-06, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements, which amends ASC 820 to add new requirements for disclosures about transfers into and out of Levels 1 and 2 and separate disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements relating to Level 3 measurements.  The ASU also clarifies existing fair value disclosures about the level of disaggregation and about inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value.  Further, the ASU amends guidance on employers’ disclosures about post-retirement benefit plan assets to require that disclosures be provided by classes of assets instead of by major categories of assets.  The ASU was effective for the first reporting period (including interim periods) beginning after December 15, 2009, except for the requirement to provide the Level 3 activity of purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements on a gross basis, which is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010, and for interim periods within those fiscal years.  The adoption of ASU 2009-06 did not have a material impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements.