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Note 10 - Acquisition of Lucky Shot Property
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Notes to Financial Statements  
Asset Acquisition [Text Block]

       10.  Acquisition of Lucky Shot Property

 

On August 24, 2021 the Company completed the purchase of all outstanding membership interests (the “Interests”) of AGT from CRH Funding II PTE. LTD, a Singapore private limited corporation (“CRH”) (the “Lucky Shot Transaction”). AGT holds rights to the Lucky Shot Property.  The Company agreed to purchase the Interests for a total purchase price of up to $30 million. The purchase price included an initial payment at closing of $5 million in cash and a promissory note in the original principal amount of $6.25 million, payable by the Company to CRH (the “Promissory Note”), with a maturity date of February 28, 2022 (the “Maturity Date”).  The Promissory Note was secured by the Interests.  The Company had the option to pay the Promissory Note through the issuance to CRH of shares of the Company’s common stock if the Company completed an offering and obtained a listing of its shares on the NYSE American prior to the Maturity Date.  In November 2021, the Company’s common stock commenced listing on the NYSE American. Since the Company did not complete the required offering, it paid the Promissory Note in cash on February 25, 2022.

 

The Company is obligated to pay CRH additional consideration if production on the Lucky Shot Property meets two separate milestone payment thresholds. If the first threshold of (1) an aggregate “mineral resource” equal to 500,000 ounces of gold or (2) production and receipt by the Company of an aggregate of 30,000 ounces of gold (including any silver based on a 1:65 gold:silver ratio) is met, then the Company will pay CRH $5 million in cash and $3.75 million in newly issued shares of CORE common stock. If the second threshold of (1) an aggregate “mineral resource” equal to 1,000,000 ounces of gold or (2) production and receipt by the Company of an aggregate of 60,000 ounces of gold (including any silver based on a 1:65 gold:silver ratio) is met, then the Company will pay CRH $5 million in cash and $5 million in newly issued shares of CORE common stock. If payable, the additional share consideration will be issued based on the 30-day volume weighted average price for each of the thirty trading days immediately prior to the satisfaction of the relevant production goal.  If the milestones are not met, no additional payments would be made to CRH.

 

The Company also agreed to make $10,000,000 in expenditures during the 36-month period following closing toward the existence, location, quantity, quality or commercial value of mineral deposits in, under and upon the Lucky Shot Property.   As of March 31, 2023, the Company had exceeded the required $10,000,000 in expenditures.

 

The Company evaluated this acquisition under ASC 805, Business Combinations and the Company concluded that the acquired set of assets did not meet the US GAAP definition of a business (the assembled workforce does not currently perform a substantive process).  Therefore, the Company accounted for the purchase as an asset acquisition, and allocated the total consideration transferred on the date of the acquisition, approximately $13.5 million, to the assets acquired on a relative fair value basis.  The total consideration transferred was comprised of $5.1 million in cash, a $6.25 million promissory note, $0.3 million in direct transactions costs, plus the fair value of the contingent liability (described above), net of cash received.  The Company accounted for the share portion of the contingent liability in accordance with ASC 480 and measured at fair value at inception, approximately $1.85 million. The fair value of this liability was calculated using management’s projected timing of mining activities and mineral resources being defined and an estimate of the probability of achieving those targets.  The share portion of the contingent consideration is classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.  Changes in value in subsequent periods, based on management’s ongoing assessment of probability, will be recorded in earnings. There was no change in probability, and thus no change in value of the liability during the current period.  The Company’s accounting policy is to recognize the contingent consideration associated with cash contingent payments related to the asset acquisitions when the contingency is resolved. Any amounts issued in excess of the contingent consideration initially recognized as a liability would be an additional cost of the asset acquisition allocated to increase the eligible assets on a relative fair value basis.  Amounts issued that are less than the contingent consideration initially recognized as a liability would be a reduction of the cost of the asset(s) acquired and would reduce the eligible assets on a relative value basis.