NOTES RECEIVABLE

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

NOTES RECEIVABLE

NOTES RECEIVABLE

NOTE 5 – NOTES RECEIVABLE

Notes receivable as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 consisted of the following:

	March 31, 2024		December 31, 2023
American Resources Corporation Note	$	100,000	$	100,000
T. R. Mining & Equipment Ltd.		20,000		-
Total Notes Receivable	$	120,000	$	100,000

American Resources Corporation

On July 31, 2022, the Company purchased certain payments that are owed to Texas Tech University (“TTU”) from American Resources Corporation for the agreement to participate in sponsored research services performed by TTU and agreed to assume responsibility for those payments.  The payments that were due to TTU amounted to $184,663 and the Company has since paid $100,000 of that amount so far on behalf of American Resources Corporation.  A note payable between the Company and American Resources Corporation was created to reflect the assumption by the Company of these payments and the note pays interest of 7.0% interest rate, compounded quarterly, and matures on July 31, 2024.  There are no collateral or guarantees. The operator of the technology is a related entity and is described more in Note 11.

T. R. Mining & Equipment Ltd.

On February 2, 2024 and February 29, 2024, the Company invested the amount of $10,000 each into T.R. Mining & Equipment Ltd. in the form of Promissory Notes and a royalty payable to the Company on all products and materials sold from the permit over the life of the permitted resource.  The Promissory Notes hold a 10.0% annual interest rate, compounded monthly, and matures on December 31, 2025. The Royalty Agreement provides the Company with a perpetual royalty of 10.0% of all sales of ores that are mined and sold from the permitted resource.

Amortization expense - Intangible Assets totaled $18,807 at both periods ended March 31, 2024 and 2023.

Land Betterment Exchange (LBX)

The Company is the holder of 250,000 LBX Tokens.  The Company purchased the LBX Tokens for the consideration of $2,000,000 of Round A Convertible Debt and 76,924 Warrant “A-2” issued to an affiliated party.  The token issuance process is undertaken by a related party, Land Betterment Corporation, and is predicated on proactive environmental stewardship and regulatory bond releases.  As of June 30, 2022, there is no market for the LBX Token and therefore the purchase price of $8 per token has been assigned for fair value. The consideration issued for the 250,000 tokens was in the form of a $2,000,000 convertible note.  Due to the lack of market or independent market level transactions, the value assigned to the LBX Token of $0 as of March 31, 2024. The intangible will be treated as an indefinite lived asset.  

Mining Permit Package

On January 3, 2022, the Company entered into an agreement with a Kentucky licensed engineer to create three coal mining permits for the total payment of $75,000, payable in equal weekly installments over the course of 36 weeks. The permits will be held in the name of American Resources Corporation, a related party, or its subsidiaries, and the Company will receive an overriding royalty in the amount of the greater of $0.10 per ton or 0.20% of the gross sales price of the coal sold from the permit. The intangible will be amortized over its initial 10 year contract period.

MC Mining

On April 1, 2022, the Company purchased the rights to receive rental income from property located in Pike County, Kentucky.  The rental income is $2,500 per month and the consideration paid by the Company to the seller was a total of $149,150, which represents $60,000 in cash to be paid to the seller in the form of 80% of the monthly rental income until the cash consideration is paid in full, plus the issuance of $89,150 worth of shares of the Company that will be valued at the same per common share value at the consummation of a transaction that results in the Company becoming publicly traded. The intangible will be amortized over its initial 30 year contract period.

Carnegie ORR

On May 20, 2022, the Company entered into an agreement to fund the development of a series of coal mines located in Pike County, Kentucky in exchange for a promissory note to repay the Company its capital invested, plus interest, and then an ongoing overriding royalty from coal sold from the mines.  $117,623 has been funded by the Company under this contract thus far.  The operator of the property is a related entity and is described more in Note 11. The intangible will be amortized over its initial 15 year anticipated mine life.   

Energy Technologies Inc

On September 30, 2022, the Company entered into an agreement to purchase, for the consideration of $52,700, a partial interest in a density gauge analyzer that is manufactured by Energy Technologies, Inc. and will be repaid to the Company on a per ton of coal basis from coal sold by using the density gauge analyzer.  The operator of the technology is a related entity and is described more in Note 11. The intangible will be amortized over the 5 year useful life period of the underlying equipment.  

Coking Coal Financing LLC

On April 15, 2022, the Company entered into a membership interests purchase agreement with ENCECo, Inc., (“ENCECo”) the sole owner and member of Coking Coal Leasing LLC (“CCL”), whereby the Company issued 236,974 shares to ENCECo, Inc. for the purchase of purchase of CCL. As part of this transaction, the Company, through CCL, purchased a contract to manage the electrical power account for a coal mining complex located in Perry County, Kentucky. The fee for managing this contract payable to the Company is $5,000 per month. The intangible will be treated as an indefinite lived asset as the ongoing monthly fees will continue as long as the permits remain.

RMC Environmental Services LLC

On August 17, 2022, the Company formed RMC Environmental Services LLC (“RMC ES”) as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company for the purpose of purchasing certain rights to operate a clean fill landfill located in Hamilton County, Indiana that pays RMC ES for each load of clean fill material that is disposed on, or removed from, the landfill. The consideration paid by the Company was $225,000 for the rights to operate this business. The intangible will be amortized over its initial 5 year contract period.

Pollinate

On July 15, 2022, the Company entered into a Honey Royalty Agreement whereby the Company will purchase apiaries for the use of Land Betterment Corporation, a related party and the Company will be paid $1.00 per pound of salable honey sold or used by Land Betterment from the purchased apiaries. The operator of Pollinate is a related entity and is described more in Note 11. The intangible will be treated as an indefinite lived asset as honey sold shall continue until the assets are exhausted.