-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, SigfQcZrFvbSn3N4JSDt13Xptij2yaU/7H7fMbjpBb64nDa4lVVxxrKL+9fM7GBx PUnp8dWCL78gd0kReNCnCQ== 0000000000-05-039682.txt : 20060609 0000000000-05-039682.hdr.sgml : 20060609 20050802110223 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-05-039682 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050802 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NEVADA CHEMICALS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000356342 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS [2890] IRS NUMBER: 870351702 STATE OF INCORPORATION: UT FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9149 SO. MONROE PLAZA WAY STREET 2: SUITE B CITY: SANDY STATE: UT ZIP: 84070 BUSINESS PHONE: 8019840228 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MINING SERVICES INTERNATIONAL CORP/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19941005 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATURAL RESOURCES CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19831102 PUBLIC REFERENCE ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000096313-05-000086 LETTER 1 filename1.txt August 2, 2005 via U.S. mail and facsimile to (801) 984-0231 Dennis P. Gauger Chief Financial Officer Nevada Chemicals, Inc. 9149 So. Monroe Plaza Way, Suite B Sandy, UT 84070 RE: Nevada Chemicals, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 Filed March 18, 2005 File No. 0-10634 Dear Mr. Gauger: We have reviewed your response letter dated July 18, 2005 and have the following additional comments. If you disagree, we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with supplemental information so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may or may not raise additional comments. Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 Financial Statements Note 7. Income Taxes, page F-13 1. We have reviewed your response to prior comment 1 in our letter dated June 22, 2005. Please confirm in writing our discussions conducted on July 29, 2005 regarding the timing and nature of information related to the ongoing audits, as well as the uncertainties communicated to you by the IRS with respect to the realization of your foreign tax credits. Please also confirm our discussions as to why you expect to realize a portion of the deferred tax asset associated with your foreign tax credits in 2005 and how this portion differs from the remainder for which you maintain a full valuation allowance. Cyanco Company Financial Statements Note 5. Intangible Assets, page 10 2. We have reviewed your response to prior comment 3 in our letter dated June 22, 2005. We have the following comments: * We note, in your response, that a significant customer notified you in January 2005 that it may not extend its supply contract with Cyanco beyond December 2005. However in your discounted cash flow analysis, you assumed that Cyanco would supply a portion of the customer`s product through 2006. Please confirm in writing our discussion conducted on July 29, 2005, regarding the nature and timing of the communications with this customer, as well as the reasons for your assumption at December 31, 2004 and March 31, 2005, that this customer would continue some sourcing of Cyanco product into 2006, until you received notice to the contrary in June 2005. As part of your response, please confirm our discussion regarding the timing and implication of the closure of one of your competitor`s raw materials sources on your discounted cash flow analysis in measuring the fair value of the customer-related intangible at December 31, 2004 and March 31, 2005. * In future filings, please revise your proposed disclosure to indicate the reasons for your belief in January 2005 that the customer would buy a portion of Cyanco product through the end of 2006. Please show us what these disclosures will look like. * Please be advised that the change from using the straight-line amortization method to units-of-production amortization method is a change in accounting principle, not a change in estimate. See paragraph 9 of APB 20. In future filings, please ensure that you comply with the disclosure requirements in paragraphs 17 and 19 of APB 20 related to your change in principle. If the impact is material, please also include a preferability letter as Exhibit 18, pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-K. * In future filings, disclose in MD&A the impact that the loss of this customer will have on your equity in earnings and net income for 2005. 3. In future filings, we remind you to disclose in MD&A the uncertainties surrounding your significant assumptions on impairment and deferred tax valuation allowance matters. For example, with respect to your intangible asset impairment, in your Form 10-K and first quarter 2005 Form 10-Q, you should have disclosed that you assumed continuation of some supply through 2006 due to informal discussions and your assessment of market dynamics. However, formal notification indicated supply would only last through 2005, so additional impairment may be possible. Similarly, regarding your deferred tax valuation allowance, please disclose your assumptions regarding the outcome of the CCRA and IRS audits and the implication of the realizability of your foreign tax credits. Please show us what your disclosures will look like. * * * * As appropriate, please respond to these comments within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please furnish a letter that keys your responses to our comments and provides any requested supplemental information. Detailed response letters greatly facilitate our review. Please file your response letter on EDGAR. Please understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing your responses to our comments. You may contact Jenn Do at (202) 551-3743 or me at (202) 551- 3255 if you have questions regarding these comments. Sincerely, Nili Shah Branch Chief ?? ?? ?? ?? Mr. Dennis P. Gauger Nevada Chemicals, Inc. 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