-----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, HbO2/YqWcLBg6FmOFshONEDYwdY+HaGBiJkUuUCZS7BqYupiYCGlOjcbEMRWsvWy QqERg+PPZybl8ARNSEBUBQ== 0001144204-09-051591.txt : 20091005 0001144204-09-051591.hdr.sgml : 20091005 20091005172742 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-09-051591 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 21 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20090929 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets ITEM INFORMATION: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities ITEM INFORMATION: Changes in Control of Registrant ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Change in Shell Company Status ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20091005 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20091005 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000773717 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BLANK CHECKS [6770] IRS NUMBER: 840991764 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CO FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-14319 FILM NUMBER: 091106466 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2560 W MAIN STREET STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: LITTLETON STATE: CO ZIP: 80120 BUSINESS PHONE: 303-794-9450 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2560 W MAIN STREET STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: LITTLETON STATE: CO ZIP: 80120 8-K 1 v162117_8k.htm
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of report (date of earliest event reported):  September 29, 2009
 
PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Colorado
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
 
000-14319
84-0991764
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

80 South Eighth Street, Suite 900, Minneapolis, MN  55402
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
 
(612) 349-5277
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 
2650 W. Main Street, Suite 200, Littleton, Colorado  80120
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
 
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Item 1.01.  Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
The disclosures set forth under Item 2.01 hereof are hereby incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.
 
Item 2.01.  Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
 
Pursuant to a Share Exchange Agreement dated September 11, 2009 (the “Exchange Agreement”) by and among Princeton Acquisitions, Inc. (referred to herein as the “Company,” “Princeton” or the “Registrant”), Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation (“Hunter Bates”) and certain shareholders of Hunter Bates, effective September 29, 2009, all of the shareholders of Hunter Bates as of such date exchanged all of their capital securities of Hunter Bates in consideration for similar capital securities of Princeton and Hunter Bates became a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton. This transaction is referred to throughout this report as the “Share Exchange.”
 
At the effective time of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates had outstanding an aggregate of 19,500,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Hunter Bates Common Stock”), and outstanding warrants to purchase an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of Hunter Bates Common Stock (the “Hunter Bates Warrants”), and all of such shares of Hunter Bates Common Stock and Hunter Bates Warrants were exchanged by the shareholders of Hunter Bates, on a share-for-share basis, in consideration of an aggregate of 19,500,000 shares of Princeton common stock, par value $.001 per share (“Princeton Common Stock”) and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of Princeton Common Stock on similar terms to the Hunter Bates Warrants (the “Princeton Warrants”).  Upon effectiveness of the Share Exchange, the former shareholders of Hunter Bates held approximately 98% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton Common Stock, and approximately 99% of the capital stock of Princeton on a fully diluted basis assuming the exercise of all outstanding Princeton Warrants. Accordingly, the Share Exchange represents a change in control of the Company.
 
Contemporaneously with the closing of the Share Exchange, pursuant to the terms of a Stock Purchase Agreement dated September 29, 2009 (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) by and among Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Wits Basin”) and certain shareholders of Princeton, Wits Basin purchased from such shareholders an aggregate of 1,383,543 shares of Princeton Common Stock, which constituted approximately 81% of the shares of Princeton Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange, for aggregate consideration of $262,500.  Immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange, Wits Basin held 18,500,000 shares of Hunter Bates Common Stock, which constituted approximately 95% of the issued and outstanding shares of Hunter Bates Common Stock at such time.  As a result of the stock purchase and the Share Exchange, Wits Basin held an aggregate of 19,883,543 shares of Princeton Common Stock immediately after effectiveness of the Share Exchange, which constitutes approximately 94% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton Common Stock immediately after effectiveness of the Share Exchange.
 
For accounting purposes, the Share Exchange has been accounted for as a reverse acquisition with Hunter Bates as the accounting acquirer (legal acquiree) and Princeton as the accounting acquiree (legal acquiror).  Upon effectiveness of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates’ business plan became the business plan of the Company.
 
The Exchange Agreement is filed herewith as Exhibit 10.1, and is incorporated herein by reference.  The foregoing description of the Exchange Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entireties by reference to the Exchange Agreement.

 
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Unless otherwise provided in this current report, all references in this current report to “we,” “us,” “our company,” “our,” or the “Company” refer to the consolidated entity of Princeton Acquisitions, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Hunter Bates Mining Corporation.  Since our assets and operations are now conducted through Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, the discussions of our business and the risks we face and our historic economic performance, which are subsequently presented in this Current Report relate primarily to Hunter Bates.  Specific references to Hunter Bates Mining Corporation will reference “Hunter Bates” and those relating to Princeton Acquisitions, Inc. will reference “Princeton Acquisitions.”
 
Description of Business of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation
 
Overview
 
Hunter Bates Mining Corporation is an exploration and development stage Minnesota corporation formed in April 2008.  We currently hold one mining property, which is known as the Bates-Hunter Mine property located in Central City, Colorado.  In addition to the Bates-Hunter property, we also seek to find, develop, produce and sell other gold mine assets.
 
We were formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Wits Basin”), in connection with Wits Basin’s acquisition of the Bates-Hunter mining property pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement dated September 20, 2006 (as amended, the “Asset Purchase Agreement”) by and among Wits Basin, Hunter Gold Mining Corp, Hunter Gold Mining Inc., George E. Otten, a Colorado resident, and Central City Consolidated, Corp. d/b/a Central City Consolidated Mining Co., a Colorado corporation.  Pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, on June 12, 2008 we acquired the real estate and mining claims known as the “Bates-Hunter Mine” and the buildings, equipment, and permits relating to the Bates-Hunter mining property in consideration of (i) a limited recourse promissory note payable to George E. Otten in the original principal amount of $6,750,000 Canadian dollars (the “Otten Note”) (approximately $6,736,785 U.S. Dollars), and (ii) 3,620,000 unregistered shares of Wits Basin common stock with a fair value of $0.205 per share.  Additionally, we are required to make certain production revenue payments upon realization of profit from the property, and further granted Mr. Otten a net smelter royalty on future productions.  Our payment of the Otten Note is secured by a deed of trust relating to the acquired property granted in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee for the benefit of Mr. Otten.  For more information on the Otten Note, see “Material Contracts” below in this Item 2.01 disclosure.
 
When Wits Basin acquired the rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine in January 2005, it also acquired exploration rights of the Bates-Hunter Mine properties. Wits Basin has used Gregory Gold Producers, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary and Colorado corporation (“Gregory Gold”), as an oversight management company for the exploration activities conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine since that time. On September 3, 2009, Wits Basin contributed all of its equity interests in Gregory Gold to us, thereby making Gregory Gold a wholly owned subsidiary of ours. Gregory Gold holds minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance.
 
As of the date of this Current Report, our only assets are Gregory Gold and the Bates-Hunter Mine. Furthermore, we possess only a few pieces of equipment and employ insufficient numbers of personnel necessary to actually explore and/or mine for minerals, we therefore remain substantially dependent on third party contractors to perform such operations. As of the date of this Current Report, we do not claim to have any mineral reserves at the Bates-Hunter Mine. No further exploration activities will be conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine until such time as funds become available.

 
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Our Company
 
Our principal asset consists of land, buildings, equipment, mining claims and permits collectively constituting the Bates-Hunter Mine property, which was a producing gold mine when operations ceased during the 1930’s.  The Bates-Hunter Mine is located about 35 miles west of Denver, Colorado and is located within the city limits of Central City. The Central City mining district lies on the east slope of the Front Range where elevations range from 8,000 in the east to 9,750 feet in the west. Local topography consists of gently rolling hills with local relief of as much as 1,000 feet.
 
The mine site is located in the middle of a residential district within the city limits of Central City and is generally zoned for mining or industrial use. The Bates-Hunter Mine shaft is equipped with an 85 foot tall steel headframe and a single drum hoist using a one inch diameter rope to hoist a two-ton skip from at least 1,000 feet deep.  A water treatment plant has been constructed adjacent to the mine headframe. This is a significant asset given the mine site location and environmental concerns.
 
The mine property is encumbered by a deed of trust issued for the benefit of the holders of the Otten Note.  There are also subordinated deeds of trust on the property issued for the benefit of two different lenders of Wits Basin used to provide security for Wits Basin’s obligations under its respective loans with such lenders.  See the disclosure under “Certain Relationships and Transactions” and “Material Contracts” below for more information on these encumbrances.
 
Geology
 
The regional geology of the Central City district is not “simple” but the economic geology is classically simple. The Precambrian granites and gneisses in the area were intensely fractured during a faulting event resulting in the emplacement of many closely spaced and roughly parallel veins. The veins are the result of fracture filling by fluids that impregnated a portion of the surrounding gneisses and granites with lower grade gold concentrations “milling ore” and usually leaving a high grade “pay streak” of high grade gold sulphides within a quartz vein in the fracture. There are two veins systems present, one striking east-west and the other striking sub parallel to the more predominant east-west set. These veins hosted almost all of the gold in the camp. The veins vary from 2 to 20 feet in width and dip nearly vertical. Where two veins intersect, the intersection usually widens considerably and the grade also increases, sometimes to bonanza grades. In the Timmins camp, this same feature was described as a “blow out” and resulted in similar grade and thickness increases. The Bates vein in the area of the Bates-Hunter Mine has been reported to have both sets of veins and extremely rich “ore” where the two veins intersected. These veins persist to depth and consist of gold rich sulphides that include some significant base metal credits for copper and silver.
 
Previous Exploration Efforts
 
The following is based on the information from a report titled “Exploration and Development Plan for the Bates-Hunter Project,” prepared by Glenn R. O’Gorman, P. Eng., dated March 1, 2004.
 
Lode gold was first discovered in Colorado in 1859 by John H. Gregory.  The first veins discovered were the Gregory and the Bates. This discovery started a gold rush into the area with thousands of people trying to stake their claims.  The Central City mining district is the most important mining district in the Front Range mineral belt.  Since 1859, more than 4,000,000 ounces of gold have been mined from this district. Over 25% of this production has come from the area immediately surrounding the Bates-Hunter Project.  Although the Bates vein was one of the richest and most productive in the early history of the area, it was never consolidated and mined to any great depth.

 
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The majority of production on the claims occurred during the period prior to 1900.  Technology at that time was very primitive in comparison to today's standards. Hand steel and hand tramming was the technology of the day. The above limitations coupled with limited claim sizes generally restricted mining to the top few hundred feet on any one claim.
 
During the early 1900’s cyanidation and flotation recovery technologies were developed along with better hoists and compressed air operated drills. Consolidation of land was a problem. Production rates were still limited due to the lack of mechanized mucking and tramming equipment. Issues that were major obstacles prior to the 1900’s and 1930’s are easily overcome with modern technology.
 
Colorado legislated their own peculiar mining problem by limiting claim sizes to 500 feet in length by 50 feet wide and incorporated the Apex Law into the system as well.  A typical claim was 100 to 200 feet long in the early days. This resulted in making it extremely difficult for any one owner to consolidate a large group of claims and benefit from economies of scale. The W.W.II Production Limiting Order # 208 effectively shut down gold mining in the area and throughout Colorado and the United States in mid 1942.
 
Historical production records indicate that at least 350,000 ounces of gold were recovered from about half of the Bates Vein alone to shallow depths averaging about 500 feet below surface.
 
GSR Goldsearch Resources drilled two reverse circulation holes on the property in 1990. The first hole did not intersect the Bates Vein. However, the second drilled beneath the Bates-Hunter shaft bottom intersected the Bates Vein at about 900 feet below surface. The drill cuttings graded 0.48 oz. Au/ton over 10 feet. This drillhole intersected three additional veins as well with significant gold assays.
 
Through August of 2008, over 12,000 feet of drilling was accomplished, which provided detailed data that has been added to our existing 3-D map of the region. Several narrow intervals with potential ore-grade gold values were intersected, which require further exploration efforts to delineate any valuation.
 
Our Exploration Plans
 
To date, we have performed more than 12,000 feet of core drilling from the surface. We have been able to plot and target very specific areas in a demonstration of the success of modern drill technologies. We have also taken hundreds of underground samples and completed hundreds of individual assays, all of which are industry-standard fire assays completed by American Assay Labs in Nevada. We have been able to define the right balance between drilling on the surface and underground exploration and believe the best type of exploration going forward will come from core drilling underground and on surface, and from channel and grab samples taken as directed by our onsite geological team.

 
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Based on our evaluation of the information compiled, the underground and surface geologic mapping, assay testing, the detailed surface survey of claims and outcropping veins and the computer modeling with three-dimensional software, we are in the process of preparing a plan for development of this property and commencing its implementation.  In Phase I, we intend to continue water treatment and mine rehabilitation as previously completed to a depth of 500 feet.  This work will include re-timbering, dewatering, upgrades to shafts and drifts to contain rock walls and loose material; all manner of effort shall be made to increase the existing water treatment capacity so as to double or more the amount of water output for removal from the mine.  There will be a series of underground drill stations carved and built into the drifts as well as a combination of underground and surface industry-standard core-drilling and chain-of-custody recordation of samples.  This work will initially take 4 to 6 months and then will be ongoing in some capacity.
 
In Phase II, we plan to continue our dewatering program and continue drilling as deep as 4,000 feet.  We anticipate additional underground drill stations carved and built into the drifts, as well as industry-standard core-drilling and chain-of-custody recordation of samples.  During Phase II, we anticipate shipping bulk samples, which will potentially produce revenues through pilot production.  This production, while having lower than commercial production rates, may nonetheless produce cash flows depending upon the grade and quantity of ore recovered.
 
Industry Background
 
The exploration for and development of gold mineral deposits requires significant capital investment.  Few properties are ultimately developed into producing mines.  Some of the factors involved in determining whether a mineral exploration project will be successful include, without limitation:
 
 
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competition;
 
 
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financing costs;
 
 
·
availability of capital;
 
 
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proximity to infrastructure;
 
 
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the particular attributes of the deposit, such as its size and grade;
 
 
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political risks, particularly in some emerging third world countries; and
 
 
·
governmental regulations, particularly regulations relating to prices, taxes, royalties, infrastructure, land use, importing and exporting of gold, environmental protection matters, property title, rights and options of use, and license and permitting obligations.
 
The combination of these and other factors lead to a speculative endeavor, and very high risk. Even with the formation of new theories and new methods of analysis, unless the minerals are simply lying exposed on the surface of the ground, exploration will continue to be a “hit or miss” process.
 
Competition
 
The mining industry has historically been highly competitive. It is dominated by multi-billion dollar, multi-national companies that possess resources exponentially greater than ours. Additionally, due to our limited resources, we do not intend to develop any of our properties on our own, but rather to only perform exploration on our properties with the anticipation of selling or developing through an appropriate joint venture any properties in which our exploration proves successful. Given our size and financial condition, there is no assurance we can compete with any larger companies for the acquisition of additional potential mineral properties.

 
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Government Regulation
 
Mining and exploration is highly regulated and subject to various constantly changing federal and state laws and regulations governing the protection of the environment. These laws are becoming more and more restrictive, and include without limitation: the Clean Water Act; the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act; the Endangered Species Act; the Federal Land Policy and Management Act; the National Environmental Policy Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; and related state laws. The environmental protection laws dramatically impact the mining and mineral extraction industries as it pertains to both the use of hazardous materials in the mining and extraction process and from the standpoint of returning the land to a natural look once the mining process is completed. Compliance with federal and state environmental regulations can be expensive and time consuming.
 
 Compliance with the various federal and state government regulations requires us to obtain multiple permits for each mining property.  Although there is no guarantee that the regulatory agencies will approve, in a timely manner, if at all, the necessary permits for our current and anticipated explorations, we have no reason to believe at this time that we will not obtain the necessary permits in due course.
 
Properties
 
In addition to the Bates-Hunter Mine property as referenced above, we are currently provided office space at 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-8773 by Wits Basin without charge.
 
Employees
 
As of the date of this Current Report, we have no employees other than our officers.
 
Legal Matters
 
We are not currently party to any material litigation and are not aware of any threatened litigation that would be reasonably likely to result in a material adverse effect on our business.
 
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
 
This report contains certain statements that are “forward-looking statements,” including, among other things, discussions of our business strategies, future operations and capital resources.  Words such as, but not limited to, “may,” “likely,” “anticipate,” “expect” and “believes” indicate forward-looking statements.
 
Forward-looking statements are included in the section of this report entitled “Description of Business of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation.”  Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are generally reasonable, we cannot assure you that such expectations will ultimately prove to be correct.  Generally, these statements relate to our business plans and strategies, projected or anticipated benefits or other consequences of market conditions and opportunities, business plans or strategies, projections involving exploration and development, projected future earnings and other aspects of operational results.  All phases of our operations are subject to a number of uncertainties, risks and other influences, most of which are outside our control, and any one or combination of which could materially and adversely affect the results of our operations, and also, could affect whether any such forward-looking statements contained herein ultimately prove to be accurate.  Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations are summarized in the section captioned “Risk Factors” immediately following.

 
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Risk Factors
 
An investment in the Company involves a high degree of risk.  You should carefully consider the risks described below before making a decision to buy our common stock.  If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business could be harmed and you could lose your investment.
 
Risks Relating to Our Financial Condition
 
We are a development- and exploration-stage company with little history of operations and we expect to incur losses for the foreseeable future.
 
We are a development- and exploration-stage company, and have yet to commence active operations.  As of June 30, 2009, we have incurred an aggregate net loss of $5,897,820 since our incorporation.  We have no prior operating history from which to evaluate our success, or our likelihood of success in operating our business, generating any revenues, or achieving profitability.  These operations provide a limited basis for you to assess our ability to commercialize our product candidates and the advisability of investing in our securities.  We have generated no revenue to date and there can be no assurance that our plans for exploring the Bates Hunter Mine, and possibly producing minerals, will be successful, or that we will ever attain significant sales or profitability.  We anticipate we will incur development- and exploration-stage losses until our exploration efforts are completed.  As a development- and exploration-stage company, we are subject to unforeseen costs, expenses, problems and difficulties inherent in new business ventures.
 
We are not currently in production on any of our properties, and will need to raise additional financing.
 
           We have very limited funds, and such funds are not adequate to develop our current business plan, or even to satisfy our existing working capital requirements.  We will be required to raise additional funds to effectuate our current business plan for exploration of the Bates-Hunter Mine and to satisfy our working capital requirements.  We have no significant sources of currently available funds to engage in additional exploration and development.  Without significant additional capital, we will be unable to fund exploration of our current property interests or acquire interests in other mineral exploration projects that may become available. Our ultimate success will depend on our ability to raise additional capital.  There is no assurance that funds will be available from any source, or if available, that they can be obtained on terms acceptable to us. In the event we do raise additional financing, our shareholders will suffer dilution.
 
           The Company’s payment obligation of Canadian $250,000 under our Canadian $6,750,000 limited recourse promissory note issued upon our acquisition of the Bates-Hunter mine property in June 2008 came due in December 31, 2008.  The Company obtained an extension to July 31, 2008, and, with the payment of $25,000 toward the obligation and the issuance by Wits Basin of 500,000 of its shares of common stock, has since obtained a series of standstill agreements with the holders of the note pursuant to which they agreed not to enforce the payment obligation until October 2, 2009.  We are currently in the process of resolving this payment obligation with the holders of the note.  In the event we are unable to make the necessary payment or otherwise resolve the payment obligation, the holders of the note would be entitled to pursue ordinary and normal recourse available to lenders in transactions of this nature, including without limitation the ability to call the note.  However, we and Wits Basin are not liable for the entire face amount of the note, but rather would be jointly and severally liable for the limited recourse amount of Canadian $2,000,000.  The holders of the note hold a deed of trust on the Bates-Hunter property, and could foreclose on the property in the event we were unable to resolve a default on the note.

 
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Risks Related to the Company
 
We have very limited assets in operation.
 
We are an exploration stage company and do not anticipate having any revenues from operations until we complete other acquisitions or joint ventures with business models that produce such revenues. As of the date of this Current Report, we own the past producing Bates-Hunter Mine in Colorado.  Currently, very limited exploration activities are being conducted at this property and the property may never produce any significant mineral deposits.
 
We have provided guarantees and encumbered our assets as security for certain of Wits Basin’s obligations.
 
Prior to the completion of the Share Exchange, we were a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.  As such, we have entered into guarantees for obligations of Wits Basin under certain of its loan agreements with third-party lenders.  Our assets have also been used to secure certain of these obligations.  In the event Wits Basin is unable to satisfy its obligations under these third-party loan arrangements, we may be asked by such third-party lenders to satisfy such obligations, and mortgages or other liens against our assets may be foreclosed.  Additionally, certain of Wits Basin’s lenders hold a pledge of a significant number of our shares held by Wits Basin, and it is possible a majority interest of equity could be seized by a third-party.  If any of these events occur, it could be harmful to our business.  See “Certain Relationships and Transaction” and “Material Contracts” below for more information on these guarantees and encumbrances.
 
Wits Basin will be able to exert significant control over our Company.
 
Wits Basin has in the past and will continue to be able to exert significant control over our Company.  As of the date of this Current Report, Wits Basin holds approximately 95% of our outstanding common stock.  Once Mr. Brasel resigns from our board of directors, all of the members of our board of directors and our officers are further affiliated with Wits Basin.  Accordingly, Wits Basin will have the ability to exert substantial influence over the election of our directors and all other matters submitted to our shareholders.
 
As Wits Basin also engages in the industry of mining for precious metals, there may exist conflicts of interest between our Company and Wits Basin.  In the event that any such conflict of interest arises with respect to a member of our board of directors, a director who has such a conflict is required to disclose the conflict to a meeting of the directors of the Company in question and to abstain from voting for or against approval of any matter in which such director may have a conflict. In appropriate cases, we will establish a special committee of independent directors to review a matter in which multiple directors, or management, may have a conflict.  Notwithstanding these safeguards, there can be no assurances that a conflict of interest will not arise.
 
Our management team may not be able to successfully implement our business strategies.
 
If our management team is unable to execute on its business strategies, then our development would be materially and adversely affected. In addition, we may encounter difficulties in effectively managing the budgeting, forecasting and other process control issues presented by any future growth. We may seek to augment or replace members of our management team or we may lose key members of our management team, and we may not be able to attract new management talent with sufficient skill and experience.

 
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Our success in the future may depend on our ability to establish and maintain strategic alliances, and any failure on our part to establish and maintain such relationships would adversely affect our market penetration and revenue growth.
 
We may be required to establish strategic relationships with third parties in the mining industry. Our ability to establish strategic relationships will depend on a number of factors, many of which are outside our control, such as the suitability of property relative to our competitors. We can provide no assurance that we will be able to establish other strategic relationships in the future.
 
In addition, any strategic alliances that we establish, will subject us to a number of risks, including risks associated with sharing proprietary information, loss of control of operations that are material to developed business and profit-sharing arrangements. Moreover, strategic alliances may be expensive to implement and subject us to the risk that the third party will not perform its obligations under the relationship, which may subject us to losses over which we have no control or expensive termination arrangements. As a result, even if our strategic alliances with third parties are successful, our business may be adversely affected by a number of factors that are outside of our control.
 
Risks Related to our Business
 
Our performance may be subject to fluctuations in mineral prices.
 
The profitability of the exploration projects could be significantly affected by changes in the market price of minerals. Demand for minerals can be influenced by economic conditions and attractiveness as an investment vehicle. Other factors include the level of interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. The aggregate effect of these factors is impossible to predict with accuracy.
 
In particular, mine production and the willingness of third parties such as central banks to sell or lease gold affects the supply of gold. Worldwide production levels also affect mineral prices. In addition, the price of gold, silver and other precious minerals have on occasion been subject to very rapid short-term changes due to speculative activities. Fluctuations in gold prices may adversely affect the value of any discoveries made at the Bates-Hunter mine.
 
Mineral exploration is extremely competitive.
 
There is a limited supply of desirable mineral properties available for claim staking, lease or other acquisition in the areas where we contemplate participating in exploration activities. We compete with numerous other companies and individuals, including competitors with greater financial, technical and other resources than we possess, in the search for and the acquisition of attractive mineral properties. Our ability to acquire properties in the future will depend not only on our ability to develop our present properties, but also on our ability to select and acquire suitable producing properties or prospects for future mineral exploration. We may not be able to compete successfully with our competitors in acquiring such properties or prospects.
 
The nature of mineral exploration is inherently risky.
 
The exploration for and development of mineral deposits involves significant financial risks, which even experience and knowledge may not eliminate, regardless of the amount of careful evaluation applied to the process. Very few properties are ultimately developed into producing mines.  Whether a gold or other mineral deposit will become commercially viable depends on a number of factors, including:

 
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financing costs;
 
 
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proximity to infrastructure;
 
 
·
the particular attributes of the deposit, such as its size and grade; and
 
 
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governmental regulations, including regulations relating to prices, taxes, royalties, infrastructure, land use, importing and exporting and environmental protection.
 
The outcome of any of these factors may prevent us from receiving an adequate return on invested capital.
 
Our exploration operations are subject to environmental regulations, which could result in the incurrence of additional costs and operational delays.
 
All phases of our operations are subject to environmental regulation. There is no assurance that future changes in environmental regulation, if any, will not adversely affect our projects. We will be subject to environmental regulations with respect to our property in Colorado, under applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
 
U.S. Federal Laws
 
Under the U.S. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, mining companies may incur costs for generating, transporting, treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous waste, as well as for closure and post-closure maintenance once they have completed mining activities on a property. Our mining operations may produce air emissions, including fugitive dust and other air pollutants, from stationary equipment, storage facilities, and the use of mobile sources such as trucks and heavy construction equipment which are subject to review, monitoring and/or control requirements under the Federal Clean Air Act and state air quality laws. Permitting rules may impose limitations on our production levels or create additional capital expenditures in order to comply with the rules.
 
The U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (CERCLA) imposes strict joint and several liability on parties associated with releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances. The groups who could be found liable include, among others, the current owners and operators of facilities which release hazardous substances into the environment and past owners and operators of properties who owned such properties at the time the disposal of the hazardous substances occurred. This liability could include the cost of removal or remediation of the release and damages for injury to the surrounding property. We cannot predict the potential for future CERCLA liability with respect to our properties.
 
The global financial crisis may have impacts on our business and financial condition that we currently cannot predict.
 
The continued credit crisis and related instability in the global financial system has had, and may continue to have, an impact on our business and our financial condition. We may face significant challenges if conditions in the financial markets do not improve. Our ability to access the capital markets may be severely restricted at a time when we would like, or need, to access such markets, which could have an impact on our flexibility to react to changing economic and business conditions. The credit crisis could have an impact on any potential lenders or on our customers, causing them to fail to meet their obligations to us.

 
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Risks Related to Our Capital Stock
 
Investors may be unable to accurately value our common stock.
 
Investors often value companies based on the stock prices and results of operations of other comparable companies. Currently, we do not believe another public gold exploration company exists that is directly comparable to our size and scale. Prospective investors, therefore, have limited historical information about the property held by us upon which to base an evaluation of our performance and prospects and an investment in our common stock. As such, investors may find it difficult to accurately value our common stock.
 
Because we becoming public by means of a reverse acquisition, we may not be able to attract the attention of major brokerage firms.
 
Additional risks may exist since we became public through a “reverse acquisition.”  Security analysts of major brokerage firms may not provide coverage of the Company.  No assurance can be given that brokerage firms will want to conduct any secondary offerings on behalf of the Company in the future.
 
We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.
 
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our common stock. We intend to retain all of our earnings, if any, for the foreseeable future to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the future. Our board of directors retains the discretion to change this policy.
 
Hunter Bates Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
 
Management’s Discussion and Analysis for period ended December 31, 2008
 
The following discussion of the financial condition and results of operation of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to those statements included in this Current Report. This discussion includes forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, such as those set forth under “Risk Factors,” actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.
 
Overview
 
As of December 31, 2008, Hunter Bates was a minerals exploration and development company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin”).  Effective September 29, 2009, with the completion of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton Acquisitions, Inc.
 

 
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In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado.  A sister company to us, Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation (“Gregory Gold”), who is also wholly owned by Wits Basin, has been performing various mine de-watering work and exploration drilling activities in connection with this project.  On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin transferred its right to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine to us, and concurrent with the transfer, we completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, which included real property, mining claims, permits and equipment. We consummated the acquisition by issuing a limited recourse promissory note for $6,750,000 Canadian Dollars and Wits Basin issued 3,620,000 shares of its common stock.  No exploration activities are currently being conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine until such time as specific funds become available for this project.
 
As of June 30, 2009, our only asset is the Bates-Hunter Mine, which includes a prior producing gold mine, a water treatment plant, other mining properties, claims, permits and ancillary equipment. Furthermore, we possess only a few pieces of equipment and have no personnel necessary to actually explore and/or mine for minerals, we therefore remain substantially dependent on Gregory Gold, Wits Basin and third party contractors to perform such operations. As of the date of these financial statements, we do not claim to have any mineral reserves at the Bates-Hunter Mine.
 
Results of Operations
 
For the Period from April 21, 2008 (inception) to December 31, 2008.
 
Revenues
 
As of December 31, 2008, the Bates-Hunter Mine does not have any revenues and we do not expect to generate any revenues for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, we do not anticipate having any significant future revenues until an economic mineral deposit is discovered or unless we make further acquisitions or complete other mergers or joint ventures with business models that produce such results.
 
Operating Expenses
 
General and administrative expenses were $11,603 for the period from April 21, 2008 (inception) to December 31, 2008. These expenses relate to the Colorado real estate taxes related to the Bates-Hunter properties. We will recognize more general and administrative expenses in 2009 compared to 2008.
 
Depreciation for 2008 was $47,293, which represents straight-line depreciation of fixed assets purchased with the closing of the Bates-Hunter Mine. We will recognize more depreciation expense in 2009 compared to 2008.
 
Other Income and Expenses
 
Our other income and expense consists of non-cash interest expense and non-cash foreign currency adjustments. Interest expense for 2008 was $205,468, which represents the amortization of imputed interest discount on the limited recourse promissory note for Cdn$6,750,000.  The note is interest-free until January 1, 2010, and from such date shall bear interest at a rate of 6% per annum, with a maturity date of December 31, 2015.  The total note discount was $580,534.
 
With the consummation of the Bates-Hunter Mine acquisition in June 2008, we are recording direct non-cash gains and losses for foreign currency fluctuations due to our dealings with the recourse promissory note in the amount of Cdn$6,750,000.  We recorded a $1,222,082 gain for the period from June 12, 2008 (acquisition date) to December 31, 2008 due to the exchange rate between the US Dollar and the Canadian Dollar as of December 31, 2008.

 
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Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
Liquidity is a measure of an entity’s ability to secure enough cash to meet its contractual and operating needs as they arise. We have funded our operations and satisfied our capital requirements solely through advances from our Parent, Wits Basin. The intercompany advances from Wits Basin do not bear interest, as such, no interest expense has been reflected in our financial statements. We do not anticipate generating sufficient net positive cash flows from our operations to fund the next twelve months. As of December 31, 2008, we have no cash or any other current assets and have a working capital deficit of $1,338,639.
 
The Company’s debt on the limited recourse promissory note as of December 31, 2008 was a net balance of $5,139,637, which includes $204,248 (the equivalent of Cdn$250,000) of current portion. This note balance is net of a remaining discount totaling $375,066. The total principal balance at December 31, 2008, in U.S. Dollars is $5,514,703.
 
Summary
 
Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise capital or debt directly identified for the Bates-Hunter project. Wits Basin is currently working on specific funding scenarios to provide us with working capital.  If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.
 
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
 
During the year ended December 31, 2008, we did not engage in any off balance sheet arrangements as defined in item 303(a)(4) of the SEC’s Regulation S-K.
 
Gregory Gold Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
 
Management’s Discussion and Analysis for period ended December 31, 2008
 
Overview

As of December 31, 2008, Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (“we,” “us,” “our,” “Gregory Gold” or the “Company” in this section only), a Colorado corporation, was a minerals exploration company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.  Effective on September 3, 2009, the entire equity interest of Gregory Gold was transferred by Wits Basin to Hunter Bates, and Gregory Gold is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunter Bates.

In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado. These rights further granted Wits Basin exploration rights of the Bates-Hunter Mine properties. Gregory Gold has been used by Wits Basin solely as the operating entity for the exploration activities in Colorado. We hold minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance for the Bates-Hunter Mine properties.

Results of Operations

For the Year Ended December 31, 2008 Compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2007.

 
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Revenues
 
We had no revenues from continuing operations for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007. Furthermore, we do not anticipate having any significant future revenues until an economic mineral deposit is discovered or unless we make further acquisitions or complete other mergers or joint ventures with business models that produce such results.

Operating Expenses
 
General and administrative expenses were $78,445 for 2008 as compared to $60,297 for 2007. We anticipate that our operating expenses will remain at current levels over the next fiscal year.

Exploration expenses relate to the cash expenditures being reported on the work-in-process for the Bates-Hunter project. Exploration expenses were $1,561,385 for 2008 as compared to $1,955,334 for 2007. Exploration expenses relate to the defined surface and under ground drilling programs at the Bates-Hunter Mine properties, in which a total of 12,039 feet of drilling was accomplished. Based on our success in obtaining dedicated funds and the timeframe for receipt of such funds, we could anticipate the rate of spending for fiscal 2009 Bates-Hunter Mine exploration expenses to increase.

Depreciation expense for 2008 was $17,849 as compared to $16,049 for 2007, which represents straight-line depreciation of fixed assets purchased for work being performed at the Bates-Hunter Mine. We anticipate that our depreciation expense will remain at current levels over the next fiscal year.

We recorded $12,362 in losses in 2008 related to certain assets that became damaged and un-repairable, which were being utilized for de-watering at the Bates-Hunter Mine site.

Other Income and Expenses
 
Our other income and expense consists of interest income and interest expense. Other income for 2008 was $628 of interest income, and $674 for 2007.  Interest expense for 2008 was $833 and $0 for 2007.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Liquidity is a measure of an entity’s ability to secure enough cash to meet its contractual and operating needs as they arise. We have funded our operations and satisfied our capital requirements solely through advances from our Parent, Wits Basin. The intercompany advances from Wits Basin do not bear interest, as such, no interest expense has been reflected in our financial statements.  We do not anticipate generating sufficient net positive cash flows from our operations to fund the next twelve months. For the year ended December 31, 2008, we incurred losses from operations of $1,670,246. At December 31, 2008, we had an accumulated deficit of $5,852,490 and a working capital deficit of $5,923,590.

Summary

Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise the capital or debt directly identified for exploration activities of the Bates-Hunter Mine. If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.


 
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

During the year ended December 31, 2008, we did not engage in any off balance sheet arrangements as defined in item 303(a)(4) of the SEC’s Regulation S-K.
   
Hunter Bates Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
 
Management’s Discussion and Analysis for period ended June 30, 2009
 
The following discussion of the financial condition and results of operation of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation should be read in conjunction with the unaudited financial statements and the notes to those statements and the audited financial statements and notes thereto included for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, included in this Current Report. This discussion includes forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, such as those set forth under “Risk Factors,” actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.
 
Overview
 
As of June 30, 2009, Hunter Bates was a minerals exploration and development company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin”).  Effective September 29, 2009, with the completion of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton Acquisitions, Inc.
 
In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado.  A sister company to us, Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation (“Gregory Gold”), who is also wholly owned by Wits Basin, has been performing various mine de-watering work and exploration drilling activities in connection with this project.  On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin transferred its right to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine to us, and concurrent with the transfer, we completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, which included real property, mining claims, permits and equipment. We consummated the acquisition by issuing a limited recourse promissory note for $6,750,000 Canadian Dollars and Wits Basin issued 3,620,000 shares of its common stock.  No exploration activities are currently being conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine until such time as specific funds become available for this project.
 
As of June 30, 2009, our only asset is the Bates-Hunter Mine, which includes a prior producing gold mine, a water treatment plant, other mining properties, claims, permits and ancillary equipment. Furthermore, we possess only a few pieces of equipment and have no personnel necessary to actually explore and/or mine for minerals, we therefore remain substantially dependent on Gregory Gold, Wits Basin and third party contractors to perform such operations. As of the date of these financial statements, we do not claim to have any mineral reserves at the Bates-Hunter Mine.
 
Results of Operations
 
For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2009 Compared to the Six Months Ended June 30, 2008.
 
Revenues
 
As of June 30, 2009, the Bates-Hunter Mine does not have any revenues and we do not expect to generate any revenues for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, we do not anticipate having any significant future revenues until an economic mineral deposit is discovered or unless we make further acquisitions or complete other mergers or joint ventures with business models that produce such results.
 
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Operating Expenses
 
General and administrative expenses were $6,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2009 as compared to $0 for the same period in 2008. These expenses relate to the Colorado real estate taxes related to the Bates-Hunter properties. We will recognize more general and administrative expenses in 2009 compared to 2008.
 
Depreciation and amortization expenses were $43,602 for the six months ended June 30, 2009 as compared to $3,691 for the same period in 2008, which represents straight-line depreciation of fixed assets purchased with the closing of the Bates-Hunter Mine. We will recognize more depreciation expense in 2009 compared to 2008.
 
Other Income and Expenses
 
Our other income and expense consists of non-cash interest expense and non-cash foreign currency adjustments. Interest expense for the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $183,212 compared to $18,216 for the same period in 2008, which represents the amortization of imputed interest discount on the limited recourse promissory note for Cdn$6,750,000.  The note is interest-free until January 1, 2010, and from such date shall bear interest at a rate of 6% per annum, with a maturity date of December 31, 2015.  The total note discount was $580,534.
 
With the consummation of the Bates-Hunter Mine acquisition in June 2008, we are recording direct non-cash gains and losses for foreign currency fluctuations due to our dealings with the recourse promissory note, denominated in Canadian Dollars of Cdn$6,750,000.  We recorded a $347,321 loss for the six months ended June 30, 2009 as compared to $113,358 loss for the same period in 2008, calculated by the difference in exchange rates between the US Dollar and the Canadian Dollar.
 
Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
Liquidity is a measure of an entity’s ability to secure enough cash to meet its contractual and operating needs as they arise. We have funded our operations and satisfied our capital requirements solely through advances from our Parent, Wits Basin. The intercompany advances from Wits Basin do not bear interest, as such, no interest expense has been reflected in our financial statements. We do not anticipate generating sufficient net positive cash flows from our operations to fund the next twelve months. As of June 30, 2009, we have no cash or any other current assets and have a working capital deficit of $1,357,503.
 
The Company’s debt on the limited recourse promissory note as of June 30, 2009 was a net balance of $5,670,170, which includes $217,112 (the equivalent of Cdn$250,000) of current portion. The note balance is net of a remaining discount totaling $191,854. The total principal balance at June 30, 2009, in U.S. Dollars is $5,862,024.
 
Summary
 
Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise capital or debt directly identified for the Bates-Hunter project. Wits Basin is currently working on specific funding scenarios to provide us with working capital.  If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.
 
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
 
During the six months ended June 30, 2009, we did not engage in any off balance sheet arrangements as defined in item 303(a)(4) of the SEC’s Regulation S-K.
 
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Gregory Gold Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
 
Management’s Discussion and Analysis for period ended June 30, 2009
 

Overview

As of June 30, 2009, Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (“we,” “us,” “our,” “Gregory Gold” or the “Company”), a Colorado corporation, was a minerals exploration company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin” or “Parent”).  Effective on September 3, 2009, the entire equity interest of Gregory Gold was transferred by Wits Basin to Hunter Bates, and Gregory Gold is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunter Bates.

In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado. These rights further granted Wits Basin exploration rights of the Bates-Hunter Mine properties. Gregory Gold has been used by Wits Basin solely as the operating entity for the exploration activities in Colorado. We hold minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance for the Bates-Hunter Mine properties.

Results of Operations

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2009 Compared to the Six Months Ended June 30, 2008.
 
Revenues
 
We had no revenues from operations for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008. Furthermore, we do not anticipate having any significant future revenues until an economic mineral deposit is discovered or unless we make further acquisitions or complete other mergers or joint ventures with business models that produce such results.

Operating Expenses
 
General and administrative expenses were $30,520 for the six months ended June 30, 2009 as compared to $41,829 for the same period in 2008. We anticipate that our operating expenses will decline over the next fiscal year.

Exploration expenses relate to the cash expenditures being reported on the work-in-process for the Bates-Hunter project. Exploration expenses were $42,997 for the six months ended June 30, 2009 as compared to $1,109,525 for the same period in 2008. Based on our success in obtaining dedicated funds and the timeframe for receipt of such funds, we anticipate the rate of spending for fiscal 2009 Bates-Hunter Mine exploration expenses to be less than 2008.

Depreciation and amortization expenses were $9,260 for the six months ended June 30, 2009 as compared to $8,589 for the same period in 2008, which represents straight-line depreciation of fixed assets purchased for work being performed at the Bates-Hunter Mine. We anticipate that our depreciation expense will remain at current levels over the next fiscal year.

We recorded $12,362 in losses related to certain assets that became damaged and un-repairable for the six months ended June 30, 2008, which were being utilized for de-watering at the Bates-Hunter Mine site.

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Other Income and Expenses
 
Our other income and expense consists of interest income and interest expense. Other income for the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $0 of interest income, and $432 for 2008.  Interest expense for the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $56,136 compared to $0 for the same period in 2008. Interest expense increased due to financing some past due payables in 2009 and is expected to remain at the current level over the next fiscal period.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Liquidity is a measure of an entity’s ability to secure enough cash to meet its contractual and operating needs as they arise. We have funded our operations and satisfied our capital requirements solely through advances from our Parent, Wits Basin. The intercompany advances from Wits Basin do not bear interest, as such, no interest expense has been reflected in our financial statements.  We do not anticipate generating sufficient net positive cash flows from our operations to fund the next twelve months. We had a working capital deficit of $5,748,320 at June 30, 2009. Cash and cash equivalents were $1,097 at June 30, 2009, representing a decrease of $558 from the cash and cash equivalents of $1,655 at December 31, 2008.

For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, we had net cash used in operating activities of $62,569 and $649,276, respectively.

For the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, we had net cash provided by financing activities (primarily through advances from our Parent, Wits Basin) of $62,011 and $677,382, respectively.

Summary

Our cash reserves are basically depleted at June 30, 2009. Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise the capital or debt directly identified for exploration activities of the Bates-Hunter Mine. If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

During the six months ended June 30, 2009, we did not engage in any off balance sheet arrangements as defined in item 303(a)(4) of the SEC’s Regulation S-K.

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Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
 
The following table summarizes certain information regarding the beneficial ownership (as such term is defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of the Company’s outstanding common stock as of September 29, 2009 (after the Share Exchange), by (i) each person known by the Company to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Company’s outstanding common stock, (ii) each director of the Company, (iii) each of the Company’s named executive officers (as defined in Item 402(a)(3) of Regulation S-B under the Securities Act of 1933), and (iv) all executive officers and directors as a group.  Except as indicated in the footnotes below, the security and stockholders listed below possess sole voting and investment power with respect to their shares.  Except as noted below, the address of each person identified below is 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-8773
 
Name of Beneficial Owner
 
Shares of Common
Stock Beneficially
Owned (#) (1)
   
Percentage of Common
Stock Beneficially
Owned (%) (1)
 
Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (2)
    19,883,543       93.7 %
Irwin Gross (3)
800 S. Ocean Blvd, Apt 21
Boca Raton, FL 33432
    1,500,000       6.8 %
Stephen D. King (4)
    19,883,543       93.7 %
Mark D. Dacko (5)
    0       -  
Timothy J. Brasel (6)
2560 West Main Street, Ste 200
Littleton, Colorado 80120
    54,766       *  
Dr. Clyde Smith (7)
    0       -  
Donald Stoica (8)
    0       -  
All executive officers and directors (including nominees) as a group (5 persons)
    19,938,309       94.0 %

*  Less than 1%.

(1)
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with SEC rules, and includes any shares as to which the security or stockholder has sole or shared voting power or investment power, and also any shares which the security or stockholder has the right to acquire within 60 days of the date hereof, whether through the exercise or conversion of any stock option, convertible security, warrant or other right.  The indication herein that shares are beneficially owned is not an admission on the part of the security or stockholder that he, she or it is a direct or indirect beneficial owner of those shares.
(2)
Stephen D. King, as the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., may be deemed to hold voting and investment control over the shares held by Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.
(3)
Represents (i) 180,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 180,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share held by Irwin Gross IRA, of which Mr. Gross is the trustee, (ii) 160,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 160,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share held by 1995 Gross Family Remainder Unit Trust, of which Mr. Gross is the trustee, (iii) 160,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 160,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share held by Premier Partners Investments, LLLP, of which Mr. Gross is the managing partner, and (iv) warrants to purchase 500,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share held by Mr. Gross.
 
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(4)
Upon effectiveness of the Share Exchange, Mr. King was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, President and as a director of the Company.  Shares represent holdings of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., of which Mr. King serves as Chief Executive Officer and a director.  As reported in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by Wits Basin for the year ended December 31, 2008, Mr. King also beneficially holds 5,366,667 shares of Wits Basin common stock, which constitutes approximately 3.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of Wits Basin common stock.
(5)
Upon effectiveness of the Share Exchange, Mr. Dacko was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.  Until the completion of the Share Exchange on September 29, 2009, Mr. Dacko served as a director of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation. As reported in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by Wits Basin for the year ended December 31, 2008, Mr. Dacko also beneficially holds 1,215,000 shares of Wits Basin common stock, which constitutes less than 1% of the issued and outstanding shares of Wits Basin common stock.
(6)
Represents (i) 16,180 shares of common stock held by La Mirage Trust, (ii) 16,180 shares of common stock held by Bleu Ridge Consultants, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and (iii) 16,180 shares of common stock held by Charitable Remainder Trust of Timothy J. Brasel, for each of which Timothy J. Brasel serves as trustee.  Timothy J. Brasel served as President, Treasurer and Secretary and as the sole director of Princeton Acquisitions, Inc. immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange.  Upon effectiveness of the Share Exchange, Mr. Brasel resigned from his officer positions with the Company.  Additionally, Mr. Brasel has agreed to resign as a director of the Company upon the Company’s acceptance of such resignation at any time after the expiration of a 10-day period following the filing with the Securities Exchange Commission and mailing to the Company’s shareholders of a 14f-1 Information Statement, each of which was completed on September 23, 2009.
(7)
Dr. Smith has agreed to join the Company’s board of directors upon the Company’s acceptance of Mr. Brasel’s resignation at any time after the expiration of a 10-day period following the filing with the Securities Exchange Commission and mailing to the Company’s shareholders of a 14f-1 Information Statement, each of which was completed on September 23, 2009. As reported in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by Wits Basin for the year ended December 31, 2008, Dr. Smith also beneficially holds 1,100,000 shares of Wits Basin common stock, which constitutes less than 1% of the issued and outstanding shares of Wits Basin common stock.
(8)
Mr. Stoica has agreed to join the Company’s board of directors upon the Company’s acceptance of Mr. Brasel’s resignation at any time after the expiration of a 10-day period following the filing with the Securities Exchange Commission and mailing to the Company’s shareholders of a 14f-1 Information Statement, each of which was completed on September 23, 2009. As reported in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by Wits Basin for the year ended December 31, 2008, Mr. Dacko also beneficially holds 7,408,976 shares of Wits Basin common stock, which constitutes approximately 5% of the issued and outstanding shares of Wits Basin common stock.
 
Potential Changes of Control.  China Gold, LLC, a Kansas limited liability company (“China Gold”), a creditor of Wits Basin, holds a pledge of 18,500,000 shares of our common stock held by Wits Basin.  We have also guaranteed certain obligations of Wits Basin to China Gold, as discussed in more detail under “Certain Relationship and Transactions” below.  In the event of a default by Wits Basin under certain of its loan documents with China Gold, Chin Gold could control such shares, and as a result take a majority interest in our Company.  China Gold also holds a subordinated security interest through a deed of trust on our Bates-Hunter property.

Management
 
At the effective time of the Share Exchange, Stephen D. King was appointed to the board of directors of the Company.  Additionally, at the effective time of the Share Exchange, (i) Timothy J. Brasel resigned from his officer positions as President, Treasurer and Secretary of the Company, (ii) Stephen D. King was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company and (iii) Mark D. Dacko was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
 
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Mr. Brasel has agreed to resign as a director of the Company upon the Company’s acceptance of his resignation at any time after the expiration of a 10-day period following the filing with the Securities Exchange Commission and mailing to the Company’s shareholders of a 14f-1 Information Statement.  The Company filed the 14f-1 Information Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 23, 2009, and also mailed a copy of such statement to its shareholders on such day.  Upon acceptance of Mr. Brasel’s resignation after the expiration of such period, the Company anticipates appointing Dr. Clyde Smith and Mr. Donald Stoica to the Company’s board of directors.  Biographies of Dr. Smith and Mr. Stoica are as set forth below:
 
As of September 29, 2009 (after effectiveness of the Share Exchange, the officers, directors and director appointees of the Company were as follows:
 
Name
 
Age
 
Positions
Stephen D. King
 
52
 
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Timothy J. Brasel
 
51
 
Director
Mark D. Dacko
 
57
 
Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Clyde Smith
 
72
 
Director (to be appointed)
Donald Stoica
 
51
 
Director (to be appointed)

Stephen D. King.  Mr. King has served as our Chief Executive Officer and Director since our inception in April 2008.  Mr. King has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Wits Basin Precious Minerals, our parent company, since September 15, 2006, and served as President of Wits Basin from May 15, 2006 to September 15, 2006.  He has also been a director of Wits Basin since July 2004.  Since October 2000, Mr. King has served as President of SDK Investments, Inc., a private investment firm located in Atlanta, Georgia specializing in corporate finance and investing. He also served as President, from January 1994 until July 2000 and Chairman until October 2000, of PopMail.com, Inc., which was a publicly traded company with businesses in the hospitality and Internet sectors.
 
Timothy J. Brasel.  Mr.Brasel has been a Director of Princeton Acquisitions, Inc. from 1987 to present.  Mr. Brasel has been President and a Director of Bleu Ridge Consultants, Inc. Mr. Brasel currently devotes the majority of his time to managing his various business investments. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Brasel was a Director in Mountain States Lending, Inc. Over five years ago, Mr. Brasel served as a director of six publicly held shells. These companies are ILMI Corporation, Studio Capital Corp., Calneva Capital Corp., Zirconium Capital Corp., Hightop Capital Corp., and Royal Belle Capital Corp. From December 1996 until September 1998, he served as President and Director of Cypress Capital, Inc., which completed an acquisition of Terra Telecommunications, Inc. during September 1998. From September 1995 until January 1999, he served as President and a Director of High Hopes, Inc., which completed an acquisition of certain technology from Sanga e-Health LLC during January 1999. From May 1995 until August 1997, Mr. Brasel served as President and a director of Universal Capital Corp., which completed an acquisition of Remarc International Inc. during August 1997. From February 1996 until February 1997, Mr. Brasel served as President and a director of Capital 2000, Inc. which completed an acquisition of United Shields Corporation in February 1997. From July 1996 until December 1997, Mr. Brasel served as President and a director of Mahogany Capital, Inc., which completed an acquisition of Pontotoc Production Company, Inc. during December 1997. From July 1996 until May 1998, Mr. Brasel served as President and a director of Walnut Capital, Inc., which completed a merger with Links Ltd. during May 1998. From March 1990 until September 1994, Mr. Brasel served as President, Secretary, Treasurer and a Director of Prentice Capital, Inc., a publicly held blank-check company which completed an acquisition of Universal Footcare, Inc. From March 1990 until August 1993, Mr. Brasel was President, Secretary and a director of Brasel Ventures, Inc., a publicly held blank-check company, which completed an acquisition of American Pharmaceutical Company. Mr. Brasel received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.
 
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Mark D. Dacko.  Mr. Dacko has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Director since our inception in April 2008.  Mr. Dacko has served as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals, our parent company, since March 2003.  Mr. Dacko also served as Wits Basin’s Controller from February 2001 to March 2003 and as a board member from June 2003 until April 2008. Prior to joining Wits Basin, Mr. Dacko served as controller for multiple publicly held companies.
 
Post Share Exchange Director Appointments
 
Dr. Clyde L. Smith.  Dr. Clyde L. Smith has served as a director of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. since June 2009, and has served as President of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. since September 15, 2006.  Since 1970, Dr. Smith has been sole owner and operator of CL Smith Consultants, an independent geological consulting firm.  Dr. Smith holds a B.A. from Carleton College, a M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Idaho. Dr. Smith is a registered Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.  Dr. Smith has founded or co-founded five exploration companies and is responsible for the discovery of four deposits: the Jason lead-zinc-silver deposit, Yukon Territory, Canada; the Santa Fe gold deposit, Nevada; the North Lake gold deposit, Saskatchewan, Canada; and the Solidaridad gold-silver-copper deposit, Mexico.
 
Donald Stoica.  Donald Stoica has served as a director of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. since April 2008. In February 1999, Mr. Stoica founded SSR Engineering, Inc, which is a privately held corporation based in Anaheim, California that develops high performance radar systems for use in security, navigation, defense and related applications. Mr. Stoica has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SSR Engineering since its inception. From 1975-1998, Mr. Stoica worked at Hughes Aircraft Company, including a Technical Director.  Mr. Stoica received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in Pomona, California and his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Stoica is also a principal in Pacific Dawn Capital LLC, a company which we have had various financing transactions with since 2005.
 
Information Concerning the Board of Directors, Board Committees and Corporate Governance
 
Director Independence

Our securities are not listed on a national securities exchange or in an inter-dealer quotation system that has requirements that directors be independent.  As a result, we have adopted the independence standards of the NYSE Euronext (formerly the American Stock Exchange) to determine the independence of our directors and those directors serving on our committees.  These standards provide that a person will be considered an independent director if he or she is not an officer of the Company and is, in the view of the Company’s Board of Directors, free of any relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment.  

Our Board has determined that neither of our current directors is independent.  Additionally, with respect to the anticipated appointments of Mr. Stoica and Dr. Smith to the Board, our Board would not consider either individual to be independent based upon their respective relationships with Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., which is our majority shareholder.  Mr. King serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Wits Basin and Dr. Smith as the President, and Messrs. King and Stoica and Dr. Smith all serve  as directors of Wits Basin.
 
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Committees of the Board of Directors

We do not currently have a separately designated nominating committee or audit committee of the Board of Directors.  Consequently, we do not have charters for any of those committees.

Our Board of Directors performs the duties that would normally be performed by an audit committee.  We do not have an audit committee financial expert due to lack of funds.
 
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation.  The Company has not established a compensation committee or another board committee performing a similar function. Our directors and officers have to date served without compensation from our Company and we have not adopted any processes or procedures for the consideration and determination of executive and director compensation, and no officer or employee of the Company been involved in any deliberations of our Board with respect to executive compensation.
 
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
 
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires our director, officer and holders of more than ten percent of our common stock to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of our common stock and other equity securities.  We believe that during and for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, our officer, director and greater than ten percent beneficial owners complied with all Section 16(a) filing requirements.
 
Executive Compensation
 
Timothy Brasel served as the chief executive officer of Princeton from June 2009 until the Share Exchange, and Robert Lazzeri served as chief executive officer from November 2007 to June 2009.  Neither Mr. Brasel nor Mr. Lazzeri received any compensation from Princeton during this time that would be reportable under Item 402 of Regulation S-K.

Hunter Bates has not provided compensation to its named executive officers since its inception in April 2008.  Stephen King and Mark Dacko, who serve as the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Hunter Bates, also served in similar capacities for Wits Basin, which held a majority of Hunter Bates outstanding shares. Prior to the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates was a consolidated entity of Wits Basin, and Messrs. King and Dacko are compensated by Wits Basin for their services to Wits Basin in such capacities, and each have entered into employment agreements with Wits Basin.  Such employment agreements between Wits Basin and Messrs. King and Dacko, respectively, do not condition or make contingent any compensation from Wit Basin that is directly payable as a result of the performance of Hunter Bates. The compensation paid during the last two fiscal years of Wits Basin to Messrs. King and Dacko has been disclosed by Wits Basin in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, which is publicly available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Aggregated Option Exercises in Last Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year End Equity Award Values
 
Neither Princeton Acquisitions nor Hunter Bates have adopted any stock incentive or similar plans, and neither has issued options to their respective named executive officers.  Accordingly, the named executive officers of the Company do not hold any options to purchase our securities.
 
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Compensation of Directors
 
No directors of Princeton received any compensation for their services during the Company’s last completed fiscal year.
 
No directors of Hunter Bates received any compensation for their services as a director in the last completed fiscal year. Mr. Stoica, who is anticipated to become a director of our Company, has received compensation from Wits Basin for his services to Wits Basin as a non-employee director, which compensation is in no way dependent upon or based upon his anticipated service to Hunter Bates as a director.  Pursuant to Wits Basins’ director compensation plans, Mr. King and Dr. Smith (assuming appointment as a director of our Company) are not entitled to director compensation from Wits Basin for their services as directors of Wits Basin as each serves as an employee of Wits Basin.
 
The Company has not adopted any policy with respect to the payment of fees or other compensation to its directors, and to date has not provided that directors will be compensated, whether pursuant to a fixed payment for attendance at each meeting or an annual salary.
 
Certain Relationships & Transactions
 
Princeton Acquisitions
 
Since November 2007, the Company has utilized the offices of Mr. Robert Lazzeri, located at 2560 W. Main Street, Suite 200, Littleton, Colorado 80120. Princeton paid $1,500 per month for reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses such as telephone, postage, supplies and administrative support to a company controlled by Mr. Lazzeri, then a director and significant shareholder of Princeton. Princeton paid $12,000 for these expenses for the year ended June 30, 2008.

On March 11, 2008, Princeton entered into a Revolving Credit Agreement (the “Revolving Credit Agreement”) with Mathis Family Partners, Ltd. (“Mathis”), Lazzeri Family Trust (“Lazzeri”), Lazzeri Equity Partners 401K Plan (“LEP 401K”), La Mirage Trust (“La Mirage”), EARNCO MPPP (“EARNCO”), Blueridge Consultants, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan (“Blueridge”) and Brasel Charitable Remainder Trust (“Brasel”), collectively referred to herein as the “Lender,” to borrow up to $250,000, evidenced by an unsecured Revolving Loan Note (the “Revolving Loan Note,”) dated March 11, 2008.  In connection with and as a loan fee for the foregoing unsecured credit facility, Mathis, Lazzeri, LEP 401K, La Mirage and EARNCO each received 187,500 unregistered shares of our common stock and Blueridge and Brasel each received 93,750 unregistered shares, respectively, of our common stock for a total of 1,125,000 shares valued at $2,000.

Hunter Bates
 
In August 2009, Hunter Bates issued a note payable in favor of Wits Basin, which then held 100% of the equity interest in Hunter Bates, in the principal amount of $2,500,000 (the “Wits Basin Note”) in consideration of various start-up and developments costs and expenses incurred by Wits Basin on Hunter Bates behalf while it was a consolidated, wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.  The Wits Basin Note is due on December 31, 2013, and calls for quarterly payments of $150,000.  Interest accrues at a rate of 6% compounded per annum.  In the event Hunter Bates generates net revenues in excess of $2,000,000 during any fiscal year or complete one or more financings in the aggregate amount of $10,000,000, Hunter Bates’ payment obligations under the note will, at the option of Wits Basin, accelerate and become due and payable.
 
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In September 2009, we satisfied an aggregate of $500,000 under the Wits Basin Note through (i) the issuance of 500,000 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase an additional 500,000 shares at an exercise price of $1.00, valued at $250,000, to a creditor of Wits Basin in satisfaction of certain of Wits Basins’ obligation to such creditor and (ii) the payment to Wits Basin of $250,000 to enable Wits Basin to purchase shares of Princeton common stock from certain of its shareholders at or around the time of closing of the Share Exchange.  As of the date of this Current Report, the outstanding obligation under the Wits Basin Note is $2,000,000.
 
Hunter Bates has guaranteed the obligations of Wits Basin to China Gold, LLC under a Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note dated February 13, 2008 with an original principal amount of $1,020,000 and a 10% Senior Secured Promissory Note dated July 10, 2008 with an original principal amount of $110,000 (collectively, the “China Gold Notes”).  The China Gold Notes had a maturity date of February 11, 2009 and December 8, 2008, respectively, and each accrues interest at the rate of 10% per year.  As of June 30, 2009, the China Gold Notes have outstanding principal amounts of $512,391 and $110,000.  Wits Basin secured its obligations under the China Gold Notes with the majority of its assets, including its equity interest in 18,500,000 shares of our Company it holds.  Pursuant to the terms of that certain Security Agreement dated as of February 11, 2008 with China Gold, all of our assets are pledged as security for Wits Basin’s obligations under the China Gold Notes.
 
Hunter Bates has also guaranteed Wits Basin’s obligations under a 12% Convertible Debenture issued in favor of Cabo Drilling (America) Inc., a Washington corporation formerly known as Advanced Drilling, Inc (“Cabo”), dated April 27, 2009, in the principal amount of $511,589.59 (the “Debenture”). The Debenture has a maturity date of April 27, 2012.  Additionally, Hunter Bates entered into that certain Deed of Trust to Public Trustee, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Proceeds, Financing Statement and Fixture Filing (the “Cabo Deed of Trust”) to provide additional security for the obligations under the Debenture.
 
Stephen D. King, who is the chief executive officer and director of Hunter Bates (and of the Company post-Share Exchange), is also the chief executive officer and a director of Wits Basin.  Although Mr. King does not have a compensation arrangement with the Company (and was not compensated by Hunter Bates previously), Mr. King is compensated by Wits Basin for his services as chief executive officer, and until the date of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates was for accounting purposes a consolidated entity of Wits Basin.
 
Mark D. Dacko, who is the chief financial officer and director of Hunter Bates (and the chief financial officer of the Company post-Share Exchange), is also the chief financial officer and secretary of Wits Basin.  Although Mr. Dacko does not have a compensation arrangement with the Company (and was not compensated by Hunter Bates previously), Mr. Dacko is compensated by Wits Basin for his services as chief financial officer, and until the date of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates was for accounting purposes a consolidated entity of Wits Basin.
 
Other Material Contracts
 
Hunter Bates was formed in connection with Wits Basin’s acquisition of the Bates-Hunter mining property pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement dated September 20, 2006 (as amended, the “Asset Purchase Agreement”) by and among Hunter Bates, Wits Basin, Hunter Gold Mining Corp, Hunter Gold Mining Inc., George E. Otten, a Colorado resident, and Central City Consolidated, Corp. d/b/a Central City Consolidated Mining Co., a Colorado corporation (collectively, the “Sellers”).  Pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement, on June 12, 2008 Hunter Bates acquired the real estate and mining claims known as the “Bates-Hunter Mine” and the buildings, equipment, and permits relating to the Bates-Hunter mining property in consideration of (i) a limited recourse promissory note payable to George E. Otten in the original principal amount of $6,750,000 Canadian dollars (the “Otten Note”), and (ii) 3,620,000 unregistered shares of Wits Basin common stock with a fair value of $0.205 per share.
 
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Pursuant to the terms of the Otten Note, Hunter Bates is required to pay Mr. Otten the following:  (i) an initial payment of CDN $250,000, originally due by December 1, 2008, but extended until July 31, 2009 (the “Initial Payment”); (ii) a quarterly installment of accrued interest plus the Production Revenue Payment (as defined below) commencing on April 1, 2010 and continuing until the earlier of: (a) the fifth anniversary of the first Production Revenue Payment or (b) December 31, 2015 (the “Maturity Date”); and (iii) on the Maturity Date, the entire remaining principal balance together with any unpaid accrued interest. The Otten Note is interest-free until January 1, 2010, and from such date it bears interest at a rate of 6% per annum.  As of the date hereof, the Otten Note has an outstanding principal balance of CDN $6,750,000.
 
On June 1, 2009, Wits Basin entered into a standstill letter agreement (the “Standstill Agreement”) with the Sellers, whereby the Sellers agreed they would not, prior to August 1, 2009, take any enforcement actions or exercise any rights of default under the Asset Purchase Agreement for the failure to make the Initial Payment of CDN $250,000 under the Otten Note.  In consideration for entering into the Standstill Agreement, Wits Basin issued Sellers 500,000 shares of its common stock, and Hunter Bates paid Sellers $25,000 as a standstill fee and further paid certain past due property taxes applicable to the Bates Hunter Mine property.  Pursuant to the Standstill Agreement, the due date for the Initial Payment was extended to July 31, 2009, and has subsequently been extended to October 2, 2009.
 
In addition to the interest payments due under the Otten Note, Hunter Bates is also required to pay, on the first payment date following the calendar quarter in which we realize a Profit (as defined below) in excess of $100,000 U.S. dollars from the Bates-Hunter property, and continuing on each payment date thereafter until the Note is repaid in full, the following payments (each a “Production Revenue Payment”):
 
(1) 
For all calendar quarters ending on or prior to December 31, 2012, 75% of the Profit we realized for the immediately preceding calendar quarter, and
 
(2) 
For all calendar quarters ending after December 31, 2012, the greater of (a) 75% of the Profit we realized for the immediately preceding calendar quarter or (b) $300,000.00 Canadian dollars.
 
Further, Hunter Bates granted Mr. Otten the following net smelter royalties:  (i) a two percent (2%) net smelter return royalty on all future production, with no limit, and (ii) a one percent (1%) net smelter return royalty (up to a maximum payment of $1,500,000). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Hunter Bates has not been obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment by December 31, 2012, then beginning on April 1, 2013 and continuing on each payment date until Hunter Bates has become obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment, Hunter Bates is required to make principal payments in the amount of $550,000 Canadian dollars. Upon becoming obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment at anytime after April 1, 2013, Hunter Bates is required to thereafter make Production Revenue Payments in accordance with subsection (2) above. “Profit” is defined as any positive number comprising all revenue received from sales of minerals or mineral by-products from the acquired property, less expenses, including interest expense but excluding depreciation, distributions or dividends paid to shareholders, incurred in connection with such sales or the operation of the acquired property for the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
 
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Hunter Bates’ payment of the Note is secured by a deed of trust relating to the acquired property granted in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee for the benefit of Mr. Otten (the “Otten Deed of Trust”). If an event of default occurs under the Otten Deed of Trust, Hunter Bates and Wits Basin will be jointly and severally liable solely for a limited recourse amount of $2,000,000 Canadian dollars less the aggregate of (i) all payments of principal and interest under the Note; (ii) any cash proceeds received by or on behalf of Mr. Otten from any cash sale, occurring prior to any default, of the Wits Basin common stock received as purchase price for the asset purchase (calculated on the basis of $0.5525 Canadian dollars per share); and (iii) any deemed proceeds resulting from the in specie disposition of the common stock by George E. Otten to any of the sellers or the covenantor and/or their shareholders (calculated on the basis of $0.5525 Canadian dollars per share). Mr. Otten’s sole recourse for any amounts due upon default of the Note that are over and above the limited recourse amount set forth above shall be the secured property described in the Otten Deed of Trust.
 
Wits Basin acquired the option rights to purchase the assets of the Bates-Hunter Mine from Mr. Kenneth Swaisland pursuant to the terms of an Assignment of Purchase Option Agreement dated August 12, 2004 (the “Assignment Agreement”), which included the grant to Mr. Swaisland of a net smelter royalty of two percent (2%).  Pursuant to a Net Smelter Royalty Agreement dated January 21, 2009 with Mr. Swaisland (the “NSR Agreement”), Hunter Bates formalized the terms of the net smelter royalty.  The NSR Agreement calls for the 2% royalty to be paid upon gross revenues received from the sale or disposition of mineral products, less all direct expenses incurred in the extraction, transportation, processing and selling of such products, on or through access to the Bates-Hunter claimed property.
 
Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters
 
Princeton Acquisition’s common stock is quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the Symbol PRAQ.   There is only a limited trading market for our stock and our stockholders may find it difficult to sell their shares.  As reported by the OTC Bulletin Board, our stock had a high of $2.25 and a low of $1.00 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008.  The following table lists the high and low bid or sale price for our common stock as quoted by the OTC Bulletin Board during each quarter of the last completed fiscal year.  These quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down, or commission and may not represent actual transactions.
 
Quarter Ended
 
High
   
Low
 
September 30, 2008
  $ 1.10     $ 0.30  
December 31, 2008
  $ 0.30     $ 0.30  
March 31, 2009
  $ 0.30     $ 0.15  
June 30, 2009
  $ 0.15     $ 0.15  
                 
September 30, 2009
  $ 0.15     $ 0.05  
 
Hunter Bates’ common stock has not been publicly traded.
 
Holders
 
As of September 17, 2009, Princeton Acquisitions had approximately 130 holders of record of our common stock.  Immediately prior to completion of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates had 6 holders of record.
 
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Dividends
 
We have not paid, nor declared, any dividends since our inception and do not intend to declare any such dividends in the foreseeable future. Our management anticipates that earnings, if any, will be retained to fund our working capital needs and the expansion of our business.  The paying of any dividends is in the discretion of our Board of Directors.
 
Hunter Bates has also never paid or declared dividends since its inception.
 
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
 
The Company has not adopted any equity compensation plans.
 
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
 
The following summarizes all sales of unregistered securities by Hunter Bates since inception in April 2008.
 
In April 2008, in connection with Hunter Bates’ incorporation, Hunter Bates issued 1,000 shares of its common stock to Wits Basin.
 
In September 2009, Hunter Bates issued Wits Basin an additional 18,499,000 shares of its common stock.
 
In September 2009, Hunter Bates issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of Hunter Bates common stock to two accredited investors in consideration of consulting services provided to Hunter Bates.  The warrants have a five-year term, and have an exercise price of $0.01 per share.
 
On September 29, 2009, immediately prior to the completion of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates completed a private placement offering to accredited investors (as that term is defined under Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)) of 1,000,000 Units, each Unit consisting of one share of Hunter Bates common stock and one warrant to purchase a share of Hunter Bates common stock at an exercise price of $1.00, at a per Unit price of $0.50.
 
Except as noted above, the sales of the securities identified above were made pursuant to privately negotiated transactions that did not involve a public offering of securities and, accordingly, Hunter Bates believes that these transactions were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(2) thereof and rules promulgated thereunder. Each of the above-referenced investors in Hunter Bates’ stock represented to Hunter Bates in connection with their investment that they were “accredited investors” (as defined by Rule 501 under the Securities Act) and were acquiring the shares for investment and not distribution, that they could bear the risks of the investment and could hold the securities for an indefinite period of time. The investors received written disclosures that the securities had not been registered under the Securities Act and that any resale must be made pursuant to a registration or an available exemption from such registration. All of the foregoing securities are deemed restricted securities for purposes of the Securities Act.
 
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Description of Securities
 
Our articles of incorporation authorize the issuance of up to 100,000,000 shares of capital stock, of which 21,210,649 shares of common stock are currently outstanding.  We have issued warrants that are exercisable into an additional 2,500,000 shares of common stock.  There are no shares of preferred stock outstanding. Our board of directors has the authority to establish, by resolution and without any further vote or action by the shareholders, from the undesignated shares more than one class or series of common stock or preferred stock, and to fix the relative rights, restrictions and preferences of any such different classes or series, and to issue shares of a class or series to another class or series to effectuate share dividends, splits or conversions of the Company’s outstanding shares.
 
The Company’s Common Stock
 
The holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders and do not have cumulative voting rights.  Upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, holders of the Company’s common stock will be entitled to share ratably in all of our assets that are legally available for distribution, after payment of all debts and other liabilities.  The holders of the Company’s common stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights.
 
Outstanding Warrants to Purchase Common Stock
 
We currently have outstanding warrants to purchase an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of our common stock.  Warrants to purchase 1,500,000 of these shares have a five-year term and have an exercise price of $0.01 per share, and include a cashless exercise feature.  Pursuant to the terms of the warrants, prior to any attempted sale by the holder of any shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant, the holder is required to provide the Company a 30-day right of first refusal to purchase such shares at the same terms as offered to any third party.
 
The remaining warrants to purchase 1,000,000 shares of our common stock have a five-year term and an exercise price of $1.00 per share. The Company shall have the right, at any time upon 30 days prior written notice, to call and redeem all or any portion of these warrants (in any such case, the “Call Right”) provided that (a) the closing sale price of our common stock remains at or above $2.00 per share (as appropriately adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations or the like) for a period of 20 consecutive trading days, and (b) the resale of the shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants are covered by a then-effective registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or otherwise eligible for sale under Rule 144 of the Securities Act.
 
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
 
Article 7-109 under the Colorado Revised Statutes and our bylaws provide that the Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of the Company), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company in any capacity and in any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, if the person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed (i) in the case of conduct in his or her official capacity with the Company, that his or her conduct was in the Company’s best interests, or (ii) in all other cases (except criminal cases), that his or her conduct was at least not opposed to the Company’s best interests, or (iii) in the case of any criminal proceeding, that he or she had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct was unlawful. No indemnification is to be made to a person with respect to any claim, issue or matter in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the Company in which the person was adjudged liable to the Company or in connection with any proceeding charging that the person derived an improper personal benefit, whether or not involving action in an official capacity, in which he or she was adjudged liable on the basis that he or she derived an improper personal benefit.  Additionally, indemnification with respect to a proceeding brought by or in the right of the Company shall be limited to reasonable expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred in connection with the proceeding.  Our articles provide that any such person who is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation may be indemnified by the Company for expenses actually and reasonably incurred (including attorneys’ fees) in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the Company, provided that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person has been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Company unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought determines upon application that, despite such adjudication of liability, but in view of all circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification for such expenses the court deems proper.
 
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Our bylaws further provide that the Company shall indemnify any such person who was wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in defense of any action, suit or proceeding as to which he was entitled to indemnification against expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) reasonably incurred by him in connection with the proceeding without the necessity of any action by the Company other than the determination in good faith that the defense has been wholly successful.  A person may also apply for indemnification to the court conducting the proceeding or to another court of competent jurisdiction for mandatory indemnification as described in this paragraph.
 
Any indemnification under the above may be made by the Company only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct, with such determination made by the board of directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or, if such a quorum is not obtainable, by a majority vote of a committee designated by the board consisting of two or more directors not parties to the proceeding (and directors who are parties to the proceeding may participate in the designation of directors for the committee).  If the quorum of the board and the committee cannot be established, or even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or by the shareholders.
 
Pursuant to the articles and bylaws, expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in defending an action or proceeding may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon receipt of (i) a written affirmation of such person’s good faith belief that he or she has met the standards of conduct necessary for indemnification, (ii) an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay such amount unless it is ultimately determined that he or she is entitled to be indemnified by the Company, and (iii) a determination made by the appropriate group that the facts as then known would not preclude indemnification..
 
To the extent that indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling our company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that, in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.  If a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by us of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of our company in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by any of our directors, officers or controlling persons in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of our counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by us is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of that issue.
 
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Item 3.02.   Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
 
As disclosed under Item 2.01 above, in connection with the Share Exchange, the Company issued an aggregate of 19,500,000 shares of its common stock to the former holders of Hunter Bates capital stock, and other securities having the right to purchase approximately an additional 2,500,000 shares of our common stock, all of which were unregistered.  For these issuances, the Company relied on the exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 4(2) and Rule 506, as the securities were sold to eight individuals, each of which the Company reasonably believes is either an “accredited investor,” as defined under Rule 502 of the Securities Act, or such investor, either alone or through a purchaser representative, had knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that each was capable of evaluating the risks of the investment, and had access to information regarding Hunter Bates, the Company and the Share Exchange transaction.
 
Item 5.01.   Changes in Control of Registrant.
 
The disclosures set forth in Item 2.01 above are hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 5.01.
 
Item 5.02.   Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.
 
At the effective time of the Share Exchange, Stephen D. King was appointed to the Company’s board of directors.
 
At the effective time of the Share Exchange, the Company’s executive management team was reconstituted and Timothy J. Brasel resigned from his position as the Company’s President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary.  Upon the effective time of the Share Exchange, the following individuals (all of whom were officers of Hunter Bates prior to the Share Exchange) took the positions set after their names:  Stephen D. King (President and Chief Executive Officer); and Mark D. Dacko (Chief Financial Officer).  Biographical and other information regarding these individuals is provided under the caption “Management” in Item 2.01 above, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.
 
Item 5.06.   Change in Shell Company Status.
 
As described in Item 2.01 above, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.06, the Company ceased being a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) upon completion of the Share Exchange.
 
Item 9.01           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(a) Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired.

Pursuant to Rule 8-04(b) of Regulation S-X (17 CFR 210.3-05(b)), the Hunter Bates Mining Corporation financial statements as of and for the periods ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2, and the Hunter Bates Mining Corporation financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008, and the related report of its independent auditor, are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.3.

Pursuant to Rule 8.04(b) of Regulation S-X (17 CFR 210.3-05(b)), the Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated financial statements as of and for the periods ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.4, and the Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the related report of its independent auditor, are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.5.
 
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(b) Pro Forma Financial Information.

Pursuant to Rule 8-05 of Regulation S-X (17 CFR 210), the Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., unaudited pro forma combined balance sheet as of and for the year ended June 30, 2009, along with the notes to such unaudited pro forma combined financial information, are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit
 
Description
2.1
 
Share Exchange Agreement dated September 11, 2009 by and among Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., Hunter Bates Mining Corporation and the shareholders of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation
4.1
 
Limited Recourse Promissory Note of Hunter Bates Mining Corp issued in favor of George E. Otten.
4.2
 
Deed of Trust and Security Agreement of Hunter Bates Mining Corp issued in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee.
4.3
 
Security Agreement dated February 11, 2008 by and among Wits Basin Precious Minerals, Inc., Gregory Gold Producers Inc. and China Gold, LLC (as successor in interest to Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC).
4.4
 
Joinder of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation to Security Agreement dated February 11, 2008 in favor of China Gold, LLC (as successor in interest to Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC).
4.5
 
Amended and Restated Guaranty of Gregory Gold Producers, Inc. and Hunter Bates Mining Corporation dated July 10, 2008 in favor of China Gold, LLC (as a successor-in-interest to Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC).
4.6
 
Deed of Trust to Public Trustee, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Proceeds, Financing Statement and Fixture Filing issued in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee for benefit of Cabo Drilling (America), Inc. dated April 27, 2009.
4.7
 
Deed of Trust and Security Agreement of Hunter Bates Mining Corp issued in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee for benefit of China Gold, LLC (as successor-in-interest to Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC
4.8
 
Promissory Note issued in favor of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. dated September 28, 2009.
4.9
 
Summary of terms of warrants issued to certain consultants
4.10
 
Form of Warrant issued in connection with Hunter Bates private placement offering completed September 29, 2009
10.1
 
Asset Purchase Agreement by and among the Company and Hunter Gold Mining Corporation, a British Columbia corporation, Hunter Gold Mining Inc., a Colorado corporation, Central City Consolidated Mining Corp., a Colorado corporation and George Otten, a resident of Colorado, dated September 20, 2006.
10.2
 
Fourth Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated January 14, 2008 by and among the Company, Central City Mining Corp., George Otten, Hunter Gold Mining Corp. and Hunter Gold Mining Inc.
10.3
 
Fifth Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement by and among the Company, Hunter Gold Mining Corp, Hunter Gold Mining Inc., George E. Otten and Central City Consolidated, Corp. d/b/a Central City Consolidated Mining Co.
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Subsidiaries of Registrant
 
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99.1
 
Unaudited pro forma combined financial information
99.2
 
Financial statements of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation as of and for the periods ended June 30, 2009 and 2008
99.3
 
Financial statements of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008
99.4
 
Financial statements of Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated as of and for the periods ended June 30, 2009 and 2008
99.5
 
Financial statements of Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated as of and for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007

SIGNATURE
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.
   
Date:  October 5, 2009
By:
/s/ Mark D. Dacko
   
Mark D. Dacko
   
Chief Financial Officer
 
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EX-2.1 2 v162117_ex2-1.htm
Exhibit 2.1

 
 
SHARE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT
 
by and among
 
PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.,
 
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
 
and
 
THE SHAREHOLDERS OF HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
NAMED HEREIN
 
Dated as of September 11, 2009
 
 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
ARTICLE I EXCHANGE OF SHARES
1
     
1.1.
Exchange by the Shareholders
1
1.2.
Closing
2
     
ARTICLE II REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF HUNTER BATES
2
   
2.1.
Organization, Standing and Power
2
2.2.
Hunter Bates Subsidiaries; Equity Interests
2
2.3.
Capital Structure
3
2.4.
Authority; Execution and Delivery; Enforceability
3
2.5.
No Conflicts; Consents
3
2.6.
Taxes
4
2.7.
Benefit Plans.
4
2.8.
Litigation
4
2.9.
Compliance with Applicable Laws
4
2.10.
Brokers; Schedule of Fees and Expenses
4
2.11.
Contracts
5
2.12.
Title to Properties
5
2.13.
Intellectual Property
5
2.14.
Labor Matters
5
2.15.
Financial Statements
5
2.16.
Transactions with Affiliates and Employees
5
2.17.
Application of Takeover Protections
6
2.18.
No Additional Agreements
6
2.19.
Investment Company
6
2.20.
Disclosure
6
2.21.
Information Supplied
6
2.22.
Absence of Certain Changes or Events
6
2.23.
Foreign Corrupt Practices
7
   
ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS
7
   
3.1.
Organization, Standing and Power
7
3.2.
Subsidiaries; Equity Interests
8
3.3.
Capital Structure
8
3.4.
Authority; Execution and Delivery; Enforceability
8
3.5.
No Conflicts; Consents
9
3.6.
SEC Documents; Undisclosed Liabilities
9
3.7.
Information Supplied
10
3.8.
Absence of Certain Changes or Events
10
3.9.
Taxes
11
3.10.
Absence of Changes in Benefit Plans
12
3.11.
ERISA Compliance; Excess Parachute Payments
12
3.12.
Litigation
12
3.13.
Real Property
12
3.14.
Environmental Matters
12
3.15.
Compliance with Applicable Laws
12
3.16.
Business Activities
13
 
 
 

 

3.17.
Contracts
13
3.18.
Title to Properties
13
3.19.
Intellectual Property
13
3.20.
Labor Matters
13
3.21.
Market Makers
13
3.22.
Transactions With Affiliates and Employees
13
3.23.
Internal Accounting Controls
14
3.24.
Application of Takeover Protections
14
3.25.
No Additional Agreements
14
3.26.
Investment Company
14
3.27.
Disclosure
14
3.28.
Certain Registration Matters
14
3.29.
Listing and Maintenance Requirements
14
3.30.
No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances
15
3.31.
Foreign Corrupt Practices
15
   
ARTICLE IV DELIVERIES
15
   
4.1.
Deliveries of the Shareholders
15
4.2.
Deliveries of Princeton Acquisitions
15
4.3.
Deliveries of Hunter Bates
16
   
ARTICLE V CONDITIONS TO CLOSING
17
   
5.1.
Shareholders and Hunter Bates Conditions Precedent
17
5.2.
Princeton Acquisitions Conditions Precedent
18
   
ARTICLE VI COVENANTS AND OTHER AGREEMENTS
19
   
6.1.
Preparation of the 14f-1 Notice; Blue Sky Laws
19
6.2.
Public Announcements
20
6.3.
Fees and Expenses
20
6.4.
Continued Efforts
20
6.5.
Exclusivity
20
6.6.
Filing of 8-K and Press Release
20
6.7.
Preservation of Business
20
6.8.
Due Diligence; Access to Information; Confidentiality
21
6.9.
Covenant of Further Assurance
22
6.10.
Financing
22
6.11.
Deposit
22
   
ARTICLE VII TERMINATION
22
   
7.1.
Termination
22
   
ARTICLE VIII EXCHANGE OF SHARES
23
   
8.1.
Exchange of Shares
23
8.2.
Non-Registration; Legend
23
 
 
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ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS
24
   
9.1.
Notices
24
9.2.
Amendments; Waivers; No Additional Consideration
25
9.3.
Replacement of Securities
25
9.4.
Remedies
25
9.5.
Limitation of Liability
25
9.6.
Interpretation
25
9.7.
Severability
25
9.8.
Counterparts; Facsimile Execution
25
9.9.
Entire Agreement; Third Party Beneficiaries
26
9.10.
Governing Law
26
9.11.
Assignment
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Annex A        Hunter Bates Shareholders
 
 
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SHARE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT
 
This Share Exchange Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of September 11, 2009 is by and among Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a Colorado corporation (“Princeton Acquisitions”), Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“Hunter Bates”), and the shareholders of Hunter Bates identified on Annex A hereto (the “Shareholder(s)”).  Each of the parties to this Agreement is individually referred to herein as a “Party” and are collectively, the “Parties.”
 
BACKGROUND
 
As of the date hereof, 100% of the capital stock of Hunter Bates issued and outstanding (the “Hunter Bates Stock”) is owned and held by Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Wits Basin”).  Prior to the Effective Time (as defined herein), Hunter Bates contemplates completing a private placement offering of up to 3,000,000 shares of its common stock and 3,000,000 warrants to purchase shares of its common stock, after which (assuming a maximum offering) Hunter Bates anticipates having approximately 21,500,000 shares of capital stock issued and outstanding and held by the shareholders of Hunter Bates (actual shares held as of Effective Time being referred to herein as the “Shareholders Stock”) and an additional 4,500,000 shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding warrants.  The Shareholders have agreed to transfer each share of Shareholders Stock (and each right to acquire a share of Shareholders Stock) to Princeton Acquisitions in exchange for one newly issued share of common stock of Princeton Acquisitions (the “Princeton Acquisitions Stock”) (and right to acquire a share of Princeton Acquisitions Stock, as applicable), and as a result the shareholders of Hunter Bates immediately prior to the Effective Time will hold approximately 99% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Princeton Acquisitions on a fully-diluted basis as of and immediately after the Effective Time (assuming a maximum offering).  The number of shares of Princeton Acquisitions Stock to be received by the Shareholders are listed on Annex A and are referred to herein as the “Shares.”  The transaction shall be referred to as the “Share Exchange.”
 
The exchange of the Shareholders Stock for Princeton Acquisitions Stock is intended to constitute a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or such other tax free reorganization exemptions that may be available under such code.
 
The Board of Directors of Princeton Acquisitions and Hunter Bates have each determined that it is desirable to effect this plan of reorganization and share exchange.
 
AGREEMENT
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the Parties agree as follows:
 
ARTICLE I
Exchange of Shares
 
1.1.         Exchange by the Shareholders.  At the Effective Time, and subject to the terms and conditions herein, the Shareholders shall sell, transfer, convey, assign and deliver to Princeton Acquisitions the Shareholders Stock, free and clear of all Liens, in exchange for fully paid and nonassessable shares of Princeton Acquisitions Stock on a one-for-one basis (collectively, the Princeton Acquisitions Stock issued hereunder shall be referred to herein as the “Shares”).  Further, at the Effective Time, all securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Hunter Bates Stock (including without limitation warrants to purchase shares of Hunter Bates Stock) outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (the “Hunter Bates Derivative Securities”) shall automatically convert into and be exchanged for securities convertible into or exchangeable for that number of shares of Princeton Acquisitions Stock.
 
 
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1.2.         Closing.  The closing (the “Closing”) of the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Transactions”) shall take place at the offices of Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP in Minneapolis, Minnesota, commencing at 9:00 a.m. local time on the second business day following the satisfaction or waiver of all conditions to the obligations of the Parties to consummate the Transactions (other than conditions with respect to actions that the respective parties will take at Closing) or such other date and time as the Parties may mutually determine (the “Closing Date”).  To the extent required under applicable law, on the Closing Date, or as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable, the Parties will cause a Statement of Share Exchange to be filed with the Colorado Secretary of State and an Articles of Exchange to be filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State, and the Share Exchange shall be effective at such time necessary filings are made, or such later time the parties agree as specified in such filings (the “Effective Time” or “Effective Date”).
 
ARTICLE II
Representations and Warranties of Hunter Bates
 
Subject to the exceptions set forth in the disclosure letter delivered from Hunter Bates to Princeton Acquisitions on the date hereof (the “Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter”) (regardless of whether or not the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter is referenced below with respect to any particular representation or warranty), Hunter Bates represents and warrants as follows to Princeton Acquisitions.
 
2.1.         Organization, Standing and Power.  Hunter Bates is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is organized and has the corporate power and authority and possesses all governmental franchises, licenses, permits, authorizations and approvals necessary to enable it to own, lease or otherwise hold its properties and assets and to conduct its businesses as presently conducted, other than such franchises, licenses, permits, authorizations and approvals the lack of which, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Hunter Bates, a material adverse effect on the ability of Hunter Bates to perform its obligations under this Agreement or on the ability of Hunter Bates to consummate the Transactions (a “Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect”).  Hunter Bates is duly qualified to do business in each jurisdiction where the nature of its business or its ownership or leasing of its properties make such qualification necessary except where the failure to so qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.  Hunter Bates has delivered to Princeton Acquisitions true and complete copies of its articles of incorporation and bylaws (collectively, the “Hunter Bates Constituent Instruments”), in each case as amended through the date of this Agreement.
 
2.2.         Hunter Bates Subsidiaries; Equity Interests.  Hunter Bates does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock, membership interest, partnership interest, joint venture interest or other equity interest in any person or entity.  Hunter Bates is in the process of obtaining from Wits Basin 100% of the equity interest of Gregory Gold Producers, Inc., a Colorado corporation.
 
 
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2.3.         Capital Structure.  The authorized capital stock of Hunter Bates as of the date hereof consists of 100,000,000 shares, par value US$.01 per share, of which 18,500,000 shares of common stock are issued and outstanding.  Additionally, there are outstanding warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of Hunter Bates’ common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share.  Prior to the Effective Time, Hunter Bates anticipates completing a private placement offering (the “Initial Financing”), whereby, in the event of a maximum offering, Hunter Bates would have 26,000,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, on a fully diluted basis.  Except for the Initial Financing or as otherwise set forth herein, no shares of capital stock or other voting securities of Hunter Bates are issued, reserved for issuance or outstanding as of the date of this Agreement.  All outstanding shares of the capital stock of Hunter Bates are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to or issued in violation of any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of the applicable corporate laws of the State of Minnesota, the Hunter Bates Constituent Instruments or any contract, lease, license, indenture, note, bond, agreement, permit, concession, franchise or other instrument (each, a “Contract”) to which Hunter Bates is a party or otherwise bound.  There are not any bonds, debentures, notes or other indebtedness of Hunter Bates or any of its subsidiaries having the right to vote (or convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having the right to vote) on any matters on which holders of the Hunter Bates capital stock may vote.  Except with respect to the Initial Financing or as set forth in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, as of the date of this Agreement, there are not any options, warrants, rights, convertible or exchangeable securities, “phantom” stock rights, stock appreciation rights, stock-based performance units, commitments, Contracts, arrangements or undertakings of any kind to which Hunter Bates is a party or is bound (a) obligating Hunter Bates to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares of capital stock or other equity interests in, or any security convertible or exercisable for or exchangeable into any capital stock of or other equity interest in, Hunter Bates, (b) obligating Hunter Bates to issue, grant, extend or enter into any such option, warrant, call, right, security, commitment, Contract, arrangement or undertaking or (c) that give any person the right to receive any economic benefit or right similar to or derived from the economic benefits and rights occurring to holders of the capital stock of Hunter Bates.  As of the date of this Agreement, there are not any outstanding contractual obligations of Hunter Bates to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock of Hunter Bates.
 
2.4.         Authority; Execution and Delivery; Enforceability.  Hunter Bates has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the Transactions.  The execution and delivery by Hunter Bates of this Agreement and the consummation by Hunter Bates of the Transactions have been duly authorized and approved by the Board of Directors and shareholders of Hunter Bates and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Hunter Bates are necessary to authorize this Agreement and the Transactions.  When executed and delivered, this Agreement will be enforceable against Hunter Bates in accordance with its terms.
 
2.5.         No Conflicts; Consents.
 
(a)           Except as noted in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, the execution and delivery by Hunter Bates of this Agreement does not, and the consummation of the Transactions and compliance with the terms hereof will not, conflict with, or result in any violation of or default (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or to loss of a material benefit under, or result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of Hunter Bates under, any provision of (i) the Hunter Bates Constituent Instruments, (ii) subject to the Hunter Bates Consents (as defined in Section 5.1(n) hereof), any Contract to which Hunter Bates is a party or by which its properties or assets is bound, or (iii) subject to the filings and other matters referred to in Section 2.5(b), any material judgment, order or decree or material Law applicable to Hunter Bates or its properties or assets, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, any such items that, individually or in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.
 
 
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(b)           Except with respect to the filings set forth in Section 1.2 (if applicable), and for required filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and under applicable “Blue Sky” or state securities commissions, no material consent, approval, license, permit, order or authorization (each, a “Consent”) of, or registration, declaration or filing with, or permit from, any federal, state, local or foreign government or any court of competent jurisdiction, administrative agency or commission or other governmental authority or instrumentality, domestic or foreign (each, a “Governmental Entity”) is required to be obtained or made by or with respect to Hunter Bates in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions.
 
2.6.         Taxes.  As of the date of this Agreement, Hunter Bates does not file federal, state or local tax returns as a stand alone entity, rather, all federal, state, local, declarations, statements, reports, schedules, forms and information returns taxes (collectively, the “Tax Returns”) required to be filed by it are filed by Wits Basin under the consolidated corporation tax return process.  Wits Basin has not yet filed its 2008 U.S. Consolidated Corporation Income Tax Return.  There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of Hunter Bates know of no basis for any such claim.
 
2.7.         Benefit Plans.Hunter Bates does not have or maintain any collective bargaining agreement or any bonus, pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation, incentive compensation, stock ownership, stock purchase, stock option, phantom stock, retirement, vacation, severance, disability, death benefit, hospitalization, medical or other plan, arrangement or understanding (whether or not legally binding) providing benefits to any current or former employee, officer or director of Hunter Bates (collectively, “Hunter Bates Benefit Plans”).  As of the date of this Agreement there are not any severance or termination agreements or arrangements between Hunter Bates and any current or former employee, officer or director of Hunter Bates, nor does Hunter Bates have any general severance plan or policy.
 
2.8.         Litigation.  There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding (including any partial proceeding such as a deposition) or investigation pending or threatened in writing before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency, regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign), stock market, stock exchange or trading facility (each, an “Action”) against or affecting Hunter Bates or any of its properties which (a) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of this Agreement or the Shares or (b) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.  Neither Hunter Bates, nor any director or officer thereof (in his or her capacity as such), is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim or violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.
 
2.9.         Compliance with Applicable Laws.  To the knowledge of Hunter Bates, Hunter Bates is in compliance with all applicable statutes, laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, writs, injunctions, judgments, or decrees (collectively, “Laws”), including those relating to occupational health and safety and the environment, except for instances of noncompliance that, individually and in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.  Hunter Bates has not received any written communication during the past two years from a Governmental Entity that alleges that Hunter Bates is not in compliance in any material respect with any applicable Law.  This Section 2.9 does not relate to matters with respect to Taxes, which are the subject of Section 2.6.
 
2.10.       Brokers; Schedule of Fees and Expenses.  Except as noted in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, no broker, investment banker, financial advisor or other person is entitled to any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s or other similar fee or commission in connection with the Transactions based upon arrangements made by or on behalf of Hunter Bates.
 
 
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2.11.       Contracts.  Except as disclosed in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, there are no Contracts that are material to the business, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of Hunter Bates.  Hunter Bates is not in violation of or in default under (nor does there exist any condition which upon the passage of time or the giving of notice would cause such a violation of or default under) any Contract to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties or assets is bound, except for violations or defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.
 
2.12.       Title to Properties.  Except as set forth in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, Hunter Bates does not own any real property, and to the best of its knowledge, Hunter Bates has sufficient title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all of its properties and assets used in the conduct of its businesses.  Except as noted in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, all such assets and properties, other than assets and properties in which Hunter Bates has leasehold interests, are free and clear of any liens, security interest, pledge, equity or claim of any kind, voting trust, stockholder agreement and other encumbrance (collectively, “Liens”) other than those set forth in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter and except for Liens that, in the aggregate, do not and will not materially interfere with the ability of Hunter Bates to conduct business as currently conducted.
 
2.13.       Intellectual Property.  Hunter Bates owns, or is validly licensed or otherwise has the right to use, all patents, patent rights, trademarks, trademark rights, trade names, trade name rights, service marks, service mark rights, copyrights and other proprietary intellectual property rights and computer programs (the “Intellectual Property Rights”) which are material to the conduct of the business of Hunter Bates.  The Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter sets forth a description of all Intellectual Property Rights that are material to the conduct of the business of Hunter Bates.  There are no claims pending or, to the knowledge of Hunter Bates, threatened that Hunter Bates is infringing or otherwise adversely affecting the rights of any person with regard to any Intellectual Property Right.  To the knowledge of Hunter Bates, no person is infringing the rights of Hunter Bates with respect to any Intellectual Property Right.
 
2.14.       Labor Matters.  There are no collective bargaining or other labor union agreements to which Hunter Bates is a party or by which any of them is bound.  No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of Hunter Bates, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of Hunter Bates.
 
2.15.       Financial Statements.  Hunter Bates has delivered to Princeton Acquisitions its unaudited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and its unaudited financial statements for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2009 (collectively, the “Hunter Bates Financial Statements”).  The Hunter Bates Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated.  The Hunter Bates Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition and operating results of Hunter Bates, as of the dates, and for the periods, indicated therein.  Hunter Bates does not have any material liabilities or obligations, contingent or otherwise, other than (a) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business subsequent to June 30, 2009, and (b) obligations under contracts and commitments incurred in the ordinary course of business and not required under generally accepted accounting principles to be reflected in the Hunter Bates Financial Statements, which, in both cases, individually and in the aggregate, would not be reasonably expected to result in a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.
 
2.16.       Transactions with Affiliates and Employees.  Except as set forth in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter and the Hunter Bates Financial Statements, none of the officers or directors of Hunter Bates and, to the knowledge of Hunter Bates, none of the employees of Hunter Bates is presently a party to any transaction with Hunter Bates (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any Contract or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of Hunter Bates, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner.
 
 
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2.17.       Application of Takeover Protections.  Hunter Bates has taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Hunter Bates Constituent Instruments or the laws of its jurisdiction of organization that is or could become applicable to the Shareholders as a result of the Shareholders and Hunter Bates fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under this Agreement, including, without limitation, the issuance of the Shares and the Shareholders’ ownership of the Shares.
 
2.18.       No Additional Agreements.  Except as noted in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, Hunter Bates does not have any agreement or understanding with the Shareholders with respect to the Transactions other than as specified in this Agreement.
 
2.19.       Investment Company.  Hunter Bates is not, and is not an affiliate of, and immediately following the Effective Time will not have become, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
2.20.       Disclosure.  Hunter Bates confirms that neither it nor any person acting on its behalf has provided the Shareholders or its respective agents or counsel with any information that Hunter Bates believes constitutes material, non-public information except insofar as the existence and terms of the Transactions may constitute such information and except for information that will be disclosed by Princeton Acquisitions under a current report on Form 8-K filed no later than four (4) business days after the Closing.  Hunter Bates understands and confirms that Princeton Acquisitions will rely on the foregoing representations and covenants in effecting transactions in securities of Hunter Bates.  All the disclosures provided to Princeton Acquisitions regarding Hunter Bates, its business and the Transactions, furnished by or on behalf of Hunter Bates (including Hunter Bates’ representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement) are true and correct and do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
 
2.21.       Information Supplied.  None of the information supplied or to be supplied by Hunter Bates for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the notice that is required to be sent to the stockholders of Princeton Acquisitions pursuant to Rule 14f-1 (the “14f-1 Notice”) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) will, at the date it is first mailed to the Princeton Acquisitions’ stockholders, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
 
2.22.       Absence of Certain Changes or Events.  Except as disclosed in the Hunter Bates Financial Statements or in the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter, from December 31, 2008 to the date of this Agreement, Hunter Bates has conducted its business only in the ordinary course, and during such period there has not been:
 
(a)           any change in the assets, liabilities, or financial condition of Hunter Bates, except changes in the ordinary course of business that have not caused, in the aggregate, a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect;
 
(b)           any damage, destruction or loss, whether or not covered by insurance, that would have a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect;
 
(c)           any waiver or compromise by Hunter Bates of a valuable right or of a material debt owed to it;
 
 
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(d)           any satisfaction or discharge of any lien, claim, or encumbrance or payment of any obligation by Hunter Bates, except in the ordinary course of business and the satisfaction or discharge of which would not have a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect;
 
(e)           any material change to a material Contract by which Hunter Bates or any of its assets is bound or subject;
 
(f)           any mortgage, pledge, transfer of a security interest in, or lien, created by Hunter Bates, with respect to any of its material properties or assets, except liens for taxes not yet due or payable and liens that arise in the ordinary course of business and do not materially impair Hunter Bates’ ownership or use of such property or assets;
 
(g)           any loans or guarantees made by Hunter Bates to or for the benefit of its employees, officers or directors, or any members of their immediate families, other than travel advances and other advances made in the ordinary course of its business;
 
(h)           any alteration of Hunter Bates’ method of accounting or the identity of its auditors;
 
(i)           any declaration or payment of dividend or distribution of cash or other property to the Shareholders or any purchase, redemption or agreements to purchase or redeem any of the Shareholders Stock;
 
(j)           any issuance of equity securities to any officer, director or affiliate; or
 
(k)           any arrangement or commitment by Hunter Bates to do any of the things described in this Section 2.22.
 
2.23.      Foreign Corrupt Practices.  Neither Hunter Bates, nor, to Hunter Bates’ knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person acting on behalf of Hunter Bates, has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, Hunter Bates (a) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (b) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (c) violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (d) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.
 
ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties of Princeton Acquisitions
 
Princeton Acquisitions represents and warrants as follows to the Shareholders and Hunter Bates.
 
3.1.        Organization, Standing and Power.  Princeton Acquisitions is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Colorado and has full corporate power and authority and possesses all governmental franchises, licenses, permits, authorizations and approvals necessary to enable it to own, lease or otherwise hold its properties and assets and to conduct its businesses as presently conducted, other than such franchises, licenses, permits, authorizations and approvals the lack of which, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Princeton Acquisitions, a material adverse effect on the ability of Princeton Acquisitions to perform its obligations under this Agreement or on the ability of Princeton Acquisitions to consummate the Transactions (a “Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect”).  Princeton Acquisitions is duly qualified to do business in each jurisdiction where the nature of its business or its ownership or leasing of its properties makes such qualification necessary and where the failure to so qualify would reasonably be expected to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.  Princeton Acquisitions has delivered to Hunter Bates true and complete copies of its Articles of Incorporation (“Princeton Acquisitions Charter”) and Bylaws (the “Princeton Acquisitions Bylaws”), each as amended to the date of this Agreement.
 
 
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3.2.        Subsidiaries; Equity Interests.  Princeton Acquisitions does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock, membership interest, partnership interest, joint venture interest or other equity interest in any person.
 
3.3.        Capital Structure.  The authorized capital stock of Princeton Acquisitions consists of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $1.00 per share.  As of the date hereof (a) 1,710,649 shares of Princeton Acquisitions’ common stock are issued and outstanding, (b) no shares of preferred stock are outstanding and (c) no shares of Princeton Acquisitions’ common stock or preferred stock are held by Princeton Acquisitions in its treasury.  Except as set forth above, no shares of capital stock or other voting securities of Princeton Acquisitions were issued, reserved for issuance or outstanding.  All outstanding shares of the capital stock of Princeton Acquisitions are, and all such shares that may be issued prior to the date hereof will be when issued, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to or issued in violation of any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of the Colorado Business Corporation Act, the Princeton Acquisitions Charter, the Princeton Acquisitions Bylaws or any Contract to which Princeton Acquisitions is a party or otherwise bound.  There are not any bonds, debentures, notes or other indebtedness of Princeton Acquisitions having the right to vote (or convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having the right to vote) on any matters on which holders of Princeton Acquisitions’ common stock may vote (“Voting Princeton Acquisitions Debt”).  Except as described above, as of the date of this Agreement, there are not any options, warrants, rights, convertible or exchangeable securities, “phantom” stock rights, stock appreciation rights, stock-based performance units, commitments, Contracts, arrangements or undertakings of any kind to which Princeton Acquisitions is a party or by which it is bound (a) obligating Princeton Acquisitions to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares of capital stock or other equity interests in, or any security convertible or exercisable for or exchangeable into any capital stock of or other equity interest in, Princeton Acquisitions or any Voting Princeton Acquisitions Debt, (b) obligating Princeton Acquisitions to issue, grant, extend or enter into any such option, warrant, call, right, security, commitment, Contract, arrangement or undertaking or (c) that give any person the right to receive any economic benefit or right similar to or derived from the economic benefits and rights occurring to holders of the capital stock of Princeton Acquisitions.  As of the date of this Agreement, there are not any outstanding contractual obligations of Princeton Acquisitions to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock of Princeton Acquisitions.  Princeton Acquisitions is not a party to any agreement granting any securityholder of Princeton Acquisitions the right to cause Princeton Acquisitions to register shares of the capital stock or other securities of Princeton Acquisitions held by such securityholder under the Securities Act.  The stockholder list of Princeton Acquisitions provided to Hunter Bates is a current stockholder list generated by Princeton Acquisitions’ stock transfer agent, and such list accurately reflects all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Princeton Acquisitions’ common stock.
 
3.4.        Authority; Execution and Delivery; Enforceability.  The execution and delivery by Princeton Acquisitions of this Agreement and the consummation by Princeton Acquisitions of the Transactions have been duly authorized and approved by the Board of Directors of Princeton Acquisitions and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Princeton Acquisitions are necessary to authorize this Agreement and the Transactions.  This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Princeton Acquisitions, enforceable against Princeton Acquisitions in accordance with the terms hereof.
 
 
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3.5.        No Conflicts; Consents.
 
(a)           The execution and delivery by Princeton Acquisitions of this Agreement does not, and the consummation of Transactions and compliance with the terms hereof will not, conflict with or result in any violation of or default (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or to loss of a material benefit under, or to increased, additional, accelerated or guaranteed rights or entitlements of any person under, or result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of Princeton Acquisitions under, any provision of (i) the Princeton Acquisitions Charter or Princeton Acquisitions Bylaws, (ii) any material Contract to which Princeton Acquisitions is a party or by which any of its properties or assets is bound or (iii) subject to the filings and other matters referred to in Section 3.5(b), any material judgment, order or decree or material Law applicable to Princeton Acquisitions or its properties or assets, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, any such items that, individually or in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.
 
(b)           Except with respect to the filings set forth in Section 1.2 (if applicable), no Consent of, or registration, declaration or filing with, or permit from, any Governmental Entity is required to be obtained or made by or with respect to Princeton Acquisitions in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, other than the (i) filing with the SEC of a 14f-1 Notice and (ii) filing with the SEC of reports under Sections 13 and 16 of the Exchange Act, and (iii) filings under state “blue sky” laws, as may be required in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions.
 
3.6.        SEC Documents; Undisclosed Liabilities.
 
(a)           Princeton Acquisitions has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by Princeton Acquisitions with the SEC since November 1, 2007, pursuant to Sections 13(a), 14(a) and 15(d) of the Exchange Act (the “Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents”).
 
(b)           As of its respective filing date, each Princeton Acquisitions SEC Document filed since November 1, 2007, and to the best of Princeton Acquisitions’ knowledge, each Princeton Acquisitions SEC Document filed prior to November 1, 2007, has complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to such Princeton Acquisitions SEC Document, and did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  Except to the extent that information contained in any Princeton Acquisitions SEC Document has been revised or superseded by a later Princeton Acquisitions SEC Document, none of the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  The consolidated financial statements of Princeton Acquisitions included in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents comply as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (except, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto) and fairly present the consolidated financial position of Princeton Acquisitions and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for the periods shown (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments).
 
 
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(c)           Except as set forth in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents, Princeton Acquisitions has no liabilities or obligations of any nature (whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) to be set forth on a balance sheet of Princeton Acquisitions or in the notes thereto.  The Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents set forth all financial and contractual obligations and liabilities (including any obligations to issue capital stock or other securities of the parent) due after the date hereof.  All liabilities of Princeton Acquisitions shall have been paid off or otherwise satisfied in full as of the Closing.
 
3.7.        Information Supplied.  None of the information supplied or to be supplied by Princeton Acquisitions for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the 14f-1 Notice will, at the date it is first mailed to Princeton Acquisitions’ stockholders, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
 
3.8.        Absence of Certain Changes or Events.  Except as disclosed in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents, from the date of the most recent audited financial statements of Princeton Acquisitions included in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents (the “Princeton Acquisitions Financial Statements”) to the date of this Agreement, Princeton Acquisitions has conducted its business only in the ordinary course, and during such period there has not been:
 
(a)           any change in the assets, liabilities, financial condition or operating results of Princeton Acquisitions from that reflected in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents, except changes in the ordinary course of business that have not caused, in the aggregate, a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect;
 
(b)           any damage, destruction or loss, whether or not covered by insurance, that would have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect;
 
(c)           any waiver or compromise by Princeton Acquisitions of a valuable right or of a material debt owed to it;
 
(d)           any satisfaction or discharge of any lien, claim, or encumbrance or payment of any obligation by Princeton Acquisitions, except in the ordinary course of business and the satisfaction or discharge of which would not have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect;
 
(e)           any material change to a material Contract by which Princeton Acquisitions or any of its assets is bound or subject;
 
(f)            any material change in any compensation arrangement or agreement with any employee, officer, director or stockholder;
 
(g)           any resignation or termination of employment of any officer of Princeton Acquisitions;
 
 
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(h)           any mortgage, pledge, transfer of a security interest in or lien created by Princeton Acquisitions with respect to any of its material properties or assets, except liens for taxes not yet due or payable and liens that arise in the ordinary course of business and that do not materially impair Princeton Acquisitions’ ownership or use of such property or assets;
 
(i)            any loans or guarantees made by Princeton Acquisitions to or for the benefit of its employees, officers or directors, or any members of their immediate families, other than travel advances and other advances made in the ordinary course of its business;
 
(j)            any declaration, setting aside or payment of a dividend or other distribution in respect of any of Princeton Acquisitions’ capital stock, or any direct or indirect redemption, purchase, or other acquisition of any of such stock by Princeton Acquisitions;
 
(k)           any alteration of Princeton Acquisitions’ method of accounting or the identity of its auditors;
 
(l)            any issuance of equity securities to any officer, director or affiliate, except pursuant to existing Princeton Acquisitions stock option plans;
 
(m)           any amendment to the Princeton Acquisitions Constituent Documents; or
 
(n)           any arrangement or commitment by Princeton Acquisitions to do any of the things described in this Section 3.8.
 
3.9.        Taxes.
 
(a)           Since July 1, 2003, and to the best knowledge of Princeton Acquisitions prior to July 1, 2003, Princeton Acquisitions has timely filed, or has caused to be timely filed on its behalf, all Tax Returns required to be filed by it, and all such Tax Returns are true, complete and accurate, except to the extent any failure to file, any delinquency in filing or any inaccuracies in any filed Tax Returns, individually or in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.  All Taxes shown to be due on such Tax Returns, or otherwise owed, have been timely paid, except to the extent that any failure to pay, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.
 
(b)           The most recent financial statements contained in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents reflect an adequate reserve for all Taxes payable by Princeton Acquisitions (in addition to any reserve for deferred Taxes to reflect timing differences between book and Tax items) for all Taxable periods and portions thereof through the date of such financial statements.  No deficiency with respect to any Taxes has been proposed, asserted or assessed against Princeton Acquisitions, and no requests for waivers of the time to assess any such Taxes are pending, except to the extent any such deficiency or request for waiver, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.
 
(c)           There are no Liens for Taxes (other than for current Taxes not yet due and payable) on the assets of Princeton Acquisitions.  Princeton Acquisitions is not bound by any agreement with respect to Taxes.
 
 
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3.10.      Absence of Changes in Benefit Plans.  From the date of the Princeton Acquisitions Financial Statements to the date of this Agreement, there has not been any adoption or amendment in any material respect by Princeton Acquisitions of any collective bargaining agreement or any bonus, pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation, incentive compensation, stock ownership, stock purchase, stock option, phantom stock, retirement, vacation, severance, disability, death benefit, hospitalization, medical or other plan, arrangement or understanding (whether or not legally binding) providing benefits to any current or former employee, officer or director of Princeton Acquisitions (collectively, “Princeton Acquisitions Benefit Plans”).  As of the date of this Agreement, there are not any employment, consulting, indemnification, severance or termination agreements or arrangements between Princeton Acquisitions and any current or former employee, officer or director of Princeton Acquisitions, nor does Princeton Acquisitions have any general severance plan or policy.
 
3.11.      ERISA Compliance; Excess Parachute Payments.  Princeton Acquisitions does not, and since its inception never has, maintained or contributed to any “employee pension benefit plans” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), “employee welfare benefit plans” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) or any other Princeton Acquisitions Benefit Plan for the benefit of any current or former employees, consultants, officers or directors of Princeton Acquisitions.
 
3.12.      Litigation.  There is no Action against or affecting Princeton Acquisitions or any subsidiary or any of their respective properties which (a) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of either of this Agreement or the Shares or (b) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.  Neither Princeton Acquisitions nor any subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof (in his or her capacity as such), is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim or violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.
 
3.13.      Real Property.  Neither Princeton Acquisitions nor any of its subsidiaries owns any real property.  Neither Princeton Acquisitions nor any of its subsidiaries has any leaseholds or other interests in any real property.  Princeton Acquisitions and each of its subsidiaries have good and valid title to those leaseholds and other interests free and clear of all liens and encumbrances, and the real property that those leasehold and other interests pertain constitutes the only real property used in Princeton Acquisitions’ business.
 
3.14.      Environmental Matters.  None of the operations of Princeton Acquisitions or any of its subsidiaries involves the generation, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste, as defined under 40 C.F.R. Parts 260-270 or any state, local or foreign equivalent.
 
3.15.      Compliance with Applicable Laws.  Princeton Acquisitions is in compliance with all applicable Laws, including those relating to occupational health and safety, the environment, export controls, trade sanctions and embargoes, except for instances of noncompliance that, individually and in the aggregate, have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.  Princeton Acquisitions has not received any written communication during the past two years from a Governmental Entity that alleges that Princeton Acquisitions is not in compliance in any material respect with any applicable Law.  Princeton Acquisitions is in compliance with all effective requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, that are applicable to it, except where such noncompliance could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.  This Section 3.15 does not relate to matters with respect to Taxes, which are the subject of Section 3.9.
 
 
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3.16.      Business Activities.  Princeton Acquisitions has not conducted any business activities, either directly or indirectly, within any country that is on the U.S. Department of State’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
 
3.17.      Contracts.  Except as set disclosed in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents, there are no Contracts that are material to the business, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of Princeton Acquisitions taken as a whole.  Princeton Acquisitions is not in violation of or in default under (nor does there exist any condition which upon the passage of time or the giving of notice would cause such a violation of or default under) any Contract to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties or assets is bound, except for violations or defaults that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.
 
3.18.     Title to Properties.  Princeton Acquisitions has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all of its properties and assets used in the conduct of its businesses.  All such assets and properties, other than assets and properties in which Princeton Acquisitions has leasehold interests, are free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens that, in the aggregate, do not and will not materially interfere with the ability of Princeton Acquisitions to conduct business as currently conducted.  Princeton Acquisitions has complied in all material respects with the terms of all material leases to which it is a party and under which it is in occupancy, and all such leases are in full force and effect.  Princeton Acquisitions enjoys peaceful and undisturbed possession under all such material leases.
 
3.19.      Intellectual Property.  Princeton Acquisitions owns, or is validly licensed or otherwise has the right to use, all Intellectual Property Rights which are material to the conduct of the business of Princeton Acquisitions taken as a whole.  No claims are pending or, to the knowledge of Princeton Acquisitions, threatened that Princeton Acquisitions is infringing or otherwise adversely affecting the rights of any person with regard to any Intellectual Property Right.  To the knowledge of Princeton Acquisitions, no person is infringing the rights of Princeton Acquisitions with respect to any Intellectual Property Right.
 
3.20.      Labor Matters.  There is no collective bargaining or other labor union agreements to which Princeton Acquisitions is a party or by which it is bound.  No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of Princeton Acquisitions, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of Princeton Acquisitions.
 
3.21.      Market Makers.  Princeton Acquisitions has at least two (2) market makers for the Princeton Acquisitions Common Stock and such market makers have obtained all permits and made all filings necessary in order for such market makers to continue as market makers of Princeton Acquisitions.
 
3.22.      Transactions With Affiliates and Employees.  Except as set forth in the Princeton Acquisitions SEC Documents, none of the officers or directors of Princeton Acquisitions and, to the knowledge of Princeton Acquisitions, none of the employees of Princeton Acquisitions is presently a party to any transaction with Princeton Acquisitions or any subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any Contract or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of Princeton Acquisitions, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner.
 
 
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3.23.      Internal Accounting Controls.  Princeton Acquisitions maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (a) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (b) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability, (c) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (d) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.  Princeton Acquisitions has established disclosure controls and procedures for Princeton Acquisitions and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material information relating to Princeton Acquisitions is made known to the officers by others within those entities.  Princeton Acquisitions’ officers have evaluated the effectiveness of Princeton Acquisitions’ controls and procedures.  Since March 31, 2009, there have been no significant changes in Princeton Acquisitions’ internal controls or, to Princeton Acquisitions’ knowledge, in other factors that could significantly affect Princeton Acquisitions’ internal controls.
 
3.24.      Application of Takeover Protections.  Princeton Acquisitions has taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Princeton Acquisitions’ charter documents or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Shareholders as a result of the Shareholders and Princeton Acquisitions fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under this Agreement, including, without limitation, the issuance of the Shares and the Shareholders’ ownership of the Shares.
 
3.25.      No Additional Agreements.  Princeton Acquisitions does not have any agreement or understanding with the Shareholders with respect to the Transactions other than as specified in this Agreement.
 
3.26.      Investment Company.  Princeton Acquisitions is not, and is not an affiliate of, and immediately following the Effective Time will not have become, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
3.27.      Disclosure.  Princeton Acquisitions confirms that neither it nor any person acting on its behalf has provided the Shareholders or its agent or counsel with any information that Princeton Acquisitions believes constitutes material, non-public information except insofar as the existence and terms of the Transactions may constitute such information and except for information that will be disclosed by Princeton Acquisitions under a current report on Form 8-K filed within four business days after the Closing.  Princeton Acquisitions understands and confirms that the Shareholders will rely on the foregoing representations and covenants in effecting transactions in securities of Princeton Acquisitions.  All disclosure provided to the Shareholders regarding Princeton Acquisitions, its business and the Transactions, furnished by or on behalf of Princeton Acquisitions (including Princeton Acquisitions’ representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement) is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
 
3.28.      Certain Registration Matters.  Princeton Acquisitions has not granted or agreed to grant to any person any rights (including “piggy-back” registration rights) to have any securities of Princeton Acquisitions registered with the SEC or any other governmental authority that have not been satisfied.
 
3.29.       Listing and Maintenance Requirements.  Princeton Acquisitions is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with the listing and maintenance requirements for continued listing of the Princeton Acquisitions Stock on the trading market on which the Princeton Acquisitions Stock is currently listed or quoted.  The issuance and sale of the Shares under this Agreement does not contravene the rules and regulations of the trading market on which the Princeton Acquisitions Stock is currently listed or quoted, and no approval of the stockholders of Princeton Acquisitions is required for Princeton Acquisitions to issue and deliver to the Shareholders the Shares contemplated by this Agreement.
 
 
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3.30.      No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or Circumstances.  No event, liability, development or circumstance has occurred or exists, or is contemplated to occur with respect to Princeton Acquisitions, its subsidiaries or their respective businesses, properties, prospects, operations or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by Princeton Acquisitions under applicable securities laws on a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC relating to an issuance and sale by Princeton Acquisitions of its common stock and which has not been publicly announced.
 
3.31.      Foreign Corrupt Practices.  Neither Princeton Acquisitions, nor to Princeton Acquisitions’ knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person acting on behalf of Princeton Acquisitions has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, Princeton Acquisitions (a) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (b) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (c) violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (d) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.
 
ARTICLE IV
Deliveries
 
4.1.        Deliveries of the Shareholders.
 
(a)           Concurrently herewith the Shareholders are delivering to Princeton Acquisitions this Agreement executed by the Shareholders.
 
(b)           At or prior to the Closing, Hunter Bates and the Shareholders shall deliver to Princeton Acquisitions certificate(s) representing the Shareholders Stock, together with duly executed instruments of transfer for transfer by the Shareholders of the Shareholders Stock to Princeton Acquisitions, in a form and substance satisfactory to Princeton Acquisitions.
 
4.2.        Deliveries of Princeton Acquisitions.
 
(a)           Concurrently herewith, Princeton Acquisitions is delivering to the Shareholders and to Hunter Bates, a copy of this Agreement executed by Princeton Acquisitions.
 
(b)           At or prior to the Closing, Princeton Acquisitions shall deliver to Hunter Bates:
 
(i)            a certificate from Princeton Acquisitions, signed by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary, certifying that the attached copies of the Princeton Acquisitions Charter, Princeton Acquisitions Bylaws and resolutions of the Board of Directors of Princeton Acquisitions approving this Agreement and the Transactions are all true, complete and correct and remain in full force and effect;
 
(ii)           a certificate of status of Princeton Acquisitions dated within five (5) business days of Closing issued by the Secretary of State of Colorado;
 
 
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(iii)           a letter of resignation from each director and officer of Princeton Acquisitions resigning from their positions effective as of the Effective Time; provided that the resignation of Timothy Brasel as director shall not become effective until the tenth (10th) day following the mailing by Princeton Acquisitions to its stockholders of the 14f-1 Notice;
 
(iv)           evidence of (A) the election of Stephen D. King as a director of Princeton Acquisitions effective as of the Effective Time, (B) the election of Clyde Smith and Donald Stoica as directors of Princeton Acquisitions effective on the later of (1) the Closing and (2) the tenth (10th) day following the mailing by Princeton Acquisitions to its stockholders of the 14f-1 Notice; and (C) the appointment of Stephen D. King as the Chief Executive Officer and Mark D. Dacko as the Chief Financial Officer of Princeton Acquisitions, and such other executive officers of Princeton Acquisitions as designated by Hunter Bates, effective as of the Effective Time;
 
(v)           such pay-off letters and releases relating to liabilities of Princeton Acquisitions as Hunter Bates shall request, in form and substance satisfactory to Hunter Bates;
 
(vi)           the results of UCC, judgment lien and tax lien searches with respect to Princeton Acquisitions, the results of which indicate no Liens on the assets of Princeton Acquisitions; and
 
(vii)          a duly executed release by the current directors and officers of Princeton Acquisitions and their affiliates in favor of Princeton Acquisitions, Hunter Bates and the Shareholders, in form and substance satisfactory to Hunter Bates.
 
(c)           At or prior to the Closing, Princeton Acquisitions shall deliver to Hunter Bates and the Shareholders, an opinion from its counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Shareholders.
 
(d)           At or within five business days following the Closing, Princeton Acquisitions shall deliver
 
(i)            to the Shareholders a certificate representing the Shares issued to the Shareholders as set forth on Annex A.
 
(ii)           to Hunter Bates, consent letters of the accounting firms of Princeton Acquisitions confirming each such firm’s respective consent to the use by Princeton Acquisitions of reports prepared by such firm regarding the financial statements of Princeton Acquisitions in all future registration statements filed with the SEC.
 
4.3.        Deliveries of Hunter Bates.
 
(a)           Concurrently herewith, Hunter Bates is delivering to Princeton Acquisitions this Agreement executed by Hunter Bates.
 
(b)           At or prior to the Closing, Hunter Bates shall deliver to Princeton Acquisitions a certificate from Hunter Bates, signed by its authorized officer certifying that the attached copies of the Hunter Bates Constituent Instruments and resolutions of the Board of Directors of Hunter Bates approving this Agreement and the Transactions are all true, complete and correct and remain in full force and effect.
 
 
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ARTICLE V
Conditions to Closing
 
5.1.        Shareholders and Hunter Bates Conditions Precedent.  The obligations of the Shareholders and Hunter Bates to enter into and complete the Closing are subject, at the option of the Shareholders and Hunter Bates, to the fulfillment on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:
 
(a)           Representations and Covenants.  The representations and warranties of Princeton Acquisitions contained in this Agreement shall be true in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all covenants and agreements required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by Princeton Acquisitions on or prior to the Closing Date.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have delivered to the Shareholders and Hunter Bates a certificate, dated the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect.
 
(b)           Litigation.  No action, suit or proceeding shall have been instituted before any court or governmental or regulatory body or instituted or threatened by any governmental or regulatory body to restrain, modify or prevent the carrying out of the Transactions or to seek damages or a discovery order in connection with such Transactions, or which has or may have, in the reasonable opinion of Hunter Bates or the Shareholders, a materially adverse effect on the assets, properties, business, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of Princeton Acquisitions or Hunter Bates.
 
(c)           No Material Adverse Change.  There shall not have been any occurrence, event, incident, action, failure to act, or transaction since June 30, 2007 which has had or is reasonably likely to cause a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect.
 
(d)           SEC Reports.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have filed all reports and other documents required to be filed by Princeton Acquisitions under the U.S. federal securities laws through the Closing Date.
 
(e)           OTCBB Quotation.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have maintained its status as a company whose common stock is quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board and no reason shall exist as of the Closing Date as to why such status shall not continue immediately following the Effective Time.
 
(f)            Deliveries.  The deliveries specified in Section 4.2 shall have been made by Princeton Acquisitions.
 
(g)           No Suspensions of Trading in Princeton Acquisitions Stock; Listing.  Trading in the Princeton Acquisitions Stock shall not have been suspended by the SEC or any trading market (except for any suspensions of trading of not more than one trading day solely to permit dissemination of material information regarding Princeton Acquisitions) at any time since the date of execution of this Agreement, and the Princeton Acquisitions Stock shall have been at all times since such date listed for trading on a trading market.
 
 
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(h)           Satisfactory Completion of Due Diligence.  Hunter Bates and the Shareholders shall have completed their legal, accounting and business due diligence of Princeton Acquisitions and the results thereof shall be satisfactory to Hunter Bates and the Shareholders in their sole and absolute discretion.
 
(i)            Delivery of Audit Report and Financial Statements.  Hunter Bates shall have completed the Hunter Bates Financial Statements and shall have received an audit report from an independent audit firm that is registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board relating to the fiscal years ended December 31, 2008 and unaudited financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. The form and substance of the Financial Statements shall be satisfactory to Princeton Acquisitions in its sole and absolute discretion.
 
(j)            Delivery of Legal Opinion by Counsel to Princeton Acquisitions.  Hunter Bates and the Shareholders shall have received an opinion from counsel to Princeton Acquisitions in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Shareholders.
 
(k)            Delivery of Legal Opinion by Counsel to Hunter Bates.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have received an opinion of counsel to Hunter Bates in form and substance satisfactory to the Princeton Acquisitions.
 
(l)            Stock Purchase Agreement.  Certain of the stockholders of Princeton Acquisitions (the “Sellers”) holding an aggregate of 1,542,695 shares of Princeton Acquisitions Stock (the “Sellers’ Shares”) representing approximately 90% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton Acquisitions Stock (before giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Financing) shall have entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) to sell 1,383,543 of the Sellers’ Shares for $250,000 (the “Stock Purchase Price”) to certain of the shareholders of Hunter Bates (the “Purchasers”).
 
(m)           Shareholder Approval.  Hunter Bates shall have received any shareholder approval by the shareholders of Hunter Bates whose consent or approval is required pursuant to the terms of the Hunter Bates Constituent Documents and applicable law.
 
(n)           Consents and Approvals.  Hunter Bates shall have obtained all consents and approvals necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Hunter Bates Consents”), in order that the transactions contemplated herein not constitute a breach or violation of, or result in a right of termination or acceleration of, or creation of any encumbrance on any of Hunter Bates’ assets pursuant to the provisions of, any agreement, arrangement or undertaking of or affecting Hunter Bates or any license, franchise or permit of or affecting Hunter Bates.
 
(o)           Completion of Initial Financing.  The Initial Financing in an amount of at least $250,000 shall have been completed or shall be completed simultaneously with the Closing.
 
5.2.        Princeton Acquisitions Conditions Precedent.  The obligations of Princeton Acquisitions to enter into and complete the Closing is subject, at the option of Princeton Acquisitions, to the fulfillment on or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions, any one or more of which may be waived by Princeton Acquisitions in writing:
 
(a)           Representations and Covenants.  The representations and warranties of Hunter Bates contained in this Agreement shall be true in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date.  Hunter Bates shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all covenants and agreements required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by Hunter Bates on or prior to the Closing Date.  Hunter Bates shall have delivered to Princeton Acquisitions a certificate, dated the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect.
 
 
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(b)           Litigation.  No action, suit or proceeding shall have been instituted before any court or governmental or regulatory body or instituted or threatened by any governmental or regulatory body to restrain, modify or prevent the carrying out of the Transactions or to seek damages or a discovery order in connection with such Transactions, or which has or may have, in the reasonable opinion of Princeton Acquisitions, a materially adverse effect on the assets, properties, business, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of Hunter Bates
 
(c)           No Material Adverse Change.  There shall not have been any occurrence, event, incident, action, failure to act, or transaction since December 31, 2008 which has had or is reasonably likely to cause an Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect.
 
(d)           Audited Financial Statements and Form 10 Disclosure.  Hunter Bates shall have provided Princeton Acquisitions and the Shareholders with reasonable assurances that Princeton Acquisitions will be able to comply with its obligation to file a current report on Form 8-K no later than four (4) business days following the Closing containing the requisite audited consolidated financial statements of Hunter Bates and the requisite Form 10-type disclosure regarding Hunter Bates.
 
(e)           Deliveries.  The deliveries specified in Section 4.1 and Section 4.3 shall have been made by the Shareholders and Hunter Bates, respectively.
 
(f)           Satisfactory Completion of Due Diligence.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have completed its legal, accounting and business due diligence of Hunter Bates and the results thereof shall be satisfactory to Princeton Acquisitions in its sole and absolute discretion.
 
(g)           Delivery of Audit Report and Financial Statements.  Hunter Bates shall have completed the Hunter Bates Financial Statements and shall have received an audit report from an independent audit firm that is registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board relating to the fiscal years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 and unaudited financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2009.  The form and substance of the Financial Statements shall be satisfactory to Princeton Acquisitions in its sole and absolute discretion.
 
(h)           Stock Purchase Agreement.  The Sellers and Purchasers shall have entered into the Purchase Agreement.
 
(i)           Delivery of Legal Opinion of Counsel to Hunter Bates.  Princeton Acquisitions shall have received an opinion of counsel to Hunter Bates in form and substance satisfactory to Princeton Acquisitions.
 
ARTICLE VI
Covenants and Other Agreements
 
6.1.        Preparation of the 14f-1 Notice; Blue Sky Laws.
 
(a)           As soon as possible, and in any event, within two business days following Closing, the Hunter Bates and Princeton Acquisitions shall prepare and file with the SEC the 14f-1 Notice in connection with the consummation of this Agreement.  Princeton Acquisitions shall cause the 14f-1 Notice to be mailed to the Princeton Acquisitions’ Shareholders as promptly as practicable thereafter.
 
 
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(b)           Princeton Acquisitions shall take any action (other than qualifying to do business in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so qualified) required to be taken under any applicable state securities laws in connection with the issuance of the Shares in connection with this Agreement.
 
6.2.        Public Announcements.  Princeton Acquisitions and Hunter Bates will consult with each other before issuing, and provide each other the opportunity to review and comment upon, any press releases or other public statements with respect to this Agreement and the Transactions and shall not issue any such press release or make any such public statement prior to such consultation, except as may be required by applicable Law, court process or by obligations pursuant to any listing agreement with any national securities exchanges.
 
6.3.        Fees and Expenses.  All fees and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement shall be paid by the Party incurring such fees or expenses, whether or not this Agreement is consummated.
 
6.4.        Continued Efforts.  Each Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (a) take all action reasonably necessary to consummate the Transactions, and (b) take such steps and do such acts as may be necessary to keep all of its representations and warranties true and correct as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if the same had been made, and this Agreement had been dated, as of the Closing Date.
 
6.5.        Exclusivity.  Neither Princeton Acquisitions nor its shareholders shall, directly or indirectly (a) solicit, initiate, or encourage the submission of any proposal or offer from any person relating to the acquisition of any capital stock or other voting securities of Princeton Acquisitions, or any assets of Princeton Acquisitions (including any acquisition structured as a merger, consolidation, share exchange or other business combination), (b) participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, furnish any information with respect to, assist or participate in, or facilitate in any other manner any effort or attempt by any person to do or seek any of the foregoing, or (c) take any other action that is inconsistent with the Transactions and that has the effect of avoiding the Closing contemplated hereby.  Princeton Acquisitions shall notify Hunter Bates immediately if any person makes any proposal, offer, inquiry, or contact with respect to any of the foregoing.
 
6.6.        Filing of 8-K and Press Release.  Princeton Acquisitions shall file, no later than four (4) business days after the Closing Date, a current report on Form 8-K and attach as exhibits all relevant agreements with the SEC disclosing the terms of this Agreement and other requisite disclosure regarding the Transactions and including the requisite audited consolidated financial statements of Hunter Bates and the requisite Form 10 disclosure regarding Hunter Bates.  In addition, Princeton Acquisitions shall issue a press release prior to 9:30 a.m. (New York Time) on the business day following the Closing Date, announcing the Closing.
 
6.7.        Preservation of Business.  From the date of this Agreement until the Effective Date, each of Hunter Bates and Princeton Acquisitions shall operate only in the ordinary and usual course of business consistent with its past practices (provided, however, that Princeton Acquisitions shall not issue any securities without the prior written consent of Hunter Bates), and shall use reasonable commercial efforts to (a) preserve intact its business organization, (b) preserve the good will and advantageous relationships with customers, suppliers, independent contractors, employees and other Persons material to the operation of its business, and (c) not permit any action or omission that would cause any of its representations or warranties contained herein to become inaccurate or any of its covenants to be breached in any material respect.
 
 
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6.8.        Due Diligence; Access to Information; Confidentiality.
 
(a)           Between the date hereof and the Effective Date, Hunter Bates and Princeton Acquisitions shall afford to the other party and their authorized representatives the opportunity to conduct and complete a due-diligence investigation of the other party as described herein.  Each party shall permit the other party full access on reasonable notice and at reasonable hours to its properties and shall disclose and make available (together with the right to copy) to the other party and its officers, employees, attorneys, accountants and other representatives, all books, papers and records relating to the assets, stock, properties, operations, obligations and liabilities of such party and its subsidiaries, including without limitation all books of account (including without limitation the general ledger), tax records, minute books of directors’ and stockholders’ meetings, organizational documents, bylaws, contracts and agreements, filings with any regulatory authority, accountants’ work papers, litigation files (including, without limitation, legal research memoranda), attorney’s audit response letters, documents relating to assets and title thereto (including without limitation abstracts, title insurance policies, surveys, environmental reports, opinions of title and other information relating to the real and personal property), plans affecting employees, securities-transfer records and stockholder lists, and any books, papers and records relating to other assets or business activities in which such party may have a reasonable interest, and otherwise provide such assistance as is reasonably requested in order that each party may have a full opportunity to make such investigation and evaluation as it shall reasonably desire to make of the business and affairs of the other party; provided, however, that the foregoing rights granted to each party shall, whether or not and regardless of the extent to which the same are exercised, in no way affect the nature or scope of the representations, warranties and covenants of the respective party set forth herein. In addition, each party and its officers and directors shall cooperate fully (including providing introductions, where necessary) with such other party to enable the party to contact third parties, including customers, prospective customers, specified agencies or others as the party deems reasonably necessary to complete its due diligence; provided further, that such party agrees not to initiate such contacts without the prior approval of the other party, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
 
(b)           Prior to Effective Time and if, for any reason, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are not consummated, neither Princeton Acquisitions nor Hunter Bates nor any of their officers, employees, attorneys, accountants and other representatives shall disclose to third parties or otherwise use any confidential information received from the other party in the course of investigating, negotiating, and performing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however, that nothing shall be deemed to be confidential information which:
 
(i)           is known to the party receiving the information at the time of disclosure, unless any individual who knows the information is under an obligation to keep that information confidential;
 
(ii)          becomes publicly known or available without the disclosure thereof by the party receiving the information in violation of this Agreement; or
 
(iii)         is received by the party receiving the information from a third party not under an obligation to keep that information confidential.
 
 
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This provision shall not prohibit the disclosure of information required to be made under federal or state securities laws, rules and regulations or by order of any federal, state or local regulatory agency or as otherwise required to be disclosed under applicable law.  If any disclosure is so required, the party making such disclosure shall consult with the other party prior to making such disclosure, and the parties shall use all reasonable efforts, acting in good faith, to agree upon a text for such disclosure that is satisfactory to both parties.

6.9.         Covenant of Further Assurance.  The Parties covenant and agree that they shall, from time to time, execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered all such further instruments of conveyance, transfer, assignments, receipts and other instruments, and shall take or cause to be taken such further or other actions as the other party or parties to this Agreement may reasonably deem necessary in order to carry out the purposes and intent of this Agreement.
 
6.10.       Financing.  Princeton Acquisitions acknowledges and agrees that: (i) Hunter Bates is contemplating the completion of the Initial Financing; (ii) Hunter Bates may complete an additional equity financing transaction after the Effective Time on terms that are not yet determined and that will be satisfactory to Hunter Bates, in its sole discretion (collectively with the Initial Financing, the “Financings”), which Financings may be consummated prior to, concurrently with or following the Closing; and (iii) that, after reflecting the Financings, the Shareholders (including investors in the Financings) may hold approximately 99% of the capital stock of Princeton Acquisitions, on a fully diluted basis, as of and immediately after the Effective Time, and consequently, the existing shareholders of Princeton Acquisitions (as of prior to the Effective Time) may collectively hold approximately 1% of the outstanding capital stock, on a fully diluted basis, of Princeton Acquisitions as of and immediately after the Effective Time and/or the Financings.  The amounts set forth herein are estimates, and nothing herein shall be interpreted to prevent Hunter Bates from completing additional financings after the Effective Time.
 
6.11.       Deposit.  On or around July 20, 2009, Hunter Bates made a cash deposit of $25,000 (the “Initial Deposit”) into a trust account for the benefit of Princeton Acquisitions held by the Law Office of Gary Agron (the “Deposit Account”), the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged by Princeton Acquisitions.  On the date of execution of this Agreement, Hunter Bates has made an additional cash deposit of $15,000 (collectively with the Initial Deposit, the “Deposit”) into the Deposit Account.  Upon closing of the Purchase Agreement, the Deposit shall be fully credited against the Stock Purchase Price for the Sellers’ Shares to be purchased as a condition to Closing (as such terms are referenced in Section 5.1(l)).  In the event Princeton Acquisitions complies with the terms of this Agreement and the shareholders of Princeton comply with the terms of the Purchase Agreement and this Agreement does not close on or before September 25, 2009 for any reason other than a breach of such agreements or mutual termination by the Parties, the Deposit shall be non-refundable and shall be released from the Deposit Account to Princeton Acquisitions.
 
ARTICLE VII
Termination
 
7.1.         Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated prior to the Closing:
 
(a)           by mutual consent of Hunter Bates and Princeton Acquisitions, if the board of directors of each so determines by vote of a majority of the members of its entire board;
 
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(b)           by Princeton Acquisitions, if Hunter Bates shall have breached any of its representations or failed to perform any of its covenants herein, which breach or failure to perform (i) causes the condition set forth in Section 5.1(a) not to be satisfied, and (ii) is incapable of being cured or has not been cured within 10 business days after the giving of written notice of such breach or failure to perform; provided, however, that Princeton Acquisitions may only terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.1(b) if the subject breach or failure to perform would be reasonably likely to have a Hunter Bates Material Adverse Effect and on the surviving company taken as a whole;
 
(c)           by Hunter Bates, if Princeton Acquisitions shall have breached any of its representations or failed to perform any of its covenants herein, which breach or failure to perform (i) causes the condition set forth in Section 5.2(a) not to be satisfied, and (ii) is incapable of being cured or has not been cured within 10 business days after the giving of written notice of such breach or failure to perform; provided, however, that Hunter Bates may only terminate this Agreement pursuant this Section 7.1(c) if the subject breach or failure to perform would be reasonably likely to have a Princeton Acquisitions Material Adverse Effect and on the surviving company taken as a whole;
 
(d)           by Hunter Bates if it is not satisfied, in its sole discretion, with the due diligence completed on Princeton Acquisitions; or
 
(e)           by either Hunter Bates or Princeton Acquisitions if the Closing has not occurred on or before September 25, 2009, or such later date as Hunter Bates and Princeton Acquisitions may mutually agree (unless the failure to consummate the Share Exchange by such date shall be due to the action or failure to act of the party seeking to terminate this Agreement in breach of such party’s obligations under this Agreement).
 
Any party desiring to terminate this Agreement shall give prior written notice of such termination and the reasons therefor to the other parties.
 
ARTICLE VIII
Exchange of Shares
 
8.1.         Exchange of Shares.  At the Closing, Princeton Acquisitions shall issue a letter to the transfer agent of Princeton Acquisitions with a copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of Princeton Acquisitions authorizing and directing the issuance of the Shares as set forth on Annex A.
 
8.2.         Non-Registration; Legend  The Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and will be issued by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act.  The Shares shall be “restricted securities” under the Securities Act and may not be transferable without registration under the Securities Act or the existence of an exemption therefrom.  The Shares will bear the following legend or one that is substantially similar to the following legend:
 
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY.  THESE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
 
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Additionally, the Shares will bear any legend required by the “blue sky” laws of any state to the extent such laws are applicable to the securities represented by the certificate so legended.
 
ARTICLE IX
Miscellaneous
 
9.1.         Notices.  All notices, requests, claims, demands and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed given upon receipt by the Parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Party as shall be specified by like notice):
 
If to Princeton Acquisitions, to:
 
Attn:       Timothy Brasel
Princeton Acquisitions, Inc.
2560 West Main Street, Ste 200
Littleton, Colorado 80120
Tel:        (303) 794-9450
Fax:        (303) 794-9457

with a copy to:
 
Law Office of Gary Agron
5445 DTC Parkway, Suite 520
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
Fax:        (303) 770-7257

If to Hunter Bates, to:
 
Hunter Bates Mining Corporation
80 South Eighth Street, Suite 900
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Attention:  Stephen D. King
Fax:        (612) 395-5276

with a copy to:
 
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402-4140
Attention:  Ranga Nutakki
Fax:        (612) 642-8311

If to the Shareholders at the addresses set forth in Annex A hereto.
 
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9.2.        Amendments; Waivers; No Additional Consideration.  No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended except in a written instrument signed by Hunter Bates, Princeton Acquisitions and the Shareholders.  No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any Party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.  No consideration shall be offered or paid to the Shareholders to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any Transaction Document unless the same consideration is also offered to all shareholders who then hold any of the Shares.
 
9.3.         Replacement of Securities.  If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Shares is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, Princeton Acquisitions shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof, or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to Princeton Acquisitions of such loss, theft or destruction and customary and reasonable indemnity, if requested.  The applicants for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs associated with the issuance of such replacement Shares.  If a replacement certificate or instrument evidencing any Shares is requested due to a mutilation thereof, Princeton Acquisitions may require delivery of such mutilated certificate or instrument as a condition precedent to any issuance of a replacement.
 
9.4.         Remedies.  In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, the Shareholders, Princeton Acquisitions and Hunter Bates will be entitled to specific performance under this Agreement.  The Parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations described in the foregoing sentence and hereby agrees to waive in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
9.5.         Limitation of Liability.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each of Princeton Acquisitions and Hunter Bates acknowledges and agrees that the liability of the Shareholders arising directly or indirectly, under any Transaction Document of any and every nature whatsoever shall be satisfied solely out of the assets of the Shareholders, and that no trustee, officer, other investment vehicle or any other affiliate of the Shareholders or any investor, shareholder or holder of shares of beneficial interest of the Shareholders shall be personally liable for any liabilities of the Shareholders.
 
9.6.         Interpretation.  When a reference is made in this Agreement to a Section, such reference shall be to a Section of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated.  Whenever the words “include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation.”
 
9.7.         Severability.  If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule or Law, or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of the Transactions is not affected in any manner materially adverse to any Party.  Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the Parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end that the Transactions are fulfilled to the extent possible.
 
9.8.        Counterparts; Facsimile Execution.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the Parties and delivered to the other Parties.  Facsimile execution and delivery of this Agreement is legal, valid and binding for all purposes.
 
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9.9.         Entire Agreement; Third Party Beneficiaries.  This Agreement, taken together with the Hunter Bates Disclosure Letter and the schedules and exhibits hereto, including without limitation the Stock Purchase Agreement, (a) constitute the entire agreement and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the Parties with respect to the Transactions and (b) are not intended to confer upon any person other than the Parties any rights or remedies.
 
9.10.       Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Minnesota, regardless of the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflicts of laws thereof, except to the extent the laws of Colorado are mandatorily applicable to the Transactions.
 
9.11.       Assignment.  Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations under this Agreement shall be assigned, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise by any of the Parties without the prior written consent of each of the other Parties.  Any purported assignment without such consent shall be void.  Subject to the preceding sentences, this Agreement will be binding upon, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the Parties and their respective successors and assigns.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Share Exchange Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
 

PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.
   
By:
/s/ Timothy Brasel
Name:
Timothy Jay Brasel
Title:
President
   
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
   
By:
/s/ Stephen D. King
Name:
Stephen D. King
Title:
C.E.O.
   
SHAREHOLDER:
   
WITS BASIN PRECIOUS MINERALS INC.
   
By:
/s/ Stephen D. King
Name:
Stephen D. King
Title:
C.E.O.
 

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EXHIBIT 4.1

LIMITED RECOURSE PROMISSORY NOTE

CDN $6,750,000.00Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
June 6, 2008

1.  FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION, a Minnesota corporation (hereinafter “Borrower”) whose address is 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis MN 55402-8773, promises to pay to the order of GEORGE E. OTTEN, (“Holder”), a Colorado resident whose address is 11438 Weld County Rd 19, Fort Lupton, CO 80621 (or his nominee or assignee) the principal sum of Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand and 00/100 Canadian Dollars (CDN $6,750,000.00), in lawful money of Canada, together with interest on the unpaid principal balance, at the interest rate as set forth below, in installments as follows:

(i) On or before December 1, 2008, the sum of $250,000;

(ii) Commencing on April 1, 2010, and continuing on each January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 thereafter (each, a “Payment Date”) until the Maturity Date (as defined below), the Borrower shall pay a quarterly installment of accrued interest only plus a Production Revenue Payment (as defined below), calculated at the interest rate as set forth below.

(iii) On the earlier of (i) fifth anniversary of the first Production Revenue Payment or (ii) December 31, 2015 (such earlier date is referred to herein as the “Maturity Date”), the entire remaining principal balance together with any unpaid accrued interest shall be due and payable.

2.  From the date hereof until December 31, 2009, no interest shall accrue on the unpaid balance hereunder. From January 1, 2010 until this Note is paid in full, interest shall accrue on the unpaid balance hereunder at the rate of six percent (6.00%) per annum; provided, however, that in the event of a default hereunder, the unpaid balance shall accrue interest at the rate of eight (8%) (the “Default Rate”) during the period of such default.
 

 
 

 


3.  In addition to the interest payments due above, Borrower agrees that, on the first Payment Date following the first Calendar Quarter (which is defined as any (i) January 1 to March 31, (ii) April 1 to June 30, (iii) July 1 to September 30, or (iv) October 1 to December 31, of any year) in which Borrower realizes Profit (as defined below) in excess of US$100,000 in such Calendar Quarter from the real estate commonly known as the “Hunter Gold Mine”, located in the Gilpin County, Colorado, USA (the “Mine”), which was acquired by Borrower in part from Hunter Gold Mining Inc. (“HGM Inc.”), in part from Central City Consolidated Corp. (“Central City”) and in part from George Otten (“Otten”) on the date of this Note, and continuing on each Payment Date thereafter until this Note is repaid in full, Borrower shall make principal repayments hereunder (each a “Production Revenue Payment”), which payment(s) shall equal:

 
(i)
For all Calendar Quarters ending on or prior to December 31, 2012, seventy-five per cent (75%) of the Profit realized by the Borrower for the immediately preceding Calendar Quarter, and
 
(ii)
For Calendar Quarters ending after December 31, 2012, the greater of (a) Seventy-five per cent (75%) of the Profit realized by the Borrower for the relevant Calendar Quarter and (b) CDN $300,000.00.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrower has not been obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment by December 31, 2012, then beginning on April 1, 2013 and continuing on each Payment Date until the Borrower has become obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment, the Borrower shall make principal repayments hereunder in the amount of CDN $550,000. Upon the Borrower becoming obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment at anytime after April 1, 2013, the Borrower shall thereafter make Production Revenue Payments in accordance with the foregoing subsection 3(ii).

For the purposes of the foregoing, “Profit” shall be defined as any positive number comprising all revenue received by Borrower from sales of minerals or mineral by-products from the Mine, less all Borrower’s expenses, including interest expense but excluding depreciation, distributions or dividends paid to shareholders of Borrower, incurred in connection with such sales or the operation of the Mine for the immediately preceding Calendar Quarter.

4.  Notwithstanding anything contained in this Note to the contrary, the Holder may demand payment in full and declare the outstanding balance due hereunder immediately due and payable in the event that (i) there has been a change of control of the Borrower by virtue of any party (other than the “Covenantor”, as defined below) acquiring more than 50% of the issued and outstanding shares of any class of the Borrower, or (ii) if the Borrower disposes of its interests in the Mine. .

5.  All payments hereunder shall be made by way of guaranteed or immediately available funds delivered to the offices of Pushor Mitchell LLP, 3rd Floor, 1665 Ellis Street, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, V1W 4T7, Attention: E. Blair Forrest. The parties hereto specifically agree that any payments made to or for the benefit of Holder, HGM Inc., Hunter Gold Mining Corp. (“HGM Corp.”), a British Columbia corporation, or Central City by Borrower or Covenantor, shall be deemed to be payments made hereunder and credited against sums next due and owing hereunder, provided that, (i) prior to making such payment(s), Borrower shall have received written approval from Pushor Mitchell, LLP (as escrow agent in respect of this Note, or their successor) that such payments shall be for the account of Holder hereunder and (ii) payments referenced in Section 19 of the Fifth Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement, dated of even date herewith, by and among the foregoing parties, are deemed to be payments made hereunder. The Holder shall promptly provide the Borrower with a written receipt for all payments received from the Borrower and/or the Covenantor in respect of the sums due hereunder.

 
 

 



6.  It is hereby expressly agreed that should default be made in the payment of any installment of principal, interest or other sums when due hereunder, and such default continues for forty-five (45) days after the date due, an “Event of Default” shall occur under the Deed of Trust and Security Agreement (“Deed of Trust”) of even date herewith securing this Note and covering property located in Gilpin County, Colorado, the whole sum of principal, accrued interest and other sums outstanding hereunder shall, at the option of the Holder hereof, be fully accelerated and become immediately due and payable, anything contained herein or in any instrument now or hereafter securing this Note to the contrary notwithstanding. Said acceleration option and Default Rate shall continue until all such defaults have been cured. In the event of such acceleration, the term “Maturity Date” shall be deemed to mean the date on which this Note is due and payable as a result of such acceleration.

6.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Note, if an “Event of Default” shall occur under the Deed of Trust, the Borrower and Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (hereinafter the “Covenantor”), whose address is 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis MN 55402-8773, shall be jointly and severally personally liable solely for the amount (the “Limited Recourse Amount”) of CDN $2,000,000 less the aggregate of (i) all payments of principal and interest hereunder received by or on behalf of the Holder, (ii) any cash proceeds (the “Cash Proceeds”) received by or on behalf of the Holder from the cash sale, prior to such default, of any of the 3,620,000 shares of the .01 par value common stock of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. which represents part of the purchase price for the Mine (the “Stock Consideration”), and (iii) any deemed proceeds (the “Deemed Proceeds”) resulting from the in specie disposition of the Stock Compensation by the Holder to any of Otten, Central City, HGM Inc., Hunter Gold Mining Corp. and/or the shareholders of any of them (a “Transferee”). For the purposes of the foregoing, the “Deemed Proceeds” shall be calculated on the basis of CDN $0.5525 per share disposed of by the Holder and the “Cash Proceeds” shall be deemed to be the greater of CDN $0.5525 per share disposed of and the actual proceeds per share disposed of by the Holder (expressed in Canadian dollars). The Holder’s sole recourse for any amounts due on default hereunder in excess of the Limited Recourse Amount shall be the secured property described in the Deed of Trust. For greater certainty, the cash proceeds received by any Transferee in respect of a subsequent sale of any transferred shares shall not be included in the foregoing Limited Recourse Amount calculations. If an “Event of Default” shall occur under the Deed of Trust, any remaining shares comprising the Stock Consideration that are sold by or on behalf of the Holder after the time of such “Event of Default” shall be deemed to have been sold for Cash Proceeds calculated in the foregoing manner unless the Holder has complied with the right of first refusal provisions set forth in paragraph 10 below, in which case the provisions of paragraph 10 shall apply.

6.2 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.1 above, the parties hereto agree that the recourse provisions of Section 6.1 shall not apply until and unless the obligations and deliveries required by that certain Undertaking Agreement of even date herewith, by and among HGM Corp., the Holder, Dell Balfour, Douglas McNaughton, the Covenantor and the Borrower have been fully satisfied, as evidenced by the certificate of an officer of HGM Corp. to that effect and delivered to the Borrower and the Covenantor.

 
 

 



7.       Notwithstanding any other provision of this Note to the contrary, it is agreed that, for a period of four (4) years commencing on the date of this Note, Borrower reserves the right to conduct mineral title research on the Hunter Gold Mine after the Borrower has entered the advanced exploration project phase (drill intercepts showing an economically viable mine) in the Hunter Gold Mine. If the results of such mineral title research do not show that good and marketable title to the Hunter Gold Mine was properly transferred to the Borrower, Borrower may offset against the principal amount and any accrued interest thereon of this Note any and all costs deemed appropriate by Borrower, acting reasonably, to settle adverse claims in, or to acquire arm’s length third-party interests in relation to, the Hunter Gold Mine. In the event that the Borrower’s mineral title research discloses such an arm’s length third-party adverse claim and the Borrower proposes to settle such claim, the Borrower shall first advise and confer with the Holder and the Trustee under the Trust Deed and shall permit the Holder and the Trustee to participate in the settlement negotiations regarding such adverse claims.

8.  Borrower may prepay a portion or the entire principal amount due hereunder at any time without penalty, and such prepayment shall be applied as hereinabove provided.

9.  Borrower consents to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in the State of Colorado in connection with any controversy related in any way to this Note or any security or guaranty for this Note, waives any argument that venue in such forums is not convenient, and agrees that any litigation initiated by any of them against the Holder or any other holder of this Note relating in any way to this Note or any security or guaranty for this Note shall be venued in either the District Court of Gilpin County, Colorado, or the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

10.  In the event of a default under this Note, the Holder agrees that no further shares comprising the Stock Consideration shall be sold by or on behalf of the Holder unless the Holder has first offered such shares to the Covenantor (or its nominee), which offer (the “Offer”) shall be delivered in writing to the Covenantor in the manner set forth in paragraph 12 (below) and shall state the number of shares offered, the price per share offered and the deadline for acceptance of the Offer, which deadline shall not be less than 48 hours from the time of delivery of the Offer. The Offer may be accepted by the Covenantor, in whole or in part, at any time prior to the deadline for acceptance of the Offer by delivering a written notice of acceptance to the Holder in the manner set forth in paragraph 12 (below). If the Offer is accepted by the Covenantor, in whole or in part, the Covenantor shall deliver the purchase price to the Holder (or its nominee) by certified check, bank draft or wire transfer with 3 business days thereafter and the Limited Recourse Amount shall be reduced by the actual amount of such purchase price, whether such purchase price is greater or less than CDN $0.5525 per share. To the extent that the Offer is not accepted by the Covenantor, the Holder shall be at liberty to sell all of any of the shares offered but not purchased by the Covenantor to any arm’s length purchaser(s) and the Limited Recourse Amount shall be reduced by the actual amount of the cash proceeds of such sale(s) received by the Holder, whether such cash proceeds are greater or less than CDN $0.5525 per share.

11.       For the purposes of paragraphs 6 and 10 of this Note, the Holder agrees to provide the Covenantor with written confirmation of any sales or distributions of the shares comprising the Stock Consideration, other than sales to the Covenantor under paragraph 10 (above).

 
 

 


12.  All payments pursuant to this Note which are made or remitted in currency of the United States shall be deemed to have been made in Canadian currency at a rate equal to 1.5% below the reported Daily 12 Noon Foreign Exchange Rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the date such payment is made or remitted.

13.  Any notices to be delivered under paragraph 10 (above) shall be delivered by facsimile transmission as follows:

If to the Borrower and/or the Covenantor:
 
Care of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
Facsimile: (612) 395-5276

With a copy to:
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand LLP
Attention: William Mower, Esq.
Facsimile: (612) 642-8358

If to the Holder:
George E. Otten
Facsimile: (970) 785-6248

With a copy to:
Hunter Gold Mining Corp.
Attention: Dell Balfour
Facsimile: (250) 765-4420

And a copy to:
Pushor Mitchell LLP
Attention: E. Blair Forrest
Facsimile: (250) 762-9115
 
 

 

 
 

 

BORROWER:
           
Hunter Bates Mining Corporation

/s/ Mark D. Dacko
Name: Mark D. Dacko
Title: CFO


COVENANTOR:
           
Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.

/s/ Mark D. Dacko
Name: Mark D. Dacko
Title: CFO


HOLDER:
/s/ George E. Otten
George E. Otten






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EXHIBIT 4.2

DEED OF TRUST AND SECURITY AGREEMENT


THIS DEED OF TRUST AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (“Deed of Trust”) is made as of the 6th day of June, 2008, between HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION, a Minnesota corporation (“Grantor”), having an office at 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis MN 55402-8773, and the Gilpin County Public Trustee (“Trustee”), whose address is 203 Eureka Street, P.O. Box 368, Central City, CO, 80427.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, this Deed of Trust is made by Grantor to secure and enforce the payment of the following note, obligations, indebtedness and liabilities: (a) a certain Promissory Note of even date herewith in the principal amount of Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand and 00/100 Canadian Dollars (CND $6,750,000.00) made by Grantor and payable to the order of George E. Otten, a Colorado resident whose address is 11438 Weld County Rd, Fort Lupton, CO, 80621 (or his nominee or assignee), with interest and payments, all as provided therein, being due and payable in full on December 31, 2015 (or earlier as provided for therein), and all modifications, renewals or extensions thereof (the “Note”) (said payee and all subsequent holders of the Note or any part thereof or any interest therein or in any of the Secured Indebtedness, as hereinafter defined, are hereinafter collectively called the “Beneficiary”); and (b) all obligations of this Deed of Trust or any other instruments (“Loan Documents”) executed by Grantor in favor of Beneficiary now or hereafter evidencing or securing the above-described indebtedness or any part thereof (collectively the “Secured Indebtedness”). The terms and provisions of the Note are incorporated herein by this reference.

In order to secure payment of the Secured Indebtedness, Grantor does hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the Trustee, in trust forever, that certain property situate in the Gilpin County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, which is commonly known as the Hunter Gold Mine (sometimes collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Property” or the “Mortgaged Property”); and

 
 

 


TOGETHER with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, easements, rights of way and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor, and any and all rights of ingress and egress to and from adjoining property (whether such rights now exist or subsequently arise), together with the reversion or reversions, remainder or remainders, and rents, issues and profits thereof, and also the entire estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever of Grantor of, in and to the same and of, in and to every part and parcel thereof; and

TOGETHER with all buildings, structures, parking structures and improvements now or hereafter located on the Mortgaged Property, including any and all easements and rights of way used in connection therewith; and

TOGETHER with all right, title and interest of Grantor, if any, in all trees, shrubs, flowers and other landscaping features and all oil, gas, minerals, water, water rights, drains and drainage rights appurtenant to, located on, under or above or used in connection with the Mortgaged Property and the improvements situate thereon, or any part thereof, whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired; and

TOGETHER with all leases, rents, issues, royalties, bonus, income and profits, of each and every kind, now or hereafter relating to or arising from the Mortgaged Property and the improvements situate thereon; and

All of the foregoing property, interests and rights are sometimes hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Mortgaged Property, Improvements and Rights, or the “Property”;

AND, Grantor, for itself and its successors and assigns, represents, warrants and covenants that, and has good right and authority to grant, bargain, sell, convey, transfer, assign and mortgage the Property; that the execution and delivery of this Deed of Trust, the Note and all other instruments securing the payment of the Note do not contravene any law, order, decree, rule or regulation to which Grantor is subject; that the Note, this Deed of Trust and all other instruments securing the payment of the Note constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of Grantor and that Grantor will warrant and forever defend the title to the Property against the claims of all persons whomsoever claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof, subject to all matters of record.

AND, that for so long as the Secured Indebtedness or any part thereof remains unpaid, Grantor covenants and agrees for itself and its successors and assigns as follows:

1. Covenants.

1.1 General Covenants.

1.1.1 Payment. Grantor will make prompt payment, as the same become due, of all installments of principal and interest on the Note and of all the other Secured Indebtedness.

1.1.2 Maintenance of Mortgaged Property. Grantor will cause the Mortgaged Property to be used, occupied and operated in accordance with all applicable laws and rules, regulations and orders promulgated by all duly constituted authorities. Grantor will allow the Beneficiary and/or its authorized representatives to enter the Property at any reasonable time upon advance written notice to inspect the Property and Grantor's books and records pertaining thereto, and Grantor will reasonably assist the Beneficiary and said representatives in whatever way necessary to make such inspection.

 
 

 


1.1.3 Taxes. Grantor shall pay or cause to be paid prior to delinquency, except to the extent provision is actually made therefor as set forth hereinafter, all taxes and assessments theretofore or hereafter levied or assessed against the Property, or any part thereof, or any other tax asserted as a substitute therefor and upon request, will furnish the Beneficiary with receipts showing payment of such taxes and assessments on or before the applicable due date therefor; except that Grantor may in good faith, by appropriate proceedings, contest and diligently pursue such contest, the validity, applicability or amount of any asserted tax or assessment; provided, however, that in any event each such contest shall be concluded and the taxes, assessments, interests, costs and penalties shall be paid prior to the date any writ or order is issued under which the Property may be sold.

1.1.4 Condemnation. Immediately upon obtaining knowledge of the institution of any proceedings for the condemnation of the Property or any portion thereof, or any other proceedings arising out of injury or damage to the Property, or any portion thereof, Grantor will notify the Beneficiary of the pendency of such proceedings and the time and place of all settings, hearings, trials or other proceedings relating thereto. The Beneficiary may participate in any such proceedings, and Grantor shall from time to time deliver to the Beneficiary all instruments required by it to permit such participation. Grantor shall, at its expense, diligently prosecute any such proceedings. All proceeds of condemnation awards or proceeds of sale in lieu of condemnation with respect to the Property and all judgments, decrees and awards for injury or damage to the Property shall be paid to the Grantor and shall be applied to the repair, restoration or replacement of the property condemned. In the event the proceeds of the condemnation award (after deduction for reimbursements to the Beneficiary and Trustee) are deemed inadequate, in the sole discretion of a licensed engineer or architect hired by Grantor, to repair or restore any injury or damage arising from such condemnation, Grantor shall pay said amount necessary for such repair, restoration or replacement. Determination by Grantor's licensed engineer or architect, acting reasonably, of the amount required to be contributed by the Grantor shall be deemed conclusive. If (i) there exists an event of default under the Note, this Deed of Trust, or the Loan Documents, the condemnation proceeds shall be applied by the Beneficiary to cure such default and the remainder shall be paid to Grantor for the restoration or repair of the Property, or (ii) Grantor and the Beneficiary mutually agree, in which case the condemnation proceeds shall be applied in payment of the Secured Indebtedness, either in whole or in part (without a premium or penalty), in the inverse order of maturity, with the remainder, if any, to be paid to Grantor. The Beneficiary shall send to Grantor a notice of the balance of the Secured Indebtedness remaining, if any, after the application of said funds. Grantor shall not be obligated to repair or rebuild the damaged portion of the Property.

1.1.5 Books and Records. Grantor will keep accurate books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in which full, true and correct entries shall be promptly made as to all operations on the Property, and, as often as reasonably requested by the Beneficiary, but nor more often than once in each calendar quarter, Grantor will make reports of operations in such form as the Beneficiary prescribes, setting out full data as to the exploration activities and expenditures, mine development activities and expenditures, mining activities and expenditures and all revenues from the Property.

 
 

 


2. Remedies and Events of Default.

2.1 Events of Default. The term "default" or "event of default" as used in this Deed of Trust shall mean the occurrence of any of the following events:

(a) The failure of Grantor to make any installment of principal or interest due under the Note within forty-five (45) days from the date such payment is due;

(b) The failure of Grantor to make any payment except for a payment described in paragraph (a) hereof, within forty-five (45) days of the Trustee’s and/or the Beneficiary's notice of such failure; or

(c) The failure of Grantor to timely and properly observe, keep or perform any material nonmonetary covenant, agreement, warranty or condition herein or of any Loan Documents required to be observed, kept or performed, except that Grantor shall have one hundred and twenty (120) days from notice of such failure to cure such default and if such default cannot be cured within one hundred and twenty (120) days, Grantor shall have a reasonable period of time within which to cure such default, provided Grantor promptly commences curative action and prosecutes such curative action diligently to completion and provided such default or failure can be and is cured within six months from the date of such notice.

2.2 Acceleration. Upon the occurrence of a default, which is not cured during the applicable cure period, if any, the Beneficiary shall have the option of declaring all the Secured Indebtedness in its entirety to be immediately due and payable without notice to Grantor, and the liens and security interests evidenced hereby shall be subject to foreclosure in any manner provided for herein and as provided by law.

2.3 Management and Possession. Upon the occurrence of a default which is not cured during the applicable cure period, if any, the Beneficiary is authorized, whether prior or subsequent to the institution of any foreclosure proceedings, to enter upon the Property, or any part thereof, and to take possession of the Property and to exercise, without interference from Grantor, any and all rights to construct, manage, possess, operate, protect or preserve the Property and all equipment, data, documents, records, samples, minerals, ore and other materials relating to and/or derived from the Property (the “Associated Materials”), and to deduct from the proceeds (if any) resulting from the exercise of such rights all reasonable costs, expenses and liabilities of every character incurred by the Beneficiary in exercising such rights and in managing, operating, maintaining, protecting or preserving the Property and the Associated Materials and to apply the remainder of such proceeds on the indebtedness secured hereby in such manner as the Beneficiary may elect. If necessary to obtain the possession provided for above, the Beneficiary may invoke any and all legal remedies to dispossess Grantor.

 
 

 


2.4 Foreclosure as Deed of Trust. Upon the occurrence of a default hereunder, which is not cured during the applicable cure period, if any, the Beneficiary may declare a violation of any of the covenants hereof and elect to advertise the Mortgaged Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and other rights relating to the foregoing, for sale and demand such sale. Then, upon filing notice of such election and demand for sale with the Trustee, the Trustee shall proceed to foreclose upon the Property and, if directed to do so by the Beneficiary, upon the Associated Materials, all as provided by applicable law. The Trustee shall provide public notice of such foreclosure sale as provided by applicable law. The Trustee shall sell and dispose of the Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and rights relating to the foregoing (en masse or in separate parcels, as the Trustee may think best) and all the right, title and interest of Grantor, and its successors and assigns therein, at public auction all in accordance with the provisions of Colorado Statutes. Such sale(s) shall be a perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against Grantor and its successors and assigns, and all other persons claiming the Mortgaged Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and rights relating to the foregoing, or any part thereof by, through, from or under Grantor. The Beneficiary may purchase the Mortgaged Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and rights relating the foregoing, or any part thereof, and may bid in any part or all of the indebtedness secured hereby, and the purchaser(s) at any such sale shall not be obligated to see to the application of the purchase money.

Any reasonable costs incurred by Beneficiary or its attorney as a part of the cost of foreclosure in conjunction with Grantor's default hereunder shall be deemed allowable by the Trustee in a foreclosure action. Such allowable costs shall include, but not be limited to, appraisal fees, attorney fees and all costs incurred by Beneficiary or its attorney in conjunction with securing, preserving and maintaining the Property, the Associated Materials and any improvements and rights relating to the foregoing, such as, by way of example and not by way of limitation, costs incurred in conjunction with the appointment and/or institution of a receivership (whether or not a receiver be appointed).

2.5 Foreclosure as Mortgage. This instrument shall be effective as a mortgage and a security agreement as well as a deed of trust and, upon the occurrence of a default, may be foreclosed, at the election of the Beneficiary, as to any of the Property or the Associated Materials in any manner permitted by the laws of the State of Colorado.

 
 

 


2.6 Application of Proceeds. The proceeds of any sale in foreclosure of the liens evidenced hereby shall be applied:

FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incident to such foreclosure sale, including, but not limited to, all reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs and charges of every character, and the statutory fee to the Trustee;

SECOND, to the payment in full of the Secured Indebtedness (including, specifically, without limitation, the principal, interest, late charges and attorneys' fees due and unpaid on the Note and the amounts due and unpaid and owed to the Beneficiary under this Deed of Trust) in such order as the Beneficiary may elect; and

THIRD, the remainder, if any, shall be paid in accordance with applicable statutory provisions or court order.

2.7 Receiver. In addition to all other remedies herein provided for, Grantor agrees that upon the occurrence of a default, the Beneficiary shall, as a matter of right, be entitled to an ex parte appointment of a receiver or receivers for all or any part of the Property and the Associated Materials without regard to the value of the Property or the Associated Materials or to the solvency of any person or persons liable for the payment of the indebtedness secured hereby, and Grantor does hereby consent to the appointment of such receiver or receivers, waives any and all defenses to such appointment and agrees not to oppose any application therefor by the Beneficiary, but nothing herein is to be construed to deprive Beneficiary of any other right, remedy or privilege it may now have under the law to have a receiver appointed; provided, however, that the appointment of such receiver, trustee or other appointee by virtue of any court order, statute or regulation shall not impair or in any manner prejudice the rights of the Beneficiary to receive payment of the rents and income. The receiver or his/her/its agents shall be entitled to enter upon and take possession of any and all of the Property and the Associated Materials. The receiver, personally or through its agents or attorneys, may exclude Grantor and its agents, servants and employees wholly from the Property and the Associated Materials and have, hold, use, operate, manage and control the same and each and every part thereof, and keep insured, the Property and the Associated Materials. Such receivership shall, at the option of the Beneficiary, continue until full payment of all sums, hereby secured, then due and payable or until title to the Property and the Associated Materials shall have passed by foreclosure sale under this Deed of Trust and the period of redemption, if any, shall have expired.

2.8 Remedies Cumulative. All remedies herein expressly provided for are cumulative of any and all other remedies existing at law or in equity and are cumulative of any and all other remedies provided for in any other instrument securing the payment of the Secured Indebtedness, or any part thereof, or otherwise benefiting the Beneficiary, and the Trustee and the Beneficiary shall, in addition to the remedies herein provided, be entitled to avail themselves of all such other remedies as may now or hereafter exist at law or in equity for the collection of the Secured Indebtedness and the enforcement of the covenants herein and the foreclosure of the liens and security interests evidenced hereby, and the use of any remedy provided for hereunder or under any such other instrument or provided for by law shall not prevent the concurrent or subsequent use of any other appropriate remedy or remedies. The Beneficiary shall be entitled to enforce the provisions of this Deed of Trust and to exercise its rights and remedies hereunder notwithstanding that some or all of the indebtedness hereby secured is now or shall hereafter be otherwise secured, whether by mortgage, pledge, lien, assignment or otherwise. Neither the acceptance of this Deed of Trust nor the enforcement thereof shall prejudice or in any manner affect the right of the Beneficiary to realize upon or enforce any other security now or hereafter held by the Beneficiary, it being understood that the Beneficiary shall be entitled to enforce this Deed of Trust and any other security now or hereafter held by it in such order and manner as it may in its sole discretion determine.

 
 

 



2.9 Election of Remedies. The Beneficiary may resort to any security given by this Deed of Trust or to any other security now existing or hereafter given to secure the payment of the Secured Indebtedness, in whole or in part, and in such portions and in such order as may seem best to the Beneficiary in its sole discretion.

2.10 Tenancy of Grantor. In the event there is a foreclosure sale hereunder and at the time of such sale Grantor or its representatives, successors or assigns or any other persons claiming any interest in the Property and/or the Associated Materials by, through or under Grantor are occupying or using the Property and/or the Associated Materials, or any part thereof, each and all shall, at the option of the Beneficiary or the purchaser at such sale, as the case may be, immediately become the tenant of the Beneficiary or said purchaser and said tenancy shall be terminable at will by the Beneficiary or said purchaser, as the case may be. In the event any tenant fails to surrender possession of said Property and Associated Materials upon the exercise of such option, the purchaser shall be entitled to institute and maintain an action for forcible entry and detainer.

3. Miscellaneous.

3.1 Release. If the Secured Indebtedness is paid in full, then and in that event only, all rights under this Deed of Trust shall be released by the Beneficiary in due form at Grantor's cost. No release of this Deed of Trust or the lien thereof shall be valid unless executed by the Beneficiary.

3.2 Beneficiary Rights. Without affecting the responsibility of Grantor for the performance of the covenants and agreements herein contained, and without affecting the lien of this Deed of Trust upon any of the Property and the Associated Materials, the Beneficiary may at any time and from time to time without notice in writing: (a) waive compliance by Grantor with any covenant herein made by Grantor to the extent and in the manner specified in such writing; (b) consent to Grantor doing any act which hereunder Grantor is required to do, to the extent and in the manner specified in such writing; (c) release any part of the Property and/or the Associated Materials, or any interest therein, from the lien and security interest of this Deed of Trust; (d) release any party liable, either directly or indirectly, for the Secured Indebtedness or for any covenant herein or in any other instrument now or hereafter securing the payment of the Secured Indebtedness, without impairing or releasing the liability of any other party; (e) extend the time for payment of the Note or otherwise grant indulgences or modify the Note, or (f) subordinate the lien hereof.

3.3 Maximum Interest. Any provision contained herein, in the Note or in any other instrument evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to any of the Secured Indebtedness to the contrary notwithstanding, the Beneficiary shall not be entitled to receive or collect, nor shall Grantor be obligated to pay, interest on any of the Secured Indebtedness in excess of the maximum rate of interest permitted by applicable law, and if any provision herein, in the Note or in such other instrument shall ever be construed or held to permit the collection or to require the payment of any amount of interest in excess of that permitted by applicable law, the provisions of the Note shall control and shall override any contrary or inconsistent provision herein or in such other document or instrument.

 
 

 


3.4 Notices. Any and all notices, elections, demands, requests, and responses thereto permitted or required to be given under this Deed of Trust shall be in writing, signed by or on behalf of the party giving the same, and shall be deemed to have been properly given and shall be effective upon being personally delivered, or upon being deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, certified with return receipt requested, or upon being deposited with an overnight commercial delivery service requiring proof of delivery, to the other party at the address of such other party set forth above or at such other address within the continental United States or Canada as such other party may designate by notice specifically designated as a notice of change of address and given in accordance herewith; provided, however, that the time period in which a response to any such notice, election, demand or request must be given shall commence on the date of receipt thereof; and provided further that no notice of change of address shall be effective until the date of receipt thereof. Personal delivery to a party or to any officer, partner, agent or employee of such party at said address shall constitute receipt. Rejection or other refusal to accept or inability to deliver because of changed address of which no notice has been received shall also constitute receipt. Any such notice, election, demand, request or response to the respective parties shall be addressed to the addresses provided above. A copy of any notices addressed to the Trustee and/or the Beneficiary shall be delivered at the same time to Pushor Mitchell LLP, 3rd Floor, 1665 Ellis Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1Y 2B3, attention E. Blair Forrest.

3.5 Binding Effect. The terms, provisions, covenants and conditions hereof shall be binding upon Grantor and the heirs, representatives, successors and assigns of Grantor, including all heirs and successors in interest of Grantor in and to all or any part of the Property and/or the Associated Materials, and shall inure to the benefit of Grantor, the Trustee and the Beneficiary and their respective successors and assigns, substitutes and assigns and shall constitute covenants running with the land. All references in this Deed of Trust to Grantor, the Trustee or the Beneficiary shall be deemed to include all such representatives, successors, substitutes and assigns.

3.6 Invalidity. A determination that any provision of this Deed of Trust is unenforceable or invalid shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any remaining provision, and any determination that the application of any provision of this Deed of Trust to any person or circumstance is illegal or unenforceable shall not affect the enforceability or validity of such provision as it may apply to any other persons or circumstances.

3.7 Redemption. In the event the Property or any part thereof shall be sold upon foreclosure as provided hereunder, the sum for which the same shall have been sold shall, for purposes of redemption (pursuant to Section 38-38-301, et seq., C.R.S., or the corresponding provisions of any future law), bear interest at the rate of interest provided in the Note from the date of sale until paid.

3.8 Governing Law. This Deed of Trust and the Note secured hereby shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Colorado at the date of execution.

3.9 Grantor’s Liability. The Grantor’s liability is limited pursuant to the terms of the Note. In the event of a default under the Note, the Grantor shall be personally liable solely for the Limited Recourse Amount as defined in the Note, subject to the terms and limitations contained in the Note..




Signature Page Follows

 
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantor has executed this instrument as of the date first set forth above.

  GRANTOR: 
  HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
 
 
 
 
 
 
  By:/s/ Mark D. Dacko  
 
   

 

 




 



STATE OF MINNESOTA          )
) ss.
COUNTY OF Hennepin  )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this 6th day of June, 2008, by Mark D. Dacko, as CFO of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, on behalf of the corporation.

     
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
    /s/ Karen Bjorkman
 
  Notary Public

 
 

EX-4.3 5 v162117_ex4-3.htm
Exhibit 4.3
 
SECURITY AGREEMENT

This SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of February 11, 2008 (this “Agreement”), is among Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), certain Subsidiaries of the Company (such subsidiaries, the “Guarantors and together with the Company, the “Debtors”) and Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Secured Party”), the holder of the Company’s Senior Secured Note, issued on February 11, 2008 in the original principal amount of $1,020,000 (the “Note”), and its endorsees, transferees and assigns.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Note, the Secured Party has agreed to extend the loans to the Company evidenced by the Note;

WHEREAS, pursuant to a certain Guarantee, dated as of the date hereof (the “Guarantee”), the Guarantors have jointly and severally agreed to guarantee and act as surety for payment of such Note; and

WHEREAS, in order to induce the Secured Party to extend the loans evidenced by the Note, each Debtor has agreed to execute and deliver to the Secured Party this Agreement and to grant the Secured Party a security interest in certain property of such Debtor to secure the prompt payment, performance and discharge in full of all of the Company’s obligations under the Note and the Guarantors’ obligations under the Guarantee.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

1.  Certain Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section 1. Terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement that are defined in Article 9 of the UCC (including the terms “account”, “chattel paper”, “commercial tort claim”, “deposit account”, “document”, “equipment”, “fixtures”, “general intangibles”, “goods”, “instruments”, “inventory”, “investment property”, “letter-of-credit rights”, “proceeds”, “securities” and “supporting obligations”) shall have the respective meanings given such terms in Article 9 of the UCC.

(a)  Collateral” means the collateral in which the Secured Party is granted a security interest by this Agreement and which shall include the following personal property of the Debtors, whether presently owned or existing or hereafter acquired or coming into existence, wherever situated, and all additions and accessions thereto and all substitutions and replacements thereof, and all proceeds, products and accounts thereof, including, without limitation, all proceeds from the sale or transfer of the Collateral and of insurance covering the same and of any tort claims in connection therewith, and all dividends, interest, cash, notes, securities, equity interest or other property at any time and from time to time acquired, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange for, any or all of the Pledged Securities (as defined below):
 
 
 

 

(i) All goods, including, without limitation, (A) all machinery, equipment, computers, motor vehicles, trucks, tanks, boats, ships, appliances, furniture, special and general tools, fixtures, test and quality control devices and other equipment of every kind and nature and wherever situated, together with all documents of title and documents representing the same, all additions and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all parts therefor, and all substitutes for any of the foregoing and all other items used and useful in connection with any Debtor’s businesses and all improvements thereto; and (B) all inventory, including all materials, work in process and finished goods;

(ii)  All contract rights and other general intangibles, including, without limitation, all partnership interests, membership interests, stock or other securities, rights under any of the Organizational Documents, agreements related to the Pledged Securities, licenses, distribution and other agreements, computer software (whether “off-the-shelf”, licensed from any third party or developed by any Debtor), computer software development rights, leases, franchises, customer lists, quality control procedures, grants and rights, goodwill, trademarks, service marks, trade styles, trade names, patents, patent applications, copyrights, and income tax refunds;
 
(iii)  All accounts, together with all instruments, all documents of title representing any of the foregoing, all rights in any merchandising, goods, equipment, motor vehicles and trucks which any of the same may represent, and all right, title, security and guaranties with respect to each account, including any right of stoppage in transit;

(iv)  All documents, letter-of-credit rights, instruments and chattel paper;

(v) All commercial tort claims;

(vi) All deposit accounts and all cash (whether or not deposited in such deposit accounts);

(vii) All investment property;

(viii) All supporting obligations;

(ix) All files, records, books of account, business papers, and computer programs; and
 
 
 

 

(x) the products and proceeds of all of the foregoing Collateral set forth in clauses (i)-(ix) above.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the “Collateral” shall include, subject to the exclusions below, all investment property and general intangibles respecting ownership and/or other equity interests of Debtors in each wholly-owned, majority-owned or minority owned subsidiary (including Kwagga Gold (Barbados) Limited), including, without limitation, the shares of capital stock and the other equity interests listed on Schedule H hereto (as the same may be modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof), and any other shares of capital stock and/or other equity interests of any other direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor obtained in the future, and, in each case, all certificates representing such shares and/or equity interests and, in each case, all rights, options, warrants, stock, other securities and/or equity interests that may hereafter be received, receivable or distributed in respect of, or exchanged for, any of the foregoing and all rights arising under or in connection with the Pledged Securities, including, but not limited to, all dividends, interest and cash.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute an assignment of any asset which, in the event of an assignment, becomes void by operation of applicable law or the assignment of which is otherwise prohibited by applicable law (in each case to the extent that such applicable law is not overridden by Sections 9-406, 9-407 and/or 9-408 of the UCC or other similar applicable law); provided, however, that to the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid security interest in such asset and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid security interest in the proceeds of such asset.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the “Collateral” shall not be deemed to include (i) any equity interest of the Debtors in China Global Mining Resources Ltd., a Hong Kong corporation, China Global Mining Resources Ltd., a British Virgin Islands corporation, Wits-China Acquisition Corp., or any other entity created by the Company or such entities after the date hereof (each, a “China Subsidiary”) to the extent all or substantially all of such entity’s assets are located in, or relate to, China and such assets are subject to a lien in favor of China Gold LLC (“China Gold”) pursuant to that certain Security Agreement dated June 19, 2007 by and between the Company and China Gold, the Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement dated as of February 7, 2008, or those certain Subsidiary Security Agreements by and between China Gold and any China Subsidiary, or any of the respective assets of such entities or the proceeds thereof, (ii) the portion of any equity interest of the Debtors in any Dividend Subsidiary (as defined in that certain Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement dated of even date herewith by and between the Company and Secured Party (the “Purchase Agreement”)) to the extent such portion is distributed to the holders of the Company’s Common Stock pursuant to a Subsidiary Dividend (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) and (iii) the other assets identified in and defined as “Collateral” under the Security Agreement, dated as of June 19, 2007, between the Company and China Gold (without giving effect to any amendment to such Security Agreement), the Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement dated February 7, 2008 by and between the Company and China Gold, or those certain Subsidiary Security Agreements by and between China Gold and any China Subsidiary.
 
 
 

 

(b)  Intellectual Property” means the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings and applications in the United States Copyright Office, (ii) all letters patent of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, all reissues and extensions thereof, and all applications for letters patent of the United States or any other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, (iii) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade dress, service marks, logos, domain names and other source or business identifiers, and all goodwill associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common law rights related thereto, (iv) all trade secrets arising under the laws of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, (v) all rights to obtain any reissues, renewals or extensions of the foregoing, (vi) all licenses for any of the foregoing, and (vii) all causes of action for infringement of the foregoing.

(c) Necessary Endorsement” means undated stock powers endorsed in blank or other proper instruments of assignment duly executed and such other instruments or documents as the Secured Party may reasonably request.

(d)  Obligations” means all of the liabilities and obligations (primary, secondary, direct, contingent, sole, joint or several) due or to become due, or that are now or may be hereafter contracted or acquired, or owing to, of any Debtor to the Secured Party, including, without limitation, all obligations under this Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Note, the Guarantee, the Warrant issued by the Company to the Secured Party on the date hereof (the “Warrant”) and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, in each case, whether now or hereafter existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from any of the Secured Party as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended or modified from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Obligations” shall include, without limitation: (i) principal of, and interest on the Note and the loans extended pursuant thereto; (ii) any and all other fees, indemnities, costs, obligations and liabilities of the Debtors from time to time under or in connection with this Agreement, the Note, the Purchase Agreement, the Guarantee, the Warrant and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith; and (iii) all amounts (including but not limited to post-petition interest) in respect of the foregoing that would be payable but for the fact that the obligations to pay such amounts are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving any Debtor.
 
 
 

 

(e)  Organizational Documents” means with respect to any Debtor, the documents by which such Debtor was organized (such as a certificate of incorporation, certificate of limited partnership or articles of organization, and including, without limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity) and which relate to the internal governance of such Debtor (such as bylaws, a partnership agreement or an operating, limited liability or members agreement).

(f)  Pledged Securities” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4(i).

(g) UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York and or any other applicable law of any state or states which has jurisdiction with respect to all, or any portion of, the Collateral or this Agreement, from time to time. It is the intent of the parties that defined terms in the UCC should be construed in their broadest sense so that the term “Collateral” will be construed in its broadest sense. Accordingly if there are, from time to time, changes to defined terms in the UCC that broaden the definitions, they are incorporated herein and if existing definitions in the UCC are broader than the amended definitions, the existing ones shall be controlling.

2.  Grant of Security Interest in Collateral. As an inducement for the Secured Party to extend the loans as evidenced by the Note and to secure the complete and timely payment, performance and discharge in full, as the case may be, of all of the Obligations, each Debtor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably pledges, grants and hypothecates to the Secured Party a security interest in and to, a lien upon and a right of set-off against all of their respective right, title and interest of whatsoever kind and nature in and to, the Collateral (a “Security Interest” and collectively, the “Security Interests”).
 
 
 

 

3. Delivery of Certain Collateral. Within ten (10) days of the execution of this Agreement, each Debtor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Secured Party (a) any and all certificates and other instruments representing or evidencing the Pledged Securities, and (b) any and all certificates and other instruments or documents representing any of the other Collateral, in each case, together with all Necessary Endorsements. The Debtors are, contemporaneously with the execution hereof, delivering to the Secured Party, or have previously delivered to the Secured Party, a true and correct copy of each Organizational Document governing any of the Pledged Securities.

 4.  Representations, Warranties, Covenants and Agreements of the Debtors. Except as set forth under the corresponding section of the disclosure schedules delivered to the Secured Party concurrently herewith (the “Disclosure Schedules”), which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof, each Debtor represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, the Secured Party as follows:

(a) Each Debtor has the requisite corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other power and authority to enter into this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance by each Debtor of this Agreement and the filings contemplated therein have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Debtor and no further action is required by such Debtor. This Agreement has been duly executed by each Debtor. This Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of each Debtor, enforceable against each Debtor in accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and by general principles of equity.

(b)  The Debtors have no place of business or offices where their respective books of account and records are kept (other than temporarily at the offices of its attorneys or accountants) or places where Collateral is stored or located, except as set forth on Schedule A attached hereto. Except as specifically set forth on Schedule A, each Debtor is the record owner of the real property where such Collateral is located, and there exist no mortgages or other liens on any such real property except for Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note). Except as disclosed on Schedule A, none of such Collateral is in the possession of any consignee, bailee, warehouseman, agent or processor.

(c)  Except for Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note) and except as set forth on Schedule B attached hereto, the Debtors are the sole owner of the Collateral, free and clear of any liens, security interests, encumbrances, rights or claims, and are fully authorized to grant the Security Interests. Except as set forth on Schedule B attached hereto, there is not on file in any governmental or regulatory authority, agency or recording office an effective financing statement, security agreement, license or transfer or any notice of any of the foregoing (other than those that will be filed in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to this Agreement) covering or affecting any of the Collateral. Except as set forth on Schedule B attached hereto and except pursuant to this Agreement, as long as this Agreement shall be in effect, the Debtors shall not execute and shall not knowingly permit to be on file in any such office or agency any other financing statement or other document or instrument (except to the extent filed or recorded in favor of the Secured Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement).
 
 
 

 
 
(d)  No written claim has been received that any Collateral or Debtor's use of any Collateral violates the rights of any third party. There has been no adverse decision to any Debtor's claim of ownership rights in or exclusive rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to any Debtor's right to keep and maintain such Collateral in full force and effect, and there is no proceeding involving said rights pending or, to the best knowledge of any Debtor, threatened before any court, judicial body, administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other governmental authority.

(e)  Each Debtor shall at all times maintain its books of account and records relating to the Collateral at its principal place of business and its Collateral at the locations set forth on Schedule A attached hereto and may not relocate such books of account and records or tangible Collateral unless it delivers to the Secured Party at least 30 days prior to such relocation (i) written notice of such relocation and the new location thereof (which must be within the United States) and (ii) evidence that appropriate financing statements under the UCC and other necessary documents have been filed and recorded and other steps have been taken to perfect the Security Interests to create in favor of the Secured Party a valid, perfected and continuing perfected first priority lien in the Collateral.

(f)  This Agreement creates in favor of the Secured Party a valid, security interest in the Collateral, subject only to Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note) securing the payment and performance of the Obligations. Upon Secured Party making the filings described in the immediately following paragraph, all security interests created hereunder in any Collateral which may be perfected by filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements shall have been duly perfected. Except for the filing of the Uniform Commercial Code financing statements referred to in the immediately following paragraph, and the delivery of the certificates and other instruments provided in Section 3, no action is necessary to create, perfect or protect the security interests created hereunder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except for the filing of said financing statements, no consent of any third parties and no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body is required for (i) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, (ii) the creation or perfection of the Security Interests created hereunder in the Collateral or (iii) the enforcement of the rights of the Secured Party hereunder.
 
 
 

 

(g)  Each Debtor hereby authorizes the Secured Party to file one or more financing statements under the UCC, with respect to the Security Interests with the proper filing and recording agencies in any jurisdiction deemed proper by it, which UCC financing statement may describe the collateral as “All assets”.

 (h)  The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Debtors does not (i) violate any of the provisions of any Organizational Documents of any Debtor or any judgment, decree, order or award of any court, governmental body or arbitrator or any applicable law, rule or regulation applicable to any Debtor or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing any Debtor's debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which any Debtor is a party or by which any property or asset of any Debtor is bound or affected. If any, all required consents (including, without limitation, from stockholders or creditors of any Debtor) necessary for any Debtor to enter into and perform its obligations hereunder have been obtained.

 (i)  Except as excluded in Section 1(a) hereof, the capital stock and other equity interests listed on Schedule H hereto (the “Pledged Securities”) represent all of the capital stock and other equity interests of the Guarantors, and represent all capital stock and other equity interests owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, other than the Dormant Subsidiaries (as defined below). All of the Pledged Securities are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and the Company is the legal and beneficial owner of the Pledged Securities, free and clear of any lien, security interest or other encumbrance except for the security interests created by this Agreement and other Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note). To the extent the Company owns capital stock or other equity interests in any Subsidiary that is not set forth on Schedule H hereto (such Subsidiaries, the “Dormant Subsidiaries”), such entity or entities shall be dissolved within 45 days of the date hereof.

(j)  The ownership and other equity interests in partnerships and limited liability companies (if any) included in the Collateral (the “Pledged Interests”) by their express terms do not provide that they are securities governed by Article 8 of the UCC and are not held in a securities account or by any financial intermediary.

(k)  Except for Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note), each Debtor shall at all times maintain the liens and Security Interests provided for hereunder as valid and perfected first priority liens and security interests in the Collateral in favor of the Secured Party until this Agreement and the Security Interest hereunder shall be terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof. Each Debtor hereby agrees to defend the same against the claims of any and all persons and entities. Each Debtor shall safeguard and protect all Collateral for the account of the Secured Party. At the request of the Secured Party, each Debtor will sign and deliver to the Secured Party at any time or from time to time one or more financing statements pursuant to the UCC in form reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party and will pay the cost of filing the same in all public offices wherever filing is, or is deemed by the Secured Party to be, necessary or desirable to effect the rights and obligations provided for herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Debtor shall pay all fees, taxes and other amounts necessary to maintain the Collateral and the Security Interests hereunder, and each Debtor shall obtain and furnish to the Secured Party from time to time, upon demand, such releases and/or subordinations of claims and liens which may be required to maintain the priority of the Security Interests hereunder.
 
 
 

 

(l)  Except for Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note), no Debtor will transfer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, license, sell or otherwise dispose of any of the Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by a Debtor in its ordinary course of business and sales of inventory by a Debtor in its ordinary course of business) without the prior written consent of the Secured Party.

(m) Each Debtor shall keep and preserve its equipment, inventory and other tangible Collateral in good condition, repair and order and shall not operate or locate any such Collateral (or cause to be operated or located) in any area excluded from insurance coverage.

(n) Each Debtor shall maintain with financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to the Collateral, including Collateral hereafter acquired, against loss or damage of the kinds and in the amounts customarily insured against by entities of established reputation having similar properties similarly situated and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by other such entities and otherwise as is prudent for entities engaged in similar businesses but in any event sufficient to cover the full replacement cost thereof. Each Debtor shall cause each insurance policy issued in connection herewith to provide, and the insurer issuing such policy to certify to the Secured Party that (a) the Secured Party will be named as lender loss payee and additional insured under each such insurance policy; (b) if such insurance be proposed to be cancelled or materially changed for any reason whatsoever, such insurer will promptly notify the Secured Party and such cancellation or change shall not be effective as to the Secured Party for at least thirty (30) days after receipt by the Secured Party of such notice, unless the effect of such change is to extend or increase coverage under the policy; and (c) the Secured Party will have the right (but no obligation) at its election to remedy any default in the payment of premiums within thirty (30) days of notice from the insurer of such default. If no Event of Default (as defined in the Note) exists and if the proceeds arising out of any claim or series of related claims do not exceed $100,000, loss payments in each instance will be applied by the applicable Debtor to the repair and/or replacement of property with respect to which the loss was incurred to the extent reasonably feasible, and any loss payments or the balance thereof remaining, to the extent not so applied, shall be payable to the applicable Debtor, provided, however, that payments received by any Debtor after an Event of Default occurs and is continuing or in excess of $100,000 for any occurrence or series of related occurrences shall be paid to the Secured Party and, if received by such Debtor, shall be held in trust for the Secured Party and immediately paid over to the Secured Party unless otherwise directed in writing by the Secured Party. Copies of such policies or the related certificates, in each case, naming the Secured Party as lender loss payee and additional insured shall be delivered to the Secured Party at least annually and at the time any new policy of insurance is issued.
 
 
 

 

(o)  Each Debtor shall, within ten (10) days of obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Secured Party promptly, in sufficient detail, of any material adverse change in the Collateral, and of the occurrence of any event which would have a material adverse effect on the value of the Collateral or on the Secured Party’s security interest therein.

(p)  Each Debtor shall promptly execute and deliver to the Secured Party such further deeds, mortgages, assignments, security agreements, financing statements or other instruments, documents, certificates and assurances and take such further action as the Secured Party may from time to time request and may in its sole discretion deem necessary to perfect, protect or enforce the Secured Party’s security interest in the Collateral including, without limitation, if applicable and requested in writing by the Secured Party, the execution and delivery of a separate security agreement with respect to each Debtor’s Intellectual Property (“Intellectual Property Security Agreement”) in which the Secured Party have been granted a security interest hereunder, substantially in a form reasonably acceptable to the Secured Party, which Intellectual Property Security Agreement, other than as stated therein, shall be subject to all of the terms and conditions hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Debtors shall cooperate with Secured Party to perfect the Secured Party’s security interests in (i) the Company’s rights in and to the Hunter Gold Mining Corporation assets in Colorado, (ii) the Company’s rights in the Vianey Mine Concession in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, and (iii) any other mining or mining related asset disclosed in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and held by the Company on the date hereof, subject to the exclusions set forth in Section 1(a) hereof (each of (i) and (ii) above as described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission).

(q)  Each Debtor shall permit the Secured Party and its representatives and agents to inspect the Collateral during normal business hours and upon reasonable prior notice, and to make copies of records pertaining to the Collateral as may be reasonably requested by the Secured Party from time to time.
 
 
 

 

(r)  Each Debtor shall take all steps reasonably necessary to diligently pursue and seek to preserve, enforce and collect any rights, claims, causes of action and accounts receivable in respect of the Collateral.

(s)  Each Debtor shall promptly notify the Secured Party in sufficient detail upon becoming aware of any attachment, garnishment, execution or other legal process levied against any Collateral and of any other information received by such Debtor that may materially affect the value of the Collateral, the Security Interest or the rights and remedies of the Secured Party hereunder.

(t)  All information heretofore, herein or hereafter supplied to the Secured Party by or on behalf of any Debtor with respect to the Collateral is accurate and complete in all material respects as of the date furnished.

(u)  The Debtors shall at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect their respective valid existence and good standing and any rights and franchises material to its business.

(v)  No Debtor will change its name, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number (if it has one), legal or corporate structure, or identity, or add any new fictitious name unless it provides at least 30 days prior written notice to the Secured Party of such change and, at the time of such written notification, such Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and continue the perfection of the Security Interests granted and evidenced by this Agreement.

(w) Except in the ordinary course of business and except for Permitted Encumbrances (as defined in the Note), no Debtor may consign any of its Inventory or sell any of its Inventory on bill and hold, sale or return, sale on approval, or other conditional terms of sale without the consent of the Secured Party, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(x)  No Debtor may relocate its chief executive office to a new location without providing 30 days prior written notification thereof to the Secured Party and so long as, at the time of such written notification, such Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and continue the perfection of the Security Interests granted and evidenced by this Agreement.

(y) Each Debtor was organized and remains organized solely under the laws of the state set forth next to such Debtor’s name in Schedule D attached hereto, which Schedule D sets forth each Debtor’s organizational identification number or, if any Debtor does not have one, states that one does not exist.
 
 
 

 

(z)  (i) The actual name of each Debtor is the name set forth in Schedule D attached hereto; (ii) no Debtor has any trade names except as set forth on Schedule E attached hereto; (iii) no Debtor has used any name other than that stated in the preamble hereto or as set forth on Schedule E for the preceding five years; and (iv) no entity has merged into any Debtor or been acquired by any Debtor within the past five years except as set forth on Schedule E.

(aa) At any time and from time to time that any Collateral consists of instruments, certificated securities or other items that require or permit possession by the secured party to perfect the security interest created hereby, the applicable Debtor shall deliver such Collateral to the Secured Party.

(bb)  Each Debtor, in its capacity as issuer, hereby agrees to comply with any and all orders and instructions of Secured Party regarding the Pledged Interests consistent with the terms of this Agreement without the further consent of any Debtor as contemplated by Section 8-106 (or any successor section) of the UCC. Further, each Debtor agrees that it shall not enter into a similar agreement (or one that would confer “control” within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC) with any other person or entity.
 
(cc) Each Debtor shall cause all tangible chattel paper constituting Collateral to be delivered to the Secured Party, or, if such delivery is not possible, then to cause such tangible chattel paper to contain a legend noting that it is subject to the security interest created by this Agreement. To the extent that any Collateral consists of electronic chattel paper, the applicable Debtor shall cause the underlying chattel paper to be “marked” within the meaning of Section 9-105 of the UCC (or successor section thereto).

(dd) If there is any investment property or deposit account included as Collateral that can be perfected by “control” through an account control agreement, the applicable Debtor shall cause such an account control agreement, in form and substance in each case satisfactory to the Secured Party, to be entered into and delivered to the Secured Party.

(ee)  To the extent that any Collateral consists of letter-of-credit rights, the applicable Debtor shall cause the issuer of each underlying letter of credit to consent to an assignment of the proceeds thereof to the Secured Party.

(ff)  To the extent that any Collateral is in the possession of any third party, the applicable Debtor shall join with the Secured Party in notifying such third party of the Secured Party’s security interest in such Collateral and shall obtain an acknowledgement and agreement from such third party with respect to the Collateral, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Secured Party.

(gg) If any Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire a commercial tort claim, such Debtor shall promptly notify the Secured Party in a writing signed by such Debtor of the particulars thereof and grant to the Secured Party in such writing a security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Secured Party.
 
 
 

 

(hh) Each Debtor shall immediately provide written notice to the Secured Party of any and all accounts which arise out of contracts with any governmental authority and, to the extent necessary to perfect or continue the perfected status of the Security Interests in such accounts and proceeds thereof, shall execute and deliver to the Secured Party an assignment of claims for such accounts and cooperate with the Secured Party in taking any other steps required, in its judgment, under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state or local statute or rule to perfect or continue the perfected status of the Security Interests in such accounts and proceeds thereof.

(ii) Each Debtor shall cause each subsidiary of such Debtor with operations or material operations (which, if in doubt, shall be in the sole determination of the Secured Party) to immediately become a party hereto (an “Additional Debtor”), by executing and delivering an Additional Debtor Joinder in substantially the form of Annex A attached hereto and comply with the provisions hereof applicable to the Debtors. As of the date hereof, the Company represents and warrants that none of its subsidiaries have any operations or material assets. Concurrent therewith, the Additional Debtor shall deliver replacement schedules for, or supplements to all other Schedules to (or referred to in) this Agreement, as applicable, which replacement schedules shall supersede, or supplements shall modify, the Schedules then in effect. The Additional Debtor shall also deliver such opinions of counsel, authorizing resolutions, good standing certificates, incumbency certificates, organizational documents, financing statements and other information and documentation as the Secured Party may reasonably request. Upon delivery of the foregoing to the Secured Party, the Additional Debtor shall be and become a party to this Agreement with the same rights and obligations as the Debtors, for all purposes hereof as fully and to the same extent as if it were an original signatory hereto and shall be deemed to have made the representations, warranties and covenants set forth herein as of the date of execution and delivery of such Additional Debtor Joinder, and all references herein to the “Debtors” shall be deemed to include each Additional Debtor.

(jj)  Each Debtor shall vote the Pledged Securities to comply with the covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the Note.

(kk) Each Debtor shall register the pledge of the applicable Pledged Securities on the books of such Debtor. Each Debtor shall notify each issuer of Pledged Securities to register the pledge of the applicable Pledged Securities in the name of the Secured Party on the books of such issuer. Further, except with respect to certificated securities delivered to the Secured Party, the applicable Debtor shall deliver to Secured Party an acknowledgement of pledge (which, where appropriate, shall comply with the requirements of the relevant UCC with respect to perfection by registration) signed by the issuer of the applicable Pledged Securities, which acknowledgement shall confirm that: (a) it has registered the pledge on its books and records; and (b) at any time directed by Secured Party during the continuation of an Event of Default, such issuer will transfer the record ownership of such Pledged Securities into the name of any designee of Secured Party, will take such steps as may be necessary to effect the transfer, and will comply with all other instructions of Secured Party regarding such Pledged Securities without the further consent of the applicable Debtor. The Debtor shall vote the Pledged Securities so as to comply with the covenants and agreements of the Debtor set forth in the Note and the Transaction Documents (as defined in the Purchase Agreement).
 
 
 

 

(ll) In the event that, upon an occurrence of an Event of Default, Secured Party shall sell all or any of the Pledged Securities to another party or parties (herein called the “Transferee”) or shall purchase or retain all or any of the Pledged Securities, each Debtor shall, to the extent applicable: (i) deliver to Secured Party or the Transferee, as the case may be, the articles of incorporation, bylaws, minute books, stock certificate books, corporate seals, deeds, leases, indentures, agreements, evidences of indebtedness, books of account, financial records and all other Organizational Documents and records of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries; (ii) use its best efforts to obtain resignations of the persons then serving as officers and directors of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, if so requested; and (iii) use its best efforts to obtain any approvals that are required by any governmental or regulatory body in order to permit the sale of the Pledged Securities to the Transferee or the purchase or retention of the Pledged Securities by Secured Party and allow the Transferee or Secured Party to continue the business of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries.
 
(mm) Without limiting the generality of the other obligations of the Debtors hereunder, each Debtor shall promptly give the Secured Party notice whenever it acquires (whether absolutely or by license) or creates any additional material Intellectual Property.

(nn) Each Debtor will from time to time, at the joint and several expense of the Debtors, promptly execute and deliver all such further instruments and documents, and take all such further action as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Secured Party may reasonably request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable the Secured Party to exercise and enforce their rights and remedies hereunder and with respect to any Collateral or to otherwise carry out the purposes of this Agreement.

(oo) Schedule F attached hereto lists all of the patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, registered copyrights, and domain names owned by any of the Debtors as of the date hereof. Schedule F lists all material licenses in favor of any Debtor for the use of any patents, trademarks, copyrights and domain names as of the date hereof. All material patents and trademarks of the Debtors have been duly recorded at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and all material copyrights of the Debtors have been duly recorded at the United States Copyright Office.
 
 
 

 
 
(pp) Except as set forth on Schedule G attached hereto, none of the account debtors or other persons or entities obligated on any of the Collateral is a governmental authority covered by the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state or local statute or rule in respect of such Collateral.

5. Effect of Pledge on Certain Rights. If any of the Collateral subject to this Agreement consists of nonvoting equity or ownership interests (regardless of class, designation, preference or rights) that may be converted into voting equity or ownership interests upon the occurrence of certain events (including, without limitation, upon the transfer of all or any of the other stock or assets of the issuer), it is agreed that the pledge of such equity or ownership interests pursuant to this Agreement or the enforcement of any of Secured Party’s rights hereunder shall not be deemed to be the type of event which would trigger such conversion rights notwithstanding any provisions in the Organizational Documents or agreements to which any Debtor is subject or to which any Debtor is party.

6.  Defaults. The following events shall be “Events of Default”:

(a) The occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Note) under the Note;

(b) Any representation or warranty of any Debtor in this Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made;

(c) The failure by any Debtor to observe or perform any of its obligations hereunder for three (3) days after delivery to such Debtor of notice of such failure by or on behalf of a Secured Party unless such default is capable of cure but cannot be cured within such time frame and such Debtor is using best efforts to cure same in a timely fashion; or

(d) If any provision of this Agreement shall at any time for any reason be declared to be null and void, or the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested by any Debtor, or a proceeding shall be commenced by any Debtor, or by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over any Debtor, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or any Debtor shall deny that any Debtor has any liability or obligation purported to be created under this Agreement.
 
 
 

 
 
 7.  Duty To Hold In Trust.

(a) Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and at any time thereafter, each Debtor shall, upon receipt of any revenue, income, dividend, interest or other sums subject to the Security Interests, whether payable pursuant to the Note or otherwise, or of any check, draft, note, trade acceptance or other instrument evidencing an obligation to pay any such sum, hold the same in trust for the Secured Party and shall forthwith endorse and transfer any such sums or instruments, or both, to the Secured Party.

(b) If any Debtor shall become entitled to receive or shall receive any securities or other property (including, without limitation, shares of Pledged Securities or instruments representing Pledged Securities acquired after the date hereof, or any options, warrants, rights or other similar property or certificates representing a dividend, or any distribution in connection with any recapitalization, reclassification or increase or reduction of capital, or issued in connection with any reorganization of such Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries) in respect of the Pledged Securities (whether as an addition to, in substitution of, or in exchange for, such Pledged Securities or otherwise), such Debtor agrees to (i) accept the same as the agent of the Secured Party; (ii) hold the same in trust on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Party; and (iii) to deliver any and all certificates or instruments evidencing the same to Secured Party on or before the close of business on the fifth business day following the receipt thereof by such Debtor, in the exact form received together with the Necessary Endorsements, to be held by Secured Party subject to the terms of this Agreement as Collateral.

 8.  Rights and Remedies Upon Default.

(a) Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and at any time thereafter, the Secured Party shall have the right to exercise all of the remedies conferred hereunder and under the Note, and the Secured Party shall have all the rights and remedies of a secured party under the UCC. Without limitation, the Secured Party shall have the following rights and powers:

(i) The Secured Party shall have the right to take possession of the Collateral and, for that purpose, enter, with the aid and assistance of any person, any premises where the Collateral, or any part thereof, is or may be placed and remove the same, and each Debtor shall assemble the Collateral and make it available to the Secured Party at places which the Secured Party shall reasonably select, whether at such Debtor's premises or elsewhere, and make available to the Secured Party, without rent, all of such Debtor’s respective premises and facilities for the purpose of the Secured Party taking possession of, removing or putting the Collateral in saleable or disposable form.

(ii) Upon notice to the Debtors by Secured Party, all rights of each Debtor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which it would otherwise be entitled to exercise and all rights of each Debtor to receive the dividends and interest which it would otherwise be authorized to receive and retain, shall cease. Upon such notice, Secured Party shall have the right to receive any interest, cash dividends or other payments on the Collateral and, at the option of Secured Party, to exercise in the Secured Party’s discretion all voting rights pertaining thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Secured Party shall have the right (but not the obligation) to exercise all rights with respect to the Collateral as it were the sole and absolute owner thereof, including, without limitation, to vote and/or to exchange, at its sole discretion, any or all of the Collateral in connection with a merger, reorganization, consolidation, recapitalization or other readjustment concerning or involving the Collateral or any Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries.
 
 
 

 

(iii) The Secured Party shall have the right to operate the business of each Debtor using the Collateral and shall have the right to assign, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of and deliver all or any part of the Collateral, at public or private sale or otherwise, either with or without special conditions or stipulations, for cash or on credit or for future delivery, in such parcel or parcels and at such time or times and at such place or places, and upon such terms and conditions as the Secured Party may deem commercially reasonable, all without (except as shall be required by applicable statute and cannot be waived) advertisement or demand upon or notice to any Debtor or right of redemption of a Debtor, which are hereby expressly waived. Upon each such sale, lease, assignment or other transfer of Collateral, the Secured Party, may, unless prohibited by applicable law which cannot be waived, purchase all or any part of the Collateral being sold, free from and discharged of all trusts, claims, right of redemption and equities of any Debtor, which are hereby waived and released.

(iv) The Secured Party shall have the right (but not the obligation) to notify any account debtors and any obligors under instruments or accounts to make payments directly to the Secured Party, and to enforce the Debtors’ rights against such account debtors and obligors.

(v) The Secured Party, may (but is not obligated to) direct any financial intermediary or any other person or entity holding any investment property to transfer the same to the Secured Party, or its designee.

(vi) The Secured Party may (but is not obligated to) transfer any or all Intellectual Property registered in the name of any Debtor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and/or Copyright Office into the name of the Secured Party or any designee or any purchaser of any Collateral.
 
 
 

 

(b) The Secured Party shall comply with any applicable law in connection with a disposition of Collateral and such compliance will not be considered adversely to affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral. The Secured Party may sell the Collateral without giving any warranties and may specifically disclaim such warranties. If the Secured Party sells any of the Collateral on credit, the Debtors will only be credited with payments actually made by the purchaser. In addition, each Debtor waives any and all rights that it may have to a judicial hearing in advance of the enforcement of any of the Secured Party’s rights and remedies hereunder, including, without limitation, its right following an Event of Default to take immediate possession of the Collateral and to exercise its rights and remedies with respect thereto.
 
(c) For the purpose of enabling the Secured Party to further exercise rights and remedies under this Section 8 or elsewhere provided by agreement or applicable law, each Debtor hereby grants to the Secured Party, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to such Debtor) to use, license or sublicense following an Event of Default, any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such Debtor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof.

 9.  Applications of Proceeds. The proceeds of any such sale, lease or other disposition of the Collateral hereunder or from payments made on account of any insurance policy insuring any portion of the Collateral shall be applied first, to the expenses of retaking, holding, storing, processing and preparing for sale, selling, and the like (including, without limitation, any taxes, fees and other costs incurred in connection therewith) of the Collateral, to the reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Secured Party in enforcing the Secured Party’s rights hereunder and in connection with collecting, storing and disposing of the Collateral, and then to satisfaction of the Obligations, and to the payment of any other amounts required by applicable law, after which the Secured Party shall pay to the applicable Debtor any surplus proceeds. If, upon the sale, license or other disposition of the Collateral, the proceeds thereof are insufficient to pay all amounts to which the Secured Party is legally entitled, the Debtors will be liable for the deficiency, together with interest thereon, at the rate of 20% per annum or the lesser amount permitted by applicable law (the “Default Rate”), and the reasonable fees of any attorneys employed by the Secured Party to collect such deficiency. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each Debtor waives all claims, damages and demands against the Secured Party arising out of the repossession, removal, retention or sale of the Collateral, unless due solely to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Secured Party as determined by a final judgment (not subject to further appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction.
 
 
 

 

10. Securities Law Provision. Each Debtor recognizes that Secured Party may be limited in its ability to effect a sale to the public of all or part of the Pledged Securities by reason of certain prohibitions in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or other federal or state securities laws (collectively, the “Securities Laws”), and may be compelled to resort to one or more sales to a restricted group of purchasers who may be required to agree to acquire the Pledged Securities for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Debtor agrees that sales so made may be at prices and on terms less favorable than if the Pledged Securities were sold to the public, and that Secured Party has no obligation to delay the sale of any Pledged Securities for the period of time necessary to register the Pledged Securities for sale to the public under the Securities Laws. Each Debtor shall cooperate with Secured Party in its attempt to satisfy any requirements under the Securities Laws (including, without limitation, registration thereunder if requested by Secured Party) applicable to the sale of the Pledged Securities by Secured Party.
 
 11.  Costs and Expenses. Each Debtor agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with any filing required hereunder, including without limitation, any financing statements pursuant to the UCC, continuation statements, partial releases and/or termination statements related thereto or any expenses of any searches reasonably required by the Secured Party. The Debtors shall also pay all other claims and charges which in the reasonable opinion of the Secured Party is reasonably likely to prejudice, imperil or otherwise affect the Collateral or the Security Interests therein. The Debtors will also, upon demand, pay to the Secured Party the amount of any and all reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, which the Secured Party, may incur in connection with (i) the enforcement of this Agreement, (ii) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of the Collateral, or (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Secured Party under the Note. Until so paid, any fees payable hereunder shall be added to the principal amount of the Note and shall bear interest at the Default Rate.

 12.  Responsibility for Collateral. The Debtors assume all liabilities and responsibility in connection with all Collateral, and the Obligations shall in no way be affected or diminished by reason of the loss, destruction, damage or theft of any of the Collateral or its unavailability for any reason. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) in no event shall the Secured Party (i) have any duty (either before or after an Event of Default) to collect any amounts in respect of the Collateral or to preserve any rights relating to the Collateral, or (ii) have any obligation to clean-up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale, and (b) each Debtor shall remain obligated and liable under each contract or agreement included in the Collateral to be observed or performed by such Debtor thereunder. The Secured Party shall not have any obligation or liability under any such contract or agreement by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Secured Party of any payment relating to any of the Collateral, nor shall the Secured Party be obligated in any manner to perform any of the obligations of any Debtor under or pursuant to any such contract or agreement, to make inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Secured Party in respect of the Collateral or as to the sufficiency of any performance by any party under any such contract or agreement, to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to collect the payment of any amounts which may have been assigned to the Secured Party or to which the Secured Party may be entitled at any time or times.
 
 
 

 

13.  Security Interests Absolute. All rights of the Secured Party and all obligations of the Debtors hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of: (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Note or any agreement entered into in connection with the Note, or any portion hereof or thereof; (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment or performance of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Note or any other agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing; (c) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any of the Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other collateral for, or any guarantee, or any other security, for all or any of the Obligations; (d) any action by the Secured Party to obtain, adjust, settle and cancel in its sole discretion any insurance claims or matters made or arising in connection with the Collateral; or (e) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute any legal or equitable defense available to a Debtor, or a discharge of all or any part of the Security Interests granted hereby. Until the Obligations shall have been paid and performed in full, the rights of the Secured Party shall continue even if the Obligations are barred for any reason, including, without limitation, the running of the statute of limitations or bankruptcy. Each Debtor expressly waives presentment, protest, notice of protest, demand, notice of nonpayment and demand for performance. In the event that at any time any transfer of any Collateral or any payment received by the Secured Party hereunder shall be deemed by final order of a court of competent jurisdiction to have been a voidable preference or fraudulent conveyance under the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the United States, or shall be deemed to be otherwise due to any party other than the Secured Party, then, in any such event, each Debtor’s obligations hereunder shall survive cancellation of this Agreement, and shall not be discharged or satisfied by any prior payment thereof and/or cancellation of this Agreement, but shall remain a valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof. Each Debtor waives all right to require the Secured Party to proceed against any other person or entity or to apply any Collateral which the Secured Party may hold at any time, or to marshal assets, or to pursue any other remedy. Each Debtor waives any defense arising by reason of the application of the statute of limitations to any obligation secured hereby.

 14.  Term of Agreement; Release of Security. This Agreement and the Security Interests shall terminate on the date on which all payments under the Note have been indefeasibly paid in full and all other Obligations have been paid or discharged; provided, however, that all indemnities of the Debtors contained in this Agreement shall survive and remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement. With respect to any Subsidiary Dividend, so long as the Note has not matured and remain unpaid or so long as the Secured Party has not accelerated the obligations of the Company under the Note, the Secured Party’s security interest in the assets of any Subsidiary or Dividend Subsidiary and the security interest in the portion of the equity interest in such Subsidiary or Dividend Subsidiary so distributed shall be released and discharged. With respect to any other dividend to the Company’s common stock holders of any equity interest in any Subsidiary, so long as the Note has not matured and remain unpaid or so long as the Secured Party has not accelerated the obligations of the Company under the Note, and upon the prior written consent of the Secured Party (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Secured Party’s security interest in the assets of such Subsidiary and the security interest in the portion of the equity interest in such Subsidiary so distributed shall be released and discharged.
 
 
 

 

15.  Power of Attorney; Further Assurances.

(a)  Each Debtor authorizes the Secured Party, and does hereby make, constitute and appoint the Secured Party and its officers, agents, successors or assigns with full power of substitution, as such Debtor’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with power, in the name of the Secured Party or such Debtor, to, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i) endorse any note, checks, drafts, money orders or other instruments of payment (including payments payable under or in respect of any policy of insurance) in respect of the Collateral that may come into possession of the Secured Party; (ii) to sign and endorse any financing statement pursuant to the UCC or any invoice, freight or express bill, bill of lading, storage or warehouse receipts, drafts against debtors, assignments, verifications and notices in connection with accounts, and other documents relating to the Collateral; (iii) to pay or discharge taxes, liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on or threatened against the Collateral; (iv) to demand, collect, receipt for, compromise, settle and sue for monies due in respect of the Collateral; (v) to transfer any Intellectual Property or provide licenses respecting any Intellectual Property; and (vi) generally, at the option of the Secured Party, and at the expense of the Debtors, at any time, or from time to time, to execute and deliver any and all documents and instruments and to do all acts and things which the Secured Party deems necessary to protect, preserve and realize upon the Collateral and the Security Interests granted therein in order to effect the intent of this Agreement and the Note all as fully and effectually as the Debtors might or could do; and each Debtor hereby ratifies all that said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for the term of this Agreement and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations shall be outstanding. The designation set forth herein shall be deemed to amend and supersede any inconsistent provision in the Organizational Documents or other documents or agreements to which any Debtor is subject or to which any Debtor is a party. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Secured Party is specifically authorized to execute and file any applications for or instruments of transfer and assignment of any patents, trademarks, copyrights or other Intellectual Property with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office.
 
 
 

 

(b)  On a continuing basis, each Debtor will make, execute, acknowledge, deliver, file and record, as the case may be, with the proper filing and recording agencies in any jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule C attached hereto, all such instruments, and take all such action as may reasonably be deemed necessary or advisable, or as reasonably requested by the Secured Party, to perfect the Security Interests granted hereunder and otherwise to carry out the intent and purposes of this Agreement, or for assuring and confirming to the Secured Party the grant or perfection of a perfected security interest in all the Collateral under the UCC.

(c)  Each Debtor hereby irrevocably appoints the Secured Party as such Debtor’s attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Debtor and in the name of such Debtor, from time to time in the Secured Party’s discretion, to take any action and to execute any instrument which the Secured Party may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including the filing, in its sole discretion, of one or more financing or continuation statements and amendments thereto, relative to any of the Collateral without the signature of such Debtor where permitted by law, which financing statements may (but need not), describe the Collateral as “all assets” or “all personal property” or words of like import, and ratifies all such actions taken by the Secured Party. This power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for the term of this Agreement and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations shall be outstanding.

 16.  Notices. Any demand upon or notice to the Debtors hereunder shall be effective when delivered by hand or when properly deposited in the mails postage prepaid, or sent by telex, answerback received, or electronic facsimile transmission, receipt acknowledged, or delivered to a telegraph company or overnight courier, in each case addressed to the Debtor at the address shown below. Any notice by the Debtors to the Secured Party shall be given as aforesaid, addressed to the Secured Party at the address shown below or such other address as the Secured Party may advise the Debtors in writing.

Secured Party: 
Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC
Carnegie Hall Tower
152 W. 57th Street
54th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Fax: _____________________
 
Debtors: 
c/o Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.
80 South Eighth Street, Suite 900
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Fax: (612) 395-5276
 
 
 

 

  17.  Other Security. To the extent that the Obligations are now or hereafter secured by property other than the Collateral or by the guarantee, endorsement or property of any other person, firm, corporation or other entity, then the Secured Party shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to pursue, relinquish, subordinate, modify or take any other action with respect thereto, without in any way modifying or affecting any of the Secured Party’s rights and remedies hereunder.

 18.  Miscellaneous.

(a)  No course of dealing between the Debtors and the Secured Party, nor any failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the Secured Party, any right, power or privilege hereunder or under the Note shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

(b)  All of the rights and remedies of the Secured Party with respect to the Collateral, whether established hereby or by the Note or by any other agreements, instruments or documents or by law shall be cumulative and may be exercised singly or concurrently.

(c)  This Agreement, together with the exhibits and schedules hereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into this Agreement and the exhibits and schedules hereto. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Debtors and the Secured Party or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought.

(d)  If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
 
 
 

 
 
(e)  No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

(f)  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company and the Guarantors may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Secured Party (other than by merger). The Secured Party may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Secured Party assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of this Agreement that apply to the “Secured Party.”

(g)  Each party shall take such further action and execute and deliver such further documents as may be necessary or appropriate in order to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Agreement.

(h) All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each Debtor agrees that all proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Note (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan. Each Debtor hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such proceeding is improper. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence a proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such proceeding.
 
 
 

 

(i)  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, such signature shall create a valid binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) the same with the same force and effect as if such facsimile signature were the original thereof.

(j) All Debtors shall jointly and severally be liable for the obligations of each Debtor to the Secured Party hereunder.

(k) Each Debtor shall indemnify, reimburse and hold harmless the Secured Party and its partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees and agents (and any other persons with other titles that have similar functions) (collectively, “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all losses, claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs and expenses, of any kind or nature, (including fees relating to the cost of investigating and defending any of the foregoing) imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee in any way related to or arising from or alleged to arise from this Agreement or the Collateral, except any such losses, claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs and expenses which result from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Indemnitee as determined by a final, nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. This indemnification provision is in addition to, and not in limitation of, any other indemnification provision in the Note, the Purchase Agreement (as such term is defined in the Note) or any other agreement, instrument or other document executed or delivered in connection herewith or therewith.

(l) Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to subject the Secured Party to liability as a partner in any Debtor or any if its direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a partnership or as a member in any Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a limited liability company, nor shall the Secured Party be deemed to have assumed any obligations under any partnership agreement or limited liability company agreement, as applicable, of any such Debtor or any if its direct or indirect subsidiaries or otherwise, unless and until the Secured Party exercises its right to be substituted for such Debtor as a partner or member, as applicable, pursuant hereto.

(m)  To the extent that the grant of the security interest in the Collateral and the enforcement of the terms hereof require the consent, approval or action of any partner or member, as applicable, of any Debtor or any direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor or compliance with any provisions of any of the Organizational Documents, the Debtors hereby grant such consent and approval and waive any such noncompliance with the terms of said documents.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 
 

 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Security Agreement to be duly executed on the day and year first above written.
 
WITS BASIN PRECIOUS MINERALS INC.
   
By:
/s/ Mark D. Dacko
 
Name: Mark D. Dacko
 
Title: Chief Financial Officer
   
GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
   
By:
/s/ Mark D. Dacko
 
Name: Mark D. Dacko
 
Title: Chief Financial Officer
   
PLATINUM LONG TERM GROWTH V, LLC
   
By:
/s/ Mark Nordlicht 
 
Name: Mark Nordlicht
 
Title: General Manager
 
Signature Page
to Security Agreement

 
 

 

ANNEX A
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT

FORM OF ADDITIONAL DEBTOR JOINDER

Security Agreement dated as of February 11, 2008 made by
Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.
and its subsidiaries party thereto from time to time, as Debtors
to and in favor of
the Secured Party identified therein (the “Security Agreement”)

Reference is made to the Security Agreement as defined above; capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in, or by reference in, the Security Agreement.

The undersigned hereby agrees that upon delivery of this Additional Debtor Joinder to the Secured Party referred to above, the undersigned shall (a) be an Additional Debtor under the Security Agreement, (b) have all the rights and obligations of the Debtors under the Security Agreement as fully and to the same extent as if the undersigned was an original signatory thereto and (c) be deemed to have made the representations and warranties set forth therein as of the date of execution and delivery of this Additional Debtor Joinder. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE UNDERSIGNED SPECIFICALLY GRANTS TO THE SECURED PARTY A SECURITY INTEREST IN THE COLLATERAL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE SECURITY AGREEMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THE WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL PROVISIONS SET FORTH THEREIN.

Attached hereto are supplemental and/or replacement Schedules to the Security Agreement, as applicable.

An executed copy of this Joinder shall be delivered to the Secured Party, and the Secured Party may rely on the matters set forth herein on or after the date hereof. This Joinder shall not be modified, amended or terminated without the prior written consent of the Secured Party.
 
 
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Joinder to be executed in the name and on behalf of the undersigned.

 
By:
 
Name:
Title:
 
 
Dated:   
 
 
 

 
EX-4.4 6 v162117_ex4-4.htm
 
Exhibit 4.4

ADDITIONAL DEBTOR JOINDER

Security Agreement dated as of February 11, 2008 made by
Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.
and its subsidiaries party thereto from time to time, as Debtors
to and in favor of
the Secured Party identified therein (the “Security Agreement”)

Reference is made to the Security Agreement as defined above; capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in, or by reference in, the Security Agreement.

The undersigned, Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, hereby agrees that upon delivery of this Additional Debtor Joinder to the Secured Party referred to above, the undersigned shall (a) be an Additional Debtor under the Security Agreement, (b) have all the rights and obligations of the Debtors under the Security Agreement as fully and to the same extent as if the undersigned was an original signatory thereto and (c) be deemed to have made the representations and warranties set forth therein as of the date of execution and delivery of this Additional Debtor Joinder (as supplemented or replaced as referenced below).  WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE UNDERSIGNED SPECIFICALLY GRANTS TO THE SECURED PARTY A SECURITY INTEREST IN THE COLLATERAL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE SECURITY AGREEMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THE WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL PROVISIONS SET FORTH THEREIN.

Attached hereto are supplemental and/or replacement Schedules to the Security Agreement, as applicable.

An executed copy of this Joinder shall be delivered to the Secured Party, and the Secured Party may rely on the matters set forth herein on or after the date hereof.  This Joinder shall not be modified, amended or terminated without the prior written consent of the Secured Party.


 
Exhibit 4.4
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Joinder to be executed in the name and on behalf of the undersigned.

 
HUNTER BATES MINING
CORPORATION
     
 
By:
/s/ Mark D. Dacko
     
 
Name:
Mark D. Dacko
 
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
     
 
Address:  
900 IDS Center
   
80 South 8th Street
   
Minneapolis, MN  55402-8773

Dated:  July 10, 2008


 
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Exhibit 4.5
  
AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY
 
GUARANTY (the “Guaranty”), dated as of July 10, 2008, by Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation, and Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, with an address of each with an address of 900 IDS Center, 80 South Eighth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (each a “Guarantor”, and collectively with any other party executing this Guaranty, the “Guarantors”), in favor of Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, with an office at 152 West 57th Street, 54th Floor, New York, NY 10019 (the “Secured Party”).

WHEREAS, the Gregory Gold Producers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (the “Borrower”) has previously issued a Guaranty dated February 11, 2008 in favor of the Secured Party in accordance with a certain senior secured convertible note, dated as of February 11, 2008 (the “Original Note”), executed by the Borrower, and certain related agreements between the Borrower and the Secured Party (collectively, as amended, restated, or extended from time to time, the “Loan Documents”), the Secured Party has agreed to loan to the Borrower up to One Million Twenty Thousand Dollars ($1,020,000) (the “Original Loan”); and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Loan Documents, the Guarantors, as wholly owned subsidiaries of the Borrower, are obligated to guaranty the obligations of the Borrower, and have accordingly agreed to enter into this Amended and Restated Guaranty; and

WHEREAS, the Guarantors are affiliates of the Borrower; and

WHEREAS, the Secured Party will extend another loan to the Borrower on or about the date hereof in the principal amount of One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($110,000) (the referred to as the “Additional Loan”, and, together with the Original Loan, referred to as the “Loans”) which Additional Loan will be evidenced by an additional note of the Borrower (the “Additional Note” and together with the Original Note, referred to as the “Notes”);

WHEREAS, in connection with the Additional Loan, the Guarantors will amend and restate the Guaranty in favor of the Secured Party;

WHEREAS, the obligation of the Secured Party to continue to extend the Loans is conditioned, among other things, upon Guarantors executing and delivering this Guaranty; and

WHEREAS, the aforesaid Loans will be beneficial to the Guarantors inasmuch as the proceeds of the Loans to the Borrower will indirectly benefit the Guarantors;

NOW, THEREFORE, in order to induce the Secured Party to make the Loans to the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Documents, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged by each of the Guarantors, the Guarantors hereby agree as follows:

 
 

 
 
1.           Guaranty of Payment and Performance.  The Guarantors hereby jointly and severally guarantee to the Secured Party the full and punctual payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), and the performance, of all liabilities, agreements and other obligations of the Borrower to the Secured Party, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, secured or unsecured, now existing or hereafter arising or acquired (whether by way of discount, letter of credit, lease, loan, overdraft or otherwise), including without limitation all obligations under the Notes (collectively, the “Obligations”).  This Guaranty is an absolute, unconditional and continuing guaranty of the full and punctual payment and performance of the Obligations and not of their collectbility only and is in no way conditioned upon any requirement that the Secured Party first attempt to collect any of the Obligations from the Borrower or resort to any security or other means of obtaining their payment.  Should the Borrower default in the payment or performance of any of the Obligations, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall become immediately due and payable to the Secured Party, without demand or notice of any nature, all of which are expressly waived by each Guarantor.  Payments by each Guarantor hereunder may be required by the Secured Party on any number of occasions.

2.           Guarantors’ Agreement to Pay.  Each Guarantor further agrees, as the principal obligor and not as a guarantor only, to pay to the Secured Party, on demand, all reasonable costs and expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal expenses) incurred or expended by the Secured Party in connection with enforcement of this Guaranty, together with interest on amounts recoverable under this Guaranty from the time such amounts become due under this Guaranty until payment, at the rate per annum equal to the default rate set forth in the Notes; provided that if such interest exceeds the maximum amount permitted to be paid under applicable law, then such interest shall be reduced to such maximum permitted amount.

3.           Unlimited Guaranty.  The liability of each Guarantor hereunder shall be unlimited.

4.           Waivers by Guarantors; Secured Party’s Freedom to Act.  Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations will be paid and performed strictly in accordance with their respective terms regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Secured Party with respect thereto.  Each Guarantor waives presentment, demand, protest, notice of acceptance, notice of Obligations incurred and all other notices of any kind, all defenses which may be available to Borrower by virtue of any valuation, stay, moratorium law or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, any right to require the marshalling of assets of the Borrower, and all suretyship defenses generally. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees to the provisions of any instrument evidencing, securing or otherwise executed in connection with any Obligation and agrees that the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be released or discharged, in whole or in part, or otherwise affected by (i) the failure of the Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Borrower; (ii) any extensions or renewals of any Obligation; (iii) any rescissions, waivers, amendments or modifications of any of the terms or provisions of any agreement evidencing, securing or otherwise executed in connection with any Obligation; (iv) the substitution or release of any entity primarily or secondarily liable for any Obligation; (v) the adequacy of any rights the Secured Party may have against any collateral or other means of obtaining repayment of the Obligations; (vi) the impairment of any collateral securing the Obligations, including without limitation the failure to perfect or preserve any rights the Secured Party might have in such collateral or the substitution, exchange, surrender, release, loss or destruction of any such collateral; or (vii) any other act or omission which might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a release or discharge of any other Guarantor, all of which may be done without notice to any Guarantor.

 
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5.           Unenforceability of Obligations Against Borrower.  If for any reason the Borrower has no legal existence or is under no legal obligation to discharge any of the Obligations, or if any of the Obligations have become irrecoverable from the Borrower by operation of law or for any other reason, this Guaranty shall nevertheless be binding on each Guarantor to the same extent as if each Guarantor at all times had been the principal obligor on all such Obligations. In the event that acceleration of the time for payment of the Obligations is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, or for any other reason, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the terms of any agreement evidencing, securing or otherwise executed in connection with any Obligation shall be immediately due and payable by each Guarantor.

6.           Subrogation; Subordination.  Until the payment and performance in full of all Obligations and any and all obligations of the Borrower to any affiliate of the Secured Party, no Guarantor shall exercise any rights against the Borrower arising as a result of payment by any Guarantor hereunder, by way of subrogation or otherwise, and will not prove any claim in competition with the Secured Party or its affiliates in respect of any payment hereunder in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings of any nature; no Guarantor will claim any set-off or counterclaim against the Borrower in respect of any liability of any Guarantor to the Borrower; and each Guarantor waives any benefit of and any right to participate in any collateral which may be held by the Secured Party or any such affiliate.  The payment of any amounts due with respect to any indebtedness of the Borrower now or hereafter held by any Guarantor is hereby subordinated to the prior payment in full of the Obligations.  Each Guarantor agrees that after the occurrence of any default in the payment or performance of the Obligations, after the expiration of any applicable cure period, it will not demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect after such time any such indebtedness of the Borrower to such Guarantor until the Obligations shall have been paid in full. If, notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, any Guarantor shall collect, enforce or receive any amounts in respect of such indebtedness, such amounts shall be collected, enforced and received by such Guarantor as trustee for the Secured Party and be paid over to the Secured Party on account of the Obligations without affecting in any manner the liability of any Guarantor under the other provisions of this Guaranty.

7.           Further Assurances.  Each Guarantor agrees to do all such things and execute all such documents, as the Secured Party may consider reasonably necessary or desirable to give full effect to this Guaranty and to perfect and preserve the rights and powers of the Secured Party hereunder.

8.           Termination; Reinstatement.  This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until the Secured Party is given written notice of each Guarantor’s intention to discontinue this Guaranty, notwithstanding any intermediate or temporary payment or settlement of the whole or any part of the Obligations.  No such notice shall be effective unless received and acknowledged by an officer of the Secured Party at its head office.  No such notice shall affect any rights of the Secured Party or of any affiliate hereunder with respect to any Obligations incurred prior to such notice.  This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, notwithstanding any such notice or termination, if at any time any payment made or value received with respect to an Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made or value received.

 
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9.           Successors and Assigns.  This Guaranty shall be jointly and severally binding upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Secured Party and its successors, transferees and assigns.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the Secured Party may assign or otherwise transfer any agreement or any note held by it evidencing, securing or otherwise executed in connection with the Obligations, or sell participations in any interest therein, to any other person or entity, and such other person or entity shall thereupon become vested, to the extent set forth in the agreement evidencing such assignment, transfer or participation, with all the rights in respect thereof granted to the Secured Party herein.

10.           Amendments and Waivers.  No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Guaranty nor consent to any departure by any Guarantor therefrom shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Secured Party.  No failure on the part of the Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right.


12.           Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction.  This Guaranty shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without reference to its conflicts of laws provisions.  Each Guarantor agrees that any suit for the enforcement of this Guaranty may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or any federal court sitting therein and consents to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such court and to service of process in any such suit being made upon the Guarantors by mail at the address specified in Section 11 hereof.  Each Guarantor hereby waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such suit or any such court or that such suit was brought in an inconvenient court.  Any enforcement action relating to this Guaranty may be brought by motion for summary judgment in lieu of a complaint pursuant to Section 3213 of the New York Civil Practice Law and Rules.

13.           WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH GUARANTOR AND, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS GUARANTY, THE SECURED PARTY, HEREBY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LITIGATION IN ANY COURT WITH RESPECT TO, IN CONNECTION WITH, OR ARISING OUT OF: (A) THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT OR DOCUMENT DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE OBLIGATIONS; (B) THE VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION, COLLECTION OR ENFORCEMENT THEREOF; OR (C) ANY OTHER CLAIM OR DISPUTE HOWEVER ARISING BETWEEN ANY GUARANTOR AND THE SECURED PARTY.

 
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14.           Certain References.  All pronouns and any variations thereof shall be deemed to refer to the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular or plural, as the identity of the person, persons, entity or entities may require.  The terms “herein”, “hereof” or “hereunder” or similar terms used in this Guaranty refer to this entire Guaranty and not only to the particular provision in which the term is used.

15.           Miscellaneous.  This Guaranty, together with the Security Agreement, delivered by the Guarantors as of the date hereof to the Secured Party, constitutes the entire agreement of the Guarantors with respect to the matters set forth herein.  The rights and remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law or any other agreement, and this Guaranty shall be in addition to any other guaranty of the Obligations.  The invalidity or unenforceability of any one or more sections of this Guaranty shall not affect the validity or enforceability of its remaining provisions. Captions are for the ease of reference only and shall not affect the meaning of the relevant provisions.  The meanings of all defined terms used in this Guaranty shall be equally applicable to the singular and plural, masculine, feminine and generic forms of the terms defined.
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to be executed and delivered as of the date appearing in the introductory paragraph of this Guaranty.
 
 
GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
 
       
 
By:
/s/ Mark D. Dacko  
    Name:  Mark D. Dacko  
    Title:    Chief Financial Officer  
       
 
 
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
 
       
 
By:
 /s/ Mark D. Dacko   
    Name:  Mark D. Dacko  
    Title:    Chief Financial Officer  
       




Signature Page
to Amended and Restated Guaranty
 
 
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EX-4.6 8 v162117_ex4-6.htm
EXHIBIT 4.6
 
DEED OF TRUST TO PUBLIC TRUSTEE,
 
MORTGAGE, SECURITY AGREEMENT,
 
ASSIGNMENT OF PRODUCTION AND PROCEEDS,
 
FINANCING STATEMENT
 
AND FIXTURE FILING
 
This Deed of Trust to Public Trustee, Mortgage, Security Agreement, Assignment of Production and Proceeds, Financing Statement and Fixture Filing (this “Instrument”), dated as of April 27, 2009, is from Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation (Organizational I.D. No. 2820102-2) (“Debtor”), with a principal office address of 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN  55402-8773, to the Public Trustee of Gilpin County, Colorado (“Trustee”), and to and for the benefit of Cabo Drilling (America), Inc., a Washington corporation, as beneficiary (“Secured Party”), with an address of 3rd Floor, 120 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC  V7M 2E8, Canada.
 
DEFINITIONS
 
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings provided in the Debenture (as defined below).  In this Instrument, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 
Approvals” means each and every approval, authorization, license, permit, consent, variance, land use entitlement, franchise, agreement, performance of surety bond, filing or registration by or with any governmental authority or other person necessary for any stage (or all stages) of developing, operating, maintaining and closing a mine on all or any part of the Lands (or any other lands any production from which, or profits or proceeds from such production, is attributed to any interest in the Lands), including construction of a mine and related improvements and all other activities described above in clauses (a) through (i) of the definition of “Mine Property”.
 
Environmental Laws” shall mean all laws, ordinances, rules and regulations of the United States or any other political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality exercising jurisdiction over Debtor or the Collateral, which laws, ordinances, rules and regulations are applicable to Debtor or the Collateral, governing, regulating or otherwise pertaining to health, industrial hygiene or the environment, or regulating, relating to or imposing liability (including strict liability) or standards of conduct concerning any Hazardous Materials, as are now or at any time hereafter in effect and as amended from time to time.
 
Hazardous Materials” shall mean any hazardous waste, hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant, toxic substance, oil, hazardous material or chemical, or other substance regulated by any Environmental Law.
 
Lands” means the lands that are described in Exhibit A hereto, the leasehold estates that are described in Exhibit A hereto, and all now-existing or hereafter-arising leasehold, overriding royalty, royalty, net profits or other interests in real property of the Debtor, together with all appurtenant rights accruing to the owner thereof, including extralateral rights, surface use rights and water rights relating to the lands and leasehold estates identified on Exhibit A hereto.

 
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Leases” means all surface and mineral leases, subleases, assignments, options, licenses, concessions, occupancy agreements, profits-à-prendre, work agreements, joint venture agreements, partnerships (including mining partnerships), exploration agreements, operating agreements, surface use agreements and surface use and damage agreements, subsidence agreements, easements, licenses, net profits agreements, royalty agreements, nominee agreements, options and all other conveyances, transfers, agreements or arrangements (whether mineral or otherwise, whether previously or hereafter made, and whether existing now or hereafter) relating to all or any part of the Lands or any other lands any production from which, or profits or proceeds from such production, is attributed to any interest in Lands, together with all rentals, royalties and other rights of Debtor thereunder.
 
Mine Property” means all tangible property (whether now or hereafter existing or acquired, and whether real, personal or mixed) owned by Debtor and located or found now or hereafter on, in, or under all or any part of the Lands (or any other lands any production from which, or profits or proceeds from such production, is attributed to any interest in the Lands) that now or hereafter is (together with all substitutions and replacements for, and all accessions, additions and attachments to any thereof) used or useful in connection with mining gold or Other Minerals (which as used herein shall include ores, compounds and concentrates bearing the same) or in connection with any related activities, including:
 
(a)           exploration for and evaluation of deposits of gold or Other Minerals,
 
(b)           the development, operation, shutdown and closure (temporary and permanent) of a mine (whether an underground or a surface mine),
 
(c)           handling, processing, refining and beneficiation of gold or Other Minerals, including crushing, screening, non-screen classifying, grinding, flotation, washing, gravity separation, magnetic separation, chemical leaching, thickening, filtration, drying, sintering, palletizing, briquetting, calcining, crystallization, sorting, sizing, roasting, ion exchange, solvent extraction, electrostatic separation, electrorefining, electrowinning and smelting,
 
(d)           storage of gold or Other Minerals,
 
(e)           transportation of gold or Other Minerals by any means, including haulage within a mine and from a mine to a mill or to any other handling, processing, beneficiation, storage or marketing location, haulage between any of the foregoing locations, haulage of mine waste (including waste rock and overburden) and tailings, slag and other wastes resulting from handling, processing, and beneficiation and loading in connection with any haulage,
 
(f)           marketing, and readying for market, gold or Other Minerals,
 
(g)           disposal (temporary and permanent) of mine waste (including waste rock and overburden) and tailings, slag and other wastes from handling, processing and beneficiation,
 
(h)           monitoring, maintaining, restoring and improving environmental quality, including elimination, treatment and mitigation of air and water pollution, and
 
(i)           reclamation of lands and other natural resources affected by any of the foregoing activities.
 
Without restricting the foregoing, “Mine Property” shall include the following property (together with all substitutions and replacements for, and all accessions, additions and attachments to any thereof) now or hereafter used or useful in connection with mining gold or Other Minerals or in connection with related activities:

 
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(i)           generally — buildings; structures; improvements; furnishings; fixtures; equipment; apparatus; facilities; machinery; tools; vehicles; goods; supplies and inventory; and
 
(ii)           specifically  — headframes; mine offices; maintenance and equipment repair shops; carpentry; tool and electrical shops; parts and supplies warehouses; change houses; laboratory and assay facilities; ore bins; air compressors; electrical generators and buildings for same; dynamos; staff, workers’ and families’ living and eating facilities; ventilation shafts and ducts; fans; refrigeration units; underground workings (including injection wells and recovery wells; adits; shafts; tunnels; crosscuts; laterals; drifts; raises; winzes; stopes; and other openings to ore); pump rooms; underground hoist rooms; level stations; underground equipment and machinery storage and repair areas; escape shafts; ore storage areas; storehouses; hoist houses; drums; controls; and motors; wire rope for hoists; ore skips and man cars; timber; roof supports; track (including branch; cut-off, spur; industrial; switch; connecting; storage; yard; terminal and other railroad tracks); roads and haulage ways; conveyor belts; electrical wire; apparatus; and controls (including transformers and switch boxes); pipe; water and fuel supply tanks, pumps and pipelines; rolling stock; including locomotives and cars; mine vehicles; drills and related equipment; explosives and explosives storage facilities; continuous miner machines; mucking equipment; loaders and loading equipment; tipples; dewatering facilities; including pumps; sewage facilities; waste water treatment and disposal facilities; water treatment plants (including, without limitation, the water treatment plant adjacent to the Mine headframe); wells for the extraction or injection of water, or for the monitoring of water quality or supply; ditches; water drainage courses; dams; and silt ponds; telephones and other communications equipment; pipelines (including slurry and pneumatic pipelines); tractors; scrapers; power shovels; backhoes; bucket-wheel excavators; draglines; dredges; haulage and water and maintenance trucks; inclined skips; graders; electrical power lines; ships; barges; port facilities; loading docks; tramways and aerial trams; aircraft; airstrips; recreation facilities; company townsite and buildings; mill or processing plants; sluices; wells; augers; overburden; waste rock or spoil; and other mine wastes; load-haul-dump vehicles; conveyors (including screw and bucket conveyors); crushers (including jaw crushers; gyratory crushers; wire crushers; impact crushers; roil crushers; hammer mills; shredders and roller mills); screens (including grizzlies); grinding mills (including ball mills; rod mills; autogenous mills and semi-autogenous mills); flotation circuits (including flotation cells; collection troughs and launders and flumes); washers (including hydrocyclones); gravity separation devices (including jigs; sluices; shaking tables; cones; spirals; vanners and heavy liquids); magnets; leaching circuits; thickening tanks; filters (including drum; disk; belt; and plate filters); driers; kilns; smelting furnaces (including reverberatory furnaces and flash smelters); converters; slag; tailings and tailings ponds.
 
Mine-Related Agreements and Plans” means all existing and future contracts, agreements, plans, specifications, technical reports, surveys, designs, drawings and other matters executed by Debtor and (or prepared by) any contractor, architect, engineer, surveyor or other consultant, in each case in connection with the design, construction or operation of the Mine Property, including all contracts and agreements executed by Debtor and any landscape architect, civil engineer, electrical engineer, soils engineer, mining engineer or mechanical engineer, together with all plans and specifications prepared by any design architect for the construction and improvements comprising Mine Property.

 
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Mines” shall mean the mine commonly referred to as the Bates Hunter Mine, located in Gilpin County, Colorado, and any and all other mines now or hereafter located in, on or under the Lands and the assets related thereto.
 
Other Minerals” means all minerals other than gold, whether or not similar to gold or found or produced in association with gold, including silver, coal, all existing and future ores, minerals, mineral elements and compounds, veins, lodes and mineral deposits, whether solid, liquid or gaseous, whether organic or inorganic, metallic or nonmetallic, hydrocarbonaceous or non-hydrocarbonaceous, including rock, gravel, sand, methane, water, and geothermal steam, geothermal heat and geothermal resources, found or located on the Lands.
 
Permitted Liens” means:
 
(i)           Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges not then due and delinquent or in respect of which the Debtor has furnished such security as the Secured Party may require and which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly initiated and diligently conducted;
 
(ii)           Liens in the nature of zoning restrictions, easements and rights and restrictions of record on the use of real property, which do not materially interfere with the conduct of the business of the Debtor and do not materially affect the value of the property subject to such Liens;
 
(iii)           undetermined or inchoate Liens, including unregistered construction Liens, incidental to current operations of the Debtor which have not at such time been filed pursuant to laws against the Debtor and which relate to obligations neither due nor delinquent;
 
(iv)           Liens in the form of security given to a public utility or any Governmental Authority in connection with the operations of the Debtor in the ordinary course of its business; and
 
(v)           matters of record as of the date hereof, itemized on Exhibit C, save and except for the Subordinated Liens.
 
Rights of Way” means (including any of the following that are described in Exhibit A hereto) all now or hereafter existing or acquired easements, servitudes, permits, licenses, tenements, hereditaments, rights of way, privileges, liberties, appendages, appurtenances and similar rights appertaining or appurtenant to or beneficially used or useful in connection with the Lands and/or the Mine Property, including and together with all estates, claims, demand rights, title and interests in and to any street, road, highway or alley, vacated or otherwise, adjoining or beneficially used or useful in connection with the Lands and/or the Mine Property.
 
Subordinated Liens” means the Liens listed in Exhibit B hereto.
 
Water Rights” means all now or hereafter existing or acquired water and water rights, reservoirs and reservoir rights, ditches and ditch rights, wells and well rights, whether evidenced or initiated by permit, decree, well registration, appropriation not decreed, shares of stock or other interests in mutual ditch or reservoir companies or carrier ditch or reservoir companies or otherwise, appertaining or appurtenant to or beneficially used or useful in connection with the Lands and/or the Mines, together with all pumps, well casings, wellheads, electrical installations, pumphouses, meters, monitoring wells and systems, parshall flumes or other measuring devices, pipes, pipelines and other structures or personal property which are or may be used to produce, regulate, measure, distribute, store or use water from the said water and water rights, reservoirs and reservoir rights, ditches and ditch rights, wells and well rights.

 
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COLLATERAL
 
All of Debtor’s right, title and interest in and to all the hereinafter described properties, rights and interests, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and whether now or hereafter existing or created, is herein collectively called the “Collateral”:
 
(a)           the Lands and the Rights of Way,
 
(b)           the gold and Other Minerals that originated from the Lands which are (i) on, in, or under, extending from or into, (ii) produced or to be produced from, (iii) stored, handled, processed, refined or beneficiated or to be stored, handled, processed, refined or beneficiated on, or (iv) transported or marketed or to be transported or marketed on or from, in each case, all or any part of the Lands or any other lands any production from which (or profits or proceeds from such production) is attributed to any interest in the Lands,
 
(c)           without duplication of any other provision of this granting clause all of Debtor’s now or hereafter arising accounts, as-extracted collateral, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, general intangibles, goods (including all its consumer goods, equipment, farm products, fixtures and inventory), instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, securities and supporting obligations (as such terms are defined in the applicable Uniform Commercial Code), but only if, and only to the extent, any such above-listed properties, rights or interests relate to, or arise out of, Collateral that is described elsewhere other than in this subsection (c),
 
(d)           the Leases,
 
(e)           the Mines and the Mine Property,
 
(f)           the Approvals,
 
(g)           the Mine-Related Agreements and Plans,
 
(h)           the Water Rights,
 
(i)           all awards, payments or judgments, including interest thereon, and the right to receive the same, as a result of the exercise or threatened exercise of any right of eminent domain, other injury to, taking up, or decrease in the value of all or any portion of the Lands, the Mine Property, the Water Rights or any other property described herein,
 
(j)           all other property or rights of any kind or character related to the Lands, the Mine Property, the Water Rights or other property described herein, and
 
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(k)           all proceeds (as such term is defined in the applicable Uniform Commercial Code) and products of the foregoing, together with, to the extent Debtor may lawfully grant a security interest therein, any and all corrections or amendments to, or renewals, extensions or ratifications of, or replacements or substitutions for, any of the same, or any instrument relating thereto, and all contracts, title instruments, title opinions, land status reports, title abstracts, title insurance commitments or policies, title materials and information, files, records, writings, data bases, information, systems, maps, plats, surveys, geological and geophysical (including electrical, electromagnetic, gravity and seismic), geochemical, and radiometric data and information, drilling data, test data, mineral -samples (including drill cores), mineral assay reports, interpretative and analytical reports of any kind or nature (including reserve or deposit studies or evaluations), mine feasibility reports, technical reports (including, without limitation, that certain “Technical Report on the Bates Hunter Project”, dated July 15, 2008, by Orem Inc.), mine development studies and plans, information concerning exploration and development of deposits of gold and Other Minerals (including information concerning mine operation, shutdown and closure and concerning reclamation of lands and other resources affected by mining), environmental data and related information and reports and studies, computer hardware and software and all documentation therefor or relating thereto (including all licenses relating to or covering such computer hardware, software and/or documentation), trade secrets, business names and the goodwill of the business relating thereto, unpatented inventions, patent applications and patents, lease records (including rental and royalty payment records), payment of rental or maintenance fees, and filings and recordings made with governmental authorities, the Approvals and records and information concerning compliance therewith, mine development programs and budgets, financial statements and audits, reclamation plans and related data and reports, hedging agreements, interest rate protection agreement, commodity hedging agreement or any other agreement evidencing a swap or other derivative transaction, insurance policies, commingling agreements, information and data and reports regarding the products and proceeds of mine operations (including quantities produced, proceeds from sale or other disposition, and disbursement of proceeds to persons entitled to a share thereof), information and data and reports regarding all aspects of the Mine Property (including transportation and marketing of mine products), development rights, air rights, parcel maps, extralateral rights, condemnation awards, franchises, easements, servitudes, permits, licenses, tenements, hereditaments, appurtenances, rents, royalties, overriding royalties, revenues, avails, income, security deposits, reclamation bonds, bonuses, accounts, returns, issues, profits, advantages, claims against third parties, products, proceeds and all other benefits, whether now or hereafter existing or arising, used or useful in connection with, covering, relating to, or arising from or in connection with, any of the aforesaid in this granting clause referenced, and all other things of value and incident thereto which Debtor might at any time have or be entitled to (including any and all liens, lien rights and security interests, and all properties, rights and interests, whether now or hereafter existing or arising, that Debtor uses or installs for use in connection with mining gold or Other Minerals from all or any part of the Lands or any other lands any production from which, or the profits or proceeds from such production, is attributed to any interest in the Lands, or in connection with any related activities); together with all strips and gores belonging, adjacent or pertaining to the Lands; and any after-acquired title, additions to any of the foregoing, including those which may be subjected to the lien and security interest of this Instrument by means of supplements hereto, all the aforesaid properties, rights and interests, together with any after-acquired title, additions and accretions to any of the foregoing.
 
GRANTING CLAUSES
 
In consideration of ten dollars and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by Debtor, and the matters hereinafter set forth, Debtor hereby:

A.           Real Property.  Grants, bargains, sells, mortgages, assigns, transfers and conveys to Trustee, with POWER OF SALE, for the benefit of Secured Party, that part of the Collateral that is real property (including any fixtures that are real property under applicable state law), subject to the assignment of severed and extracted gold and Other Minerals and the proceeds thereof made under paragraph C below; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all of the Collateral that is real property (including any fixtures that are real property under applicable state law), together with all of the rights, privileges, benefits, hereditaments and appurtenances in any way belonging, incidental or pertaining thereto, to Trustee and its successors and assigns, forever, IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, for the security and benefit of Secured Party and its successors and assigns, subject to all of the terms, conditions, covenants, agreements and trusts herein set forth;
 
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B.           Personal Property.  Grants to Secured Party a security interest in that part of the Collateral that is personal property (including any fixtures that are personal property under applicable state law); and
 
C.           Assignment of Production.  Collaterally assigns to Secured Party all of the severed and extracted ore, gold and Other Minerals produced from or allocated or attributed to any of the Collateral or any other interest of Debtor (whether now owned or hereafter acquired by operation of law or otherwise) in, to and under or that covers, affects or otherwise relates to the Land or to any of the estates, property rights or other interests described or referred to above, together with all of the proceeds thereof.
 
ARTICLE I
 
Secured Obligations
 
Section 1.1           Obligations Secured.  This Instrument is executed, acknowledged and delivered by Debtor to secure and enforce the following indebtedness, liabilities and obligations (the “Secured Obligations”):
 
A.           Convertible Debenture.  All indebtedness (including but not limited to the Principal, Interest, Expenses and Extension Fee) evidenced by that certain Convertible Debenture, of even date herewith, in the principal amount of U.S. $511,589.59 made by Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Borrower”), and payable to the order of Secured Party, and any renewals, extensions or restatements thereof, modifications, changes, amendments or supplements thereto and substitutions therefor (the “Debenture”), as well as all indebtedness payable by Debtor as a result of Debtor’s obligations in the Debenture to guaranty the Borrower’s obligations under the Debenture;
 
B.           This Instrument.  All indebtedness payable by Debtor pursuant to the provisions of and evidenced by this Instrument, including, without limitation, any amounts advanced to protect the liens and security interests herein granted and all reasonable attorneys fees, court costs, and expenses of whatever kind or character now existing or hereafter created or arising, incident thereto or to the collection of the indebtedness, liabilities and obligations hereby secured and enforcement of the liens and security interests herein granted and created;
 
C.           Other Obligations.  All other indebtedness payable by Debtor to Secured Party of whatever kind or character now existing or hereafter created or arising, whether fixed, absolute or contingent, direct or indirect, primary or secondary, joint, several or joint and several, due or to become due, and however evidenced whether by note, open account, overdraft, endorsement, security agreement, guarantee or otherwise, it being contemplated that Debtor may hereafter become indebted to Secured Party in such further sum or sums; and
 
 
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D.           Renewals, Extensions and Amendments.  All indebtedness evidenced by all renewals, extensions and restatements of, modifications, changes, amendments and supplements to and substitutions for, all or any part of the foregoing.
 
ARTICLE II
 
Warranties, Representations, Covenants
and Indemnities
 
Section 2.1             Representations and Warranties.  Debtor warrants and represents as follows:
 
A.             Power and Authority.  Debtor has the power and authority to grant, bargain, sell, mortgage, assign, transfer and convey the Collateral as provided herein.
 
B.             Title.  Exhibit A attached hereto correctly describes, as of the date hereof, all of the land, mineral estates, surface estates and real property leasehold estates (including, without limitation, easements and rights of way) in which Debtor owns an interest and all Water Rights owned by Debtor.  Subject to Permitted Liens and Subordinated Liens, Debtor is the lawful owner of and has good and marketable title to the Collateral free and clear of all Liens.  Debtor warrants and will forever defend the title to the Collateral against the claims of all persons claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.   To the best of the Debtor’s knowledge, each Lease is a valid and subsisting Lease and is in full force and effect.  Each Lease or a certified copy or memorandum thereof has been recorded in the real property records of the county or counties in which the Lands covered thereby are located, and has been delivered to Secured Party.  Each Lease (a) either is within its primary term, or the primary term thereof has been extended by production of gold or Other Minerals from the Lands covered thereby or otherwise by its terms; (b) is prior to any deed of trust, mortgage or other lien or encumbrance upon the fee interest in such Lands; and (c) is assignable without the prior written consent of the lessor or any other third party.
 
C.             Approvals.  To the best of Debtor’s knowledge, without inquiry, other than recording or filing of this Instrument, financing statements and similar instruments in favor of Secured Party, Debtor is not required to submit any notice, report or other filing with any governmental authority, person or entity in connection with Debtor’s execution, delivery or performance of this Instrument, and no consent, approval or authorization of any governmental authority, person or entity is required to be obtained by Debtor in connection with Debtor’s execution, delivery and performance of this Instrument or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.  To the best of the Debtor’s knowledge, Debtor is duly qualified to own, hold and operate leases, easements, rights-of-way, mineral agreements and other agreements covering, affecting or otherwise relating to state lands.
 
D.             Security Interest.  Except for Permitted Liens, Trustee and Secured Party, as the case may be, will obtain, as security for the Secured Obligations a legally valid and binding first perfected lien on, and security interest in, the Collateral.
 
E.           Structure.  Debtor’s name, identity, corporate structure, state of incorporation and organizational identification number are correctly reflected in the preamble to this Instrument.
 
Section 2.2             Covenants.  Debtor covenants and agrees as follows:

 
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A.           Secured Obligations.  Debtor shall pay when due and perform the Secured Obligations in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof.
 
B.           Recording and Filing.  Debtor shall sign all documents reasonably requested by Secured Party to assist Secured Party to create, perfect, maintain and preserve the priority of the liens and security interests intended to be created hereby as a first lien on real property and fixtures and a first priority security interest in personal property and fixtures.
 
C.           Modifications and Dispositions.  Without the prior written consent of Secured Party, except in the ordinary course of business Debtor shall not (1) amend, modify or otherwise revise any lease, license or other agreement described in Exhibit A; (2) release, surrender, abandon or forfeit the Collateral or any part thereof; (3) sell, convey, assign, lease, sublease, alienate, mortgage or grant security interests in or otherwise dispose of or encumber the Collateral or any part thereof, except to the extent explicitly permitted by the Debenture and except sales of severed gold and Other Minerals in the ordinary course of Debtor’s business and for fair consideration, and except for the liens and security interests created by this Instrument and liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges not delinquent; or (4) consent to, permit or authorize any such act by another party with respect to the Land, the Collateral or any part thereof.
 
D.           Defense of Title.  If the title or interest of Debtor, Trustee or Secured Party to the Collateral or any part thereof, or the lien or encumbrance created by this Instrument, or the rights or powers of Secured Party or Trustee hereunder, shall be attacked, either directly or indirectly, or if any legal proceedings are commenced against Debtor or the Collateral, Debtor shall promptly give written notice thereof to Secured Party and at Debtor’s own expense shall take all reasonable steps diligently to defend against any such attack or proceedings, employing attorneys reasonably acceptable to Secured Party.
 
E.           Environmental Matters.  Debtor shall comply with all Environmental Laws and shall maintain and obtain all permits, licenses and approvals required under Environmental Laws.  Debtor shall not cause or permit the Collateral or Debtor to be in violation of, or do anything or permit anything to be done that will subject the Collateral, Debtor or Secured Party to any additional remedial obligations under any applicable Environmental Laws, assuming disclosure to the applicable governmental authorities of all relevant facts, conditions and circumstances, if any, pertaining to the Collateral or otherwise.  Debtor shall promptly notify Secured Party in writing of any material existing, pending or threatened investigation or inquiry by any governmental authority in connection with any applicable Environmental Laws.
 
F.           Further Assurances.  Debtor shall execute, acknowledge and deliver, or cause to be executed, acknowledged or delivered, to Secured Party such other and further instruments and do such other acts as in the reasonable opinion of Secured Party may be necessary or desirable to effect the intent of this Instrument, promptly upon request of Secured Party and at Debtor’s expense.
 
Section 2.3             Costs, Expenses and Indemnities.  Debtor agrees to pay and indemnify Secured Party and Trustee as follows:

 
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A.           Costs and Expenses.  Debtor shall indemnify Secured Party and Trustee from and reimburse and pay Secured Party for all fees, costs and expenses (including without limitation, attorneys’ fees, court costs and legal expenses and consultant’s and expert’s fees and expenses), incurred or expended by Secured Party or Trustee in connection with (1) the breach by Debtor of any representation or warranty contained in this Instrument, the Debenture or any other documents and instruments evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to the Secured Obligations, (2) the failure by Debtor to perform any agreement, covenant, condition, indemnity or obligation contained in this Instrument, the Debenture or any other documents and instruments evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to the Secured Obligations, (3) Secured Party’s or Trustee’s exercise of any of its rights and remedies under this Instrument, the Debenture and the other documents and instruments evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to the Secured Obligations, or (4) the protection of the Collateral and the liens thereon and security interests therein.  All such fees, costs and expenses shall be a demand obligation owing by Debtor to Secured Party.  The liabilities of Debtor as set forth in this Section 2.3(A) shall survive the termination of this Instrument.
 
B.           Indemnity.  Debtor shall indemnify and hold harmless Secured Party and persons or entities owned or controlled by or affiliated with Secured Party and their respective directors, officers, shareholders, partners, employees, consultants and agents (herein individually, an “Indemnified Party,” and collectively, “Indemnified Parties”) from and against, and reimburse and pay Indemnified Parties with respect to, any and all direct claims, demands, liabilities, losses, damages (including without limitation, actual, consequential, exemplary and punitive damages), causes of action, judgments, penalties, fees, costs and expenses (including without limitation, attorneys’ fees, court costs and legal expenses and consultant’s and expert’s fees and expenses), of any and every kind or character, known or unknown, fixed or contingent, that may be imposed upon, asserted against or incurred or paid by or on behalf of any Indemnified Party on account of, in connection with, or arising out of (1) any bodily injury or death or property damage occurring in or upon or in the vicinity of the Collateral through any cause whatsoever, (2) any act performed or omitted to be performed hereunder or the breach of or failure to perform any warranty, representation, indemnity, covenant, agreement or condition contained in this Instrument, the Debenture or any other document or instrument evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to the Secured Obligations, (3) any transaction, act, omission, event or circumstance arising out of or in any way connected with the Collateral or with this Instrument, the Debenture or any other document or instrument evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to the Secured Obligations, or (4) the violation of or failure to comply with any statute, law, rule, regulation or order, including without limitation, Environmental Laws and statutes, laws, rules, regulations and orders relating to Hazardous Materials; provided however, that such indemnities shall not apply to any Indemnified Party to the extent the subject of the indemnification is caused by or arises out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Party (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction).  The foregoing indemnities shall not survive in the event that the Lender takes ownership of the Collateral, provided that the forgoing indemnities will survive the release, foreclosure or other termination of this Instrument in all other circumstances.  The rights, powers and remedies herein conferred are cumulative, and not exclusive, of any and all other rights, powers and remedies existing at law or in equity (including without limitation, rights, powers and remedies under Environmental Laws).
 
Section 2.4             Performance by Secured Party.  Debtor agrees that, if Debtor fails to perform any act which Debtor is required to perform hereunder, Secured Party and Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, perform or cause to be performed such act, and any expense so incurred by Secured Party or by Trustee in connection therewith shall be a demand obligation owing by Debtor to Secured Party, and Secured Party shall be subrogated to all of the rights of the party receiving such payment.

 
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ARTICLE III
 
Collection of Proceeds of Production
 
Section 3.1             Assignment of Proceeds.  Pursuant to paragraph C of the granting clause of this Instrument, Secured Party is absolutely assigned and entitled to receive all of the severed and extracted ore, gold and Other Minerals produced from or allocated or attributed to all of the Collateral, together with all of the proceeds thereof and payments in lieu thereof.  Debtor acknowledges and agrees that said assignment is intended to be an absolute and unconditional assignment and not merely a pledge of or creation of a security interest in said gold and Other Minerals and proceeds or an assignment as additional security.  Debtor shall execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be executed, acknowledged and delivered, transfer orders or letters-in-lieu thereof directing all purchasers of ore, gold and Other Minerals to make payments directly to Secured Party.  All parties producing, purchasing, receiving or having in their possession any such ore, gold and Other Minerals or proceeds are hereby authorized and directed by Debtor to treat and regard Secured Party as the party entitled in Debtor’s place and stead to receive such ore, gold and Other Minerals and proceeds; and said parties shall be fully protected in so treating and regarding Secured Party and shall be under no obligation to see to the application by Secured Party of any such proceeds received by it.  Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision contained in this Deed of Trust, Secured Party agrees that, until and unless an Event of Default occurs hereunder, Secured Party shall exercise no rights to possession of any of the Collateral and shall permit Debtor to receive such ore, gold and Other Minerals or proceeds until such time as Secured Party shall have made written demand therefore following an Event of Default.  Such election by Secured Party shall not in any way waive the right of Secured Party to demand and receive such ore, gold and Other Minerals and proceeds thereafter allocated or attributed to the Collateral and shall not in any way diminish the absolute and unconditional right of Secured Party to receive all of such ore, gold and Other Minerals and proceeds and cash proceeds not theretofore expended or distributed by Debtor.  Following an Event of Default, any such ore, gold and Other Minerals or proceeds received by Debtor shall, when received, constitute trust funds in Debtor’s hands and shall be held by Debtor for the benefit of Secured Party.  Debtor hereby agrees that upon the first to occur of either (A) written demand of Secured Party, or (B) the occurrence of any event which constitutes an Event of Default (as hereinafter defined) or which upon the giving (or receiving) of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute such an Event of Default, all cash, proceeds, instruments and other property, of whatever kind or character, received by Debtor on account of the Collateral, whether received by Debtor in the exercise of its collection rights hereunder or otherwise, shall, in accordance with instructions then given by Secured Party, be remitted to Secured Party or deposited to an account designated by Secured Party, in the form received (properly assigned or endorsed to the order of Secured Party or for collection and in accordance with Secured Party’s instructions) not later than the first banking business day following the day of receipt, to be applied as provided in Section 3.2 hereof and, until so applied, may be held by Secured Party in a separate account on which Debtor may not draw.  Debtor agrees not to commingle any such property, following the receipt of any such demand from Secured Party or the occurrence of an Event of Default, with any of its other funds or property and agrees to hold the same upon an express trust for Secured Party until remitted to Secured Party.
 
Section 3.2             Application of Proceeds.  Secured Party shall apply all of the proceeds received pursuant to Section 3.1 hereof in satisfaction of the Secured Obligations as provided below, unless otherwise agreed to by Secured Party and Debtor.  All such proceeds received and to be applied by Secured Party up to the close of business on the last day of each calendar month shall be applied by Secured Party on or before the fifth business day of the next succeeding calendar month as follows (with any balance remaining after such application to be paid to Debtor):

 
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A.           First, to the payment to Secured Party and Trustee of all outstanding or unreimbursed fees, costs and expenses incurred by Secured Party or Trustee pursuant hereto, and any part of the Secured Obligations not evidenced by written instrument, including without limitation, all charges and penalties, including interest thereon, due Secured Party;
 
B.           Second, to the payment or prepayment of all interest accrued on the Secured Obligations; and
 
C.           Third, to the payment or prepayment of the principal of the Secured Obligations in any order the Secured Party may elect from time to time;
 
Section 3.3             Inclusion in Sale.  Upon any sale of any of the Collateral pursuant to Article V hereof and expiration of any mandatory redemption periods, the ore, gold and Other Minerals thereafter produced from or attributed to the part of the Collateral so sold, and the proceeds thereof, shall be included in such sale and shall pass to the purchaser free and clear of the provisions of this Article III.
 
Section 3.4             No Liability in Secured Party.  Except for negligent acts or willful misconduct, Secured Party is hereby absolved from all liability for failure to enforce collection of any such proceeds and from all other responsibility in connection therewith, except the responsibility to account to Debtor for proceeds actually received.
 
Section 3.5             Rights of Secured Party.  Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, Secured Party shall have the immediate and continuing right to demand, collect, receive and receipt for all production, proceeds and payments assigned hereunder.  In addition, Debtor agrees that, upon the request of Secured Party and following an Event of Default, it will promptly execute and deliver to Secured Party such transfer orders, payment orders, division orders and other instruments as Secured Party may deem necessary, convenient or appropriate in connection with the payment and delivery directly to Secured Party of all proceeds, production, and payments assigned hereunder.  Debtor hereby authorizes and directs that, upon the request of Secured Party and following an Event of Default, all purchasers, transporters and other parties now or hereafter purchasing mineral production produced from or allocated or attributed to the Collateral or any other interest of Debtor (whether now owned or hereafter acquired by operation of law or otherwise), in, to or relating to the Land or to any of the estates, property, rights or other interests included in the Collateral, or any part thereof, or now or hereafter having in their possession or control any production from or allocated to the Collateral or any other interest of Debtor (whether now owned or hereafter acquired by operation of law or otherwise), in, to or relating to the Land or to any of the estates, property, rights or other interests included in the Collateral, or any part thereof, or now or hereafter otherwise owing monies to Debtor under contracts and agreements herein assigned, shall, until Secured Party directs otherwise, pay and deliver such proceeds, production or amounts directly to Secured Party at Secured Party’s address set forth in the introduction to this Instrument, or in such other manner as Secured Party may direct such parties in writing, and this authorization shall continue until the assignment of production and proceeds contained herein is released and reassigned.  No payor making payments to Secured Party at its request under the assignment of production and proceeds contained herein shall have any responsibility to see to the application of any of such funds, and any party paying or delivering proceeds, production or amounts to Secured Party under such assignments shall be released thereby from any and all liability to Debtor to the full extent and amount of all payments, production or proceeds so delivered.

 
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Section 3.6             Change of Purchaser.  Should any purchaser taking the production from the Collateral or any other interest of Debtor (whether now owned or hereafter acquired by operation of law or otherwise), in, to or relating to the Land or to any of the estates, property, rights or other interests included in the Collateral, or any part thereof, fail to make any payment promptly to Secured Party, in accordance with the assignment of production and proceeds herein made, then Secured Party, to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, shall have the right to demand a change of purchaser and to designate another purchaser of the ore, gold and Other Minerals included in the Collateral, without any liability on the part of Secured Party in making such selection; and failure of Debtor to consent to and promptly effect such change of purchaser shall constitute an Event of Default under Article V below.
 
Section 3.7             No Delegation or Assumption.  Nothing in this Instrument shall be deemed or construed to create a delegation to or assumption by Secured Party, of the duties and obligations of Debtor under any agreement or contract relating to the Collateral or any portion thereof, and all of the parties to any such contract shall continue to look to Debtor for performance of all covenants and other obligations and the satisfaction of all representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and other agreements of Debtor thereunder, notwithstanding the assignment of production and proceeds contained herein or the exercise by Secured Party, prior to foreclosure, of any of its rights hereunder or under applicable law.
 
Section 3.8             Cumulative.  The assignment of production and proceeds contained herein shall not be construed to limit in any way the other rights and remedies of Secured Party hereunder, including without limitation, its right to accelerate the indebtedness evidenced by the Secured Obligations upon an Event of Default and the other rights and remedies herein conferred, conferred in the other documents and instruments evidencing, securing or relating to the Secured Obligations, or conferred by operation of law.  Monies received under the assignment of production and proceeds contained herein shall not be deemed to have been applied in payment of the Secured Obligations unless and until such monies actually are applied thereto by Secured Party.
 
ARTICLE IV
 
Termination and Release
 
Section 4.1             Release Upon Termination.  If all of the Secured Obligations shall be paid in full and otherwise satisfied pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Instrument and the other documents and instruments evidencing, securing or relating to the Secured Obligations, and if Debtor shall have well and truly performed all of the covenants and agreements herein contained, then all of the Collateral shall revert to Debtor, the liens and security interests created by this Instrument shall terminate and Secured Party shall, promptly after the request of Debtor, execute, acknowledge and deliver to Debtor a request to the Trustee to release this Instrument, and Secured Party shall execute such other instruments as may be necessary to evidence the termination of the liens and security interests created by this Instrument.
 
Section 4.2             Partial Release.  No partial release from the liens and security interests created by this Instrument of any part of the Collateral by Trustee or Secured Party shall in any way alter, vary or diminish the force or effect of this Instrument or impair, release or subordinate the liens and security interests created by this Instrument on the remainder of the Collateral.
 
ARTICLE V
 
Default
 
Section 5.1             Events of Default.  The occurrence of any of the following events which continues five (5) Banking Days after written notice thereof by the Debtor shall constitute an event of default (“Event of Default”) and upon the occurrence thereof the liens and security interests created hereby shall be subject to foreclosure in any manner provided for herein or provided for by applicable law:
 

 
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A.           Failure of Debtor to pay as and when provided herein any fee or other amount due Secured Party or Trustee under this Instrument when due;
 
B.           Failure of Debtor to perform or observe any covenant, agreement, indemnity, condition or provision in this Instrument;
 
C.           Any of Debtor’s representations or warranties made in this Instrument or any statement or certificate at any time given in writing pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall be false or misleading in any material respect as of the date made or deemed made; or
 
D.           An “Event of Default” as defined in the Debenture shall occur.
 
Section 5.2             Treatment of Fixtures.  Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, or at any time thereafter, if deemed appropriate by Secured Party or if required by applicable law, Secured Party may elect to treat the fixtures included in the Collateral either as real property or as personal property, or both, and proceed to exercise such rights as apply to the type of property selected.
 
Section 5.3             Foreclosure.  Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, or at any time thereafter, in addition to any other rights, powers and remedies herein conferred or conferred by operation of law, Secured Party and Trustee shall have all of the rights, powers and remedies of a secured party, a mortgagee, a beneficiary under a deed of trust, and a public trustee under a deed of trust granted under applicable law.  Secured Party may, with notice, proceed by one or more actions in equity or at law for the seizure and sale of the Collateral or any portion thereof, for the foreclosure or sale of the Collateral or any portion thereof by judicial foreclosure by appropriate proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction, by a public trustee’s sale, or in any other manner then permitted by law, for the specific performance of any covenant or agreement of Debtor herein contained or in aid of the execution of any right, power or remedy herein granted, or for the enforcement of any other appropriate equitable or legal remedy and to recover judgment against Debtor.  In furtherance, and not in limitation, thereof:
 
A.           Deed of Trust.  This Instrument shall constitute a trust deed under Articles 37, 38 and 39 of Title 38 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, as amended and as may be amended from time to time, or any future law containing provisions under which the sale of property securing debts is authorized or permitted; and upon an Event of Default, or any time thereafter, Trustee shall, whenever requested by Secured Party, cause the Collateral to be sold in accordance with the provisions thereof and hereof.
 
B.           Mortgage.  This Instrument shall also constitute a mortgage, and upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and during the continuance thereof may be foreclosed as to any of the Collateral by judicial action or in any manner then permitted by applicable law; and to the extent, if any, required to cause this Instrument to be so effective as a mortgage as well as a deed of trust, Debtor hereby mortgages the Collateral to Secured Party.
 
C.           Election.  Secured Party may elect to treat this Instrument, from time to time and at any time, either as a deed of trust to the public trustee or as a mortgage.  In the event a public trustee’s sale of the Collateral shall be commenced by Trustee, Secured Party may at any time before the sale of the Collateral, elect to abandon the public trustee’s sale, and Secured Party may then institute a suit for the collection of the Secured Obligations and for the foreclosure of this Instrument by judicial action.  It is agreed that if Secured Party should institute a suit for the foreclosure of this Instrument by judicial action, Secured Party may at any time before the entry of a final judgment, dismiss such suit, and then direct Trustee to cause the Collateral to be sold pursuant to a public trustee’s sale in accordance with the provisions of this Instrument.

 
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D.           Additional Actions.  This Instrument shall also constitute and may be enforced from time to time as an assignment, chattel mortgage, contract, deed of trust, mortgage, financing statement and security agreement, and from time to time as any one or more thereof as appropriate under applicable law.  Secured Party shall be entitled to all of the rights, remedies and benefits of a secured party, mortgagee and a beneficiary granted under applicable law; and, to the fullest extent of such law, shall be entitled to enforce such rights, remedies and benefits.  Debtor intends and hereby grants to Secured Party all rights, powers and remedies accorded a secured party, mortgagee and a beneficiary under applicable law whether or not such rights, powers and remedies are expressly granted or reserved herein.
 
E.           Notice, Place and Manner of Sale.  Any sale of the Collateral under this Article V shall take place at such place or places and otherwise in such manner and upon such notice as may be required by law; or, in the absence of any such requirement, as Secured Party may deem appropriate.  Debtor expressly agrees that Secured Party or Trustee may offer the Collateral as a whole or in such parcels or lots as Secured Party or Trustee elects, regardless of the manner in which the Collateral may be described.
 
F.           Postponement of Sale.  Any sale of the Collateral conducted under this Article V may be postponed from time to time as provided by applicable law; or, in the absence of any such provisions, Secured Party may postpone the sale of the Collateral or any part thereof by public announcement at the time and place of such sale, and from time to time thereafter may further postpone such sale by public announcement made at the time of sale fixed by the preceding postponement.  Sale of a part of the Collateral will not exhaust the power of sale, and sales may be made from time to time until all Collateral is sold or the Secured Obligations are paid in full.
 
G.           Secured Party’s Right to Purchase.  Secured Party shall have the right to bid or to become the purchaser at any sale made pursuant to the provisions of this Article V, and shall have the right to credit upon the amount of the bid made therefor the amount payable to it out of the net proceeds of such sale.
 
H.           Conveyance to Purchaser.  Any lawful sale of the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Article V will operate to divest all right, title, interest, claim and demand of Debtor in and to the property sold and will be a perpetual bar against Debtor and shall, subject to applicable law, vest title in the purchaser free and clear of all liens, security interests and encumbrances, including without limitation, liens, security interests and encumbrances junior or subordinate to the liens, security interests and encumbrances created by this Instrument.  Upon any lawful sale of the Collateral or any portion thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Article V, the receipt by Secured Party, Trustee, the sheriff or other official or party responsible for conducting the sale, shall be sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers at any sale for the purchase money, and such purchaser or purchasers and the heirs, devisees, personal representatives, successors and assigns thereof shall not, after paying such purchase money and receiving such receipt of Secured Party, Trustee, the sheriff or such other official or party, be obliged to see to the application thereof or be in anywise answerable for any loss, misapplication or nonapplication thereof.  Any purchaser at a sale will, subject to mandatory redemption periods, if any, receive immediate possession of the Collateral purchased, and Debtor agrees that if Debtor retains possession of the Collateral or any part thereof subsequent to such sale, Debtor will be considered a tenant at sufferance of the purchaser, and will, if Debtor remains in possession after demand to remove, be guilty of forcible detainer, and will be subject to eviction and removal, forcible or otherwise, with or without process of law and all damages to Debtor by reason thereof are hereby expressly waived by Debtor.

 
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Section 5.4             Personal Property.  Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, or at any time thereafter, in addition to all other rights, powers and remedies herein conferred or conferred by operation of law, Secured Party shall have all of the rights and remedies of an assignee and secured party granted by applicable law, including without limitation, the applicable Uniform Commercial Code as then in effect, and shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, have the right and power, but not the obligation, to take possession of the personal property included in the Collateral and any proceeds thereof wherever located, and for that purpose Secured Party may enter upon any premises on which any or all of such personal property is located and take possession of and operate such personal property or remove the same therefrom.  Secured Party may require Debtor to assemble such personal property and make it available to Secured Party at a place to be designated by Secured Party that is reasonably convenient to both parties.  The following presumptions shall exist and shall be deemed conclusive with regard to the exercise by Secured Party of any of its remedies with respect to personal property:
 
A.           If notice is required by applicable law, Debtor agrees that ten days’ prior written notice of the time and place of any public sale or of the time after which any private sale or any other intended disposition thereof is to be made shall be deemed reasonable notice to Debtor.  No such notice is necessary if such property is perishable, threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market.
 
B.           If Secured Party in good faith believes that the Securities Act of 1933 or any other state or federal law prohibits or restricts the customary manner of sale or distribution of any of such property, Secured Party may sell such property privately or in any other manner deemed advisable by Secured Party at such price or prices as Secured Party determines in its sole discretion.  Debtor recognizes that such prohibition or restriction may cause such property to have less value than it otherwise would have and that, consequently, such sale or disposition by Secured Party may result in a lower sales price than if the sale were otherwise held.
 
Section 5.5             Possession.  Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, or at any time thereafter, in addition to all other rights, powers and remedies herein conferred or conferred by operation of law, Secured Party shall, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, have the right and power, but not the obligation, to enter upon and take immediate possession of the Collateral or any portion thereof, to exclude Debtor therefrom, to hold, use, operate, manage, enjoy and control such Collateral, to make all such repairs, replacements, alterations, additions and improvements to the same as Secured Party may deem proper or expedient, to sell all of the severed and extracted ore, gold and Other Minerals included in the same subject to the provisions of Article III hereof, to demand, collect and retain all other earnings, rents, issues, profits, proceeds and other sums due or to become due with respect to such Collateral accounting for and applying to the payment of the Secured Obligations only the net earnings arising therefrom after charging against the receipts therefrom all fees, costs, expenses, charges, damages and losses incurred by reason thereof plus interest thereon without any liability to Debtor in connection therewith.  Such possession shall at once be delivered to Secured Party upon request, and on refusal or failure to so deliver possession, the delivery of such possession may be enforced by Secured Party by any appropriate civil suit or proceeding.

 
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Section 5.6             Appointment of Receiver.  Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, or at any time thereafter, in addition to all other rights, powers and remedies herein conferred or conferred by operation of law, Secured Party shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver of the Collateral without the necessity of the posting of a bond or notice; and shall, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, be entitled to such receiver as a matter of right, without regard to the solvency or insolvency of Debtor, the value or adequacy of the Collateral or the Collateral being in danger of being materially injured or reduced in value as security by removal, destruction, deterioration, accumulation of prior liens or otherwise; and such receiver may be appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction upon ex parte application, and without notice, notice being expressly waived.  Debtor does hereby consent to the appointment of such receiver or receivers, waive any and all defenses to such appointment, and agree not to oppose any application therefor by Secured Party, and agree that such appointment shall in no manner impair, prejudice or otherwise affect the rights of Secured Party under this Article V.  Nothing herein is to be construed to deprive Secured Party of any other right, remedy or privilege it may now or hereafter have under law to have a receiver appointed.  Any money advanced by Secured Party in connection with any such receivership shall be a demand obligation owing by Debtor to Secured Party.  Any such receiver shall have all powers conferred by the court appointing such receiver, which powers shall, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law include, without limitation, the right to enter upon and take immediate possession of the Collateral or any part thereof, to exclude Debtor therefrom, to hold, use, operate, manage and control such Collateral, to make all such repairs, replacements, alterations, additions and improvements to the same as such receiver or Secured Party may deem proper or expedient, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer the Collateral or any portion thereof as such receiver or Secured Party may deem proper or expedient, to lease, sell or otherwise transfer the Collateral or any portion thereof as such receiver or Secured Party may deem proper or expedient, to sell all of the severed and extracted ore, gold and Other Minerals included in the same subject to the provisions of Article III hereof, to demand and collect all of the other earnings, rents, issues, profits, proceeds and other sums due or to become due with respect to such Collateral, accounting for only the net earnings arising therefrom after charging against the receipts therefrom all fees, costs, expenses, charges, damages and losses incurred by reason thereof plus interest thereon without any liability to Debtor in connection therewith which net earnings shall be turned over by such receiver to Secured Party to be applied by Secured Party to the payment of the Secured Obligations in the order set forth in Section 5.10.
 
Section 5.7             Waiver by Debtor.  To the extent not prohibited by applicable law, Debtor agrees that Debtor shall not at any time have, invoke, utilize or assert any right under any laws pertaining to the marshaling of assets or liens, the sale of property in the inverse order of alienation, the exemption of homesteads, the administration of estates of decedents, appraisement, moratorium, valuation, stay, extension or redemption now or hereafter in force, and Debtor hereby waives the benefit of all such laws to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law.
 
Section 5.8             Remedies Cumulative.  All rights, powers and remedies herein conferred are cumulative, and not exclusive, of (A) any and all other rights and remedies herein conferred, (B) any and all rights, powers and remedies existing at law or in equity, and (C) any and all other rights, powers and remedies provided for in any other documents or instruments evidencing, securing or relating to the Secured Obligations, and Secured Party shall, in addition to the rights, powers and remedies herein conferred, be entitled to avail itself of all such other rights, powers and remedies as may now or hereafter exist at law or in equity for the collection of and enforcement of the Secured Obligations and the enforcement of the warranties, representations, covenants, indemnities and other agreements contained in this Instrument and the other documents and instruments evidencing, securing or relating to the Secured Obligations and the foreclosure of the liens and security interests created by this Instrument.  Each and every such right, power and remedy may be exercised from time to time and as often and in such order as may be deemed expedient by Secured Party and the exercise of any such right, power or remedy shall not be deemed a waiver of the right to exercise, at the same time or thereafter, any other right, power or remedy.  No delay or omission by Secured Party or by Trustee, the sheriff or other official or person in the exercise of any right, power or remedy will impair any such right, power or remedy or operate as a waiver thereof or of any other right, power or remedy then or thereafter existing.

 
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Section 5.9             Costs and Expenses.  All fees, costs and expenses (including without limitation, attorneys’ fees and legal expenses), incurred by or on behalf of Secured Party or Trustee in protecting and enforcing their rights hereunder or incident to the enforcement of this Instrument and the liens and security interests created hereby, shall be a demand obligation owing by Debtor to Secured Party.
 
Section 5.10             Application of Proceeds.  The proceeds of any sale of the Collateral or any part thereof made pursuant to this Article V shall be applied as may be required by applicable law, or in the absence of any such requirements, as follows:
 
A.           First, to the payment of all fees, costs, expenses and penalties incident to the enforcement of this Instrument and the liens and security interests created hereby, including without limitation, the fees, costs and expenses described in Section 5.9 hereof;
 
B.           Second, to the payment of all fees, costs, expenses and penalties remaining unpaid under the Debenture;
 
C.           Third, to the payment or prepayment of accrued interest remaining unpaid on the Debenture;
 
D.           Fourth, to the payment or prepayment of principal remaining unpaid on the Debenture in such order as Secured Party may elect;
 
E.           Fifth, to the payment or prepayment of the Secured Obligations other than the Secured Obligations evidenced by the Debenture in such order as Secured Party may elect; and
 
F.           Sixth, the remainder, if any, shall be paid to Debtor or such other person or persons as may be legally entitled thereto.
 
Section 5.11           Limitation on Rights and Waivers.  All rights, powers and remedies herein conferred shall be exercisable by Trustee and Secured Party only to the extent not prohibited by applicable law; and all waivers and relinquishments of rights and similar matters shall only be effective to the extent such waivers or relinquishments are not prohibited by applicable law.
 
ARTICLE VI
 
Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Section 6.1             Waiver.  Any and all covenants of Debtor in this Instrument may from time to time, be waived by Secured Party by an instrument in writing signed by Secured Party to such extent and in such manner as Secured Party may desire, but no such waiver will ever affect or impair Secured Party’s rights hereunder, except to the extent specifically stated in such written instrument.  All changes to, amendments and modifications of this Instrument must be in writing and signed by Secured Party.
 

 
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Section 6.2             Severability.  If any provision of this Instrument or of any of the instruments and documents evidencing, securing or relating to the Secured Obligations is invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such provision shall be fully severable from this Instrument and the other provisions hereof and of said instruments and documents shall remain in full force and effect in such jurisdiction and the remaining provisions hereof shall be liberally construed in favor of Secured Party and Trustee in order to carry out the provisions and intent hereof.  The invalidity of any provision of this Instrument in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any such provision in any other jurisdiction.
 
Section 6.3             Subrogation.  This Instrument is made with full substitution and subrogation of Secured Party and Trustee in and to all covenants and warranties by others heretofore given or made with respect to the Collateral or any part thereof.
 
Section 6.4             Financing Statement.  This Instrument shall be deemed to be and may be enforced from time to time as an assignment, contract, deed of trust, mortgage, financing statement, real estate mortgage or security agreement, and from time to time as any one or more thereof is appropriate under applicable state law.  Debtor hereby authorizes Secured Party to file one or more financing or continuation statements, and amendments thereto, relative to all or any part of the Collateral without the signature of Debtor at any time after the execution of this Instrument, and hereby ratifies any thereof filed prior to the execution of this Instrument.
 
Section 6.5             Rate of Interest.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no rate of interest required hereunder or under the Secured Obligations shall exceed the maximum legal rate under applicable law, and, in the event any such rate is found to exceed such maximum legal rate, Debtor shall be required to pay only such maximum legal rate.
 
Section 6.6             Governing Law.  Insofar as permitted by otherwise applicable law, this Instrument shall be construed under and governed by the laws of the state of Colorado without giving effect to the conflicts of laws principles thereof.
 
Section 6.7             Recording.  All recording references in the Exhibits hereto are to the official real property records of the county in which the affected Land is located and in which records such documents are or in the past have been customarily recorded, whether deed records, oil and gas records, oil and gas lease records or other records.  The references in this Instrument and in the Exhibits hereto to liens, encumbrances and other burdens are for the purposes of defining the nature and extent of Debtor’s warranties and shall not be deemed to ratify, recognize or create any rights in third parties.
 
Section 6.8             Execution in Counterparts.  This Instrument may be executed in one or more original counterparts.  To facilitate filing and recording, there may be omitted from any counterpart the parts of Exhibit A containing specific descriptions of the Collateral that relate to land located in counties other than the county in which the particular counterpart is to be filed or recorded.  Each counterpart shall be deemed to be an original for all purposes, and all counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
 
Section 6.9             Notices.  All notices given hereunder shall be in writing, shall be given by certified mail, return receipt requested, overnight courier service, telecopy, facsimile or copy delivered by hand, and, (A) if mailed, shall be deemed received three business days after having been deposited in a receptacle for United States mail, postage prepaid, (B) if delivered by overnight air courier service, shall be deemed received one business day after having been deposited with such overnight air courier service, postage prepaid, and (C) if delivered by telex, telecopy or hand delivery, shall be deemed received on the day the notice is sent if the sender thereof exercises reasonable efforts to confirm receipt thereof, in each case addressed as follows:

 
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If to Debtor:
 
Hunter Bates Mining Corporation
900 IDS Center
80 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN  55402-8773
Attention: Mark D. Dacko
Fax. No.:  (612) 395-5276
 
If to Secured Party:
 
Cabo Drilling (America), Inc.
3rd Floor, 120 Lonsdale Avenue,
North Vancouver, BC  V7M 2E8, Canada
Attention: President
Fax. No.:  (604) 983-8056
 
Any party may, by written notice so delivered to the others, change the address or facsimile number to which delivery shall thereafter be made.
 
Section 6.10             Binding Effect.  This Instrument shall bind and inure to the benefit of the respective permitted successors and assigns of Debtor, Secured Party and Trustee.
 
Section 6.11             Filing.  Some of the above described goods are or are to become fixtures on the Land described in Exhibit A.  This Instrument is to be filed for record in, among other places, the real estate records of each county identified in Exhibit A.  This instrument covers fixtures, as-extracted collateral and minerals or the like or other substances of value which may be extracted from the earth and the accounts relating thereto, including accounts resulting from the sale thereof at the minehead thereof.  Debtor is the owner of an interest of record in the real estate concerned.
 
Executed as of the date first above written.
 
DEBTOR:
 
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
a Minnesota corporation
 
By:  /s/ Mark D. Dacko
 
  Printed Name: Mark D. Dacko
  Title: CFO
 
 
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EX-4.7 9 v162117_ex4-7.htm
Exhibit 4.7

SECONDARY DEED OF TRUST AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

THIS SECONDARY DEED OF TRUST AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (“Deed of Trust”) is made as of the 11th day of September, 2008, between HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION, a Minnesota corporation (“Grantor”), having an office at 900 IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis MN 55402-8773, and the Gilpin County Public Trustee (“Trustee”), whose address is 203 Eureka Street, P.O. Box 368, Central City, CO, 80427.

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, that certain Deed of Trust made by Grantor (the “Otten Deed of Trust”), in favor of the Trustee, as trustee for George E. Otten, was issued to secure and enforce the payment of certain obligations of Grantor, including without limitation, that certain Promissory Note dated on or about June 9, 2008 in the principal amount of Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand and 00/100 Canadian Dollars (CND $6,750,000.00) made by Grantor and payable to the order of George E. Otten, a Colorado resident whose address is 11438 Weld County Rd 19, Fort Lupton, CO, 80621 (or his nominee or assignee), with interest and payments, all as provided therein, being due and payable in full on December 31, 2015 (or earlier as provided for therein), and all modifications, renewals or extensions thereof (the “Otten Note”) and all obligations of the Otten Deed of Trust or any other instruments (“Otten Loan Documents”) executed by Grantor in favor of George E. Otten now or hereafter evidencing or securing the above-described indebtedness or any part thereof (collectively the “Otten Indebtedness”);

WHEREAS, George E. Otten filed the Otten Deed of Trust with the Gilpin County Clerk and Recorder on or about June 9, 2008, as Document No. 136731;

WHEREAS, Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., the parent company to Grantor (“Wits Basin”), has previously executed (i) a senior secured convertible note in the principal amount of One Million Twenty Thousand Dollars ($1,020,000), dated February 11, 2008 in favor of Platinum Long Term Growth V, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company whose address is Carnegie Hall Tower, 152 W. 57th Street, 54th Floor, New York, NY 10019 (“Platinum”) and (ii) a secured promissory note in the principal amount of One Hundred Ten Thousand Dollars ($110,000), dated on or about July 10, 2008 in favor of Platinum (collectively, the “Notes”) (Platinum, as payee of the Notes, and all subsequent holders of the Notes or any part thereof or any interest therein or in any of the Secured Indebtedness, are hereinafter referred to as the “Beneficiary”) and certain related agreements with Platinum and (collectively, as amended, restated, or extended from time to time, the “Loan Documents”) and Platinum has agreed to make loans to Wits Basin in consideration thereof for up to One Million One Hundred Thirty Thousand Dollars ($1,130,000) (the “Loans”);

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Loan Documents, Grantor is obligated to secure the repayment of the Notes and all obligations, indebtedness and liabilities of the Loan Documents executed by Wits Basin in favor of the Beneficiary now or hereafter evidencing or securing the indebtedness or any part thereof owed to Platinum (the “Secured Indebtedness”).  The terms and provisions of the Notes are incorporated herein by this reference;

 
 

 

In order to secure repayment of the Secured Indebtedness, Grantor does hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the Trustee, in trust forever, that certain property situate in Gilpin County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, which is commonly known as the Hunter Gold Mine (sometimes collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Property” or the “Mortgaged Property”); provided however that this Deed of Trust and any and all liens on the Mortgaged Property securing the Secured Indebtedness hereby shall be and remain subordinate to the Otten Indebtedness, as amended, restated, or extended from time to time;

TOGETHER with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, easements, rights of way and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by Grantor, and any and all rights of ingress and egress to and from adjoining property (whether such rights now exist or subsequently arise), together with the reversion or reversions, remainder or remainders, and rents, issues and profits thereof, and also the entire estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever of Grantor of, in and to the same and of, in and to every part and parcel thereof; and

TOGETHER with all buildings, structures, parking structures and improvements now or hereafter located on the Mortgaged Property, including any and all easements and rights of way used in connection therewith; and

TOGETHER with all right, title and interest of Grantor, if any, in all trees, shrubs, flowers and other landscaping features and all oil, gas, minerals, water, water rights, drains and drainage rights appurtenant to, located on, under or above or used in connection with the Mortgaged Property and the improvements situate thereon, or any part thereof, whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired; and

TOGETHER with all leases, rents, issues, royalties, bonus, income and profits, of each and every kind, now or hereafter relating to or arising from the Mortgaged Property and the improvements situate thereon; and

All of the foregoing property, interests and rights are sometimes hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Mortgaged Property, Improvements and Rights” or the “Property”;

AND, Grantor, for itself and its successors and assigns, represents, warrants and covenants that, and has good right and authority to grant, bargain, sell, convey, transfer, assign and mortgage the Property; that the execution and delivery of this Deed of Trust, the Notes and all other instruments securing the payment of the Notes do not contravene any law, order, decree, rule or regulation to which Grantor is subject; that the Notes, this Deed of Trust and all other instruments securing the payment of the Notes constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of Grantor and that Grantor will warrant and forever defend the title to the Property against the claims of all persons whomsoever claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof, subject to all matters of record.

 
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AND, that for so long as the Secured Indebtedness or any part thereof remains unpaid, Grantor covenants and agrees for itself and its successors and assigns as follows:

1.           Covenants.

1.1           Payment.  Grantor will make prompt payment, as the same become due, of all installments of principal and interest on the Notes and of all the other Secured Indebtedness.
 
1.2           Maintenance of Mortgaged Property.  Grantor will cause the Mortgaged Property to be used, occupied and operated in accordance with all applicable laws and rules, regulations and orders promulgated by all duly constituted authorities.  Grantor will allow the Beneficiary and/or its authorized representatives to enter the Property at any reasonable time upon advance written notice to inspect the Property and Grantor’s books and records pertaining thereto, and Grantor will reasonably assist the Beneficiary and said representatives in whatever way necessary to make such inspection.  Subject to the rights of the beneficiary under the Otten Deed of Trust (the “Otten Beneficiary”), the Beneficiary shall be entitled to participate in any condemnation proceeding concerning the proceeding.  If an Event of Default hereunder shall have occurred and be continuing, any proceeds of such condemnation shall, subject to the rights of the Otten Beneficiary, be applied by the Beneficiary to amounts outstanding under the Loan Documents.
 
1.3           Taxes.  Grantor shall pay or cause to be paid prior to delinquency, except to the extent provision is actually made therefor as set forth hereinafter, all taxes and assessments theretofore or hereafter levied or assessed against the Property, or any part thereof, or any other tax asserted as a substitute therefor and upon request, will furnish the Beneficiary with receipts showing payment of such taxes and assessments on or before the applicable due date therefor; except that Grantor may in good faith, by appropriate proceedings, contest and diligently pursue such contest, the validity, applicability or amount of any asserted tax or assessment; provided, however, that in any event each such contest shall be concluded and the taxes, assessments, interests, costs and penalties shall be paid prior to the date any writ or order is issued under which the Property may be sold.
 
1.4           Books and Records.  Grantor will keep accurate books and records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in which full, true and correct entries shall be promptly made as to all operations on the Property, and, as often as reasonably requested by the Beneficiary, but not more often than once in each calendar quarter.  Grantor will make full reports of operations in such form as the Beneficiary prescribes, setting out full data as to the exploration activities and expenditures, mine development activities and expenditures, mining activities and expenditures and all revenues from the Property.
 
2.           Remedies and Events of Default.

2.1           Events of Default.  The term "default" or "event of default" as used in this Deed of Trust shall mean the occurrence of any of the following events:

 
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(a)           Any default, event of default, or event that, with the giving of notice or the passage of time or both would constitute a default or event of default, under the Notes or the Loan Documents; or

(b)           Except for a payment default described in paragraph (a) hereof, the failure of Grantor to make any payment due hereunder within forty-five (45) days from the date such payment is due; or

(c)           The failure of Grantor to timely and properly observe, keep or perform any material nonmonetary covenant, agreement, warranty or condition herein required to be observed, kept or performed, except that Grantor shall have one hundred and twenty (120) days from notice of such failure to cure such default and if such default cannot be cured within one hundred and twenty (120) days, Grantor shall have a reasonable period of time within which to cure such default, provided Grantor promptly commences curative action and prosecutes such curative action diligently to completion and provided such default or failure can be and is cured within six months from the date of such notice.

2.2           Acceleration.  Upon the occurrence of a default, which is not cured during the applicable cure period, if any, the Beneficiary shall have the option of declaring all the Secured Indebtedness in its entirety to be immediately due and payable without notice to Grantor, and the liens and security interests evidenced hereby shall be subject to foreclosure in any manner provided for herein and as provided by law.

2.3           Management and Possession.  Subject to the rights of the Otten Beneficiary, upon the occurrence of a default which is not cured during the applicable cure period, if any, the Beneficiary is authorized, whether prior or subsequent to the institution of any foreclosure proceedings, to enter upon the Property, or any part thereof, and to take possession of the Property and to exercise, without interference from Grantor, any and all rights to construct, manage, possess, operate, protect or preserve the Property and all equipment, data, documents, records, samples, minerals, ore and other materials relating to and/or derived from the Property (the “Associated Materials”), and to deduct from the proceeds (if any) resulting from the exercise of such rights all reasonable costs, expenses and liabilities of every character incurred by the Beneficiary in exercising such rights and in managing, operating, maintaining, protecting or preserving the Property and the Associated Materials and to apply the remainder of such proceeds on the indebtedness secured hereby in such manner as the Beneficiary may elect.  If necessary to obtain the possession provided for above, subject to the rights of the Otten Beneficiary, the Beneficiary may invoke any and all legal remedies to dispossess Grantor.

 
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2.4           Foreclosure as Deed of Trust.  Upon the occurrence of a default hereunder, which is not cured during the applicable cure period, if any, the Beneficiary may, subject to the rights of any beneficiary holding priority rights, declare a violation of any of the covenants hereof and elect to advertise the Mortgaged Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and other rights relating to the foregoing, for sale and demand such sale.  Then, upon filing notice of such election and demand for sale with the Trustee, the Trustee shall proceed to foreclose upon the Property and, if directed to do so by the Beneficiary, upon the Associated Materials, all as provided by applicable law.  The Trustee shall provide public notice of such foreclosure sale as provided by applicable law.  Subject to the rights of any beneficiary holding priority rights, the Trustee shall sell and dispose of the Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and rights relating to the foregoing (en masse or in separate parcels, as the Trustee may think best) and all the right, title and interest of Grantor, and its successors and assigns therein, at public auction all in accordance with the provisions of Colorado Statutes.  Such sale(s) shall be a perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against Grantor and its successors and assigns, and all other persons claiming the Mortgaged Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and rights relating to the foregoing, or any part thereof by, through, from or under Grantor.  The Beneficiary may purchase the Mortgaged Property, the Associated Materials, and all improvements and rights relating the foregoing, or any part thereof, and may bid in any part or all of the indebtedness secured hereby, and the purchaser(s) at any such sale shall not be obligated to see to the application of the purchase money.

Any reasonable costs incurred by Beneficiary or its attorney as a part of the cost of foreclosure in conjunction with Grantor's default hereunder shall be deemed allowable by the Trustee in a foreclosure action.  Such allowable costs shall include, but not be limited to, appraisal fees, attorney fees and all costs incurred by Beneficiary or its attorney in conjunction with securing, preserving and maintaining the Property, the Associated Materials, and any improvements and rights relating to the foregoing, such as, by way of example and not by way of limitation, costs incurred in conjunction with the appointment and/or institution of a receivership (whether or not a receiver be appointed).

2.5           Foreclosure as Mortgage.  This instrument shall be effective as a mortgage and a security agreement as well as a deed of trust and, upon the occurrence of a default, may be foreclosed, at the election of the Beneficiary, as to any of the Property or the Associated Materials in any manner permitted by the laws of the State of Colorado.

2.6           Application of Proceeds.  The proceeds of any sale in foreclosure of the liens evidenced hereby shall be applied:

FIRST, to the payment of all costs and expenses incident to such foreclosure sale, including, but not limited to, all reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs and charges of every character, and the statutory fee to the Trustee;

SECOND, to the payment in full of the Secured Indebtedness (including, specifically, without limitation, the principal, interest, late charges and attorneys' fees due and unpaid on the Notes and the amounts due and unpaid and owed to the Beneficiary under this Deed of Trust) in such order as the Beneficiary may elect; and

THIRD, the remainder, if any, shall be paid in accordance with applicable statutory provisions or court order.

 
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2.7           Receiver.  In addition to all other remedies herein provided for, Grantor agrees that upon the occurrence of a default, the Beneficiary shall, as a matter of right, be entitled to an ex parte appointment of a receiver or receivers for all or any part of the Property and the Associated Materials without regard to the value of the Property or the Associated Materials or to the solvency of any person or persons liable for the payment of the indebtedness secured hereby, and Grantor does hereby consent to the appointment of such receiver or receivers, waives any and all defenses to such appointment and agrees not to oppose any application therefor by the Beneficiary, but nothing herein is to be construed to deprive Beneficiary of any other right, remedy or privilege it may now have under the law to have a receiver appointed; provided, however, that the appointment of such receiver, trustee or other appointee by virtue of any court order, statute or regulation shall not impair or in any manner prejudice the rights of the Beneficiary to receive payment of the rents and income.  The receiver or his/her/its agents shall be entitled to enter upon and take possession of any and all of the Property and the Associated Materials.  The receiver, personally or through its agents or attorneys, may exclude Grantor and its agents, servants and employees wholly from the Property and the Associated Materials and have, hold, use, operate, manage and control the same and each and every part thereof, and keep insured, the Property and the Associated Materials.  Such receivership shall, at the option of the Beneficiary, continue until full payment of all sums, hereby secured, then due and payable or until title to the Property and the Associated Materials shall have passed by foreclosure sale under this Deed of Trust and the period of redemption, if any, shall have expired.

2.8           Remedies Cumulative.  All remedies herein expressly provided for are cumulative of any and all other remedies existing at law or in equity and are cumulative of any and all other remedies provided for in any other instrument securing the payment of the Secured Indebtedness, or any part thereof, or otherwise benefiting the Beneficiary, and the Trustee and the Beneficiary shall, in addition to the remedies herein provided, be entitled to avail themselves of all such other remedies as may now or hereafter exist at law or in equity for the collection of the Secured Indebtedness and the enforcement of the covenants herein and the foreclosure of the liens and security interests evidenced hereby, and the use of any remedy provided for hereunder or under any such other instrument or provided for by law shall not prevent the concurrent or subsequent use of any other appropriate remedy or remedies.  The Beneficiary shall be entitled to enforce the provisions of this Deed of Trust and to exercise its rights and remedies hereunder notwithstanding that some or all of the indebtedness hereby secured is now or shall hereafter be otherwise secured, whether by mortgage, pledge, lien, assignment or otherwise.  Neither the acceptance of this Deed of Trust nor the enforcement thereof shall prejudice or in any manner affect the right of the Beneficiary to realize upon or enforce any other security now or hereafter held by the Beneficiary, it being understood that the Beneficiary shall be entitled to enforce this Deed of Trust and any other security now or hereafter held by it in such order and manner as it may in its sole discretion determine.

2.9           Election of Remedies.  The Beneficiary may resort to any security given by this Deed of Trust or to any other security now existing or hereafter given to secure the payment of the Secured Indebtedness, in whole or in part, and in such portions and in such order as may seem best to the Beneficiary in its sole discretion.

 
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2.10           Tenancy of Grantor.  In the event there is a foreclosure sale hereunder and at the time of such sale Grantor or its representatives, successors or assigns or any other persons claiming any interest in the Property and/or the Associated Materials by, through or under Grantor are occupying or using the Property and/or the Associated Materials, or any part thereof, each and all shall, at the option of the Beneficiary or the purchaser at such sale, as the case may be, immediately become the tenant of the Beneficiary or said purchaser and said tenancy shall be terminable at will by the Beneficiary or said purchaser, as the case may be.  In the event any tenant fails to surrender possession of said Property and the Associated Materials upon the exercise of such option, the purchaser shall be entitled to institute and maintain an action for forcible entry and detainer.

3.           Miscellaneous.

3.1           Release.  If the Secured Indebtedness is paid in full, then and in that event only, all rights under this Deed of Trust shall be released by the Beneficiary in due form at Grantor's cost.  No release of this Deed of Trust or the lien thereof shall be valid unless executed by the Beneficiary.

3.2           Beneficiary Rights.  Without affecting the responsibility of Grantor for the performance of the covenants and agreements herein contained, and without affecting the lien of this Deed of Trust upon any of the Property and the Associated Materials, the Beneficiary may at any time and from time to time without notice in writing:  (a) waive compliance by Grantor with any covenant herein made by Grantor to the extent and in the manner specified in such writing; (b) consent to Grantor doing any act which hereunder Grantor is required to do, to the extent and in the manner specified in such writing; (c) release any part of the Property and/or the Associated Materials, or any interest therein, from the lien and security interest of this Deed of Trust; (d) release any party liable, either directly or indirectly, for the Secured Indebtedness or for any covenant herein or in any other instrument now or hereafter securing the payment of the Secured Indebtedness, without impairing or releasing the liability of any other party; (e) extend the time for payment of the Notes or otherwise grant indulgences or modify the Notes, or (f) subordinate the lien hereof.

3.3           Maximum Interest.  Any provision contained herein, in the Notes or in any other instrument evidencing, securing or otherwise relating to any of the Secured Indebtedness to the contrary notwithstanding, the Beneficiary shall not be entitled to receive or collect, nor shall Grantor be obligated to pay, interest on any of the Secured Indebtedness in excess of the maximum rate of interest permitted by applicable law, and if any provision herein, in the Notes or in such other instrument shall ever be construed or held to permit the collection or to require the payment of any amount of interest in excess of that permitted by applicable law, the provisions of the Notes shall control and shall override any contrary or inconsistent provision herein or in such other document or instrument.

 
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3.4           Notices.  Any and all notices, elections, demands, requests, and responses thereto permitted or required to be given under this Deed of Trust shall be in writing, signed by or on behalf of the party giving the same, and shall be deemed to have been properly given and shall be effective upon being personally delivered, or upon being deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, certified with return receipt requested, or upon being deposited with an overnight commercial delivery service requiring proof of delivery, to the other party at the address of such other party set forth above or at such other address within the continental United States as such other party may designate by notice specifically designated as a notice of change of address and given in accordance herewith; provided, however, that the time period in which a response to any such notice, election, demand or request must be given shall commence on the date of receipt thereof; and provided further that no notice of change of address shall be effective until the date of receipt thereof.  Personal delivery to a party or to any officer, partner, agent or employee of such party at said address shall constitute receipt.  Rejection or other refusal to accept or inability to deliver because of changed address of which no notice has been received shall also constitute receipt.  Any such notice, election, demand, request or response to the respective parties shall be addressed to the addresses provided above.  A copy of any notices addressed to the Trustee and/or the Beneficiary shall be delivered at the same time to Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC, 30 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05042, Attn: Shane W. McCormack.

3.5           Binding Effect.  The terms, provisions, covenants and conditions hereof shall be binding upon Grantor and the heirs, representatives, successors and assigns of Grantor, including all heirs and successors in interest of Grantor in and to all or any part of the Property and/or the Associated Materials, and shall inure to the benefit of Grantor, the Trustee and the Beneficiary and their respective successors and assigns, substitutes and assigns and shall constitute covenants running with the land.  All references in this Deed of Trust to Grantor, the Trustee or the Beneficiary shall be deemed to include all such representatives, successors, substitutes and assigns.

3.6           Invalidity.  A determination that any provision of this Deed of Trust is unenforceable or invalid shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any remaining provision, and any determination that the application of any provision of this Deed of Trust to any person or circumstance is illegal or unenforceable shall not affect the enforceability or validity of such provision as it may apply to any other persons or circumstances.

3.7           Redemption.  In the event the Property or any part thereof shall be sold upon foreclosure as provided hereunder, the sum for which the same shall have been sold shall, for purposes of redemption (pursuant to Section 38-38-301, et seq., C.R.S., or the corresponding provisions of any future law), bear interest at the rate of interest provided in the Notes from the date of sale until paid.

3.8           Governing Law.  This Deed of Trust and the Notes secured hereby shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Colorado at the date of execution.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantor has executed this instrument as of the date first set forth above.

 
GRANTOR:
     
 
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
     
 
By:
/s/ Mark D. Dacko
 
Mark D. Dacko, Chief Financial Officer

STATE OF MINNESOTA
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) ss.
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN
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The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this 11th day of September, 2008, by Mark D. Dacko, as CFO of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, on behalf of the corporation.

 
/s/ Cynthia Koosmann
 
Notary Public

 

 
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EXHIBIT 4.8
 
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 OR UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION (TOGETHER, THE “SECURITIES LAWS”) AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED OR ENCUMBERED IN THE ABSENCE OF COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH SECURITIES LAWS AND UNTIL THE ISSUER THEREOF SHALL HAVE RECEIVED AN OPINION FROM COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO IT THAT THE PROPOSED DISPOSITION WILL NOT VIOLATE ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS.
 
CERTIFICATE NO: 2
 
PROMISSORY NOTE
 
$2,500,000.00
September 28, 2009
  
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota (“Issuer”), hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the order of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation, or its successors and assigns (the “Holder”), the principal sum of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars and 00/100 Cents ($2,500,000.00) (the “Principal”) plus interest on the unpaid Principal at a per annum rate equal to six percent (6%) compounded annually.  Interest shall be calculated on a basis of the actual number of days elapsed over a year of 365 days, commencing as of the date hereof.
 
1.           Payment of Principal and Interest.  Subject to acceleration or earlier payment as provided for elsewhere in this Note, the Principal, and any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall be payable in installments of $150,000, commencing on December 31, 2009 and then quarterly (on March 31, June 30 and September 30) thereafter for the next 15 calendar quarters, with all remaining outstanding Principal and interest accrued and unpaid thereon being due and payable on December 31, 2013 (the “Maturity Date”).  Issuer shall make all payments payable in cash under this Note in lawful money of the United States.  All payments paid by Issuer to Holder under this Note shall be applied in the following order of priority:  (a) to amounts, other than Principal and interest, due to Holder pursuant to this Note for all costs of collection of any kind, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses; (b) to accrued but unpaid interest on this Note; and (c) to the unpaid Principal.  If Issuer makes any payment of Principal, interest or other amounts upon the indebtedness by check, draft, or other remittance, Holder shall not be deemed to have received such payment until Holder actually receives the payment instrument.
 
2.           Acceleration of Maturity Date.  If, prior to the satisfaction in full of Issuer’s payment obligations under this Note, Issuer either (i) generates net revenues in excess of $2,000,000 during any fiscal year, (ii) completes one or more financings in the aggregate amount of $10,000,000 or (iii) completes a Change in Control (as defined herein), Holder shall be entitled, at its option and with written notice delivered to Issuer, accelerate all outstanding Principal and interest accrued and unpaid thereon to be immediately due and payable.  For purposes of this Note, a “Change in Control” shall mean: (a) the acquisition, directly or indirectly, following the date hereof by any person (as such term is defined in Section 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of securities of the Company representing in excess of fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities if such person or his or its affiliate(s) do not own in excess of 50% of such voting power on the date of this Note; or (b) the future disposition by Issuer (whether direct or indirect, by sale of assets or stock, merger, consolidation or otherwise) of all or substantially all of its business and/or assets in one transaction or series of related transactions (other than a merger effected exclusively for the purpose of changing the domicile of Issuer).
 
 
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3.           Prepayment.  This Note may be prepaid in cash or other immediately available funds, in whole or in part, by Issuer at any time and from time to time, without premium or penalty (a “Prepayment”).
 
4.           Waiver.  Payment of Principal and interest due under this Note shall be made without presentment or demand.  The Issuer and all others at any time liable directly or indirectly (including, without limitation, the Issuer, any co-makers, endorsers, sureties and guarantors, all of which are referred to herein as “Parties”), severally waive presentment, demand and protest, notice of protest, demand, and dishonor, and nonpayment of this Note, and all diligence in collection and agree to pay all costs of collection when incurred, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, and to perform and comply with each of the covenants, conditions, provisions, and agreements of the Issuer contained in every instrument now evidencing the indebtedness.  No release by Holder of any security for payment of the Note or any modification or restructuring in respect of any lien or security interest held or at any time obtained or acquired by Holder for payment of such Note shall operate to release, discharge, impair or alter the liability of any Party liable at any time directly or indirectly for payment of such indebtedness.
 
5.           Renewal and Modification.  Issuer further agrees that the Note may be from time to time, extended, renewed, modified, rearranged, or evidenced by one or more other notes or obligations in substitution for this Note and upon and for such term or terms agreed to by Issuer and Holder in writing, and with or without notice to other Parties.  Issuer agrees that upon and after such extension, renewal, modification, rearrangement, substitution, or other change in form of the indebtedness, each of the other Parties shall remain liable in respect of the indebtedness so renewed, extended, modified, rearranged, or otherwise evidenced in the same capacity and to the same extent as prior thereto.  No release or discharge (in whole or in part) of any Party hereto by Holder shall in any manner impair, release, discharge, or alter the liability of any other Party.
 
6.           Events of Default.  Any one or more of the following events shall constitute an event of default (each, an “Event of Default”) under this Note: (a) Issuer shall fail to pay when due any Principal or interest on this Note and such failure is not remedied within five (5) days after written notice thereof by Holder; (b) Issuer’s assignment for the benefit of creditors, or filing of a petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization or to effect a plan or arrangement with creditors; (c) Issuer’s application for, or voluntary permission of, the appointment of a receiver of trustee for any or all Company property; (d) any action or proceeding described in the foregoing paragraphs (b) or (c) is commenced against Issuer and such action or proceeding is not vacated within sixty (60) days of its commencement; and (e) Issuer’s dissolution or liquidation.
 
7.           Rights and Remedies.  Upon the occurrence, and during the continuation, of an Event of Default (a) all Principal and accrued and unpaid interest thereon shall, at the option of Holder, and upon written notice to Holder delivered to Issuer, immediately become due and payable, (b) Holder shall have all rights, powers and remedies available to it under any applicable law or as otherwise provided at law or in equity; and (c) Issuer shall pay to Holder, in addition to the sums stated above, the costs of collection, regardless of whether litigation is commenced, including reasonable attorneys’ fees.
 
Holder may employ an attorney to enforce its rights and remedies hereunder and Issuer hereby agrees to pay Holder’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and other reasonable expenses, including reasonable expenses relating to any assistance provided by Holder to Issuer in resolving such defaults and amounts incurred by Holder in exercising any of Holder’s rights and remedies upon an Event of Default.  Holder’s rights and remedies under this Note shall be cumulative.  Holder shall have all other rights and remedies not inconsistent herewith as provided under the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of Minnesota, or otherwise by law, or in equity.  No exercise by Holder of one right or remedy shall be deemed an election, and no waiver by Holder of any Event of Default shall be deemed a continuing waiver.  No delay by Holder shall constitute a waiver, election, or acquiescence by it.
 
 
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8.           Revival and Reinstatement of Note.  To the extent that any payment to Holder or any payment or proceeds of any collateral received by Holder in reduction of the indebtedness is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a trustee, to Issuer (or Issuer’s successor) as a debtor-in-possession, or to a receiver or any other party under any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then the portion of the indebtedness intended to have been satisfied by such payment or proceeds shall remain due and payable hereunder, be evidenced by this Note, and shall continue in full force and effect as if such payment or proceeds had never been received by Holder whether or not this Note has been marked “paid” or otherwise canceled or satisfied or has been delivered to Issuer, and in such event Issuer shall be immediately obligated to return the original Note to Holder and any marking of “paid” or other similar marking shall be of no force and effect.
 
9.           Authority.  Issuer warrants and represents that the persons or officers who are executing this Note on behalf of Issuer have full right, power and authority to do so, and that this Note constitutes a valid and binding document, enforceable against Issuer in accordance with its terms, and that no other person, entity, or party is required to sign, approve, or consent to, this Note.
 
10.           Governing Law; Consent to Forum.  This Note shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota without giving effect to any choice of law rules thereof;
 
11.           Transfer of Note.  Issuer shall not transfer any obligations hereunder without Holder’s prior written consent, which may be withheld in Holder’s sole and absolute discretion.  With the prior written consent of Issuer, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed, Holder may participate, sell, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of its interest in this Note (including Holder’s rights, title, interests, remedies, powers and duties hereunder) to a purchaser, participant, any syndicate, or any other Person (each, a “Note Purchaser”).  In connection with any such disposition (and thereafter), Holder may, with adequate safeguards of confidentiality in a manner satisfactory to Issuer, disclose any financial information Holder may have concerning Issuer to any such Note Purchaser or potential Note Purchaser.
 
12.           Further Assurances.  Issuer agrees to execute and deliver such further documents and to do such other acts as Holder may request in order to effect or carry out the terms of this Note and the due performance of Issuer’s obligations hereunder and thereunder.
 
13.           Miscellaneous.
 
(a)           Issuer hereby waives presentment, demand, protest, and notice of dishonor and protest.  No waiver of any right or remedy of the Holder under this Note shall be valid unless in a writing executed by the Holder and any such waiver shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose given.  All rights and remedies of the Holder of this Note shall be cumulative and may be exercised singly, concurrently, or successively.
 
(b)           Unless otherwise provided herein, any notice required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be given by Issuer to the Holder or the Holder to Issuer in accordance with the addresses provided in the initial paragraph hereof.
 
(c)           Any provision of this Note that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof in that jurisdiction or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
 
 
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(d)           The terms “include”, “including” and similar terms shall be construed as if followed by the phrase “without being limited to.”  The term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning represented by the phrase “and/or.”  Words of masculine, feminine or neuter gender shall mean and include the correlative words of the other genders, and words importing the singular number shall mean and include the plural number, and vice versa.  All article, section, schedule, and exhibit captions are used for convenient reference only and in no way define, limit or describe the scope or intent of, or in any way affect, any such article, section, schedule, or exhibit.  Unless the context of this Note clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular, references to the singular include the plural.  Any reference in this Note to this Note shall include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, and supplements thereto, as applicable. An Event of Default shall “continue” or be “continuing” until such Event of Default has been waived in writing by Holder or completely cured in accordance with the terms of this Note.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Issuer has executed and delivered this Note as of the date first stated above.
 
 
 
ISSUER:

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION

By: /s/ Mark D. Dacko                            
Name: Mark D. Dacko                             
Title: Chief Financial Officer                  
 
 
Signature Page – Promissory Note
 
 
 

 
EX-4.9 11 v162117_ex4-9.htm
 
Exhibit 4.9

Summary of terms of warrants issued to certain consultants of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation.  These warrants are not yet certificated, but the parties intend to certificate based on the following material terms:

Five-year warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of Hunter Bates common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share.  Warrants include cashless exercise.  Prior to any attempted sale by the holder of any shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants, the holder is required to provide the Company a 30-day right of first refusal to purchase such shares at the same terms as offered to any third party.

 
 

 

 
EX-4.10 12 v162117_ex4-10.htm

Exhibit 4.10

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER EITHER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED, OFFERED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED FOR VALUE UNLESS THERE IS AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER SUCH ACT AND SUCH LAWS COVERING SUCH SECURITIES, OR THE COMPANY RECEIVES AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY STATING THAT SUCH SALE, TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, OFFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER DISTRIBUTION FOR VALUE IS EXEMPT FROM THE REGISTRATION AND PROSPECTUS DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS OF SUCH ACT AND SUCH LAWS.

WARRANT

TO PURCHASE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
OF
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(D/B/A STANDARD GOLD)

THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for good and valuable consideration, ____________________ (the “Holder”) is entitled to subscribe for and purchase from Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (d/b/a Standard Gold), a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), _______________________ (__________) fully paid and nonassessable shares of the Common Stock of the Company at the price of One Dollar ($1.00) per share (the “Warrant Exercise Price”), subject to the antidilution provisions of this Warrant.  This Warrant shall be exercisable from and after the date of this Warrant, and shall remain exercisable up to and including 5:00 p.m. Minneapolis, Minnesota, time on the fifth anniversary of such date (the “Expiration Date”).  The shares which may be acquired upon exercise of this Warrant are referred to herein as the “Warrant Shares.”  As used herein, the term “Holder” means the original Holder, any party who acquires all or a part of this Warrant as a registered transferee of the original Holder, or any record holder or holders of the Warrant Shares issued upon exercise, whether in whole or in part, of the Warrant.  As used herein, the term “Common Stock” means and includes the Company’s presently authorized common stock, and shall also include any capital stock of any class of the Company hereafter authorized which shall not be limited to a fixed sum or percentage in respect of the rights of the Holders thereof to participate in dividends or in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company.  As used herein, the “Share Exchange” shall mean the proposed share exchange transaction with Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a public reporting company which is quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“Princeton”) or other merger or business combination which results in the surviving company filing periodic reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
 
This Warrant is subject to the following provisions, terms and conditions:
 
1.           Exercise.  Subject to the provisions of Section 3 hereof, the rights represented by this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder hereof at any time after the Warrant is exercisable, but prior to its expiration, in whole or in part (but not as to a fractional share of Common Stock), by written notice of exercise (in the form attached hereto) delivered to the Company at the principal office of the Company prior to the Expiration Date and accompanied or preceded by the surrender of this Warrant along with a check in payment of the Warrant Exercise Price for such shares.

 
 

 

2.           Exchange and Replacement.  Subject to Sections 1 and 8 hereof, this Warrant is exchangeable upon the surrender hereof by the Holder to the Company at its office for new Warrants of like tenor and date representing in the aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder, each of such new Warrants to represent the right to purchase such number of Warrant Shares (not to exceed the aggregate total number purchasable hereunder) as shall be designated by the Holder at the time of such surrender. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction, or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it, and upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant of like tenor, in lieu of this Warrant.  This Warrant shall be promptly canceled by the Company upon the surrender hereof in connection with any exchange or replacement.  The Company shall pay all expenses, taxes (other than stock transfer taxes), and other charges payable in connection with the preparation, execution, and delivery of Warrants pursuant to this Section 2.
 
3.           Issuance of the Warrant Shares.
 
(a)           The Company agrees that the shares of Common Stock purchased hereby shall be and are deemed to be issued to the Holder as of the close of business on the date on which this Warrant shall have been surrendered and the payment made for such Warrant Shares as aforesaid.  Subject to the provisions of the next section, certificates for the Warrant Shares so purchased shall be delivered to the Holder within a reasonable time, not exceeding fifteen (15) days after the rights represented by this Warrant shall have been so exercised, and, unless this Warrant has expired, a new Warrant representing the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares, if any, with respect to which this Warrant shall not then have been exercised shall also be delivered to the Holder within such time.
 
(b)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Company shall not be required to deliver any certificate for Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant except in accordance with exemptions from the applicable securities registration requirements or registrations under applicable securities laws.  Such Holder shall also provide the Company with written representations from the Holder and the proposed transferee satisfactory to the Company regarding the transfer or, at the election of the Company, an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company to the effect that the proposed transfer of this Warrant or disposition of shares may be effected without registration or qualification (under any Federal or State law) of this Warrant or the Warrant Shares.  Upon receipt of such written notice and either such representations or opinion by the Company, such Holder shall be entitled to transfer this Warrant, or to exercise this Warrant in accordance with its terms and dispose of the Warrant Shares, all in accordance with the terms of the notice delivered by such Holder to the Company, provided that an appropriate legend, if any, respecting the aforesaid restrictions on transfer and disposition may be endorsed on this Warrant or the certificates for the Warrant Shares.  Nothing herein, however, shall obligate the Company to effect registration under federal or state securities laws, except as provided in Section 10.  The Holder agrees to execute such documents and make such representations, warranties, and agreements as may be required solely to comply with the exemption relied upon by the Company, or the registration made, for the issuance of the Warrant Shares.
 
4.           Covenants of the Company.  The Company covenants and agrees that all Warrant Shares will, upon issuance, be duly authorized and issued, fully paid, nonassessable, and free from all taxes, liens, and charges with respect to the issue thereof except for all taxes, liens and charges imposed by the Holder.  The Company further covenants and agrees that during the period within which the rights represented by this Warrant may be exercised, the Company will at all times have authorized and reserved for the purpose of issue or transfer upon exercise of the subscription rights evidenced by this Warrant a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to provide for the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant.

 
 

 
 
5.           Antidilution Adjustments.  The provisions of this Warrant are subject to adjustment as provided in this Section 5.
 
(a)         The Warrant Exercise Price shall be adjusted from time to time such that in case the Company shall hereafter:
 
 
(i)
pay any dividends on any class of stock of the Company payable in Common Stock or securities convertible into Common Stock;
 
 
(ii)
subdivide its then outstanding shares of Common Stock into a greater number of shares; or
 
 
(iii)
combine outstanding shares of Common Stock, by reclassification or otherwise;
 
then, in any such event, the Warrant Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such event shall (until adjusted again pursuant hereto) be adjusted immediately after such event to a price (calculated to the nearest full cent) determined by dividing (a) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such event, multiplied by the then existing Warrant Exercise Price, by (b) the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event (including the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of any securities convertible into Common Stock), and the resulting quotient shall be the adjusted Warrant Exercise Price per share.  An adjustment made pursuant to this Subsection shall become effective immediately after the record date in the case of a dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification.  If, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Subsection, the Holder of any Warrant thereafter surrendered for exercise shall become entitled to receive shares of two or more classes of capital stock or shares of Common Stock and other capital stock of the Company, the Board of Directors (whose determination shall be conclusive) shall determine the allocation of the adjusted Warrant Exercise Price between or among shares of such classes of capital stock or shares of Common Stock and other capital stock.  All calculations under this Subsection shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest 1/100 of a share, as the case may be.  If, at any time as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Subsection, the Holder of any Warrant thereafter surrendered for exercise shall become entitled to receive any shares of the Company other than shares of Common Stock, thereafter the Warrant Exercise Price of such other shares so receivable upon exercise of any Warrant shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to Common Stock contained in this Section 5.
 
(b)         Upon each adjustment of the Warrant Exercise Price pursuant to Section 5(a) above, the Holder of each Warrant shall thereafter (until another such adjustment) be entitled to purchase at the adjusted Warrant Exercise Price the number of shares, calculated to the nearest full share, obtained by multiplying the number of shares specified in such Warrant (as adjusted as a result of all adjustments in the Warrant Exercise Price in effect prior to such adjustment) by the Warrant Exercise Price in effect prior to such adjustment and dividing the product so obtained by the adjusted Warrant Exercise Price.

 
 

 

(c)         In case of any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, other than (i) the Share Exchange or (ii) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the continuing corporation, or in case of any sale or conveyance to another corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, or in the case of any statutory exchange of securities with another corporation (including any exchange effected in connection with a merger of a third corporation into the Company), there shall be no adjustment under Subsection (a) of this Section but the Holder of each Warrant then outstanding shall have the right thereafter to convert such Warrant into the kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities and property which such Holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive immediately after such consolidation, merger, statutory exchange, sale, or conveyance had such Warrant been converted immediately prior to the effective date of such consolidation, merger, statutory exchange, sale, or conveyance and in any such case, if necessary, appropriate adjustment (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in its sole discretion) shall be made in the application of the provisions set forth in this Section with respect to the rights and interests thereafter of any Holders of the Warrant, to the end that the provisions set forth in this Section shall thereafter correspondingly be made applicable, as nearly as may reasonably be, in relation to any shares of stock and other securities and property thereafter deliverable on the exercise of the Warrant.  The provisions of this Subsection shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, statutory exchanges, sales or conveyances.  In the event of the Share Exchange, the Holder acknowledges and agrees that the Warrant shall remain exercisable at the terms set forth herein, and, subject to appropriate adjustment (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in its sole discretion), no adjustment shall be made pursuant to this Section 5 and the exercise price of the Warrant shall not be otherwise adjusted.
 
(d)         Upon any adjustment of the Warrant Exercise Price, then and in each such case, the Company shall within ten (10) days after the date when the circumstances giving rise to the adjustment occurred give written notice thereof, by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the Holder as shown on the books of the Company, which notice shall state the Warrant Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment and the increase or decrease, if any, in the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable at such price upon the exercise of this Warrant, setting forth in reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such calculation is based.
 
6.           Right to Call and Redeem.  If (a) the closing bid price of the Company’s Common Stock on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (or other market, exchange or listing service) remains at or above $2.00 per share (as appropriately adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations or the like) for a period of twenty (20) consecutive trading days, and (b) there is an effective registration statement for the Common Stock underlying the Warrants or such stock is eligible for sale under Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), then the Company shall have the right, at any time upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice, to call and redeem all or any portion of this Warrant (in any such case, the “Call Right”).  The Company shall exercise the Call Right by delivering written notice to the Holder, indicating the Company’s exercise of the Call Right described herein and the date such redemption shall take place absent a valid exercise of the Warrant (the “Redemption Date”).  Upon the Company’s exercise of the Call Right, the purchase price for such redemption shall equal one-tenth of One Cent ($0.001) per share issuable hereunder and redeemed pursuant to the Call Right.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Holder shall be entitled to exercise all or any portion of the Warrant, pursuant to the terms set forth in this Warrant, prior to the Redemption Date.
 
7.           No Voting Rights. This Warrant shall not entitle the Holder to any voting rights or other rights as a shareholder of the Company.

8.           Notice of Transfer of Warrant or Resale of the Warrant Shares.
 
(a)          Subject to the sale, assignment, hypothecation, or other transfer restrictions set forth in Section 1 hereof, the Holder, by acceptance hereof, agrees to give written notice to the Company before transferring this Warrant or transferring any Warrant Shares of such Holder’s intention to do so, describing briefly the manner of any proposed transfer.  Promptly upon receiving such written notice, the Company shall present copies thereof to the Company’s counsel and to counsel to the original purchaser of this Warrant. If in the opinion of each such counsel the proposed transfer may be effected without registration or qualification (under any federal or state securities laws), the Company, as promptly as practicable, shall notify the Holder of such opinion, whereupon the Holder shall be entitled to transfer this Warrant or to dispose of Warrant Shares received upon the previous exercise of this Warrant, all in accordance with the terms of the notice delivered by the Holder to the Company; provided that an appropriate legend may be endorsed on this Warrant or the certificates for such Warrant Shares respecting restrictions upon transfer thereof necessary or advisable in the opinion of counsel to the Company and satisfactory to the Company to prevent further transfers which would be in violation of the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws; and provided further that the Holder and prospective transferee or purchaser shall execute such documents and make such representations, warranties, and agreements as may be required solely to comply with the exemptions relied upon by the Company for the transfer or disposition of the Warrant or Warrant Shares.

 
 

 
 
(b)         If, in the opinion of either of the counsel referred to in this Section 8, the proposed transfer or disposition of this Warrant or such Warrant Shares described in the written notice given pursuant to this Section 8 may not be effected without registration or qualification of this Warrant or such Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly give written notice thereof to the Holder, and the Holder will limit its activities in respect to such as, in the opinion of both such counsel, are permitted by law.
 
9.           Fractional Shares.  Fractional shares shall not be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but in any case where the Holder would, except for the provisions of this Section, be entitled under the terms hereof to receive a fractional share, the Company shall, upon the exercise of this Warrant for the largest number of whole shares then called for, pay a sum in cash equal to the sum of (a) the excess, if any, of the “Fair Market Value” (as defined below) of such fractional share over the proportional part of the Warrant Exercise Price represented by such fractional share, plus (b) the proportional part of the Warrant Exercise Price represented by such fractional share.  For purposes of this Warrant, “Fair Market Value” shall be determined as follows (as applicable):  (a) if the Common Stock is traded on an exchange or is quoted on The Nasdaq Stock Market, then the average closing or last sale prices, respectively, reported for the date of conversion; (b) if the Common Stock is traded in the over-the-counter market, then the average of the closing bid and asked prices reported on the date of conversion; (c) if the Common Stock is not publicly traded and there has been a bona fide sale for cash on an arm’s-length basis within 45 days prior to the conversion date of such Common Stock by the Company privately to one or more investors unaffiliated with the Company (a “Qualifying Sale”), then such most recent sales price; or (d) if the Common Stock is not publicly traded and there has been no Qualifying Sale, then fair market value of such stock will be determined by the Company’s board of directors, acting in good faith utilizing customary business valuation criteria and methodologies (without discount for lack of marketability or minority interest).
 
10.         Miscellaneous.  Whenever reference is made herein to the issue or sale of shares of Common Stock, the term “Common Stock” shall include any stock of any class of the Company other than preferred stock with a fixed limit on dividends and a fixed amount payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.
 
All shares of Common Stock or other securities issued upon the exercise of the Warrant shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the Company will pay all taxes due and payable by the issuer in respect of the issuance thereof.
 
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the holder of this Warrant shall not be deemed a Shareholder of the Company for any purpose whatsoever until and unless this Warrant is duly exercised.
 
Neither this Warrant nor any term hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated orally but only by an instrument in writing signed by the part against which enforcement of the change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought.

 
 

 
 
This Warrant shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota without regard to its conflicts-of-law provisions.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Hunter Bates Mining Corporation has caused this Warrant to be signed by its duly authorized officer effective as of ________________, 2009.
 
   
By:
 
Name:
 
 

 
 

 
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EXHIBIT 10.1
 

 


 
 
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
 
by and among
 
CENTRAL CITY CONSOLIDATED MINING CORP., a Colorado corporation
 
HUNTER GOLD MINING INC., a Colorado corporation,
 
HUNTER GOLD MINING CORP., a British Columbia corporation,
 
GEORGE OTTEN, a resident of Colorado
 
and
 
WITS BASIN PRECIOUS MINERALS INC., a Minnesota corporation
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
   
Page
     
ARTICLE 1 PURCHASE AND SALE OF ASSETS  
2
1.1
 Purchased Assets.
 
2
1.2
Excluded Assets.
 
3
ARTICLE 2 ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITIES  
3
ARTICLE 3 LETTER OPTION  
3
3.1
Letter Option.
 
3
3.2
Purchase Price.
 
4
3.3
The Closing; Payment of Purchase Price.
 
4
3.4
Intentionally deleted.
 
4
3.5
Intentionally deleted.
 
5
3.6
Method of Payment
 
5
3.7
Intentionally deleted.
 
5
3.8
Allocation of Purchase Price.
 
5
3.9
Sales and Use Taxes; Other Expenses
 
  5
ARTICLE 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SELLERS AND THE COVENANTORS  
6
4.1
Organization and Good Standing.
 
6
4.2
Authority; Binding Obligation.
 
6
4.3
No Conflict
 
6
4.4
Title, Sufficiency and Condition of Assets.
 
7
4.5
Acquired Real Property.
 
7
4.6
Environmental Matters.
 
9
4.7
Restrictive Covenants
 
11
4.8
Brokers.
 
11
4.9
Disclosure
 
.11
ARTICLE 5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER  
11
5.1
Organization and Good Standing
 
11
5.2
Authority; Binding Obligation.
 
11
5.3
Compliance with Other Instruments.
 
11
5.4
Litigation.
 
11
5.5
Consents
 
12
5.6
Court Orders, Decrees and Laws
 
12
5.7
Shares Duly and Validly Issued
 
12
ARTICLE 6 COVENANTS  
12
6.1
Access and Information
 
.12
6.2
Confidentiality
 
.12
6.3
Real Property
 
13
6.4
General Discharge of Environmental Liabilities.
 
14
6.5
Notification of Certain Matters
 
16
6.6
Conditions
 
16
6.7
Maintenance of Good Standing
 
16
ARTICLE 7 AGREEMENT ON LETTER OPTION  
16
ARTICLE 8 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO PURCHASER’S OBLIGATIONS  
16
8.1
Board Approval
 
16
8.2
Representations and Warranties
 
16
8.3
Absence of Litigation
 
17
8.4
Permit Assignments
 
17
8.5
Consents and Approvals
 
17
 
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8.6
Opinion of Sellers’ Counsel
 
17
8.7
Title Evidence; Title Policy
 
17
8.8
Receipt of Other Seller Deliveries.
 
17
8.9
Absence of Changes
 
17
8.10
Assignment
   17
ARTICLE 9 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE SELLERS’ AND COVENANTORS’ OBLIGATIONS  
18
9.1
Representations and Warranties
 
18
9.2
Absence of Litigation
 
18
9.3
Consents and Approvals
 
18
9.4
Opinion of Purchaser’s Counsel
 
18
9.5
Receipt of Other Closing Deliveries
 
18
ARTICLE 10 CLOSING DELIVERIES  
18
10.1
Deliveries by Sellers
 
18
10.2
Deliveries by Purchaser
 
18
ARTICLE 11 TERMINATION BEFORE CLOSING  
19
ARTICLE 12 INDEMNIFICATION  
19
12.1
Indemnification by Sellers
 
19
12.2
Definition of “Damages”. .
 
19
12.3
Limitation of Liability of Sellers and Covenantors
 
19
12.4
Indemnification by Purchaser
 
19
12.5
Claims Period
 
20
12.6
Payment of Indemnification Claim
 
20
12.7
Exclusive Remedy
 
20
ARTICLE 13 GENERAL PROVISIONS  
21
13.1
No Publicity
 
21
13.2
Knowledge Convention
 
21
13.3
Reservation of Rights
 
21
13.4
Further Acts and Assurances
 
21
13.5
Notices
 
21
13.6
Governing Law
 
23
13.7
Construction
 
23
13.8
Dispute Resolution
 
23
13.9
No Reliance
 
24
13.10
Saturdays, Sundays and Legal Holidays
 
24
13.11
Binding Agreement
 
24
13.12
Headings
 
24
13.13
Modification and Waiver
 
24
13.14
Severability
 
24
13.15
Access to Records
 
24
13.16
Discretion.
 
25
13.17
Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures
 
25
13.18
Entire Agreement
 
25
 
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ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
 
THIS ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of this 20th day of September, 2006, by and among Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota (the “Purchaser”), Central City Mining Corp., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado and George Otten, a resident of Colorado, (collectively, the “Sellers” and each individually as a“Seller”), and Hunter Gold Mining Corp., a corporation organized under the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, Hunter Gold Mining Inc, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Colorado (collectively the “Covenantors” and each a “Covenantor”).
 
INTRODUCTION
 
A. Sellers and the Covenantors collectively own or control, among other things, certain real estate and mining claims commonly known as the “Bates-Hunter Mine and the Golden Gilpin Mill”, and associated real and personal property assets, including, but not limited to, a dewatering plant, mining properties, claims, permits and all ancillary equipment, as then same are held and may be replaced or improved from time to time, including further, all assets as set forth in that certain report by Steven A. Tedesco dated March, 1997, which includes operations conducted at the facilities identified on or about any of the foregoing or as may be listed on Schedule 1.1(a) to this Agreement (the “Assets”).
 
B. Sellers and the Covenantors collectively also hold certain permit and contract rights relating to the Assets, certain liabilities pursuant to that certain one percent net smelter return royalty payable to the Goldrush Casino and Mining Corporation, which is limited to a maximum of US $1,500,000 for the life of said royalty agreement, as set forth on Schedule A-2 of this Agreement (the “Royalty Contract”), upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article 2 of this Agreement, which were also intended by Sellers to be transferred with the Assets, pursuant to the Letter Option, as defined below.
 
C. Sellers and/or the Covenantors together have previously entered into a letter agreement dated December 2, 2003, whereby Covenantors (on behalf of themselves and/or Sellers) had granted an option to Ken Swaisland (“Swaisland”), whereby Swaisland had the right to purchase the Assets under the terms and conditions contained therein (the “Swaisland Option”), which option was subsequently amended by those certain letter amendments dated January 14, 2004 and August 4, 2004, which option was assigned to Cardinal Minerals, Inc., by assignment dated January 26, 2004, which assignment was later terminated and cancelled in its entirety by Swaisland dated on or about June 22, 2004, and which option, as amended, was purportedly assigned to Purchaser by Swaisland by assignment dated August 12, 2004, notwithstanding that the Swaisland Option had already expired as of that date. However, the Purchaser, Sellers and Covenantors have entered into a separate option agreement in letter form in substantially the same terms as the Swaisland Option (as amended), which option agreement was further amended by Letter Amendments dated October 26, 2004, December 8, 2004, January 11, 2005, and January 20, 2005 (as so amended, the “Letter Option”).
 
D. Purchaser, Sellers and Covenantors desire to extend and restate the Letter Option, and to purchase and sell the Purchased Assets as hereafter defined upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
 
AGREEMENT
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing facts and premises hereby made a part of this Agreement, and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
 

Article 1
Purchase and Sale of Assets
 
1.1  Purchased Assets. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, Sellers hereby agree to sell, assign, transfer and deliver, and Purchaser hereby agrees to purchase and accept from Sellers, at and as of the Closing Date (as such term is defined below in Section 3.2(a)), all of Sellers’ right, title and interest in and to the following properties, assets and rights existing as of the date hereof (collectively, the “Purchased Assets”):
 
(a)  The Bates-Hunter Mine and the Golden Gilpin Mill and related real estate and real estate based mining claims (the “Acquired Real Property”);
 
(b)  water treatment plant;
 
(c)  surface real estate rights, as shown on the ownership list shown on the attached Schedule 1.1(c);
 
(d)  all mining claims as shown on the ownership list shown on the attached Schedule 1.1(c);
 
(e)  all mining permits and water rights;
 
(f)  all ancillary equipment used in any of the foregoing, to include all machinery, fixtures, furniture, equipment, materials, parts, supplies, tools and other tangible property owned or controlled by Seller and/or Covenantors, used in connection with the Purchased Assets and located on or about the Acquired Real Property (the “Purchased Equipment”) as set forth on the attached Schedule 1.1(f);
 
(g)  all rights under: (i) contracts relating to or creating rights with respect to the Purchased Assets, whether oral or written (the “Contracts”); and (ii) to the extent assignable, all other contracts and agreements, whether oral or written, used by Sellers and/or Covenantors in the operation of the Purchased Assets and set forth on Schedule 1.1(g)(the “Contracts”);
 
(h)  all permits, authorizations and licenses used by Sellers and/or Covenantors exclusively in the management or operation of the Purchased Assets;
 
(i)  all books, records, files and papers relating exclusively to the Purchased Assets created at any time prior to the Closing (as defined in Section 3.3(a) below)by Sellers and/or Covenantors , other than Sellers’ and Covenantors’ respective corporate minute books and related corporate records, and books, records, files and papers not otherwise relating exclusively to the Purchased Assets;
 
(j)  any and all other properties, assets and rights of Sellers and/or Covenantors which are used exclusively in the management or operation of the Purchased Assets not expressly described, listed or referred to in Section 1.2 below.
 
2

1.2  Excluded Assets. The following properties, assets and rights shall not be transferred to Purchaser and shall not be included within the definition of Purchased Assets (collectively, the “Excluded Assets”):
 
(a)  all cash, including but not limited to petty cash, money-market, checking, savings and similar type accounts, and cash equivalents of Sellers as of the Closing Date; 
 
(b)  all of Sellers’ rights under contracts and agreements that do not constitute Contracts; and
 
(c)  all of Sellers’ corporate books and records and tax returns, and all rights of Sellers to any tax refunds, including tax refunds for periods prior to the Closing Date relating to the Purchased Assets.
 
Article 2
Assumption of Liabilities
 
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and contingent on the Closing occurring, Purchaser shall assume and agree to pay and perform the obligations of Sellers and Covenantors under the Contracts and the Royalty Contract arising after the Closing Date. Except as expressly provided herein, Purchaser shall not assume any other obligation or liability of Sellers or Covenantors that relates to or arises out of ownership or occupancy of the Purchased Assets or Sellers’ or Covenantors’ operations, including but not limited to Sellers’ and Covenantors’ respective operation of the Purchased Assets, prior to the Closing Date, whether absolute or contingent, known or unknown, contractual or otherwise, and specifically including but not limited to any accounts payable, debt, tax liabilities, employee-benefit or pension-plan liabilities, workers’ compensation liabilities, environmental liabilities, other legal liabilities, union or union-related liabilities, employment obligations or agreement, or any applicable change of control liabilities (collectively, the “Excluded Liabilities”).
 
Article 3
Letter Option
 
3.1  Letter Option. Sellers and Covenantors acknowledge, under the Letter Option, the Purchaser’s investment of the following sums and improvements to the Purchased Assets, including the Acquired Real Property in consideration of the grant of the option:
 
(a)  $315,000.00 aggregate cash payment, for “Phase I” of the Schedule A work program (as set forth in the O’Gorman Report work program as shown on Schedule 3.1(a) (the “Work Program”)), paid to Gregory Gold Producers Inc.
 
(b)  $300,000.00 cash payment paid to Gregory Gold Producers, Inc., on or about January 31, 2005.
 
(c)  $300,000.00 cash payment paid to Gregory Gold Producers, Inc., on or about May 30, 2006.
 
(d)  $265,000.00 cash payment paid to Gregory Gold Producers, Inc., on or about August 31, 2006.
 
(All amounts set forth in this Section 3.1, plus other due diligence costs expended by Purchaser, including but not limited to improvements to the assets, attorney’s fees, title and survey costs, environmental report fees and similar acquisition expenses which are in excess of $800,000, are referred to herein as the “Due Diligence Costs”)
 
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The parties hereto specifically agree that, to the extent that any of the Work Program results in mineral assets and/or sludge by-products (the “Interim Assets”), the Seller hereby specifically conveys to Purchaser full title to and authority to sell such Interim Assets in any manner that Purchaser shall deem to be reasonable, and Purchaser shall be entitled to retain all income from such sale(s) including any amount by which such income exceeds such amounts paid by Purchaser.  
 
3.2  Purchase Price. In the event that Purchaser elects to proceed to closing, as and for the purchase price of the Purchased Assets, Purchaser agrees to pay and Sellers agree to accept the sum of Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Canadian Dollars ($6,750,000.00 CDN) plus Three Million Six Hundred Twenty Thousand (3,620,000) unregistered and restricted shares of the .01 par value common capital stock of Purchaser payable as set out in Section 3.3 hereof (the “Purchase Price”). 
 
3.3  The Closing; Payment of Purchase Price. 
 
(a)  The closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Closing”) shall take place by the exchange of Closing documents by Sellers and Purchaser on November 30, 2006, or on such other date mutually agreeable to Purchaser and Sellers (“Closing Date”). The Closing will be effective as of the close of business on November 30, 2006.
 
(b)  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the parties agree to consummate, on the Closing Date, the transactions described below.
 
(i)  Sellers will assign and transfer to Purchaser good, valid and marketable title in and to the Purchased Assets, free and clear of all Liens (as defined in Section 4.4(a) below) by delivering to Purchaser (A) a bill of sale and assignment in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Bill of Sale”), and (B) warranty deeds in substantially the form attached as Exhibit B (the “Deeds”).
 
(ii)  Purchaser shall deliver to Sellers (or Sellers’ nominee) (i) the sum of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Canadian Dollars ($250,000.00 CDN), (ii) a note payable to Sellers (or Sellers’ nominee) in the original principal amount of Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Canadian Dollars ($6,500,000.00 CDN) in the form of Exhibit C hereto and hereby made a part hereof (“Note”), (iii) a deed of trust in the form of Exhibit D hereto and hereby made a part hereof with George Otten (or other Sellers’ nominee) as the trustee for the Sellers securing the Note (the “Deed of Trust”), and (iv) Three Million Six Hundred Twenty Thousand (3,620,000) shares of the unregistered and restricted .01 par value common capital stock of the Purchaser.
 
(iii)  Each of the parties shall deliver the documents required to be delivered to the other party or parties hereunder.
 
(iv)  Each Seller shall deliver to Purchaser an Escrow Agreement in the form of Exhibit E hereto (the “Escrow Agreement”) and a Representation and Stock Restriction Agreement in the form of Exhibit F hereto (the “Representation and Stock Restriction Agreement”).
 
3.4  Intentionally deleted.
 
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3.5  Intentionally deleted. 
 
3.6  Method of Payment. Any cash amounts payable hereunder shall be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the intended recipient or as otherwise indicated.
 
3.7  Intentionally deleted. 
 
3.8  Allocation of Purchase Price. Each party hereto agrees to report to the Internal Revenue Service such information concerning the allocation of Purchase Price as may be required by Section 1060 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Each party agrees that it will adopt and utilize such agreed values for purposes of completing and filing Form 8594 for federal income tax purposes. No party hereto will voluntarily take any position inconsistent therewith upon examination of its respective federal tax return, in any claim, in any litigation or otherwise with respect to such tax return. The specific allocation of the Purchase Price shall be as set forth below (the “Allocation Schedule”).
 
 
$_________________ land
  $_________________ equipment  
  $_________________ buildings   $_________________ goodwill  
  $_________________ contract rights   $_________________ mining claims  
  $_________________ water rights   $_________________ mining permits  
  
3.9  Sales and Use Taxes; Other Expenses. 
 
(a)  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Sellers shall pay the cost of all state and local sales and use taxes, if any, transfer taxes and documentary stamp taxes associated with the sale and conveyance of the Purchased Assets pursuant to this Agreement. 
 
(b)  On or prior to the Closing, Sellers shall pay the full amount of any assessments on the Acquired Real Property that have been levied for periods prior to or that are pending as of the Closing Date. State and local real and personal property taxes, including any utility, water and sewer charges at the Acquired Real Property, shall be prorated between Sellers and Purchaser as of the Closing Date on the basis of the tax bills payable during the year of the Closing or, as applicable, utility bills for the period including the Closing Date. Purchaser shall pay the full amount of such taxes and utility charges upon receipt of any such bills for charges incurred for periods after the Closing Date, and Sellers, within fifteen (15) days of notice from Purchaser, shall reimburse Purchaser for the amount of Sellers’ pro rata share of such taxes and utility charges.
 
(c)  Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, Sellers, Covenantors and Purchaser shall each pay their own respective costs and expenses in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including any finder’s fees, brokerage, legal, tax, and advisory fees and expenses, or other commission arising by reason of any services rendered or alleged to have been rendered to such party in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
 
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Article 4
Representations and Warranties of the Sellers and the Covenantors
 
To induce Purchaser to enter into this Agreement, Sellers hereby jointly and severally represent and warrant to Purchaser as indicated below. In addition, Covenantors jointly and severally (as between themselves, but only severally with the Sellers) hereby make those representations and warranties to the Purchaser as indicated below.
 
4.1  Organization and Good Standing. 
 
4.1.1 Central City Mining Corp. is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation. Central City Mining Corp. has the requisite power to own, operate, use and/or lease the Purchased Assets, as applicable, and to conduct the operations of the Purchased Assets as presently being conducted by it and/or by the Covenantors, including any and all permits required by any public authority for such operations such as permits, or regulatory authorizations. Central City Mining Corp. is qualified or otherwise authorized to transact business as a foreign corporation in the state of Colorado.
 
4.1.2 The Covenantors are each corporations duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation. The Covenantors each have the requisite power to own, control, operate, use and/or lease the Purchased Assets, as applicable, and to conduct the operations of the Purchased Assets to the extent presently being conducted by it, including any and all permits required by any public authority for such operations such as permits, or regulatory authorizations. Hunter Gold Mining Corp. is qualified or otherwise authorized to transact business in the state of Colorado.
 
4.1.3 George Otten has the requisite power to own, operate, use and/or lease the Purchased Assets, as applicable, and to conduct the operations of the Purchased Assets as presently being conducted, including any and all permits required by any public authority for such operations such as permits, or regulatory authorizations.  
 
4.2  Authority; Binding Obligation. Each corporate Seller and Covenantor has the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder. Each corporate Seller’s and Covenantor’s execution and delivery of this Agreement, and performance of its covenants and agreements hereunder, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of each such corporate Seller and Covenantor. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each Seller and Covenantor, and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of each Seller and Covenantor, and is enforceable against each Seller and Covenantor in accordance with its terms.
 
4.3  No Conflict.
 
(a)  Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement, nor the consummation or performance of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (such transactions are collectively referred to hereinafter as the “Contemplated Transactions”) will directly or indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time): (i) contravene, conflict with or result in a violation of or default under any provision of any corporate Seller’s or Covenantor’s articles or certificate of incorporation or bylaws, or any resolution adopted by the board of directors or shareholders of any corporate Seller or Covenantor; (ii) contravene, conflict with or result in a violation of or default under, or give any Governmental Body (as defined below) or other Person (as defined below) the right to challenge any of the Contemplated Transactions or exercise any remedy or obtain any relief under, any federal, state or local law, regulation, ordinance or administrative order or any judgment or decree to which any Seller, Covenantor and/or the Purchased Assets are subject; (iii) contravene, conflict with or result in a violation or breach of or default under any provision of, or give any Person the right to declare a default or exercise any remedy under, or to accelerate the maturity or performance of, or to cancel, terminate or modify any contract or other arrangement to which any Seller or Covenantor is a party or by which any Seller or Covenantor is bound; or (iv) result in the creation of any Lien of any kind or nature upon any of the Purchased Assets. No Seller or Covenantor is required to give any notice to or obtain any consent from any Person in order for Sellers and Covenantors to consummate the Contemplated Transactions, other than the approval of their respective shareholders by special resolution.
 
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(b)  For purposes of this Agreement, the definitions set forth below shall apply. 
 
(i)  The term “Governmental Body” means any (i) nation, state, city, town, village, district or other jurisdiction of any nature; (ii) federal, state, provincial, local, municipal, foreign or other government; (iii) governmental or quasi-governmental agency, branch, department, official or entity and any court or other tribunal; (iv) multi-national organization or body; or (v) any other body entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory or taxing authority or power of any nature.
 
(ii)  The term “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, joint-stock company, trust, joint venture, unincorporated organization or association or a Governmental Body (or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof).
 
(iii) The term “Material Adverse Effect” means an effect which could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the operating results, business conditions or prospects of the Purchased Assets.
 
4.4  Title, Sufficiency and Condition of Assets. 
 
(a)  On or before Closing, Sellers will have good and marketable title to each asset constituting the Purchased Assets, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance, right of way, easement or adverse claim of any kind or nature except for Liens (i) that will be terminated by Sellers prior to the Closing, and (ii) rights of way, easements and other restrictions of record affecting the Acquired Real Property that are reflected on the Exception Documents (as defined in Section 6.3(c) (collectively, “Liens”). To the extent that Sellers do not presently have good, valid and marketable to any asset constituting the Purchased Assets, Sellers shall diligently take such actions as may be necessary and/or advisable to acquire such title prior to the Closing Date. On the Closing Date, Sellers will transfer to Purchaser good, valid and marketable title to each asset constituting the Purchased Assets, free and clear of all Liens. 
 
(b)  Except as otherwise expressly represented in this Asset Purchase Agreement, Sellers make no representations as to the condition and repair of the Purchased Assets and Purchased Assets are being sold to the Purchaser strictly on an “As Is, Where Is” basis. Purchaser acknowledges that it has had full and ample opportunity to inspect the Purchased Assets and to determine the suitability thereof for the Purchaser’s purposes..
 
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4.5  Acquired Real Property. 
 
Sellers and Covenantors represent and warrant as follows:
 
(a)  Schedule 1.1(a) contains a description of all real property owned or controlled by Sellers and Covenantors and used in the management or operation of the Purchased Assets;
 
(b)  On or before Closing, Sellers will have good, valid, marketable, indefeasible, fee simple title to all of the Purchased Assets including, without limitation, the Acquired Real Property;
 
(c)  Sellers have access to public roads or valid perpetual easements over private streets or private property for ingress to and egress from the Acquired Real Property;
 
(d)  Except as reflected on the Surveys, none of the structures or improvements on the Acquired Real Property encroaches upon real property of another person, and no structure or improvement of any other person substantially encroaches upon any of the Acquired Real Property, except for such encroachments that would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the value or present use of the Acquired Real Property;
 
(e)  The Acquired Real Property is not subject to any Liens, other than Liens for current taxes not yet due, Liens to be discharged at Closing, and rights of way, easements and other restrictions of record that do not have a Material Adverse Effect and are reflected on the Exception Documents;
 
(f)  Sellers and Covenantors have received no notice of actual or threatened special assessments or reassessments of the Acquired Real Property.
 
(g)  Except as necessary to acquire good, valid and marketable title prior to the Closing Date, Sellers and Covenantors have not entered into any other contracts for the sale of the Purchased Assets, nor are there any contracts for sale, rights of first refusal, rights of first offer or options to purchase the Purchased Assets, or any other rights of others that might prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
 
(h)  Sellers and Covenantors are not in default concerning any of their obligations or liabilities regarding the Purchased Assets.
 
(i)  No Seller is a “foreign person”, “foreign partnership”, “foreign trust” or “foreign estate” as those terms are defined in Section 1445 of the Code.
 
(j)  There are no claims, actions, suits, proceedings or investigations pending or, to the knowledge of any Seller or Covenantor, threatened by any governmental department or agency, or any corporation, partnership, entity or person, which in any manner or to any extent may affect: (i) the Acquired Real Property, (ii) Sellers’ right, title and interest in and to any part or all of the Acquired Real Property, or (iii) Sellers’ ability to vest in Purchaser a fee simple ownership interest in the Purchased Assets, including the Acquired Real Property, free and clear of any and all liens (other than liens for current taxes not yet due), claims, encumbrances and rights of redemption.
 
(k)  Except as reflected in the Surveys, and except for the site within the Acquired Real Property on which the mill and related structures are located, the Acquired Real Property is not in a designated wetland, flood plain or flood insurance area.
 
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(l)  As at the Closing, there will be no other matters affecting the Acquired Real Property or, to the knowledge of any Seller or Covenantor, threatened which might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the value, marketability or present use of the Acquired Real Property.
 
4.6  Environmental Matters. 
 
(a)  As used in this Section 4.6, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 
(i)  Hazardous Materials” means any dangerous, toxic or hazardous pollutant, contaminant, chemical, waste, material or substance regulated by any federal, state or local law, statute, code, ordinance, regulation, rule or other requirement relating to such substance. For purposes of this representation in Section 4.6 only and for no other purpose in this document, the definition of Hazardous Materials shall (i) only apply to laws, statutes, codes, ordinances, regulations, rules or other requirements in effect as of the date of the Closing and (ii) not include any soaps or fatty acids used during the pilot production tests carried out by the Sellers and/or Covenantors during their respective ownership and/or control of the Real Property.
 
(ii)  Environmental Laws” means all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, directives, permits, licenses and judgments relating to pollution, contamination or protection of the environment (including, without limitation, all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, directives, permits, licenses and judgments relating to Hazardous Materials). For purposes of this representation in Section 4.6 only and for no other purpose in this document, the definition of Environmental Laws shall only apply to laws, statutes, codes, ordinances, regulations, rules or other requirements in effect as of the date of the Closing.
 
(iii)  Release” shall mean the spilling, leaking, disposing (including without limitation the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous Material), discharging, emitting, depositing, ejecting, leaching, escaping, dumping, pumping, or any other release, however defined, whether intentional or unintentional, of any Hazardous Material. Release shall not include disposal of Hazardous Materials in compliance with Environmental Laws.
 
(b)  To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, and except as has been disclosed to Purchaser, the Real Property is in material compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws. 
 
(c)  To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, Sellers and/or Covenantors have obtained and maintained in full force and effect all environmental permits, licenses, certificates of compliance, approvals and other authorizations (collectively, the “Environmental Permits”), including without limitation those set forth in Schedule 4.6, necessary to conduct mining operations on the Real Property, and has provided to Purchaser a copy of each such Environmental Permit. To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, Sellers and Covenantors have conducted such operations in material compliance with all terms and conditions of the Environmental Permits. To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, with respect to the Acquired Real Property and any mining operations thereon carried out by them, Sellers and Covenantors have filed all reports and notifications required to be filed under and pursuant to all applicable Environmental Laws.
 
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(d)  To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, (i) except in material compliance with all applicable laws, no materials have been generated, treated, contained, handled, located, used, manufactured, processed, buried, incinerated, deposited, stored, or released by Sellers and/or Covenantors on, under or about any part of the Acquired Real Property or at any other location which, at the time such materials were in the possession or control of the Sellers or the Covenantors (as the case may be) would have met the definition of Hazardous Materials , (ii) the Acquired Real Property and any improvements thereon, contain no asbestos, urea formaldehyde, or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and (iii) no aboveground or underground storage tanks which now or formerly held any materials which, at the time they were in the possession or control of the Sellers or Covenantors, would have met the definition of Hazardous Materials are located on, under or about the Real Property, or have been located on, under or about the Real Property and then subsequently been removed or filled.
 
(e)  No Seller or Covenantor has received written notice, and except has been disclosed to Purchaser, no Seller has knowledge of any threatened notice, alleging in any manner that any Seller or Covenantor might be potentially responsible for any Release of Hazardous Materials which is alleged to have occurred during the ownership or control of the Real Property (or any portion thereof) by the Sellers or the Covenantors respectively, or any costs arising under Environmental Laws with respect thereto.
 
(f)  To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, and except has been disclosed to Purchaser, no portion of the Real Property is or has been listed on the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Priorities List of Hazardous Waste Sites or equivalent state list or any other list, schedule, law, inventory or record of hazardous or solid waste sites maintained by any federal, state or local agency. Purchaser acknowledges that the Sellers and Covenantors have disclosed that the entire region in which the Real Property is situate has been placed upon the United States Environmental Protection Agency National Priorities List of Hazardous Waste Sites.
 
(g)  Sellers have disclosed and delivered to Purchaser all environmental reports which Sellers and/or Covenantors have obtained or ordered with respect to the Real Property.
 
(h)  Excluding the tailings, the tailings ponds and any other portion of the Real Property from which mined material was taken or onto which mined material was placed, to the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, no part of the Real Property has been used as a landfill, dump or other disposal, storage, transfer, handling or treatment area for materials which, at the time they were in the possession or control of the Sellers or Covenantors, would have met the definition of Hazardous Materials, or a facility for selling, dispensing, storing, transferring, disposing or handling petroleum and/or petroleum products, except in connection with the storage, handling and use of Hazardous Materials and petroleum products in the routine and ordinary conduct of operations on the Acquired Real Property and in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws. Neither the Sellers nor the Covenantors make any representations concerning any materials which were mined, processed or otherwise deposited on the Real Property prior to the time when the Sellers and/or the Covenantors (as the case may be) owned and controlled the Real Property, nor do the Sellers or Covenantors make any representation in respect of any activities carried out at the request and/or direction of, or under the supervision of, the Purchaser or its affiliates.
 
(i)  To the best of the knowledge of each Seller and each Covenantor, no lien has been attached or filed against any of the Purchased Assets in favor of any governmental or private entity for (i) any liability or imposition of costs under or violation of any applicable Environmental Law; or (ii) any Release of Hazardous Materials.
 
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(j)  No Seller or Covenantor has used perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene) on the Real Property, and knows of no past use of such substances on the Real Property and knows of no incident(s) where such substances may have been entered upon or disposed of on the Real Property.
 
4.7  Restrictive Covenants. Except as between the Sellers and the Covenantors, no Seller is a party to any written contract, license agreement or other restriction which limits the scope of the sale or use of the Purchased Assets, and any such agreement between the Sellers and the Covenantors shall not impede the Sellers’ ability to vest good, valid and marketable title to the Purchased Assets in the Purchaser on the Closing Date.
 
4.8  Brokers. No finder, broker, agent or other intermediary has acted for or on behalf of Sellers in connection with the negotiation or consummation of this Agreement or the Contemplated Transactions.
 
4.9  Disclosure. No representation or warranty of any Seller or Covenantor contained in this Agreement, any Schedules, any exhibit hereto or in any statement, certificate, instrument of transfer or conveyance or other document furnished to Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, or otherwise in connection with the Contemplated Transactions, contains or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit to state any material fact required to make the statements herein or therein not misleading.
 
Article 5
Representations and Warranties of Purchaser
 
Purchaser hereby represents and warrants to Sellers as follows:
 
5.1  Organization and Good Standing. Purchaser is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Minnesota. Purchaser has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.
 
5.2  Authority; Binding Obligation. Purchaser’s execution and delivery of this Agreement including, without limitation, the Note and the Deed of Trust, and the performance of its obligations hereunder and thereunder, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Purchaser. This Agreement including, without limitation, the Note and the Deed of Trust, have been duly executed and delivered by Purchaser and each constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Purchaser, enforceable against Purchaser in accordance with its terms.
 
5.3  Compliance with Other Instruments. Purchaser’s execution and delivery of this Agreement will not (a) conflict with or result in any violation of Purchaser’s articles of incorporation or bylaws or (b) conflict with or result in a breach of any judgment, decree, law or order applicable to Purchaser.
 
5.4  Litigation. There are no Proceedings pending or, to Purchaser’s knowledge, threatened against Purchaser which could, individually or in the aggregate, adversely affect Purchaser’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.
 
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5.5  Consents. There are no consents, approvals or other authorizations of, orders or notifications of, registrations, declarations or filings with, any Person, which are required in connection with the valid execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by Purchaser and the consummation by Purchaser of the Contemplated Transactions.
 
5.6  Court Orders, Decrees and Laws. To Purchaser’s knowledge, Purchaser has not violated or failed to comply with any statute, law, ordinance or regulation of any Governmental Body in the conduct of Purchaser’s business which could, individually or in the aggregate, adversely affect Purchaser’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement. Purchaser is not in default with respect to any judgment, order or decree of any court or any Governmental Body which could, individually or in the aggregate, adversely affect Purchaser’s ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement.
 
5.7  Shares Duly and Validly Issued. The 3,620,000 shares of .01 par value common capital stock of the Purchaser constituting a portion of the Purchase Price shall have been duly and validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable, and in accordance with all applicable securities laws, as of the Closing Date.
 
Article 6
Covenants
 
Sellers and Covenantors, covenant and agree with Purchaser (other than in respect of Section 6.7 only), and Purchaser covenants and agrees with Sellers (other than in respect of Sections 6.1 and 6.2 only) as follows:
 
6.1  Access and Information. Sellers and Covenantors shall permit Purchaser and Purchaser’s counsel, accountants and other representatives full access, upon reasonable notice during normal business hours, to all the properties, assets, books, records, agreements, commitments and other documents of Sellers and Covenantors concerning the mining operations on the Acquired Real Property or the Purchased Assets; provided, however, that such access shall not unreasonably interfere with the mining operations on the Acquired Real Property. Sellers shall furnish to Purchaser and its representatives all available information with respect to the Purchased Assets as Purchaser may reasonably request. Purchaser’s due diligence investigation shall include, without limitation, a review of physical assets, corporate services, financial records, customer records and supplier records. All access shall be accomplished in a manner that will provide for confidentiality, as requested by Sellers and/or Covenantors.
 
6.2  Confidentiality.
 
(a)  For a period of 4 years from and after the Closing Date, no Seller or Covenantor shall disclose any confidential information to any Person except Purchaser, which confidential information relates to the Acquired Real Property or the Purchased Assets, including without limitation the profitability or findings from mining activity, but excluding information that is or becomes generally known to the public through no fault of any Seller or Covenantor. If notwithstanding this provision, any of such confidential information is required to be disclosed by applicable law or legal process, Sellers and/or Covenantors (as the case may be) will give Purchaser prompt notice of such requirement and, if requested, will assist Purchaser, at Purchaser’s expense, in seeking a protective order or other measures to preserve the confidentiality of such confidential information insofar as possible.
 
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(b)  Because the breach or anticipated breach of the confidentiality provisions set forth in this Section 6.2 could result in immediate and irreparable harm and injury to Purchaser, for which it will not have an adequate remedy at law, Sellers and Covenantors each hereby agree that Purchaser shall be entitled to relief in equity to enjoin temporarily and/or permanently such breach or anticipated breach and to seek any and all other legal and equitable remedies to which Purchaser may be entitled.
 
6.3  Real Property. Purchaser shall, at Purchaser’s expense, obtain prior to the Closing the following with the cooperation of Sellers as may be necessary:
 
(a)  Abstracts. Updated abstracts, if applicable, for each Acquired Real Property parcel, dated subsequent to the date hereof (the “Abstracts”).
 
(b)  Title Insurance Commitment. A commitment for an ALTA Owner’s (1970 Form B or the most recent revision thereof) policy of title insurance for each parcel of the Acquired Real Property, dated subsequent to the date hereof, which shall be issued by Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company or another reputable national title insurance company reasonably acceptable to Purchaser (the “Commitment”). The Commitment shall show all exceptions to title including, but not limited to, all covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights and rights-of-way, liens and other matters of record, and shall include proper searches for bankruptcies, judgments and State and Federal tax liens affecting the Acquired Real Property or Seller. 
 
(c)  Exception Documents. Complete and legible copies of all documents or instruments which are listed in the Commitment as affecting the Acquired Real Property (the “Exception Documents”). 
 
(d)  Survey. An as-built ALTA survey of each parcel of the Acquired Real Property dated subsequent to the date hereof (the “Survey” and together with the Abstracts, the Commitment and the Exception Documents collectively referred to herein as the “Title Evidence”).
 
(e)  Related Documents. True, complete and correct copies shall be provided to Purchaser of all documents, materials and information in the possession or control of Sellers and/or Covenantors pertaining to the Acquired Real Property, including documents related to the presence, or suspected presence, of toxic or hazardous materials and/or underground storage tanks. These materials shall include, without limitation any and all maps, surveys, plans, specifications, drawings, assessments, reports, studies, tests, investigations, contracts, agreements and conditions of approval.
 
At the Closing, Purchaser shall receive, at Purchaser’s cost and expense, a title policy for the Acquired Real Property (the “Title Policy”) or a suitably marked up Commitment (the “Marked-Up Commitment”) signed by the title company undertaking to issue such Title Policy with coverage limits as determined by Purchaser showing Sellers in fee title to the Acquired Real Property, subject only to such exceptions as Purchaser shall reasonably accept with: (i) extended coverage and all general or standard exceptions (including exceptions for parties in possession, unrecorded instruments, survey matters and mechanics liens) deleted, (ii) a zoning endorsement (ALTA Form 3.1) insuring that the present use of the Acquired Real Property complies with applicable zoning laws, (iii) a survey accuracy endorsement, (iv) a location endorsement, (v) a specific access endorsement, and (vi) an endorsement to insure that the Acquired Real Property complies with all existing covenants, conditions, restrictions and easements of record and that the instruments creating any such matters do not contain any forfeiture of title or right of re-entry provisions, with all of such endorsements being in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Purchaser.
 
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6.4  General Discharge of Environmental Liabilities. 
 
(a)  Each Seller and Covenantor shall indemnify and hold harmless Purchaser from, against and in respect of, any and all Environmental Liabilities (as defined in this Section 6.4) related to activities that precede January 15, 2005 and which are related in any manner to the Real Property, including without limitation Environmental Liabilities, if any, related to the conditions set forth in the reports resulting from the Phase I environmental assessment and/or Phase II environmental testing performed by Purchaser, but only where the Seller or a Covenantor had actual knowledge (of the type contemplated by Section 13.2 hereof) of the facts or circumstances giving rise to such Environmental Liabilities and failed to disclose such facts and circumstances to the Purchasers.
 
(b)  If Purchaser believes that it is entitled to indemnification pursuant to Section 6.4(g), Purchaser shall give Sellers written notice (pursuant to the notice provisions of Section 13.5 of this Agreement) of such environmental indemnification claim within thirty (30) business days from the date Purchaser first becomes aware of such claim. Any such notice shall set forth in reasonable detail and, to the extent then known, the basis for such claim for indemnification. The failure of Purchaser to give notice of any claim for indemnification within such thirty (30) business day period shall not adversely affect Purchaser’s right to indemnity hereunder unless all Sellers shall have been prejudiced by such delay, and in such event only to the extent Sellers have been prejudiced.
 
(c)  In response to a claim for indemnification made by Purchaser pursuant to Section 6.4(a), Sellers shall promptly deliver to Purchaser written notice acknowledging receipt of Purchaser’s notice of claim, and setting forth the time required and any further information needed for Sellers to investigate the claim. Sellers shall have a reasonable time to investigate the claim but shall proceed promptly with all due diligence. Purchaser agrees to cooperate with Sellers during such investigation. Upon completion of Sellers’ investigation, Sellers shall provide written notice (the “Seller Notice”) to Purchaser that:
 
(i)  subject to Section 6.4(d), Sellers acknowledge that Purchaser is entitled to indemnification, and Sellers will reimburse Purchaser for all loss, liability, expense (including without limitation reasonable expenses of investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by Purchaser (the “Purchaser Environmental Losses”) arising from such Environmental Liability; or
 
(ii)  Sellers acknowledge that Purchaser is entitled to indemnification and Sellers promptly shall discharge such Environmental Liability or others, acting on behalf of Seller, shall promptly discharge the Environmental Liability in accordance with the requirements of Section 6.4(e); or
 
(iii)  Sellers object to such environmental indemnity claim; or
 
(iv)  Purchaser may proceed with discharging the Environmental Liability subject to a reservation of rights by Sellers to object to Purchaser’s environmental indemnity claim under the process set out in Section 6.4(f).
 
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(d)  If Sellers elect to allow Purchaser to discharge an Environmental Liability under Section 6.4(c)(i), Purchaser shall take all steps reasonably and diligently necessary in the completion thereof and Sellers shall only be liable for those Purchaser Losses reasonably incurred by Purchaser pursuant to a proposal, work plan or other specifications approved in writing by Sellers in advance, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
 
(e)  If Sellers elect to discharge an Environmental Liability under Section 6.4(c)(ii), Sellers shall take all steps reasonably and diligently necessary in the completion thereof, including reimbursement of Purchaser for such Purchaser Losses incurred by Purchaser for which Sellers are provided written substantiation in connection therewith by Purchaser. 
 
(f)  If (i) Sellers acknowledge Purchaser’s right to indemnification under Section 6.4(c)(i) but objects to Purchaser’s proposal, work plan or other specifications provided pursuant to Section 6.4(d), (ii) Sellers object to such claim by giving Purchaser written notice of its objection under Section 6.4(c)(iii), or (iii) Sellers notify Purchaser of Seller’s reservation of rights under Section 6.4(c)(iv), then either Sellers or Purchaser may submit the claim to dispute resolution pursuant to Section 13.8 of this Agreement not later than 60 days after Purchaser’s receipt of the Seller Notice.
 
(g)  Purchaser will allow Sellers access to the Acquired Real Property, and will provide any other third parties such additional reasonable access as may be reasonably necessary to develop a work plan, proposal or other specifications in connection with the discharge of any Environmental Liability pursuant to this Agreement or to discharge an Environmental Liability, and Sellers will use their reasonable best efforts, and will use such reasonable best efforts to cause any third parties, not to interfere with the Purchaser’s operations thereon in connection with such development or performance. In the event Purchaser transfers any interest in the Real Property at any time while Sellers remain liable to perform remediation required pursuant to this Agreement with respect to such Real Property, Purchaser will ensure in the document governing the transfer of such interest(s) that Sellers or such other third parties continues to have such reasonable access as may be reasonably necessary to perform remediation required pursuant to this Agreement. 
 
(h)  Sellers’ and Covenantors’ liability in respect of any Environmental Liability shall be limited in the manner provided in Section 12.3 hereof.
 
(i)  Purchaser shall indemnify and hold harmless each Seller and Covenantor from, against and in respect of any and all Environmental Liabilities (as defined in this Section 6.4) related to activities that take place on or after January 15, 2005 and which are related in any manner to the Real Property, including without limitation Environmental Liabilities, if any, related to the conditions set forth in the reports resulting from the Phase I environmental assessment and/or Phase II environmental testing performed by Purchaser. Where any Seller or Covenantor has a claim for indemnity under this Section 6.4(i), the provisions in Sections 6.4(b) and 6.4(c)(i) and (iii) shall apply, mutatis mutandis. 
 
(j)  Definitions: As used in this Section 6.4
 
(i)  Damages” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 12.2.
 
(ii)  Environmental Law” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.6.
 
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(iii)  Environmental Liability” means any Liability of a Person arising under any Environmental Law.
 
(iv)  Liabilities” means, with respect to any Person, any liabilities, obligations or Damages incurred by such Person whether known or unknown, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated, or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, joint or several.
 
(v)  Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.3(b)(ii).
 
6.5  Notification of Certain Matters. Between the date hereof and the Closing, Sellers and Convenators shall give prompt written notice to Purchaser of (i) the occurrence or failure to occur of any event which would be likely to cause a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) any material claims, actions, proceedings or investigations commenced or, to the knowledge of any Seller or Covenantor, threatened, involving or affecting any of the Purchased Assets and which would be likely to cause a Material Adverse Effect, and (iii) any material adverse change in the condition (financial or other), properties, assets, or liabilities of any Seller which taken as a whole, would be likely to cause a Material Adverse Effect; provided, however, that no such notification shall affect the representations or warranties of the parties or the conditions to the parties’ obligations under this Agreement. 
 
6.6  Conditions. Each Seller, Covenantor and Purchaser shall take all commercially reasonable actions to cause the conditions set forth in Article 8 and Article 9 to be satisfied and to consummate the Contemplated Transactions.
 
6.7  Maintenance of Good Standing. During the period from the Closing Date until the due date of the last payment called for under the Note, Purchaser shall maintain itself in good standing under all applicable corporate laws.
 
Article 7
Agreement on Letter Option
 
The parties agree that (i) there has been no default or failure(s) to meet any of the obligations set forth in the Letter Option which are to be performed by Sellers, Covenantors or Purchaser and (ii) the expiry date set forth in the Letter Option shall be deemed to have been extended the earlier of the Closing Date or the date on which this Asset Purchase Agreement has been terminated in accordance with Article 11 hereof.
 
Article 8
Conditions Precedent to Purchaser’s Obligations
 
Purchaser’s obligations to consummate the Contemplated Transactions are subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions prior to or at the Closing, unless specifically waived in writing by Purchaser in advance:
 
8.1  Board Approval. Purchaser shall have received approval from its board of directors to enter into this Agreement and consummate the Contemplated Transactions.
 
8.2  Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of Sellers and Covenantors contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct as of the date of this Agreement, and as of the Closing Date as though the Closing Date had been substituted for the date of this Agreement throughout such representations and warranties (except that any representation or warranty made as of a specified date other than the date hereof need only be true as of such date), and each Seller and Covenantor shall have delivered to Purchaser a certificate of each such Seller and Covenantor, as contemplated by Section 10.1, to such effect. Each Seller and Covenantor shall have duly performed and complied with all covenants and agreements and satisfied all conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, complied with or satisfied by each Seller and/or Covenantor prior to or at the Closing and each Seller and Covenantor shall have delivered to Purchaser a certificate of each such Seller and Covenantor, as contemplated by Section 10.1, to such effect.
 
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8.3  Absence of Litigation. No order, writ, injunction or decree which is binding on Purchaser or any Seller and which prohibits Purchaser and/or any Seller from consummating the Contemplated Transactions shall be in effect. No claim, action, suit or proceeding shall be pending or threatened against Purchaser, any Seller and/or the Purchased Assets which, if adversely determined, would prevent the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions or result in the payment of substantial damages as a result of such action and for which the other party is not willing to provide indemnification.
 
8.4  Permit Assignments. Purchaser shall have obtained the requisite assignments and/or additional permits permitting Purchaser to conduct operations at the Acquired Real Property.
 
8.5  Consents and Approvals. All governmental and regulatory approvals and consents of contracting parties, requisite or appropriate to the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions shall have been obtained (or all applicable waiting periods shall have expired), and such consents or approvals shall remain in full force and effect.
 
8.6  Opinion of Sellers’ Counsel. Purchaser shall have received from the Sellers’ legal counsel an opinion, dated as of the Closing Date, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G (the “Sellers’ Counsel’s Legal Opinion”). 
 
8.7  Title Evidence; Title Policy. Purchaser shall have received the Title Evidence and the Title Policy or Marked-Up Commitment for the Acquired Real Property, as contemplated by Section 6.3, and shall otherwise have received such documents necessary to establish the transfer to Purchaser by Seller of good and marketable title to each asset constituting the Purchased Assets, free and clear of liens and encumbrances of any kind or nature.
 
8.8  Receipt of Other Seller Deliveries. Purchaser shall have received from Seller, or such other applicable party, the other Seller Deliveries (as defined below) required to be delivered to Purchaser pursuant to Section 10.1 below.
 
8.9  Absence of Changes. From the date of this Agreement to and including the Closing Date, there will not have been: (i) any increase in Liens against the Purchased Assets; (ii) change in the condition (financial or other), properties, assets, or liabilities representing Assumed Liabilities, whether or not insured, which change would have a Material Adverse Effect; or (iii) any fact or circumstance existing as of the date of this Agreement which has not been disclosed to Purchaser after the date hereof which has, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
 
8.10  Assignment. Purchaser reserves the right hereunder to assign its right(s) to one or more affiliated parties prior to closing, it being understood that Purchaser may create one or more new entities which may consummate the Contemplated Transactions.

 
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Article 9
Conditions Precedent to the Sellers’ and Covenantors’ Obligations
 
Sellers’ and Covenantors’ obligations to consummate the Contemplated Transactions are subject to the satisfaction prior to or at the Closing of each of the following conditions, unless specifically waived in writing by Sellers or Covenantors (as the case may be) in advance:
 
9.1  Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of Purchaser contained in this Agreement shall be true and complete in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though the Closing Date had been substituted for the date of this Agreement throughout such representations and warranties (except that any such representation or warranty made as of a specified date other than the date hereof need only be true as of such date), and Purchaser shall have delivered to Sellers and Covenantors a certificate of an officer of Purchaser, as contemplated by Section 10.2, to such effect. 
 
9.2  Absence of Litigation. No order, writ, injunction or decree which is binding on Purchaser, any Seller and/or any Covenantor and which prohibits Purchaser, any Seller and/or any Covenantor from consummating the Contemplated Transactions shall be in effect. No claim, action, suit or proceeding shall be pending or threatened against Purchaser, any Seller and/or any Covenantor which, if adversely determined, would prevent the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions or result in the payment of substantial damages as a result of such action and for which the other party is not willing to provide indemnification.
 
9.3  Consents and Approvals. All governmental and regulatory approvals and consents of contracting parties, requisite or appropriate to the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions shall have been obtained (or all applicable waiting periods shall have expired) and shall remain in full force and effect.
 
9.4  Opinion of Purchaser’s Counsel. Sellers shall have received from Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP, counsel to Purchaser, an opinion, dated as of the Closing Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit H (the “Purchaser Counsel’s Legal Opinion”).
 
9.5  Receipt of Other Closing Deliveries. Sellers shall have received from Purchaser, or such other applicable party, the Purchase Price in accordance with Section 3.2 and the other Purchaser Deliveries (as defined below) required to be delivered to Seller pursuant to Section 10.2 below. 
 
Article 10
Closing Deliveries
 
10.1  Deliveries by Sellers. At the Closing, provided all conditions described in Article 9 have been satisfied, Sellers shall execute, or cause to be executed, and deliver to Purchaser the following (collectively, the “Seller Deliveries”): (a) the Bill of Sale; (b) the Deeds; (c) the Title Evidence; (d) Seller’s Counsel’s Legal Opinion; (e) the certificates required by Section 8.3; (f) such other instruments of conveyance reasonably requested by Purchaser; and (g) all documents necessary to establish the transfer to Purchaser by Seller of good and marketable title to each asset otherwise constituting the Purchased Assets, free and clear of liens and encumbrances of any kind or nature.
 
10.2  Deliveries by Purchaser. At the Closing, provided all conditions described in Article 8 have been satisfied, Purchaser shall deliver the Purchase Price in accordance with Section 3.2; and shall execute, or cause to be executed, and deliver to Seller the following (collectively, the “Purchaser Deliveries”): (a) Purchaser Counsel’s Legal Opinion; and (b) the certificates required by Section 9.1.
 
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Article 11
Termination Before Closing
 
This Asset Purchase Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing: (a) by the mutual written consent of all parties hereto; (b) by Purchaser, if, prior to the Closing, any condition set forth herein for the benefit of Purchaser, respectively, is not met to Purchaser’s satisfaction or cannot be cured shall not have been timely met or waived by the Purchaser; or (c) by either Sellers or Purchaser if the Closing has not occurred on or prior to November 30, 2006, for any reason other than the delay or nonperformance of the party or parties seeking such termination. Termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Article 11 shall terminate all obligations of the parties hereunder, except for the obligations under Section 12.1, and such termination shall not constitute a waiver of any rights (including rights to indemnification under any agreement or covenant in this Agreement occurring prior to such termination) .
 
Article 12
Indemnification
 
12.1  Indemnification by Sellers. Subject to the terms of this Article 12, Sellers shall jointly and severally indemnify and hold Purchaser and each officer and director thereof (each a “Purchaser Indemnified Party”) harmless from, against and in respect of any and all Purchaser Losses in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought against a Purchaser Indemnified Party) or Damages (as defined below) suffered or incurred by a Purchaser Indemnified Party by reason of:
 
(a)  any breach of a representation or warranty made by any Seller and contained herein;
 
(b)  any failure of any Seller to fulfill or perform any covenant, agreement or obligation of Seller contained herein; 
 
(c)  Any Environmental Liabilities required to be discharged under Sections 6.4;
 
(d)  any Excluded Liability; or
 
(e)  Liability arising out of the ownership and/or control of the Purchased Assets by any Seller and/or Covenantor on or prior to January 15, 2005.
 
12.2  Definition of “Damages. The term “Damages” as used in this Agreement means all actual damages suffered or incurred by a party entitled to indemnification under Article 12, including without limitation all compensatory damages. 
 
12.3  Limitation of Liability of Sellers and Covenantors. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Asset Purchase Agreement, the maximum liability of the Sellers (including their successors) to the Purchaser hereunder shall be 100% of the cash and shares comprising the Purchase Price and actually received by the Sellers (or their nominee) from the Purchaser and the maximum liability of the Covenantors (including their successors) shall be 100% of the cash and shares comprising the Purchase Price and actually received by the Sellers (or their nominee) from the Purchaser. 
 
12.4  Indemnification by Purchaser. Purchaser shall indemnify and hold Seller harmless from, against and in respect of any and all loss, liability, expense (including without limitation reasonable expenses of investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought against a Seller) or Damages suffered or incurred by Sellers (the “Seller Losses”) by reason of:
 
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(a)  any breach of a representation or warranty made by Purchaser and contained herein;
 
(b)  any failure of Purchaser to fulfill or perform any covenant, agreement or obligation of Purchaser contained herein;
 
(c)  any Assumed Liability; or
 
(d)  any Environmental Liability or other Liability arising out of activities taking place on or after January 21, 2005.
 

 
12.5  Claims Period. For purposes of this Agreement, a “Claims Period” shall be the period during which a claim for indemnification must be asserted under this Agreement by an indemnified party, which period shall begin on the Closing Date and terminate as follows:
 
(a)  with respect to Purchaser Losses and Damages arising under Section 12.1(a) or 12.1(b), the Claims Period shall terminate two (2) years after the Closing Date; provided, however, that with respect to Purchaser Losses arising out of a breach the representations and warranties under Sections 4.5(b) and 4.7 hereof, or arising under Section 12.1(d) with respect to Excluded Liabilities, the Claims Period shall terminate four (4) years after the Closing Date;
 
(b)  with respect to Purchaser Losses and Damages arising under Section 12.1(c) or the failure of Sellers to fulfill or perform its covenants, agreements or obligations under Section 6.4 hereof, and, the Claims Period shall terminate on the last of (i) due date of the last payment called for under the Note, or (ii) four (4) years following the Closing Date;
 
(c)  with respect to Seller and/or Covenantor Losses and Damages arising under Section 12.4(a) or 12.4(b), the Claims Period shall terminate two (2) years after the Closing Date;
 
(d)  with respect to Seller Losses and Damages arising under Section 12.4(c), the Claims Period shall terminate four (4) years after the Closing Date;
 
(e)  with respect to Seller and/or Covenantor Losses and Damages arising under Section 12.4(d), the Claims Period shall terminate on the due date of the last payment called for under the Note.
 
Any claims for indemnification pursuant to this Article 12 must be made in writing by the indemnified party to the indemnifying party on or prior to the expiration of the applicable Claims Period. All claims for indemnification for which proper notification of the indemnifying party shall have been made by the indemnified party prior to the close of business on the last day of the applicable Claims Period shall continue to survive and shall remain a basis for indemnity hereunder until such claim is finally resolved or disposed of in accordance with the terms hereof.
 
12.6  Payment of Indemnification Claim. With respect to Purchaser Losses and Damages payable hereunder, the Purchaser Indemnified Parties shall be entitled to assert their right to payment directly against each Seller.
 
12.7  Exclusive Remedy. After the Closing, the rights set forth in this Article 12 shall be each party’s sole and exclusive remedies against the other parties hereto for misrepresentation or breaches of covenants contained in this Agreement and any related documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein includes any limitation on its Claims Period contained in Section 12.4 hereof shall prevent any of the indemnified parties from bringing an action based upon allegations of fraud with respect to either party in connection with this Agreement and any related documents. In the event such fraud action is brought, the prevailing party’s attorney’s fees and costs shall be paid by the non-prevailing party. 
 
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Article 13
General Provisions
 
13.1  No Publicity. Sellers, Covenantors and Purchaser agree that they will not make any press releases or other announcements prior to or at the time of Closing with respect to the Contemplated Transactions, except as required by applicable law, without the prior approval of the other party, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
 
13.2  Knowledge Convention. Whenever any statement herein or in any Schedule, Exhibit, certificate or other document delivered to any party pursuant to this Agreement is made “to the knowledge” of a party hereto or words of similar intent, such statement shall be deemed to be made to the actual knowledge of the party, but without any representation that the party has made due or any inquiry of any individuals within the organization of any corporate Seller or Covenantor that would be reasonably likely to have information regarding the matter in question.
 
13.3  Reservation of Rights. Neither a party’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement nor the party’s indemnification obligations set forth in this Agreement shall be affected by (a) any due diligence or other investigation conducted by another party, or (b) any knowledge on the part of another party or its agents or representatives of any circumstances resulting from such investigation or otherwise, including without limitation knowledge that one or more of such party’s representations or warranties might be untrue when made or become untrue on or prior to the Closing. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Purchaser represents that it does not have any knowledge that any of representations or warranties made by Sellers and/or Covenantors are untrue, or that any Environmental Liabilities or other Liabilities exist, prior to Closing, except as indicated in the certificate delivered at Closing pursuant to Section 9.1, for which indemnification will not be sought.
 
13.4  Further Acts and Assurances. Sellers and Covenantors shall, at any time and from time to time at and after the Closing, upon request of Purchaser and without additional consideration, take any and all steps reasonably necessary to place Purchaser in possession and operating control of the Purchased Assets, and Sellers and Covenantors will do, execute, acknowledge and deliver, or will cause to be done, executed, acknowledged and delivered, all such further acts, deeds, assignments, transfers, conveyances and assurances as may be reasonably required for the more effective transferring and confirming to Purchaser or for reducing to its possession, any or all of the Purchased Assets.
 
13.5  Notices. Any notice or other document to be given hereunder by any party hereto to any other party hereto shall be in writing and delivered by courier or by facsimile transmission, receipt confirmed, or sent by any express mail service, postage or fees prepaid, to
 
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If to Purchaser:
 
Wits Basin Precious Minerals, Inc.
900 IDS Center
80 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402-8773
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
Facsimile: (612) 395-5276
 
With a copy to:
 
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Attention: William Mower, Esq.
Facsimile: (612) 642-8358
 
If to any Seller:
 
George E. Otten
11438 C.R. #19
Fort Lupton, CO 80621
Attention: George Otten
Facsimile: (970) 785-2538
 
With a copy to:
 
 
Attention:
Facsimile:    
 
If to any Covenantor:
 
Hunter Gold Mining Corp.
P.O. Box 2460, Station “R”
Kelwona, British Columbia
Canada
Attention: Dell Balfour
Facsimile: (250) 765-4420
 
With a copy to:
 
Pushor Mitchell LLP
3rd Floor, 1665 Ellis Street
Kelowna, British Columbia Canada
V1W 4T7
Attention: E. Blair Forrest
Facsimile: (250) 762-9115

 
or at such other address or number for a party as shall be specified by like notice. Any notice that is delivered in the manner provided herein shall be deemed to have been duly given to the party to whom it is directed upon actual receipt by such party or its agent.
 
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13.6  Governing Law. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Colorado without regard to its conflicts-of-law provisions.
 
13.7  Construction. No provision of this Agreement shall be construed against or interpreted to the disadvantage of any party hereto by any court or other governmental or judicial authority or by any board of arbitrators by reason of such party or its counsel having or being deemed to have structured or drafted such provision. All references in this Agreement to Article(s), Section(s), Schedule(s) or Exhibit(s) shall refer to Article(s), Section(s), Schedule(s) or Exhibit(s) of this Agreement.
 
13.8  Dispute Resolution. Any dispute among the parties hereto before the Closing may be resolved by application to any court of competent jurisdiction. Any dispute among the parties hereto arising on or after the Closing Date, shall be exclusively resolved in accordance with the arbitration provisions of this Section 13.8 set forth below:
 
(a)  The parties shall attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach, termination or validity thereof promptly by negotiation between executives who have authority to settle the controversy. Any party may give the other written notice that a dispute exists (a “Notice of Dispute”). The Notice of Dispute shall include a statement of such party’s position. Within twenty (20) business days of the delivery of the Notice of Dispute, executives of both parties shall meet at a mutually acceptable time and place, and thereafter as long as they both reasonably deem necessary, to exchange relevant information and attempt to resolve the dispute. If the matter has not been resolved within forty-five (45) days of the disputing party’s Notice of Dispute, or if the parties fail to meet within twenty (20) days, either party may initiate arbitration of the controversy or claim as provided hereinafter.
 
(b)  If a negotiator intends to be accompanied at a meeting by an attorney, the other negotiator shall be given at least three (3) working days’ notice of such intention and may also be accompanied by an attorney. All negotiations pursuant to this clause are confidential and shall be treated as compromise and settlement negotiations for purposes of the Federal Rules of Evidence and state rules of evidence.
 
(c)  Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach, termination or validity thereof, or the Contemplated Transactions, if not settled by negotiation as provided above in Section 13.8(a), shall be settled by arbitration in Denver, Colorado in accordance with the CPR Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of Business Disputes, by three (3) arbitrators. Each party shall choose one arbitrator and the two arbitrators so chosen shall choose a third arbitrator who must be a retired judge of a state or federal court of the United States. The arbitrators shall be appointed as provided by CPR Rule 5, Selection of Arbitrators. The arbitration procedure shall be governed by the United States Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §1-16, and the award rendered by the arbitrators shall be final and binding on the parties and may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. 
 
(d)  Each party shall have discovery rights as provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure within the limits imposed by the arbitrators; provided, however, that all such discovery shall be commenced and concluded within ninety (90) days of the selection of the third arbitrator.
 
(e)  It is the intent of the parties that any arbitration shall be concluded as quickly as reasonably practicable. Unless the parties otherwise agree, once commenced, the hearing on the disputed matters shall be held four (4) days a week until concluded, with each hearing date to begin at 9:00 a.m. and to conclude at 5:00 p.m. The arbitrators shall use all reasonable efforts to issue the final award or awards within a period of five (5) business days after closure of the proceedings. Failure of the arbitrators to meet the time limits of this Section 13.8(e) shall not be a basis for challenging the award.
 
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(f)  The arbitrators shall instruct the non-prevailing parties to pay all costs of the proceedings, including the fees and expenses of the arbitrators and the reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses of the prevailing parties. If the arbitrators determine that there is not a prevailing party, each party shall be instructed to bear its own costs and to pay one-half of the fees and expenses of the arbitrators.
 
13.9  No Reliance. Except for the parties hereto and their assignees permitted under Section 13.11: (a) no third party is entitled to rely on any of the representations, warranties and agreements of a party contained in this Agreement; (b) the parties to this Agreement assume no liability to any third party because of any reliance on the representations, warranties and agreements of any of the parties contained in this Agreement; and (c) no other Person other than the parties to this Agreement shall acquire any legal or equitable rights or remedies under this Agreement.
 
13.10  Saturdays, Sundays and Legal Holidays. If the time period by which any acts or payments required hereunder must be performed or paid expires on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, then such time period shall be automatically extended to the close of business on the next regularly scheduled business day.
 
13.11  Binding Agreement. The terms, conditions and obligations of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Except as provided herein, without the prior written consent of the each other party, no party hereto may assign such party’s rights, duties or obligations hereunder or any part thereof to any other Person prior to Closing. 
 
13.12  Headings. The headings of the Articles and Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not be deemed to constitute part of this Agreement or to affect the construction hereof.
 
13.13  Modification and Waiver. Any term or condition of this Agreement may be waived at any time by the party entitled to the benefit thereof, and any such waiver must be pursuant to written waiver signed by the party entitled to such benefits. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to or shall constitute a waiver of any other provision hereof. No delay or failure on the part of any party hereto to exercise any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any waiver on the part of any party hereto of any right, power or privilege hereunder operate as a waiver of any other right, power or privilege hereunder; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power, or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege hereunder.
 
13.14  Severability. Any provision hereof which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction will, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction will not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by law, the parties hereto waive any provision of law which renders any such provision prohibited or unenforceable in any respect.
 
13.15  Access to Records. For a period of six (6) years after the Closing Date, Sellers, Covnenators and their respective attorneys, accountants and representatives shall, upon reasonable advance notice to Purchaser during normal business hours and without disruption of the business of Purchaser, have reasonable access to all books, accounts, records, documents and information relating to the Purchased Assets for any periods prior to the Closing Date in the possession or custody of Purchaser (or Purchaser’s agents) for the purpose of examining and making copies of all or any portion of such properties relating to the notifying Seller or Covenantor. Purchaser agrees not to destroy such books, accounts, records, documents and information for a period of six (6) years after the Closing Date without giving the express prior written consent of the corporate Sellers and the corporate Covenantors.
 
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13.16  Discretion. Whenever a party may take action under this Agreement in his, her or its “sole discretion,” “sole and absolute discretion” or “discretion,” or under a grant of similar authority or latitude, such Person shall be entitled to consider any factors and interests as it desires, including its own interests.
 
13.17  Counterparts; Facsimile Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original and all of which shall constitute the same instrument. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree that for purposes of this Agreement, and all certificates, documents and other items to be delivered pursuant to the terms thereof, that facsimile signatures and other electronically delivered signatures shall be deemed acceptable to and binding upon each party hereto.
 
13.18  Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the Schedules and Exhibits hereto, together with the documents and instruments delivered pursuant hereto constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto pertaining to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether written or oral, of the parties hereto (other than those between and/or among any of the Sellers and/or Covenantors and to which the purchaser is not a party); provided, however, that this provision is not intended to abrogate any other written agreement between the parties executed with or after this Agreement or any written agreement pertaining to another subject matter. No supplement, modification or waiver of the terms or conditions of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by authorized representatives of the parties hereto.
 

 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Asset Purchase Agreement to be duly executed and delivered, all on and as of the date first written above.
 
 
PURCHASER:
 
SELLERS:
     
WITS BASIN PRECIOUS MINERALS INC. 
a Minnesota corporation
 
CENTRAL CITY CONSOLIDATED MINING CORP.
a Colorado corporation
     
     
By: /s/ Stephen D. King
Name: Stephen D. King
Title: C.E.O.
 
By: /s/ George E. Otten
Name: George E. Otten
Title: President
     
     
   
GEORGE OTTEN
a resident of Colorado
     
   
 
   
/s/ George E. Otten
     
   
COVENANTORS
     
   
HUNTER GOLD MINING CORP.
a British Columbia corporation
     
     
   
By: /s/ George E. Otten
Name: George E. Otten
Title: President
     
   
HUNTER GOLD MINING INC.
a Colorado corporation
     
     
   
By: /s/ George E. Otten
Name: George E. Otten
Title: President

 
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SCHEDULES
 
 
Schedule A-2 
 
Royalty Contract
 
Schedule 1.1(c)
 
Property List
 
Schedule 1.1(f)
 
Assets
 
Schedule 1.1(g)
 
Contracts
 
Schedule 3.1(a)
 
O’Gorman Report work program
 
Schedule 4.6(c)
 
Environmental Permits 
 

EXHIBITS
 
Exhibit A
 
Bill of Sale and Assignment
Exhibit B
 
Warranty Deeds
Exhibit C
 
Note
Exhibit D
 
Deed of Trust
Exhibit E
 
Escrow Agreement
Exhibit F
 
Representation and Stock Restriction Agreement
Exhibit G
 
Sellers’ Counsel’s Legal Opinion
Exhibit H
 
Purchaser Counsel’s Legal Opinion

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EX-10.2 14 v162117_ex10-2.htm
Exhibit 10.2
FOURTH AMENDMENT TO ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT to Asset Purchase Agreement is dated this 14th day of January, 2008, by and among Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (the “Purchaser”), Central City Mining Corp. and George Otten (collectively, the “Sellers” and each individually as a“Seller”), and Hunter Gold Mining Corp. and Hunter Gold Mining Inc. (collectively the “Covenantors” and each a “Covenantor”) (the Purchaser, Sellers and Covenantors are individually or collectively, as the case may be, a “Party” or “Parties”).
 
RECITALS: The Parties entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement dated on or about September 20, 2006, for the sale and purchase of assets, real estate and real estate mining claims described in such asset purchase agreement, which was amended by that certain First Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated October 31, 2006, that Second Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated as of March 1, 2007 and that Third Amendment to Purchase Agreement dated May 31, 2007 (collectively, “Purchase Agreement”); and the wish to amend the Purchase Agreement on the terms and conditions hereafter set forth.

AGREEMENT
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the parties agree that the Purchase Agreement shall be revised as follows:

1.      The reference to $800,000 in Section 3.1(a) is hereby revised to be $2,500,000.
2.      The reference to March 31, 2008 in Section 3.3(a) and November 30, 2006 in Article 11 are revised to June 30, 2008.
3.      Section 3.3(b)(ii) is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following language:
“Purchaser shall deliver to Sellers (or Sellers’ nominee) a note payable to Sellers (or Sellers’ nominee) in the original principal amount of Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Canadian Dollars ($6,750,000.00 CDN) in the form of Exhibit C hereto and hereby made a part hereof (“Note”), (iii) a deed of trust in the form of Exhibit D hereto and hereby made a part hereof with George Otten (or other Sellers’ nominee) as the trustee for the Sellers securing the Note (the “Deed of Trust”), and (iv) Three Million Six Hundred Twenty Thousand (3,620,000) shares of the unregistered and restricted .01 par value common capital stock of the Purchaser.”
4.      The Note attached as Exhibit C shall be revised as follows:
a.      No interest shall accrue until January 1, 2010, and quarterly installments shall begin March 31, 2010.
b.      The reference in the definition of the “Balloon Demand Date” shall be revised from December 31, 2008 to be December 31, 2011 and the Maturity Date shall be the later of the Balloon Demand Date or December 31, 2015.
5.      Except as provided for above, all the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. This amendment may be executed in counterparts. A facsimile signature shall be deemed an original.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Second Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement to be duly executed and delivered, all on and as of the date first written above.
 
 
PURCHASER:
   
SELLERS:
WITS BASIN PRECIOUS MINERALS INC.      CENTRAL CITY CONSOLIDATED MINING CORP.
a Minnesota corporation     a Colorado corporation
   
By: /s/ Stephen D. King     By: /s/ George Otten
Its: CEO
   
Its: President                              1-28-08
     
COVENANTORS:
    GEORGE OTTEN, a resident of Colorado
       
     
/s/ George Otten                        1-28-08
 
HUNTER GOLD MINING CORP.
   
HUNTER GOLD MINING INC.
a British Columbia corporation
    a Colorado corporation
       
By: /s/ George Otten     By: /s/ George Otten
Its: President                              1-28-08
   
Its: President                              1-28-08
 
EX-10.3 15 v162117_ex10-3.htm
EXHIBIT 10.3

FIFTH AMENDMENT TO ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS FIFTH AMENDMENT to Asset Purchase Agreement is dated this 9th day of June, 2008, by and among Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“Hunter Bates”), a Minnesota corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin”), a Minnesota corporation (as successor-in-interest to Wits Basin) (the “Purchaser”), Central City Consolidated, Corp. d/b/a Central City Consolidated Mining Co., a Colorado corporation, Hunter Gold Mining Inc., a Colorado corporation and George Otten, a Colorado resident (collectively, the “Sellers” and each individually, a“Seller”), and Hunter Gold Mining Corp., a British Columbia corporation (the “Covenantor”) (the Purchaser, Sellers and Covenantors are individually or collectively, as the case may be, a “Party” or “Parties”).
 
RECITALS: The Parties entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement dated on or about September 20, 2006, for the sale and purchase of assets, real estate and real estate mining claims described in such asset purchase agreement, which was amended by that certain First Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated October 31, 2006, that Second Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated as of March 1, 2007, that Third Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated May 31, 2007 and that Fourth Amendment to Asset Purchase Agreement dated January 14, 2008 (collectively, “Purchase Agreement”); and the wish to amend the Purchase Agreement on the terms and conditions hereafter set forth. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Purchase Agreement.

AGREEMENT
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements set forth below, the Parties agree that the Purchase Agreement shall be revised as follows:
 
1. Section 3.2 is hereby deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following language:
 
Purchase Price. In the event that Purchaser elects to proceed to closing, as and for the purchase price of the Purchased Assets, Purchaser agrees to pay and Sellers agree to accept the sum of Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Canadian Dollars ($6,750,000.00 CDN) plus Three Million Six Hundred Twenty Thousand (3,620,000) unregistered and restricted shares of the .01 par value common capital stock of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Wits Basin”), payable as set out in Section 3.3 hereof (the “Purchase Price”).
 
2. Section 3.3(b)(ii) subsection (iv) is hereby deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following language:
 
(iv) Three Million Six Hundred Twenty Thousand (3,620,000) shares of the unregistered and restricted .01 par value common capital stock of Wits Basin.
 
3. Section 3.3(b)(iv) is hereby deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following language:
 
Seller shall deliver to Purchaser a fully-executed Undertaking Agreement in the form of Exhibit I attached hereto and a fully-executed Shareholder Voting Agreement in the form of Exhibit J attached hereto.
 
4. Sellers and Covenantor agree that the operations of the limited personal liability provisions under the Promissory Note attached hereto as Exhibit “C” shall be suspended until such time as the Sellers have delivered the certificate of an Officer of Hunter Gold Mining Corp. confirming that the covenants set forth in the Undertaking Agreement have be performed by the parties thereto.
 
5. All references to Exhibits E and F are hereby deleted in their entirety.
 
6. An execution copy of Exhibits C, D, I and J to the Purchase Agreement are hereby attached to this Fifth Amendment and shall replace any previous versions of such Exhibits.
 

 
 

 


 
7. All references to “Central City Consolidated Mining Corp.” or “Central City Consolidated Mining Co.” or “Central City Mining Corp.” are hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with “Central City Consolidated, Corp.”
 
8. The first paragraph of the Purchase Agreement is hereby deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following language:
 

THIS ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of this 20th day of September, 2006, by and among Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota (the “Purchaser”), Central City Consolidated Corp. d/b/a Central City Consolidated Mining Co., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, Hunter Gold Mining Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Colorado and George Otten, a resident of Colorado, (collectively, the “Sellers” and each individually as a “Seller”), and Hunter Gold Mining Corp., a corporation organized under the laws of the Province of British Columbia, (the “Covenantor”).

9. The Parties acknowledge that Hunter Gold Mining Inc., a Colorado corporation, shall hereby be included in the definition of “Sellers” and excluded from the definition of “Covenantors.” All references to the term “Covenantors” shall include only Hunter Gold Mining Corp., a British Columbia corporation. All references to the plural term “Covenantors” shall be deemed singular, mutatis mutandis.
 
10. Section 4.1.1 is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following language:
 

 
“Central City Consolidated Corp. and Hunter Gold Mining Inc. are corporations duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation. Central City Consolidated Corp. and Hunter Gold Mining Inc. have the requisite power to own, operate, use and/or lease the Purchased Assets, as applicable, and to conduct the operations of the Purchased Assets as presently being conducted by them and/or by the Covenantor, including any and all permits required by any public authority for such operations such as permits, or regulatory authorizations.”
 

 
11. Section 5.7 is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following language:
 
Shares Duly and Validly Issued. The 3,620,000 shares of .01 par value common capital stock of Wits Basin constituting a portion of the Purchase Price shall have been duly and validly issued as fully paid and non-assessable, and in accordance with all applicable securities laws, as of the Closing Date.”
 

 
 

 


 
12. Any notice or other documents given pursuant to the Purchase Agreement to Hunter Gold Mining Inc., as Seller, shall be sent to: Hunter Gold Mining Corp., P.O. Box 2460, Station “R”, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada V1X 6A5, Attention: Dell Balfour, Facsimile: (250) 765-4420, with a copy to: Pushor Mitchell LLP, 3rd Floor, 1665 Ellis Street, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada V1W 4T7, Attention: E. Blair Forrest, Facsimile: (250) 762-9115.
 
13. Section 8.10 of the Purchase Agreement is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
 
“Purchaser reserves the right hereunder to assign its right(s) to one or more affiliated parties prior to closing, it being understood that Purchaser may create one or more new entities which may consummate the Contemplated Transactions. In the event that the Purchaser assigns it right(s) hereunder any such affiliated party or parties, then (i) Purchaser shall also make, or shall cause such assignee(s) to make, in respect of such assignee(s), the representations and warranties set forth in sections 5.1 to 5.6 (inclusive) of the Purchase Agreement, (ii) Purchaser shall cause such assignee(s) to agree to be bound by all of the Purchaser’s covenants and obligations under the Purchase Agreement except for those which, by their nature, are intended to be performed solely by the Purchaser notwithstanding any assignment of the Purchaser’s rights under the Purchase Agreement, (iii) both the Purchaser and each such assignee shall deliver a certificate of an officer thereof for the purposes of section 9.1 of the Purchase Agreement, and (iv) the opinions set forth in the Purchaser Counsel’s Legal Opinion (as defined in section 9.4 hereof) shall extend, to the extent applicable, to both the Purchaser and its assignee(s).”
 

 
14. To each of the Sellers and the Covenantor, Hunter Bates hereby makes the representations and warranties set forth in sections 5.1 to 5.6 (inclusive) of the Purchase Agreement as though the term “Purchaser” set forth therein refers to Hunter Bates and with the exception that the representation set forth in section 5.5 of the Purchase Agreement shall be deemed to include the words “Except for the consent of “Wits Basin,” at the beginning of such section. Hunter Bates further agrees to be bound by all of the covenants and obligations of the Purchaser except for those covenants and obligations which, by their nature, are intended to be performed by Wits Basin notwithstanding the assignment of Wits Basin’s rights under the Purchase Agreement to Hunter Bates.
 
15. Wits Basin hereby confirms that it has consented to the consummation by Hunter Bates of the “Contemplated Transactions” (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) and to its execution of any documents incidental thereto.
 
16. The parties hereto agree that in the event the tax advisors to Hunter Gold Mining Inc. and Hunter Gold Mining Corp. identify and recommend an alternate structure for the delivery of the Purchase Price including, but not limited to, the distribution and documentation of the Purchase Price in the name of one or more alternate parties, and/or recommend an alteration to the content of the Allocation Schedule, then each of the parties hereto agrees to take all reasonable steps to record and effect the necessary changes to the Purchase Agreement and the documents ancillary thereto to implement such recommendation; provided, however, that Sellers and Covenantor shall reimburse Purchaser for all reasonable expenses incurred in the course of effecting such change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Purchaser shall not be obligated to participate in effecting the aforementioned changes if, in the reasonable opinion of legal counsel to the Purchaser, there is a reasonable risk of adverse tax, accounting or securities law consequences to the Purchaser in connection with the implementation of such changes. The parties further agree that any references to a deemed value for the 3,620,000 shares of common capital stock of Wits Basin, which comprise a portion of the Purchase Price under the Purchase Agreement, contained in the Purchase Agreement or in any of the transaction documents ancillary to the Purchase Agreement shall not be binding on the parties thereto in conjunction with any valuation of the Purchase Price for taxation purposes and the Sellers and Covenantor shall be at liberty to employ any reasonable method of valuation that is recommended by the tax advisors to Hunter Gold Mining Inc. and Hunter Gold Mining Corp.
 
17. Clause 12.4(e) of the Purchase Agreement is hereby added with the following language:
 
“(e) any costs not otherwise falling within the scope of subsections 12.4(a) - (e), inclusive, which are reasonably incurred by or on behalf of the Beneficiary (as defined in the Deed of Trust), following enforcement by the Beneficiary of its remedies under the Deed of Trust, in effecting the remediation and/or rehabilitation of the Acquired Real Property in respect of any activities of the Purchaser (or its related party successors) thereon where such activities (i) contravene any Environmental Law (regardless of whether such contravention is enforced against the Purchaser or its successors) and (ii) take place after January 15, 2005 and prior to the earlier of (a) time of repossession of the Acquired Real Property by the Beneficiary or (b) transfer of the Acquired Real Property to a third party unrelated to the Purchaser; provided, however, that the maximum amount of the Purchaser's liability under this subsection 12.4(e) shall be $4,750,000 CDN.”
 
18. The Allocation Schedule set forth in Section 3.8 is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the allocation schedule attached hereto as Exhibit K.
 

 
 

 


 
19. The Parties agree that the following amounts, when advanced by the Purchasers on behalf of the Sellers and/or the Covenantors, shall be credited against the amount due under the Promissory Note attached hereto and to the Purchase Agreement as Exhibit “C”, and Sellers shall deliver a receipt to the Purchasers upon payment by the Purchasers of such amounts:
 
 
(i)
$15,000.00 to Pushor Mitchell LLP in respect of past legal fees of the Covenantor (paid),
 
 
(ii)
$5,000.00 to Dill Dill Carr Stonbraker and Hutchings, PC in respect of the closing legal costs of Hunter Gold Mining Inc. (paid),
 
 
(iii)
$7,500.00 to Pushor Mitchell LLP for the closing legal costs of the Covenantor (pending),
 
 
(iv)
$3,467.16 to First American Heritage Title Company for the Sellers’ closing costs as per the Sellers Closing Statement (pending),
 
 
(v)
$1,376.60 for the Sellers’ 2008 personal property taxes (pending)
 
for a total of $32,343.76.
 
20. At the end of the first sentence of Article 2 of the Purchase Agreement, the words “(Assumed Liabilities”)” is hereby added.
 
21. All references to “Purchaser Losses” in Sections 6.4(d) and (e) of the Purchase Agreement are hereby replaced with “Purchaser Environmental Losses.”
 
22. The term “Purchaser Losses” in Section 12.1 of the Purchase Agreement is hereby replaced with the following language:
 
“loss, liability, expense (including without limitation reasonable expenses of investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought against the Purchaser (or its related party successors)) or Damages suffered or incurred by the Purchaser (or its related party successors) (the “Purchaser Losses”)”
 
23. Except as provided for above, all the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. This Fifth Amendment may be executed in counterparts. A facsimile signature shall be deemed an original.
 

 
Signature Page Follows
 

 
 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Fifth Amendment to be duly executed and delivered, all on and as of the date first written above.
 

 
   
 
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
a Minnesota corporation
By: /s/ Mark D. Dacko
Its: CFO
 
 
CENTRAL CITY CONSOLIDATED, CORP.
a Colorado corporation
By:/s/ George E. Otten 
Its: President
 
GEORGE OTTEN, a resident of Colorado
 
 
/s/ George E. Otten
 
HUNTER GOLD MINING CORP.
a British Columbia corporation
By: /s/ George E. Otten 
Its:President
 
HUNTER GOLD MINING INC.
a Colorado corporation
By: /s/ George E. Otten 
Its: President


The foregoing is consented to by and joined solely with respect to Section 5.7 of the Purchase Agreement, as amended by this Fifth Amendment:
 
WITS BASIN PRECIOUS MINERALS INC.
 
a Minnesota corporation
 

 
By: /s/ Mark D. Dacko
Its: CFO

EX-21 16 v162117_ex21.htm
Exhibit 21

Subsidiaries of the Princeton Acquisitions, Inc.

(1) Hunter Bates Mining Corporation, a Minnesota corporation (Registrant holds 100% of the equity interest)

(a) 
Gregory Gold Producers, Inc., a Colorado corporation (Hunter Bates Mining Corporation holds 100% of the equity interest).

 
 

 
EX-99.1 17 v162117_ex99-1.htm
EXHIBIT 99.1

UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The following unaudited pro forma combined financial statements are based upon the historical financial statements of Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., (“Princeton”), Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“Hunter Bates”) and Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (“Gregory Gold”).  Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold were wholly owned subsidiaries of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin”).

On September 11, 2009, Princeton entered into an agreement concerning the exchange of securities with Hunter Bates (and subsidiary) and its shareholders, whereby Princeton would acquire all of the outstanding equities of Hunter Bates. Effective September 29, 2009, Princeton completed the exchange with the shareholders of Hunter Bates common stock, in which each Hunter Bates shareholder exchanged one share of its Hunter Bates common stock (and each right to acquire a share of Hunter Bates common stock), for one newly issued share of Princeton common stock and rights to purchase Princeton common stock (the “Share Exchange”). In total, Princeton issued 19,500,000 common shares and 2,500,000 warrants to purchase additional common shares. After the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Princeton, and approximately 94% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Princeton are now held by Wits Basin.

On September 3, 2009, prior to the Share Exchange, Wits Basin contributed all of its equity interests in Gregory Gold to Hunter Bates, thereby making Gregory Gold a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunter Bates.  Accordingly, Gregory Gold has been included in these pro forma financial statements.

For financial reporting purposes, the business consolidation is to be accounted for as an additional capitalization of Hunter Bates, with Hunter Bates as the acquirer (reverse merger).  The operations of Hunter Bates and its wholly owned subsidiary (Gregory Gold) will be the continuing operations of Princeton.

The accompanying unaudited pro forma combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2009, presents the historical financial information of Princeton, as adjusted for the merger of Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold.

The unaudited pro forma statement of operations for the year ended June 30, 2009, combines the historical financial information of Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold for the twelve months ended June 30, 2009, with the historical financial information of Princeton for the year ended June 30, 2009, as if the transactions occurred on July 1, 2008.

The unaudited pro forma combined financial statements are provided for informational purposes only and are not intended to represent or be indicative of the consolidated results of operations or financial position of Princeton that would have been recorded had the acquisition of Hunter Bates and merger of Gregory Gold been completed as of the dates presented, and should not be taken as representative of future results of operations or financial position of Princeton. The unaudited pro forma combined statement of operations do not include any costs directly attributed to the Share Exchange, which, based upon information available at the date of preparation of the pro forma financial statements, are expected to be approximately $75,000. The pro forma statement of operations also does not include any non-recurring charges or credits directly related to the transaction.

 
F-1

 

The unaudited pro forma combined financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited historical financial statements and accompanying notes contained in Princeton’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 and Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold’s historical financial statements and accompanying notes included herein.
 
 
F-2

 

PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.
UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED BALANCE SHEET
JUNE 30, 2009

   
Princeton
   
Hunter
   
Gregory
             
   
Acquisitions
   
Bates
   
Gold
   
Pro Forma
   
Pro Forma
 
   
Historical
   
Historical
   
Historical
   
Adjustments
   
Combined
 
                               
Assets
                             
Current assets:
                             
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 998     $     $ 1,097     $     $ 2,095  
                                         
Property, plant and equipment, net
          1,932,519       61,841             1,994,360  
Mineral properties and development costs
          5,255,635                   5,255,635  
Total Assets
  $ 998     $ 7,188,154     $ 62,938     $     $ 7,252,090  
                                         
Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity (Deficit)
                                       
Current liabilities:
                                       
Convertible note payable – current portion
  $     $     $ 150,000     $     $ 150,000  
Current portion of long – term note payable
          217,112                   217,112  
Accounts payable
    1,712             29,823             31,535  
Due to Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc.
          826,891       5,483,233       (3,810,124 (d)     2,000,000  
                              (500,000 (a)        
Note payable – related party
    19,500                         19,500  
Accrued expenses
    888       313,500       86,361             400,749  
Total current liabilities
    22,100       1,357,503       5,749,417       (4,310,124 )     2,818,896  
                                         
Convertible note payable long – term portion
                304,923             304,923  
Long-term note payable, net of discount
          5,453,058                   5,453,058  
Deferred income tax liability
          284,000             (284,000 (e)      
Total liabilities
    22,100       7,094,561       6,054,340       (4,594,124 )     8,576,877  
                                         
Shareholder’s equity (deficit):
                                       
Preferred stock
                             
Common stock
    1,711       10       1       (11 (b)     21,211  
                              1,000   (a)        
                              18,500   (b)        
Additional paid-in capital
    273,600                   (18,489 (b)     4,267,822  
                              499,000   (a)        
                              (296,413 (c)        
                              3,810,124   (d)        
Accumulated deficit during development stage
    (296,413 )     93,583       (5,991,403 )     296,413   (c)     (5,613,820 )
                              284,000   (e)        
Total shareholder’s equity (deficit)
    (21,102 )     93,593       (5,991,402 )     4,594,124       (1,324,787 )
Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity
  $ 998     $ 7,188,154     $ 62,938     $     $ 7,252,090  

See the accompanying notes to the pro forma combined financial statements.

 
F-3

 

PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.
UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2009

   
Princeton
   
Hunter
   
Gregory
             
   
Acquisitions
   
Bates
   
Gold
   
Pro Forma
   
Pro Forma
 
   
Historical
   
Historical
   
Historical
   
Adjustments
   
Combined
 
                               
Revenues
  $     $     $     $     $  
                                         
Operating Expenses:
                                       
General and administrative
    31,518       17,603       67,136             116,257  
Exploration expenses
                494,857             494,857  
Depreciation and amortization
          87,204       18,520             105,724  
Total operating expenses
    31,518       104,807       580,513             716,838  
Loss from operations
    (31,518 )     (104,807 )     (580,513 )           (716,838 )
                                         
Other Income (Expense):
                                       
Other income
    40,000             197             40,196  
Interest expense
    (1,506 )     (370,464 )     (56,969 )           (428,939 )
Foreign currency gains
          988,119                   988,119  
Total other income (expense)
    38,494       617,655       (56,773 )           599,376  
Income (loss) before income taxes
    6,976       512,848       (637,286 )           (117,462 )
                                         
Income tax provision
          (327,000 )           327,000 (e)      
Net income (loss)
  $ 6,976     $ 185,848     $ (637,286 )   $ 327,000     $ (117,462 )
                                         
Net loss per common share
                                  $ (0.01 )
                                         
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding
                            
 
(a) 
    21,210,649  

See the accompanying notes to the pro forma combined financial statements.

 
F-4

 

PRINCETON ACQUISITIONS, INC.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AS OF JUNE 30, 2009

(1) DESCRIPTION OF THE TRANSACTIONS

Transfer of Gregory Gold

On September 3, 2009, Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (the “Wits Basin”) contributed all of its equity interests (100 shares of common stock) in Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (“Gregory Gold”) a Colorado corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin to Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“Hunter Bates”) a Minnesota corporation, also a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin, thereby making Gregory Gold a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunter Bates.  Since this transaction was between commonly controlled entities, no consideration was recorded and all assets and liabilities were recorded at historical costs.

Gregory Gold has been the entity utilized by Wits Basin to carryon the initial exploration operations at the Bates-Hunter Mine since 2005 and until the present time. Hunter Bates was formed as the entity to consummate the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine and has not had any activity other than the initial mine purchase, recording of the changes in the foreign exchange rates between the U.S. Dollar and the Canadian Dollar on the outstanding note payable and the associated financing interest expenses related to the acquisition financing since the purchase on June 12, 2008.

Hunter Bates

Effective September 3, 2009, Hunter Bates amended its Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of capital stock from 1,000,000 to 100,000,000. In conjunction with the amendment, the number of shares issued to Wits Basin was increased from 1,000 to 18,500,000 in anticipation of the Share Exchange.

Share Exchange with Hunter Bates

On September 29, 2009, Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a publicly trade Colorado corporation, completed a reverse acquisition with the shareholders of Hunter Bates common stock, in which the Hunter Bates shareholders exchanged one share of their Hunter Bates common stock (and each right to acquire a share of Hunter Bates common stock), for one newly issued share of Princeton common stock (the “Share Exchange”). After the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Princeton.

(2) BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The accompanying pro forma combined financial statements are presented to reflect the acquisition of Hunter Bates by Princeton, with the operations of Hunter Bates including its wholly owned subsidiary (Gregory Gold) being the continuing operations of the combined entity.  For accounting purposes, the acquisition has been treated as a recapitalization of Hunter Bates with Hunter Bates as the acquirer (reverse acquisition).

 
F-5

 

The accompanying pro forma combined balance sheet as of June 30, 2009 has been prepared to give effect to the reverse acquisition of Hunter Bates by Princeton as if the acquisition occurred on June 30, 2009.  The accompanying pro forma combined statement of operations combines the historical operations of Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold for the twelve months ended June 30, 2009, as if the acquisition had occurred on July 1, 2008.

(3) DESCRIPTION OF THE ELIMINATION ADJUSTMENTS

(a) During September 2009, prior to the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates completed a private placement offering to accredited investors (as that term is defined under Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)) of 1,000,000 Units, each Unit consisting of one share of Hunter Bates common stock and one warrant to purchase a share of Hunter Bates common stock at an exercise price of $1.00, at a per Unit price of $0.50. The effective proceeds totaling $500,000 was used to reduce the intercompany note payable with Wits Basin.

(b) Prior to the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates issued 18,499,000 shares to Wits Basin, thereby bringing the total shares held by Wits Basin to be 18,500,000.  As part of the Share Exchange, Wits Basin purchased 1,383,543 of the 1,710,649 outstanding common shares of Princeton, leaving 327,106 common shares still retained by the original Princeton shareholders. Wits Basin then exchanged 100% of the Hunter Bates common shares it held (18,500,000 shares) for newly issued common shares of Princeton. At the completion of the transactions, Wits Basin owns 19,883,543 of the 21,210,649 common shares of Princeton outstanding, which includes the 1,000,000 shares issued in the private placement disclosed in Note (a) above.  The common stock of Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold are eliminated in the consolidation.

 (c) As a result of the Share Exchange, Princeton’s accumulated deficit during the development stage will be eliminated and offset against additional paid in capital.

(d) As of June 30, 2009, Wits Basin had advanced Hunter Bates and Gregory Gold a combined $6,310,124. In connection with the Share Exchange transaction, it is the intention of Wits Basin and Hunter Bates to establish a formalized note payable with a total balance of $2,500,000. Accordingly, all but $2,500,000 of the amount owing to Wits Basin will be reclassified as additional paid in capital.

(e) As part of the Share Exchange, it is anticipated that unrecognized deferred tax assets on an individual entity basis will be used to offset any deferred tax liabilities on a consolidated basis and the combined entity will have a net loss and a full valuation allowance recorded. Accordingly, all deferred taxes are eliminated in the pro forma and offset to accumulated deficit.

 
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EXHIBIT 99.2

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
  BALANCE SHEET (unaudited)

   
June 30,
 
   
2009
 
Assets
     
Property, plant and equipment, net
  $ 1,932,519  
Mineral properties and development costs
    5,255,635  
Total Assets
  $ 7,188,154  
         
Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity
       
Current liabilities:
       
Current portion of long-term note payable
  $ 217,112  
Due to Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent)
    826,891  
Accrued expenses
    313,500  
Total current liabilities
    1,357,503  
         
Deferred income tax liability
    284,000  
Long-term note payable, net of discount
    5,453,058  
Total liabilities
    7,094,561  
         
Commitments and contingencies
       
         
Shareholder’s equity:
       
Common stock, $.01 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized:
       
1,000 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2009
    10  
Retained earnings
    93,583  
Total shareholder’s equity
    93,593  
Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity
  $ 7,188,154  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
 
F-1

 
 
HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
  STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (unaudited)

   
Six Months
   
April 21, 2008
   
April 21, 2008
 
   
Ended
   
(inception) to
   
(inception) to
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2009
   
2008
   
2009
 
Revenues
  $     $     $  
                         
Operating Expenses:
                       
Real estate taxes
    6,000             17,603  
Depreciation and amortization
    43,602       3,691       90,895  
Total operating expenses
    49,602       3,691       108,498  
Loss from operations
    (49,602 )     (3,691 )     (108,498 )
                         
Other Income (Expense):
                       
Interest expense
    (183,212 )     (18,216 )     (388,680 )
Foreign currency gains (losses)
    (347,321 )     (113,358 )     874,761  
Total other income (expense)
    (530,533 )     (131,574 )     486,081  
Income (loss) before taxes
    (580,135 )     (135,265 )     377,583  
                         
Income tax benefit (provision)
    147,000       43,000       (284,000 )
Net income (loss)
  $ (433,135 )   $ (92,265 )   $ 93,583  
                         
Earnings per Share:
                       
Basic Net Earnings (loss) per
                       
Common Share
  $ (433 )   $ (92 )   $ 94  
                         
Basic and Diluted Weighted
                       
Average Shares Outstanding
    1,000       1,000       1,000  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-2

 

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
  STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (unaudited)

   
Six Months
   
April 21, 2008
   
April 21, 2008
 
   
Ended
   
(inception) to
   
(inception) to
 
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2009
   
2008
   
2009
 
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
                 
Net income (loss)
  $ (433,135 )   $ (92,265 )   $ 93,583  
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to cash
                       
flows from operating activities:
                       
Depreciation and amortization
    43,602       3,691       90,895  
Amortization of imputed interest discount on long-term debt
    183,212       18,216       388,680  
Loss (gain) on foreign currency
    347,321       113,358       (874,761 )
Deferred income taxes
    (147,000 )     (43,000 )     284,000  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                       
Accrued expenses
    (5,603 )           6,000  
Net cash used in operating activities
    (11,603 )           (11,603 )
                         
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
                       
Net cash provided by investing activities
                 
                         
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
                       
Intercompany advances from Parent
    11,603             11,603  
Net cash provided by financing activities
    11,603             11,603  
                         
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH
                 
CASH, beginning of period
                 
CASH, end of period
  $     $     $  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-3

 

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
JUNE 30, 2009
(unaudited)

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF BUSINESS

Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“we,” “us,” “our,” “Hunter Bates” or the “Company”) is a minerals exploration and development company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin” or “Parent”).

In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado.  A sister company to us, Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation (“Gregory Gold”), who is also wholly owned by Wits Basin, has been performing various mine de-watering work and exploration drilling activities in connection with this project.  On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin transferred its right to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine to us, and concurrent with the transfer, we completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, which included real property, mining claims, permits and equipment. We consummated the acquisition by issuing a limited recourse promissory note for $6,750,000 Canadian Dollars and Wits Basin issued 3,620,000 shares of its common stock.  No exploration activities are currently being conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine until such time as specific funds become available for this project.

As of June 30, 2009, our only asset is the Bates-Hunter Mine, which includes a prior producing gold mine, a water treatment plant, other mining properties, claims, permits and ancillary equipment. Furthermore, we possess only a few pieces of equipment and have no personnel necessary to actually explore and/or mine for minerals, we therefore remain substantially dependent on Gregory Gold, Wits Basin and third party contractors to perform such operations. As of the date of these financial statements, we do not claim to have any mineral reserves at the Bates-Hunter Mine.

Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, assuming we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.  As of June 30, 2009, we have no cash or any other current assets and have a working capital deficit of $1,357,503.  Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise capital or debt directly identified for this project. We believe that private placements of equity capital and debt financing may be adequate to fund our long-term operating requirements. Wits Basin is currently working on specific funding scenarios to provide us with working capital.  If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.

NOTE 2 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The accompanying unaudited financial statements have been prepared by us in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”), for interim financial information pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).  Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by US GAAP for complete financial statements. The unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes as of December 31, 2008, heretofore attached on F-1 through F-12.  In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included.  Operating results for the six months ended June 30, 2009 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year as a whole.
 
 
F-4

 
 
All dollar amounts expressed in this financial statement are in US Dollars ($), unless specifically noted, as certain transactions are denominated in the Canadian Dollar (“Cdn$”).

NOTE 3 – PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

With the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, we allocated the purchase price to the land, buildings and additional equipment acquired. Depreciation on allowable assets is calculated on a straight-line method over the estimated useful life, presently ranging from two to twenty years.  Components of our property, plant and equipment are as follows:

   
June 30, 2009
 
Land
  $ 610,423  
Buildings
    1,330,902  
Equipment
    82,089  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (90,895 )
    $ 1,932,519  

NOTE 4 – MINERAL PROPERTIES AND DEVELOPMENT COSTS

As of June 30, 2009, we own one wholly owned mining property known as the Bates-Hunter Mine, which was purchased in June 2008. The initial allocation of the purchase price to the mining claims and permits acquired in the Bates-Hunter Mine transaction is still preliminary and future refinements are likely to be made based on the completion of final valuation studies.  Since the purchase, we have not commenced any mining operations due to the lack of funding and therefore, we have not recorded any amortization expense nor have we determined that impairment has occurred for the period ended June 30, 2009.  Components of our mineral properties and development costs are as follows:

Bates-Hunter Mine
 
June 30, 2009
 
Mining claims (1)
  $ 5,252,292  
Mining permits (2)
    3,343  
    $ 5,255,635  

(1)
We acquired some surface rights and some mining rights to 22 parcels located in Gilpin County, Colorado.
(2)
We acquired various mining, special use, water discharge, stormwater and drilling permits, all of which require renewal at various times.

NOTE 5 – LONG-TERM NOTE PAYABLE

On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin and Hunter Bates completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine project, which included land, buildings, equipment, mining claims and permits, financed through a limited recourse promissory note of Hunter Bates payable to Mr. Otten in the principal amount of Cdn$6,750,000. The note requires Hunter Bates to pay to Mr. Otten Cdn$250,000 on or before December 1, 2008, which was subsequently extended to January 30, 2009 and further extended to April 30, 2009 and further extended to July 31, 2009 under the terms of a June 1, 2009 standstill agreement (described below).

The note is interest-free until January 1, 2010, and from such date shall bear interest at a rate of 6% per annum, with a maturity date of December 31, 2015.  The note balance reflects a discount (originally $580,534) relating to the recourse note being non-interest bearing until January 1, 2010. Our payment of the note is secured by a deed of trust relating to the all of the property acquired in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee for the benefit of Mr. Otten.
 
 
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Commencing on April 1, 2010, a quarterly installment of accrued interest plus a Production Revenue Payment becomes payable.  We are required to make principal repayments (each a “Production Revenue Payment”), which payment(s) shall equal:

 
1.
For all calendar quarters ending on or prior to December 31, 2012, 75% of the profit realized by Hunter Bates for the immediately preceding calendar quarter, and
 
2.
For calendar quarters ending after December 31, 2012, the greater of (a) 75% of the profit realized by Hunter Bates for the relevant calendar quarter and (b) Cdn$300,000.

Furthermore, if we have not been obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment by December 31, 2012, then beginning on April 1, 2013 and continuing on each payment date until we become obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment, we shall make principal repayments in the amount of Cdn$550,000.  Upon our becoming obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment at anytime after April 1, 2013, we shall make Production Revenue Payments in accordance with #2 above.

On June 1, 2009, Wits Basin entered into a standstill agreement (the “Standstill Agreement”), whereby the sellers of the Bates-Hunter Mine agreed not to pursue any enforcement actions with respect to our delay in making the April 30, 2009 Cdn$250,000 principal payment. Pursuant to the terms of the Standstill Agreement, Wits Basin: (i) issued 500,000 shares of its unregistered common stock (fair market value of $0.08 per share on date of agreement with an aggregate value of $40,000) to Mr. Otten, (ii) made an aggregate penalty payment of Cdn$25,000 (US $22,901), (iii) brought current the property taxes due on the Bates-Hunter properties and (iv) were required to make the Cdn$250,000 payment by July 31, 2009 (Wits Basin is in negotiations for a further extension for the July 31, 2009 payment). As of June 30, 2009, the outstanding principal balance in US Dollars is $5,670,170.

Summary

The following table summarizes the long-term note payable balance:

Balance at December 31, 2008
  $ 5,139,637  
Add: unrealized foreign currency loss from the Otten limited
          recourse note at June 30, 2009
    347,321  
Add: amortization of imputed interest discount
    183,212  
Balance
    5,670,170  
Less: current portion
    217,112  
Balance at June 30, 2009
  $ 5,453,058  

Long-term debt has the following scheduled annual maturities for the years ending December 31:

2009 – Remaining
  $ 217,112  
2010
     
2011
     
2012
     
2013
     
Thereafter
    5,453,058  
Total
  $ 5,670,170  

 
F-6

 

NOTE 6 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Amendment to our Articles of Incorporation

Our Board of Directors approved and recommended to Wits Basin, as the sole shareholder of Hunter Bates, an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of capital stock from 1,000,000 to 100,000,000.  On August 3, 2009, Wits Basin approved and authorized the amendment, which was filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State, effective September 3, 2009.  In conjunction with the amendment, the number of shares issued to Wits Basin was increased from 1,000 to 18,500,000 in anticipation of the Share Exchange Agreement discussed below.

Transfer of Gregory Gold by Wits Basin

On September 3, 2009, Wits Basin contributed all of its equity interests in Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation, (“Gregory Gold”) to us, thereby making Gregory Gold a wholly owned subsidiary of ours. Gregory Gold has been the oversight management company for the exploration activities conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine and holds minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance.

Consulting Agreements

In September 2009, we issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of our common stock to two accredited investors in consideration of consulting services provided to us.  The warrants have a five-year term, and have an exercise price of $0.01 per share.

Private Placement Offering

On September 29, 2009, immediately prior to the completion of the Share Exchange (described below), Hunter Bates completed a private placement offering to accredited investors (as that term is defined under Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)) of 1,000,000 Units, each Unit consisting of one share of Hunter Bates common stock and one warrant to purchase a share of Hunter Bates common stock at an exercise price of $1.00, at a per Unit price of $0.50.

Share Exchange Agreement

On September 11, 2009, Wits Basin and Hunter Bates entered into a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a Colorado corporation (“Princeton”), whereby the shareholders of Hunter Bates would exchange their Hunter Bates securities, on a share-for-share basis, for securities of Princeton (the “Share Exchange”). Upon consummation of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton.  Princeton is a company subject to the public reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and its common stock is currently quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTCBB”) under the symbol “PRAQ.”  Princeton has not had significant operations or assets since inception and has actively sought potential opportunities for an acquisition, sale or merger since inception in 1985.

Effective September 29, 2009, Princeton completed the Share Exchange with the shareholders of Hunter Bates. Immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange, certain shareholders of Princeton sold 1,383,543 shares of Princeton common stock to Wits Basin for $262,500.  As a result of these transactions, Wits Basin holds approximately 94% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton common stock and accordingly, Princeton became a majority owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.

 
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EX-99.3 19 v162117_ex99-3.htm
EXHIBIT 99.3

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Shareholder of
Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (an exploration stage company)

We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (an exploration stage company) as of December 31, 2008, and the related statements of operations, shareholder’s equity and cash flows for the period from April 21, 2008 (inception) to December 31, 2008. Hunter Bates Mining Corporation’s management is responsible for these financial statements. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Hunter Bates Mining Corporation as of December 31, 2008, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the period from April 21, 2008 (inception) to December 31, 2008 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.  As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company had a net operating loss for the period from April 21, 2008 (inception) to December 31, 2008 and has no current assets to operate with. These conditions raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.  Management’s plans regarding those matters are also described in Note 1.  The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

/s/ Carver Moquist & O’Connor, LLC

Edina, Minnesota
September 30, 2009

 
F-1

 

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
  BALANCE SHEET

   
December 31,
 
   
2008
 
Assets
     
Property, plant and equipment, net
  $ 1,976,121  
Mineral properties and development costs
    5,255,635  
Total Assets
  $ 7,231,756  
         
Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity
       
Current liabilities:
       
Current portion of long-term note payable
  $ 204,248  
Due to Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent)
    815,288  
Accrued expenses
    319,103  
Total current liabilities
    1,338,639  
         
Deferred income tax liability
    431,000  
Long-term note payable, net of discount
    4,935,389  
Total liabilities
    6,705,028  
         
Commitments and contingencies
       
         
Shareholder’s equity:
       
Common stock, $.01 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized: 1,000 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2008
    10  
Retained earnings
    526,718  
Total shareholder’s equity
    526,728  
Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity
  $ 7,231,756  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
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HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
  STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

   
April 21, 2008
 
   
(inception) to
 
   
December 31,
 
   
2008
 
Revenues
  $  
         
Operating Expenses:
       
Real estate taxes
    11,603  
Depreciation and amortization
    47,293  
Total operating expenses
    58,896  
Loss from operations
    (58,896 )
         
Other Income (Expense):
       
Interest expense
    (205,468 )
Foreign currency gains
    1,222,082  
Total other income (expense)
    1,016,614  
Income before income taxes
    957,718  
         
Income tax provision
    (431,000 )
Net income
  $ 526,718  
         
Earnings per Share:
       
Basic Net Earnings per
       
Common Share
  $ 527  
         
Basic and Diluted Weighted
       
Average Shares Outstanding
    1,000  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-3

 

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
 STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY
FOR THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 21, 2008 (INCEPTION) TO DECEMBER 31, 2008

   
Common stock
   
Retained
       
   
Shares
   
Amount
   
earnings
   
Total
 
Issuance of 1,000 shares of common stock to Parent on April 21, 2008
    1,000     $ 10     $     $ 10  
Net income
                526,718       526,718  
BALANCE, December 31, 2008
    1,000     $ 10     $ 526,718     $ 526,728  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-4

 

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
  STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

   
April 21, 2008
 
   
(inception) to
 
   
December 31,
 
   
2008
 
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
     
Net income
  $ 526,718  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash flows from operating activities:
       
Depreciation and amortization
    47,293  
Amortization of imputed interest discount on long-term debt
    205,468  
Gain on foreign currency
    (1,222,082 )
Deferred income taxes
    431,000  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
       
Accrued expenses
    11,603  
Net cash provided by operating activities
     
         
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
       
Net cash provided by investing activities
     
         
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
       
Net cash provided by financing activities
     
         
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH
     
CASH, beginning of period
     
CASH, end of period
  $  
         
Supplemental cash flow information:
       
Cash paid for interest
  $  
Cash paid for income taxes
  $  
         
Disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:
       
Long-term debt incurred for the purchase of Bates-Hunter Mine
  $ 6,156,251  
Intercompany advances from Parent incurred for purchase of Bates-Hunter Mine
  $ 815,298  
Accrued expenses incurred in connection with purchase of Bates-Hunter Mine
  $ 307,500  
Offset to intercompany advances from Parent for common stock purchase
  $ (10 )

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-5

 

HUNTER BATES MINING CORPORATION
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 2008

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF BUSINESS

Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“we,” “us,” “our,” “Hunter Bates” or the “Company”) is a minerals exploration and development company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin” or “Parent”).

In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado.  A sister company to us, Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation (“Gregory Gold”), who is also wholly owned by Wits Basin, has been performing various mine de-watering work and exploration drilling activities in connection with this project.  On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin transferred its right to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine to us, and concurrent with the transfer, we completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, which included real property, mining claims, permits and equipment. We consummated the acquisition by issuing a limited recourse promissory note for $6,750,000 Canadian Dollars and Wits Basin issued 3,620,000 shares of its common stock.  No exploration activities are currently being conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine until such time as specific funds become available for this project.

As of December 31, 2008, our only asset is the Bates-Hunter Mine, which includes a prior producing gold mine, a water treatment plant, other mining properties, claims, permits and ancillary equipment. Furthermore, we possess only a few pieces of equipment and have no personnel necessary to actually explore and/or mine for minerals, we therefore remain substantially dependent on Gregory Gold, Wits Basin and third party contractors to perform such operations. As of the date of these financial statements, we do not claim to have any mineral reserves at the Bates-Hunter Mine.

Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, assuming we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.  As of December 31, 2008, we have no cash or any other current assets and have a working capital deficit of $1,338,639.  Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise capital or debt directly identified for this project. We believe that private placements of equity capital and debt financing may be adequate to fund our long-term operating requirements. Wits Basin is currently working on specific funding scenarios to provide us with working capital.  If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.

NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Presentation

Based on management’s assessment in preparation of these financial statements, our Parent, Wits Basin, does not provide any services, such as accounting, treasury, tax, legal, human resources or public affairs, in which we would  utilize “carve out” accounting procedures. Such accounting procedures would allocate certain assets, liabilities and expenses historically recorded or incurred at the Wits Basin level, to reflect the stand-alone financial results of the Company, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Furthermore, should we become a true stand-alone, independent company, we may incur additional charges not reflected in the periods presented herein.

 
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Our Parent does not accrue against us an interest charge for the intercompany advances it has made to us in order to operate. As of December 31, 2008, Wits Basin has advanced $815,288.

We have presented in these financial statements our position as a stand-alone, independent company and as such, we have recorded a temporary income tax provision created by the limited recourse promissory note payable in Canadian Dollars. Under consolidation with our Parent, such income taxes would be eliminated due to the Net Operating Loss (NOL) currently recorded.

All dollar amounts expressed in this financial statement are in US Dollars ($), unless specifically noted as certain transactions are denominated in the Canadian Dollar (“Cdn$”).

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives as follows:
   
Years
Buildings
 
20
Equipment
  
2-7

Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred; major renewals and betterments are capitalized. As items of property or equipment are sold or retired, the related cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and any gain or loss is included in operating income.

Mineral Properties

Mineral property acquisition costs are recorded at cost and are deferred until the viability of the property is determined. The Bates-Hunter Mine has not reached the development stage at this time. Exploration, mineral property evaluation, option payments, related acquisition costs for mineral properties acquired under an option agreement, general overhead, administrative and holding costs to maintain a property on a care and maintenance basis are expensed in the period they are incurred. When reserves are determined for a property and a bankable feasibility study is completed, subsequent exploration and development costs on the property would be capitalized. If a project were to be put into production, capitalized costs would be depleted on the unit of production basis.

Management reviews the net carrying value of a mineral property as changes may materialize with a property, or at a minimum, on an annual basis. Where information and conditions suggest impairment, estimated future net cash flows from each property are calculated using estimated future prices, proven and probable reserves and value beyond proven and probable reserves, and operating, capital and reclamation costs on an undiscounted basis. If it is determined that the future net cash flows are less than the carrying value, a write-down to the estimated fair value is made with a charge to loss for the period. Where estimates of future net cash flows are not available and where other conditions suggest impairment, management assesses if the carrying value can be recovered.

Management's estimates of gold prices, recoverable reserves, probable outcomes, operating capital and reclamation costs are subject to risks and uncertainties that may affect the recoverability of mineral property costs.

Although the Company has taken steps to verify title to mineral properties in which it has an interest, these procedures do not guarantee the Company's title. Such properties may be subject to prior undetected agreements or transfers and title may be affected by such defects.

F-7

 
Long-Lived Assets

We will periodically evaluate the carrying value of long-lived assets to be held and used, including but not limited to, mineral properties, capital assets and intangible assets, when events and circumstances warrant such a review.  The carrying value of a long-lived asset is considered impaired when the anticipated undiscounted cash flow from such asset is separately identifiable and is less than its carrying value.  In that event, a loss is recognized based on the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value of the long-lived asset. Fair value is determined primarily using the anticipated cash flows discounted at a rate commensurate with the risk involved.  Losses on long-lived assets to be disposed of are determined in a similar manner, except that fair values are reduced for the cost to dispose.

In regards to the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, we have not commenced an outside review of the fair values to be allocated to the real and personal property purchased.  The Company has used management estimates as of December 31, 2008. We have begun the process to locate dedicated funds in order to resume the defined work program and such funds would also allow us to complete the review of all purchased assets associated with the Bates-Hunter Mine.

Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue

As of December 31, 2008, the Bates-Hunter Mine does not provide any revenues and we do not expect to generate any revenues for the foreseeable future.

Use of Estimates

Preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Income Taxes

The Company is included in the consolidated federal income tax return of Wits Basin.  The tax provision included in the accompanying financial statements is calculated as if the Company filed separate federal and state income tax returns.  Deferred taxes are provided on temporary differences between book and tax basis of assets and liabilities which will have a future impact on taxable income. 

Net Loss per Common Share

Basic net loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss applicable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented.  Diluted net loss per common share is determined using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented, adjusted for the dilutive effect of common stock equivalents, consisting of shares that might be issued upon exercise of options, warrants and conversion of convertible debt.  In periods where losses are reported, the weighted average number of common shares outstanding excludes common stock equivalents, because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.

NOTE 3 – ACQUISITION OF BATES-HUNTER MINE

On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin entered into a fifth amendment to that certain Asset Purchase Agreement dated September 20, 2006 by and among Wits Basin and the Sellers (Hunter Gold Mining Corp, a British Columbia corporation, Hunter Gold Mining Inc, a Colorado corporation, George E. Otten, a resident of Colorado and Central City Consolidated, Corp. d/b/a Central City Consolidated Mining Co., a Colorado corporation) to, among other changes, reflect the assignment by Wits Basin of its rights in the Asset Purchase Agreement to us.

 
F-8

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement, the Company and Wits Basin completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine project, which included land, buildings, equipment, mining claims and permits, financed through a limited recourse promissory note of ours payable to Mr. Otten in the principal amount of Cdn$6,750,000 ($6,736,785 and $5,514,703 US as of June 12, 2008 and December 31, 2008, respectively) and the issuance of 3,620,000 shares of Wits Basin common stock (with a fair value of $0.205 per share, totaling $742,100). We also incurred acquisition costs of $380,698.  Additionally, the following net smelter royalties were granted: (i) a two percent net smelter return royalty on all future production, with no limit and (ii) a one percent net smelter return royalty (up to a maximum payment of $1,500,000).

The following table summarizes the initial allocation of the purchase price of the assets acquired in the transaction.  As of December 31, 2008, due to limited available cash funds, we have not undertaken an independent valuation study of the assets and as such, the allocation is preliminary and future refinements are likely to be made based on the completion of final valuation studies, which we would anticipate could be completed during 2009.

   
Recorded
US $ Value (1)
 
Land
  $ 610,423  
Buildings
    1,330,902  
Equipment
    82,089  
Mining claims
    5,252,292  
Mining permits
    3,343  
Total purchase price
  $ 7,279,049  

(1) The US Dollar value reflects a discount ($580,534) relating to the Otten recourse note being non-interest bearing until January 1, 2010.

NOTE 4 – PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

With the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine, we allocated the purchase price to the land, buildings and additional equipment acquired. Depreciation on allowable assets is calculated on a straight-line method over the estimated useful life, presently ranging from two to twenty years. Components of our property, plant and equipment are as follows:

   
December 31,
 
   
2008
 
Land
  $ 610,423  
Buildings
    1,330,902  
Equipment
    82,089  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (47,293 )
    $ 1,976,121  

NOTE 5 – MINERAL PROPERTIES AND DEVELOPMENT COSTS

The following table summarizes the initial allocation of the purchase price to the mining claims and permits acquired in the Bates-Hunter Mine transaction.  Since the allocation is preliminary and future refinements are likely to be made based on the completion of final valuation studies, we have not recorded any amortization expense nor have we determined that impairment has occurred for the period ended December 31, 2008.

   
Recorded
US $ Value
 
Mining claims (1)
  $ 5,252,292  
Mining permits (2)
    3,343  
    $ 5,255,635  

 
F-9

 

(1)
We acquired some surface rights and some mining rights to 22 parcels located in Gilpin County, Colorado.
(2)
We acquired various mining, special use, water discharge, stormwater and drilling permits, all of which require renewal at various times.

 NOTE 6 – LONG-TERM NOTE PAYABLE

On June 12, 2008, Wits Basin and Hunter Bates completed the acquisition of the Bates-Hunter Mine project, which included land, buildings, equipment, mining claims and permits, financed through a limited recourse promissory note of Hunter Bates payable to Mr. Otten in the principal amount of Cdn$6,750,000 ($6,736,785 and $5,514,703 US as of June 12, 2008 and December 31, 2008, respectively).  The note requires us to pay to Mr. Otten Cdn$250,000 (valued at $204,248 as of December 31, 2008) on or before December 1, 2008, which was subsequently extended to January 30, 2009 and further extended to April 30, 2009 and further extended to July 31, 2009 under the terms of a June 1, 2009 standstill agreement (see Note 9 – Subsequent Events for information regarding the June 1, 2009 standstill agreement).

The note is interest-free until January 1, 2010, and from such date shall bear interest at a rate of 6% per annum, with a maturity date of December 31, 2015.  The note balance reflects a discount (originally $580,534) relating to the recourse note being non-interest bearing until January 1, 2010. Our payment of the note is secured by a deed of trust relating to the all of the property acquired in favor of Gilpin County Public Trustee for the benefit of Mr. Otten.

Commencing on April 1, 2010, a quarterly installment of accrued interest plus a Production Revenue Payment becomes payable.  We are required to make principal repayments (each a “Production Revenue Payment”), which payment(s) shall equal:

 
1.
For all calendar quarters ending on or prior to December 31, 2012, 75% of the profit realized by Hunter Bates for the immediately preceding calendar quarter, and
 
2.
For calendar quarters ending after December 31, 2012, the greater of (a) 75% of the profit realized by Hunter Bates for the relevant calendar quarter and (b) Cdn$300,000.

Furthermore, if we have not been obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment by December 31, 2012, then beginning on April 1, 2013 and continuing on each payment date until we become obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment, we shall make principal repayments in the amount of Cdn$550,000.  Upon our becoming obligated to make a Production Revenue Payment at anytime after April 1, 2013, we shall make Production Revenue Payments in accordance with #2 above.

Summary

The following table summarizes the long-term note payable balance:

Otten limited recourse note converted into US Dollar equivalent
  $ 6,736,785  
Less: initial discount for imputed interest of the Otten limited
          recourse note
    (580,534 )
Less: unrealized foreign currency gain from the Otten limited
          recourse note at December 31, 2008
    (1,222,082 )
Add: amortization of imputed interest discount
    205,468  
Balance
    5,139,637  
Less: current portion
    (204,248 )
Long-term balance at December 31, 2008, net of discount
  $ 4,935,389  

 
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Long-term debt has the following scheduled annual principal maturities for the years ending December 31:

2009
  $ 204,248  
2010
     
2011
     
2012
     
2013
     
Thereafter
    5,310,455  
Total
  $ 5,514,703  

NOTE 7 – LEGAL MATTERS

The Company is subject to legal proceedings in the normal course of business. Management believes these proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on the financial statements.

NOTE 8 – INCOME TAXES

The income tax provision consists of the following for the year ended December 31, 2008
       
Current tax provision
  $  
Deferred tax provision
    431,000  
Valuation allowance
     
  Total income tax provision
  $ 431,000  

Significant components of the Company’s estimated deferred tax assets and liabilities at December 31, 2008:

Deferred tax assets:
     
   Net operating loss
  $ 21,000  
Deferred tax liability:
       
   Foreign currency gains
    (452,000 )
Net deferred tax liability
  $ (431,000 )

Reconciliation between the statutory rate and the effective tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2008

       
Federal statutory tax rate
    34.0 %
State taxes, net of federal benefit
    3.0 %
Permanent differences
    8.0 %
    Effective tax rate
    45.0 %

NOTE 9 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Standstill Agreement

On June 1, 2009, Wits Basin entered into a standstill agreement (the “Standstill Agreement”), whereby the sellers of the Bates-Hunter Mine agreed not to pursue any enforcement actions with respect to our delay in making the April 30, 2009 Cdn$250,000 principal payment. Pursuant to the terms of the Standstill Agreement, Wits Basin: (i) issued 500,000 shares of its unregistered common stock (fair market value of $0.08 per share on date of agreement with an aggregate value of $40,000) to Mr. Otten, (ii) made an aggregate penalty payment of Cdn$25,000 (US $22,901), (iii) brought current the property taxes due on the Bates-Hunter properties and (iv) were required to make the Cdn$250,000 payment by July 31, 2009 (Wits Basin is in negotiations for a further extension for the July 31, 2009 payment).

 
F-11

 

Amendment to our Articles of Incorporation

Our Board of Directors approved and recommended to Wits Basin, as the sole shareholder of Hunter Bates, an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of capital stock from 1,000,000 to 100,000,000.  On August 3, 2009, Wits Basin approved and authorized the amendment, which was filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State, effective September 3, 2009.  In conjunction with the amendment, the number of shares issued to Wits Basin was increased from 1,000 to 18,500,000 in anticipation of the Share Exchange Agreement discussed below.

Transfer of Gregory Gold by Wits Basin

On September 3, 2009, Wits Basin contributed all of its equity interests in Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated, a Colorado corporation, (“Gregory Gold”) to us, thereby making Gregory Gold a wholly owned subsidiary of ours. Gregory Gold has been the oversight management company for the exploration activities conducted at the Bates-Hunter Mine and holds minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance.

Consulting Agreements

In September 2009, we issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of our common stock to two accredited investors in consideration of consulting services provided to us.  The warrants have a five-year term, and have an exercise price of $0.01 per share.

Private Placement Offering

On September 29, 2009, immediately prior to the completion of the Share Exchange (described below), Hunter Bates completed a private placement offering to accredited investors (as that term is defined under Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)) of 1,000,000 Units, each Unit consisting of one share of Hunter Bates common stock and one warrant to purchase a share of Hunter Bates common stock at an exercise price of $1.00, at a per Unit price of $0.50.

Share Exchange Agreement

On September 11, 2009, Wits Basin and Hunter Bates entered into a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a Colorado corporation (“Princeton”), whereby the shareholders of Hunter Bates would exchange their Hunter Bates securities, on a share-for-share basis, for securities of Princeton (the “Share Exchange”). Upon consummation of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton.  Princeton is a company subject to the public reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and its common stock is currently quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTCBB”) under the symbol “PRAQ.”  Princeton has not had significant operations or assets since inception and has actively sought potential opportunities for an acquisition, sale or merger since inception in 1985.

Effective September 29, 2009, Princeton completed the Share Exchange with the shareholders of Hunter Bates. Immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange, certain shareholders of Princeton sold 1,383,543 shares of Princeton common stock to Wits Basin for $262,500.  As a result of these transactions, Wits Basin holds approximately 94% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton common stock and accordingly, Princeton became a majority owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.

 
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EXHIBIT 99.4

GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
BALANCE SHEET (unaudited)

   
June 30,
 
   
2009
 
Assets
     
Current assets:
     
  Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 1,097  
         
Equipment, net
    61,841  
    Total Assets
  $ 62,938  
         
Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity (Deficit)
       
Current liabilities:
       
  Convertible note payable – current portion
  $ 150,000  
  Accounts payable
    29,823  
  Due to Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent)
    5,483,233  
  Accrued expenses
    86,361  
    Total current liabilities
    5,749,417  
         
Convertible note payable – long-term portion
    304,923  
         
Commitments and contingencies
       
         
Shareholder’s equity (deficit):
       
  Common stock, $.01 par value, 50,000 shares authorized:
       
        100 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2009
    1  
  Accumulated deficit during exploration stage
    (5,991,403 )
    Total shareholder’s equity (deficit)
    (5,991,402 )
        Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity (Deficit)
  $ 62,938  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-1

 

GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (unaudited)

         
September 28,
2004
 
         
(inception) to
 June 30,
 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
 
   
2009
   
2008
   
2009
 
Revenues
  $     $     $  
                         
Operating Expenses:
                       
  General and administrative
    30,520       41,829       487,343  
  Exploration expenses
    42,997       1,109,525       5,366,700  
  Depreciation and amortization
    9,260       8,589       69,425  
  Loss on disposal of assets
          12,362       12,362  
        Total operating expenses
    82,777       1,172,305       5,935,830  
Loss from operations
    (82,777 )     (1,172,305 )     (5,935,830 )
                         
Other Income (Expense):
                       
  Other income
          432       1,396  
  Interest expense
    (56,136 )           (56,969 )
    Total other income (expense)
    (56,136 )     432       (55,573 )
Loss before income taxes
    (138,913 )     (1,171,873 )     (5,991,403 )
                         
Income tax provision
                 
Net loss
  $ (138,913 )   $ (1,171,873 )   $ (5,991,403 )
                         
Net Loss per Share:
                       
  Basic and Diluted Net Loss per
                       
    Common Share
  $ (1,389 )   $ (11,719 )   $ (59,914 )
                         
  Basic and Diluted Weighted Average
                       
    Common Shares Outstanding
    100       100       100  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
F-2

 

GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (unaudited)

               
September 28,
2004
 
               
(inception) to
 
   
Six Months Ended June 30,
   
June 30,
 
   
2009
   
2008
   
2009
 
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
                 
  Net loss
  $ (138,913 )   $ (1,171,873 )   $ (5,991,403 )
  Adjustments to reconcile net loss to cash
                       
        flows from operating activities:
                       
  Depreciation and amortization
    9,260       8,589       69,425  
  Loss on disposal of miscellaneous assets
          12,362       12,362  
  Issuance of equity securities by Wits Basin Precious
     Minerals Inc. (Parent) for exploration expenses
          185,282       334,950  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                       
    Accounts payable
    2,895       6,574       29,823  
    Accrued expenses
    64,189       309,790       537,951  
        Net cash used in operating activities
    (62,569 )     (649,276 )     (5,006,892 )
                         
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
                       
  Purchases of equipment
          (28,106 )     (143,628 )
        Net cash used in investing activities
          (28,106 )     (143,628 )
                         
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
                       
  Checks written in excess of bank balance
          16,337        
  Advances from Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent)
    62,011       661,045       5,151,617  
        Net cash provided by financing activities
    62,011       677,382       5,151,617  
                         
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
    (558 )           1,097  
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period
    1,655              
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period
  $ 1,097     $     $ 1,097  
                   
Supplemental cash flow information:
                 
  Cash paid for interest
  $     $     $ 833  
  Cash paid for income taxes
  $     $     $  
  Accrued expenses converted to a convertible note payable
  $ 451,590     $     $ 451,590  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
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GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
JUNE 30, 2009
(unaudited)

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF BUSINESS

Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (“we,” “us,” “our,” “Gregory Gold” or the “Company”), a Colorado corporation, is a minerals exploration company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin” or “Parent”).

In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado. These rights further granted Wits Basin exploration rights of the Bates-Hunter Mine properties. Gregory Gold has been used by Wits Basin solely as the operating entity for the exploration activities in Colorado. We hold minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance.

NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Presentation

The preparation of these financial statements include the use of “carve out” accounting procedures wherein certain assets, liabilities and expenses historically recorded or incurred at the Wits Basin level, which related to or were incurred on behalf of the Company have been identified and allocated as appropriate to reflect the stand-alone financial results of the Company, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In the ordinary course of business, Wits Basin provides various services, including accounting, treasury, tax, legal, human resources, public affairs and executive oversight. Costs for these services are charged to the Company by Wits Basin based on specifically identifiable expenses or are allocated to the Company by Wits Basin based primarily upon the Company's exploration activities. Both the Company and Wits Basin consider these cost allocations to be reasonable reflections of the cost of services provided. Charges for these services totaled $21,582 and $28,908 for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and are included in general and administrative expenses. These charges may not necessarily be indicative of the cost the Company would incur for these services if it was a stand-alone, independent company.

The intercompany advances from Wits Basin do not bear interest, as such, no interest expense has been reflected in these financial statements.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The respective carrying value of certain on-balance sheet financial instruments approximates their fair values.  These financial instruments include cash, accounts payable, accrued liabilities and debt. Fair values were assumed to approximate cost or carrying values as most of the debt was incurred recently and the assets were acquired within one year. At June 30, 2009, we did not have any financial assets or financial liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs.

 
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NOTE 3 – COMPANY’S CONTINUED EXISTENCE

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, assuming we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.  For the six months ended June 30, 2009, we incurred losses from operations of $138,913. At June 30, 2009, we had an accumulated deficit of $5,991,403 and a working capital deficit of $5,748,320.  Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise the capital or debt directly identified for our operations. If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.

NOTE 5 – EQUIPMENT

Depreciation on allowable assets is calculated on a straight-line method over the estimated useful life, presently ranging from two to seven years. Components of our fixed assets are as follows:

   
June 30,
 
   
2009
 
Equipment
  $ 117,605  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (55,764 )
    $ 61,841  

NOTE 6 – CONVERTIBLE NOTE PAYABLE

In 2008, Wits Basin entered into a drilling agreement with Cabo Drilling (America) Inc., a Washington corporation formerly known as Advanced Drilling, Inc (“Cabo”), whereby they drilled a series of holes on the Bates-Hunter property with the purpose to intersect specific targets deemed important by the geological team, with such data to be added to the existing 3-D mapping compiled so far. As of April 27, 2009, Wits Basin had outstanding amounts owed to Cabo of $409,613 for drilling expenses and $41,977 for interest charges.

On April 28, 2009, Wits Basin entered into a convertible debenture with Cabo, pursuant to which they issued to Cabo a 12% Convertible Debenture dated April 27, 2009 (the “Debenture”), in the principal amount of $511,590, which formalized the repayment of $451,590 owed to them plus $60,000 for legal fees in connection with the signing of this note. The Debenture has a maturity date of April 27, 2012, with scheduled payments of $150,000 due each anniversary with a final payment due of the remaining balance on the third anniversary.  The Debenture is convertible at the option of the holder at any time into shares of Wits Basin’s common stock at a conversion price of $0.20 per share, subject to standard anti-dilutive adjustments. There was no beneficial conversion charge recorded as Wits Basin’s common stock fair market value on the commitment date was $0.06, which is below the conversion price. Wits Basin issued the Debenture to Cabo in satisfaction of an outstanding payable to Cabo for drilling services performed during 2008, relating to the Bates-Hunter property, and we have recorded the debt transaction as it pertained directly to the Bates-Hunter property. The $60,000 discount related to legal fees is being amortized to interest expense over the term of the debt.

The following table summarizes the convertible note balance:

Conversion of accrued drilling expenses on April 27, 2009
  $ 409,613  
Add: interest charges owed and legal fees incurred
    101,977  
      511,590  
Less: original issue discount for the legal fees
    (60,000 )
Add: amortization of original issue discount
    3,333  
Less: principal payments
     
Balance at June 30, 2009
  $ 454,923  

As of June 30, 2009, the outstanding principal balance is $511,590 with accrued interest of $10,826.

 
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Future maturities of this debt as of June 30 are as follows:

2010
  $ 150,000  
2011
  $ 150,000  
2012
  $ 211,590  
    $ 511,590  

NOTE 7 – EFFECT OF RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

In April 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Staff Position (“FSP”) No. FAS 157-4, Determining Fair Values When the Volume and Level of Activity for the Asset or Liability Have Significantly Decreased and Identifying Transactions That Are Not Orderly. This FSP provides guidance on (1) estimating the fair value of an asset or liability when the volume and level of the activity for the asset or liability have significantly declined and (2) identifying transactions that are not orderly. This FSP also amends certain disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 157 to require, among other things, disclosures in interim periods of the inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value. With the adoption of this FSP at June 30, 2009, it did not have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

In April 2009, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 107-1 and APB 28-1, Interim Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments. This FSP essentially expands the disclosure about fair value of financial instruments that were previously required only annually to be also required for interim period reporting. In addition, this FSP requires certain additional disclosures regarding the methods and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value of financial instruments. With the adoption of this FSP at June 30, 2009, it did not have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

In May 2009, the FASB issued SFAS No. 165, Subsequent Events. SFAS No. 165 is intended to establish general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. It requires the disclosure of the date through which an entity has evaluated subsequent events and the basis for that date, that is, whether that date represents the date the financial statements were issued or were available to be issued. This disclosure should alert all users of financial statements that an entity has not evaluated subsequent events after that date in the set of financial statements being presented. SFAS No. 165 is effective for interim and annual periods ending after June 15, 2009. With the adoption of this FSP at June 30, 2009, it did not have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

In June 2009, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Statement No. 168, Accounting Standards Codification and Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“SFAS 168”), which establishes the Codification as the single source of authoritative US GAAP. This statement is effective for interim and annual statements issued after September 15, 2009 and will change the way we reference accounting standards in future disclosures.

NOTE 8 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Transfer of Gregory Gold by Wits Basin

On September 3, 2009, Wits Basin contributed all of its equity interests in us to Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“Hunter Bates”), a Minnesota corporation, thereby making us a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunter Bates.  Hunter Bates is a sister company of ours and is a minerals exploration and development company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and also a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.

 
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Share Exchange Agreement

On September 11, 2009, Wits Basin and Hunter Bates entered into a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a Colorado corporation (“Princeton”), whereby the shareholders of Hunter Bates would exchange their Hunter Bates securities, on a share-for-share basis, for securities of Princeton (the “Share Exchange”). Upon consummation of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton.  Princeton is a company subject to the public reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and its common stock is currently quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTCBB”) under the symbol “PRAQ.OB.”  Princeton has not had significant operations or assets since inception and has actively sought potential opportunities for an acquisition, sale or merger since inception in 1985.

Effective September 29, 2009, Princeton completed the Share Exchange with the shareholders of Hunter Bates. Immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange, certain shareholders of Princeton sold 1,383,543 shares of Princeton common stock to Wits Basin for $262,500.  As a result of these transactions, Wits Basin holds approximately 94% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton common stock and accordingly, Princeton became a majority owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.

 
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EX-99.5 21 v162117_ex99-5.htm
 
EXHIBIT 99.5

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Shareholder of
Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (an exploration stage company)

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (an exploration stage company) as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the related statements of operations, shareholder’s equity (deficit) and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the period from September 28, 2004 (inception) to December 31, 2008. Gregory Gold Producers’ management is responsible for these financial statements. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the period from September 28, 2004 (inception) to December 31, 2008 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.  As discussed in Note 3 to the financial statements, the Company had net losses for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2007 and had an accumulated deficit at December 31, 2008.  These conditions raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.  Management’s plans regarding those matters are also described in Note 3. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

/s/ Carver Moquist & O’Connor, LLC

Edina, Minnesota
September 30, 2009

 
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GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
BALANCE SHEETS

   
December 31,
 
   
2008
   
2007
 
Assets
           
Current assets:
           
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 1,655     $  
Prepaid expenses and deposits
          20,000  
Total current assets
    1,655       20,000  
                 
Equipment, net
    71,101       73,206  
Total Assets
  $ 72,756     $ 93,206  
                 
Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity (Deficit)
               
Current liabilities:
               
Accounts payable
  $ 26,928     $ 11,815  
Checks written in excess of bank balance
          3,425  
Due to Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent)
    5,424,555       4,128,738  
Accrued expenses
    473,762       131,471  
Total current liabilities
    5,925,245       4,275,449  
                 
Commitments and contingencies
               
                 
Shareholder’s equity (deficit):
               
Common stock, $.01 par value, 50,000 shares authorized: 100 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007
    1       1  
Accumulated deficit during exploration stage
    (5,852,490 )     (4,182,244 )
Total shareholder’s equity (deficit)
    (5,852,489 )     (4,182,243 )
Total Liabilities and Shareholder’s Equity (Deficit)
  $ 72,756     $ 93,206  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
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GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

         
September 28,
2004
 
          
(inception) to
 December 31,
 
    
December 31,
 
   
2008
   
2007
   
2008
 
Revenues
  $     $     $  
                         
Operating Expenses:
                       
General and administrative
    78,445       60,297       456,823  
Exploration expenses
    1,561,385       1,955,334       5,323,703  
Depreciation and amortization
    17,849       16,049       60,165  
Loss on disposal of assets
    12,362             12,362  
Total operating expenses
    1,670,041       2,031,680       5,853,053  
Loss from operations
    (1,670,041 )     (2,031,680 )     (5,853,053 )
                         
Other Income (Expense):
                       
Other income
    628       674       1,396  
Interest expense
    (833 )           (833 )
Total other income (expense)
    (205 )     674       563  
Loss before income taxes
    (1,670,246 )     (2,031,006 )     (5,852,490 )
                         
Income tax provision
                 
Net loss
  $ (1,670,246 )   $ (2,031,006 )   $ (5,852,490 )
                         
Net Loss per Share:
                       
Basic and Diluted Net Loss per Common Share
  $ (16,702 )   $ (20,310 )   $ (58,525 )
                         
Basic and Diluted Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding
    100       100       100  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
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GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY (DEFICIT)
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2008 AND 2007

               
Accumulated
       
               
deficit
       
               
during
       
   
Common stock
   
exploration
       
   
Shares
   
Amount
   
stage
   
Total
 
BALANCE, December 31, 2006
    100     $ 1     $ (2,151,238 )   $ (2,151,237 )
                                 
Net loss
                (2,031,006 )     (2,031,006 )
BALANCE, December 31, 2007
    100       1       (4,182,244 )     (4,182,243 )
                                 
Net loss
                (1,670,246 )     (1,670,246 )
BALANCE, December 31, 2008
    100     $ 1     $ (5,852,490 )   $ (5,852,489 )

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
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GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

               
September 28,
2004
 
                
(inception) to
 
    
December 31,
   
December 31,
 
   
2008
   
2007
   
2008
 
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
                 
Net loss
  $ 1,670,246 )   $ (2,031,006 )   $ (5,852,490 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to cash flows from operating activities:
                       
Depreciation and amortization
    17,849       16,049       60,165  
Loss on disposal of miscellaneous assets
    12,362             12,362  
Issuance of equity securities by Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent) for exploration expenses
    185,282       30,583       334,950  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                       
Prepaid expenses and deposits
    20,000              
Accounts payable
    15,113       (21,502 )     26,928  
Accrued expenses
    342,291       86,041       473,762  
Net cash used in operating activities
    (1,062,349 )     (1,919,835 )     (4,944,323 )
                         
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
                       
Purchases of equipment
    (28,106 )     (9,169 )     (143,628 )
Net cash used in investing activities
    (28,106 )     (9,169 )     (143,628 )
                         
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
                       
Checks written in excess of bank balance
    (3,425 )     3,425        
Advances from Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (Parent)
    1,110,535       1,897,376       5,089,606  
Net cash provided by financing activities
    1,092,110       1,900,801       5,089,606  
                         
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
    1,655       (28,203 )     1,655  
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period
          28,203        
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period
  $ 1,655     $     $ 1,655  
                         
Supplemental cash flow information:
                       
Cash paid for interest
  $ 833     $     $ 833  
Cash paid for income taxes
  $     $     $  

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 
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GREGORY GOLD PRODUCERS, INCORPORATED
(AN EXPLORATION STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 2008 and 2007

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF BUSINESS

Gregory Gold Producers, Incorporated (“we,” “us,” “our,” “Gregory Gold” or the “Company”), a Colorado corporation, is a minerals exploration company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. (“Wits Basin” or “Parent”).

In January 2005, Wits Basin acquired certain rights to purchase the Bates-Hunter Mine (the “Bates-Hunter Mine”) a prior producing gold mine located in Central City, Colorado. These rights further granted Wits Basin exploration rights of the Bates-Hunter Mine properties. Gregory Gold has been used by Wits Basin solely as the operating entity for the exploration activities in Colorado. We hold minimal assets related to operating the water treatment plant and area maintenance.

NOTE 2 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Presentation

The preparation of these financial statements include the use of “carve out” accounting procedures wherein certain assets, liabilities and expenses historically recorded or incurred at the Wits Basin level, which related to or were incurred on behalf of the Company have been identified and allocated as appropriate to reflect the stand-alone financial results of the Company, in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In the ordinary course of business, Wits Basin provides various services, including accounting, treasury, tax, legal, human resources, public affairs and executive oversight. Costs for these services are charged to the Company by Wits Basin based on specifically identifiable expenses or are allocated to the Company by Wits Basin based primarily upon the Company's exploration activities. Both the Company and Wits Basin consider these cost allocations to be reasonable reflections of the cost of services provided. Charges for these services totaled $53,997 in 2008, $42,036 in 2007 and $383,106 since inception in general and administrative expenses. These charges may not necessarily be indicative of the cost the Company would incur for these services if it was a stand-alone, independent company.

The intercompany advances from Wits Basin do not bear interest, as such, no interest expense has been reflected in these financial statements.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

We include as cash equivalents: (a) certificates of deposit, and (b) all other investments with maturities of three months or less, which are readily convertible into known amounts of cash. We maintain our cash in high-quality financial institutions. The balances, at times, may exceed federally insured limits.

Equipment

Equipment is recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over estimated useful lives, from two to seven years.  Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred; major renewals and betterments are capitalized. As equipment is sold or retired, the related cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and any gain or loss is included in operating income.

 
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Long-Lived Assets

We will periodically evaluate the carrying value of long-lived assets to be held and used, including but not limited to our capital assets, when events and circumstances warrant such a review.  The carrying value of a long-lived asset is considered impaired when the anticipated undiscounted cash flow from such asset is separately identifiable and is less than its carrying value.  In that event, a loss is recognized based on the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value of the long-lived asset. Fair value is determined primarily using the anticipated cash flows discounted at a rate commensurate with the risk involved.  Losses on long-lived assets to be disposed of are determined in a similar manner, except that fair values are reduced for the cost to dispose.

Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue

As of December 31, 2008, none of our operations provided any revenues and we do not expect to generate revenues for the foreseeable future.

Use of Estimates

Preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Income Taxes

The Company is included in the consolidated federal income tax return of Wits Basin.  The tax provision included in the accompanying financial statements is calculated as if the Company filed separate federal and state income tax returns.  Deferred taxes are provided on temporary differences between book and tax basis of assets and liabilities which will have a future impact on taxable income. The Company has recorded a full valuation allowance against the net deferred tax asset due to the uncertainty of realizing the related benefits.   

Net Loss per Common Share

Basic net loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss applicable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented.  Diluted net loss per common share is determined using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the periods presented, adjusted for the dilutive effect of common stock equivalents, consisting of shares that might be issued upon exercise of options, warrants and conversion of convertible debt.  In periods where losses are reported, the weighted average number of common shares outstanding excludes common stock equivalents, because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.

Effect of Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In April 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Staff Position (“FSP”) No. FAS 157-4, Determining Fair Values When the Volume and Level of Activity for the Asset or Liability Have Significantly Decreased and Identifying Transactions That Are Not Orderly. This FSP provides guidance on (1) estimating the fair value of an asset or liability when the volume and level of the activity for the asset or liability have significantly declined and (2) identifying transactions that are not orderly. This FSP also amends certain disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 157 to require, among other things, disclosures in interim periods of the inputs and valuation techniques used to measure fair value. For the Company, this FSP is effective prospectively beginning April 1, 2009. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard, but would not expect it to have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

 
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In April 2009, the FASB issued FSP No. FAS 107-1 and APB 28-1, Interim Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments. This FSP essentially expands the disclosure about fair value of financial instruments that were previously required only annually to be also required for interim period reporting. In addition, this FSP requires certain additional disclosures regarding the methods and significant assumptions used to estimate the fair value of financial instruments. For The Company, these additional disclosures will be required beginning with the quarter ending June 30, 2009. We are currently evaluating the requirement of these additional disclosures.

In May 2009, the FASB issued SFAS No. 165, Subsequent Events. SFAS No. 165 is intended to establish general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. It requires the disclosure of the date through which an entity has evaluated subsequent events and the basis for that date, that is, whether that date represents the date the financial statements were issued or were available to be issued. This disclosure should alert all users of financial statements that an entity has not evaluated subsequent events after that date in the set of financial statements being presented. SFAS No. 165 is effective for interim and annual periods ending after June 15, 2009. We are currently evaluating the requirement of these additional disclosures.

In June 2009, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Statement No. 168, Accounting Standards Codification and Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“SFAS 168”), which establishes the Codification as the single source of authoritative US GAAP. This statement is effective for interim and annual statements issued after September 15, 2009 and will change the way we reference accounting standards in future disclosures. 

NOTE 3 – GOING CONCERN

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, assuming we will continue as a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.  For the year ended December 31, 2008, we incurred losses from operations of $1,670,246. At December 31, 2008, we had an accumulated deficit of $5,852,490 and a working capital deficit of $5,923,590.  Our ability to continue as a going concern is dependent entirely on receiving funds from Wits Basin and their ability to raise the capital or debt directly identified for exploration activities of the Bates-Hunter Mine. If we are unable to obtain the necessary capital, we may have to cease operations.

NOTE 4 – PREPAID EXPENSES AND DEPOSITS

Included in prepaid expenses and deposits were two bonds (held in the form of certificates of deposit), in the amount of $10,000 each, required by the State of Colorado for exploration activities, which earned nominal interest. After the completion of certain drilling activities in 2008, we were no longer required to maintain these deposits and both were cashed in and deposited.

NOTE 5 – EQUIPMENT

Depreciation on our equipment is calculated on a straight-line method over the estimated useful life, presently ranging from two to seven years. Components of our fixed assets are as follows:

   
December 31,
 
   
2008
   
2007
 
Equipment
  $ 117,605     $ 115,522  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (46,504 )     (42,316 )
    $ 71,101     $ 73,206  
 
 
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NOTE 6 – LEGAL MATTERS

The Company is subject to legal proceedings in the normal course of business. Management believes these proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on the financial statements.
 
NOTE 7 – INCOME TAXES

The income tax provision consists of the following for the years ended December 31:

   
2008
   
2007
 
Current tax provision
  $     $  
Deferred tax provision
    (618,000 )     (751,000 )
Valuation allowance
    618,000       751,000  
Total income tax provision
  $     $  

Significant components of the Company’s estimated deferred tax assets and liabilities at December 31:

Deferred tax assets:
 
2008
   
2007
 
Net operating loss
  $ 2,165,000     $ 1,547,000  
Valuation allowance
    (2,165,000 )     (1,547,000 )
Net deferred tax assets
  $     $  

Reconciliation between the statutory rate and the effective tax rate for the years ended December 31:

   
2008
   
2007
 
Federal statutory tax rate
    34.0 %     34.0 %
State taxes, net of federal benefit
    3.0 %     3.0 %
Valuation allowance
    (37.0 )%     (37.0 )%
Effective tax rate
           

NOTE 8 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

Transfer of Gregory Gold by Wits Basin

On September 3, 2009, Wits Basin contributed all of its equity interest (100%) in us to Hunter Bates Mining Corporation (“Hunter Bates”), a Minnesota corporation, thereby making us a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunter Bates.  Hunter Bates is a sister company of ours and is a minerals exploration and development company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a wholly owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.

Share Exchange Agreement

On September 11, 2009, Wits Basin and Hunter Bates entered into a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with Princeton Acquisitions, Inc., a Colorado corporation (“Princeton”), whereby the shareholders of Hunter Bates would exchange their Hunter Bates securities, on a share-for-share basis, for securities of Princeton (the “Share Exchange”). Upon consummation of the Share Exchange, Hunter Bates will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Princeton.  Princeton is a company subject to the public reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and its common stock is currently quoted on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“OTCBB”) under the symbol “PRAQ.OB.”  Princeton has not had significant operations or assets since inception and has actively sought potential opportunities for an acquisition, sale or merger since inception in 1985.

 
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Effective September 29, 2009, Princeton completed the Share Exchange with the shareholders of Hunter Bates. Immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Share Exchange, certain shareholders of Princeton sold 1,383,543 shares of Princeton common stock to Wits Basin for $262,500.  As a result of these transactions, Wits Basin holds approximately 94% of the issued and outstanding shares of Princeton common stock and accordingly, Princeton became a majority owned subsidiary of Wits Basin.

 
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