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INVESTMENTS
12 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2020
8. INVESTMENTS

 

a)

Common shares

 

 

 

 

 

At January 31, 2020, the Company held shares as follows: 

  

 

 

 Number

of Shares

 

 

 Cost

 

 

 Accumulated Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available-for-sale shares:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discovery Metals Corp.

 

 

20,350

 

 

$ 1,957

 

 

$ 11,881

 

 

 

13,838

 

VBI Vaccines Inc.

 

 

2,000

 

 

 

4,232

 

 

 

(1,492 )

 

 

2,740

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$ 6,189

 

 

 

10,389

 

 

$ 16,578

 

 

 

 

At January 31, 2019, the Company held shares as follows:

 

 

 

 Number

of Shares

 

 

 Cost

 

 

 Accumulated Unrealized

Gain (Loss)

 

 

Fair Value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Available-for-sale shares:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Levon Resources Ltd.

 

 

37,000

 

 

$ 1,957

 

 

$ 3,778

 

 

$ 5,735

 

VBI Vaccines Inc.

 

 

2,000

 

 

 

4,232

 

 

 

150

 

 

 

4,382

 

Great Thunder Gold Corp.

 

 

10,819

 

 

 

866

 

 

 

(703 )

 

 

163

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$ 7,055

 

 

 

3,225

 

 

$ 10,280

 

 

 

During the year ended January 31, 2020, the Company recorded an unrealized gain of $6,299 (2019 – loss of $19,197; 2018 – loss of $57,269) on investments in marketable securities, representing the change in fair value during the year.

 

During the year ended January 31, 2020, Discovery Metals Corp. (“Discovery”) acquired Levon Resources Ltd. (“Levon”). As a result of the transaction, the Company received 20,350 common shares of Discovery in exchange for the previously-owned 37,000 common shares of Levon.

 

During the year ended January 31, 2020, the Company sold 2,704 (2019 – Nil, 2018 – Nil) shares of Great Thunder Gold Corp. for gross proceeds of $379 (2019 – $Nil, 2018 – $Nil). As a result, the Company recorded a loss on sale of investments of $595 for the year ended January 31, 2019 (gain of 2019 – $14,635, 2018 – gain of $93,693).

  

 

b)

Other investments

 

 

 

 

 

During the year ended January 31, 2020, the Company purchased US$2,000,000 ($2,646,600 based on the closing US dollar to Canadian dollar exchange rate at January 31, 2020) in principal-protected notes that mature on November 22, 2021. During the year ended January 31, 2020, the Company recorded $11,684 (2019 – Nil, 2018 – Nil) in unrealized interest income on the appreciation of these investments. As at January 31, 2020, the fair value of the investments was $2,658,284.