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1. Organization and Principal Activities
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
Notes to Financial Statements  
1. Organization and Principal Activities

Organization and Description of Business

 

Lustros, Inc. ("Lustros", and together with its consolidated subsidiaries, the "Company"), formally Power-Save Energy Company, is a Utah corporation formed in 1980. The Company is a pre-revenue development stage company that intends to market and sell high quality food-grade copper sulfate obtained by processing copper ores and tailings at Company-owned processing facilities in Chile.

 

On March 9, 2012, Lustros acquired all of the outstanding capital stock and rights to acquire capital stock of Bluestone, S.A. a Chilean corporation (“Bluestone”), in exchange for 60,000,000 shares of its common stock (the "Bluestone Acquisition"). Bluestone's principal asset is a 60% equity interest in Sulfatos Chile, S.A. ("Sulfatos"), which it acquired in February 2012.

 

For accounting purposes, the Company has treated the Bluestone Acquisition as a reverse acquisition with Bluestone as the acquiring entity and Lustros as the acquired entity. As a result, the Company's financial statements reflect the financial information of Bluestone prior to March 9, 2012 and the combined entity on and after March 9, 2012.

 

On March 25, 2012, the Company sold the assets (including the "Power-Save" name) of its renewable energy and energy savings product business in which it had engaged prior to the Bluestone Acquisition, to the former management of the Company (the "Power Save Sale"). See Note 4 - Bluestone Acquisition and Power Save Sale.

 

On June 25, 2012, the Company created a new subsidiary, Mineraltus S.A. (“Mineraltus”), a Chilean corporation, to extract copper from the tailings (waste products) of expired copper mines to secure the raw materials to manufacture high quality, feed-grade copper sulfate. The Company owns 80% of Mineraltus.

 

On August 22, 2012, the Company formed Lustros Chile SpA as a 100% owned subsidiary, for the purpose of acting as a Chilean entity holding company for the Company’s Chilean subsidiaries Sulfatos, Mineraltus, and Bluestone.

 

Restatement

 

Upon completion of the Company’s June 30, 2012 consolidated financial statements, accounting errors were discovered that required the restatement of amounts previously reported on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, Consolidated Statements of Operations and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as of March 31, 2012. The Company’s consolidated financial statements as of March 31, 2012 included the 60% controlling interests only for our subsidiary, Sulfatos, from its inception date of September 15, 2010. It was later determined that the consolidated financial statements should have instead reflected the inception date of Bluestone, which was January 26, 2012 and should have included both the controlling interest as well as the minority interest and should have included income/loss attributable to the Company and income/loss attributable to minority interests.

 

As of June 30, 2012 our consolidated financial statements were restated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, to include the controlling and non-controlling interests of the subsidiaries we control, Sulfatos and Mineraltus, into our financial statements. As such, all assets and liabilities of Sulfatos and Mineraltus are shown on our Consolidated Balance Sheets with the non-controlling interest reflected as a component of stockholders’ equity on and non-controlling interests in Sulfatos and Mineraltus are reflected as income attributable to minority interests in our Consolidated Statements of Operations and as a component of stockholders’ equity on our Consolidated Balance Sheet.

 

The following is a summary of the impact of these restatements on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations as of March 31, 2012:

 

   Three Months Ended March 31, 2012         Inception (January 26, 2012) to March 31, 2012 
   As previously reported   Error correction     As restated 
               
Revenue  $12,532   $8,354   (a)(b)   $20,886 
Gross profit   12,532    8,354       20,886 
                   
Operating expenses                  
General and administrative   398,835    73,553   (a)(b)    472,388 
Depreciation       15,146   (a)(b)    15,146 
Payroll       (27,091)  (a)(b)    (27,091)
Legal and accounting   1,633    26   (a)(b)    1,659 
Mining costs   12,775    14,646   (a)(b)    27,421 
Research and development   3,445    (3,069)  (a)(b)    376 
Total expenses   416,688    73,211       489,899 
                   
Ordinary loss from continued operations   (404,156)   (64,857)      (469,013)
                   
Loss from discontinued operations   18,903    (18,903)  (a)(b)     
                   
Net loss  $(385,253)  $(83,760)     $(469,013)
                   
Net loss attributable to minority interest       $(180,861) (c)  $(180,861)
Net loss attributable to Lustros, Inc.       $(288,152) (c)  $(288,152)
Loss per share, basic  $(0.02)         $(0.02)
Weighted average common share, basic   18,021,261           23,765,517 

 

(a) Record 100% of expenses for subsidiary rather than 60% controlling interest.
(b) Adjust expenses from 1/1/2012 to 1/26/2012, the inception date of Bluestone.
(c) Reclassify 40% minority interest in subsidiary.

The following is a summary of the impact of these restatements on the Company’s Statement of Cash Flows as of March 31, 2012:

 

   Sulfatos Inception (September 15, 2010) to March 31, 2012          Bluestone Inception (January 26, 2012) to March 31, 2012 
   As previously reported   Error correction      As restated 
                
Cash flows from operating activities               
Net loss  $(964,128)  $495,115    (b)(c)  $(469,013)
Non-cash transactions to reconcile cash used in operations                  
Loss from discontinued operations   (18,903)   18,903   (b)(c)    
Depreciation and amortization       15,146  (e)   15,146 
Cash used in operations                  
Increase in notes receivable   (52,004)   (34,669)  (a)   (86,673)
Decrease/(increase) in prepaid expenses   (663,990)   321,783  (a)   (342,207)
Increase/(decrease) in accounts payable   327,236    (610,546)  (a)   (283,310)
Total cash used in operations   (1,371,789)   205,732       (1,166,057)
                   
Cash flows from investing activities                  
Acquisition of Sulfatos Chile by Bluestone       892,294  (a)   892,294 
Cash received in Power Save merger       38,572  (a)   38,572 
Disposal of Power Save operations       (20,642)  (a)   (20,642)
Purchase of fixed assets   (4,432,817)   4,361,298   (a)(e)   (71,519)
Total cash used in investing activities   (4,432,817)   5,271,522       838,705 
                   
Cash from financing activities                  
Proceeds from notes payable, related parties       1,670,988  (f)   1,670,988 
Repayment of notes payable, related parties       (1,670,988)  (f)   (1,670,988)
Proceeds from the issuance of stock   6,158,558    (6,158,558)  (a)    
Total cash provided by financing activities   6,158,558    (6,158,558)       
                   
Effect of foreign currency exchange rate on cash   (50,548)   883,573  (c)   833,025 
                   
INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH   303,404    202,269)  (a)   505,673 
                   
BEGINNING CASH               
                   
ENDING CASH  $303,404   $202,269      $505,673 

 

(a) Record 100% of assets and liabilities for subsidiary rather than 60% controlling interest.

(b) Record 100% of expenses for subsidiary rather than 60% controlling interest.

(c) Adjust expenses from 1/1/2012 to 1/26/2012, the inception date of Bluestone.

(d) Reclassify 40% minority interest in subsidiary.

(e) Reclassify note payable previously included in accounts payable.