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3. Sulfatos Acquisition
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2013
Notes to Financial Statements  
3. Sulfatos Acquisition

On February 15, 2012, Bluestone purchased a 60% equity interest in Sulfatos Chile from Santa Teresa Minerals S.A., a Chilean corporation ("Santa Teresa Minerals"). The purchase price for the equity interest was: (a) a 20% interest in Bluestone; (b) $2.2 million, with $1.1 million paid by assumption of a demand loan payable by Santa Teresa Minerals to Angelique de Maison, and the balance of $1.1 million to be paid in monthly installments from time to time upon demand by Santa Teresa Minerals. As of December 31, 2012, the entire purchase price had been paid. On October 16, 2012 Angelique de Maison entered into an agreement with Santa Teresa Minerals pursuant to which Santa Teresa Minerals waived and released any claim to any equity interests in Bluestone or Lustros and their affiliated companies, with Bluestone and Lustros Inc. express third party beneficiaries of that waiver and release. As such, Santa Teresa Minerals' 20% interest in Bluestone has been cancelled, and Bluestone is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lustros.

 

At the time of the Sulfatos Acquisition, Bluestone was an affiliate of Santa Teresa Minerals because substantially all of the equity interests of Bluestone were owned by Juan Carlos Camus Villegas and Angelique de Maison, who were officers and/or directors of Santa Teresa Minerals and its parent holding company and were principal shareholders of the parent holding company.

 

The Sulfatos Acquisition has been treated as an "asset purchase" for financial reporting purposes. Because the Sulfatos Acquisition was between related parties, the purchase price has been allocated to additional paid-in capital and the assets and liabilities were carried over at historical costs. Results of operations for Sulfatos have been reflected in the Company's financial statements from the closing date.

 

The following information presents supplemental cash flows information of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in connection with the Sulfatos Acquisition:

 

    Twelve months  
    Ended  
    December 31, 2012  
Prepaid expenses   $ 764,551  
Equipment     3,289,521  
Mining property     3,492,824  
Land     549,310  
Accounts payable     (447,343 )
Notes payable     (2,580,399 )
    $ 5,068,464  
Plus, cash acquired     892,294  
Total value of acquisition   $ 5,960,758  
Value of acquisition allocated to additional paid-in capital   $ 2,696,455  
Value of acquisition allocated to minority interest   $ 3,264,303  

 

The following table summarizes the historical cost values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of Sulfatos Acquisition. In accordance with US GAAP, the assets and liabilities acquired are carried over at their historical value because the transaction occurred between related parties.

  

    At  
    February 15, 2012  
Working Capital Items        
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 892,294  
Prepaid expenses and other     764,551  
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     (447,343 )
Notes payable     (2,580,399 )
Subtotal—Working Capital Items     (1,370,897 )
         
Long-lived Assets:        
Property & Equipment        
Land     549,310  
Mining property     3,492,824  
FFE and Equipment     3,289,521  
Subtotal—long-lived assets     7,331,655  
         
Total value of acquisition   $ 5,960,758  
         
Value of acquisition allocated to additional paid-in capital   $ 2,696,455  
Value of acquisition allocated to minority interest   $ 3,264,303  

  

Had the Sulfatos Chile Acquisition taken place on January 1, 2012, results of operations would have reflected the following pro forma amounts for the three months ended March 31, 2012 as compared to March 31, 2013:

 

   Three Months Ended March 31, 
   2012  

2013

 
   Lustros, Inc.   Sulfatos Chile        Purchase   Pro      
   Actual   Actual   Consolidated   Adjustments   Forma   Consolidated 
Revenues  $   $20,886   $20,886   $   $20,886   $ 
Operating expenses   16,861    473,038    489,899    212,807    702,706    766,535 
Interest expense                       226,028 
Net loss  $(16,861)  $(452,152)  $(469,013)  $(212,807)  $723,592   $992,563 

 

The $212,807 purchase adjustment is the operating expenses incurred by Sulfatos Chile from January 1, 2012 to February 15, 2012.