For
the month of,
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March
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2010
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Commission
File Number
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000-13727
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Pan
American Silver Corp
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(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
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1500-625
Howe Street, Vancouver BC Canada V6C 2T6
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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Form
20-F
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Form
40-F
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X
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Yes
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No
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X
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Document
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1
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Business
acquisition report, dated February 22, 2010, relating to the Company's
acquisition of Aquiline Resources
Inc.
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ITEM
1
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IDENTITY OF
COMPANY
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1.1
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Name
and Address of Company
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Pan
American Silver Corp. (the “Company”)
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1500-625
Howe Street
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Vancouver,
British Columbia V6C 2T6
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1.2
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Executive
Officer
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Robert
Pirooz
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General
Counsel and Director
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Phone: 604-684-1175
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ITEM
2
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DETAILS OF
ACQUISITION
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2.1
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Nature
of Business Acquired
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Aquiline
Resources Inc. (“Aquiline”) is an exploration
and development company advancing one of the world’s largest undeveloped
silver deposits, the Navidad property in Argentina (the “Navidad Property”), as
well as other gold and silver deposits in Argentina and Peru, including
the Calcatreu and Pico Machay properties.
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2.2
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Date
of Acquisition
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On
October 14, 2009, the Company announced its intention to make a friendly
offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares (“Aquiline Shares”),
common share purchase warrants and the convertible debenture (the “Convertible
Debenture”) of Aquiline by way
of separate take-over bids. The take-over bids were formally
launched on October 30, 2009 with the mailing of an offer and
circular (the “Offer and
Circular”) to securityholders of Aquiline. Specifically,
the Company offered to purchase:
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(a)
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all
of the issued and outstanding Aquiline Shares, including any Aquiline
Shares that may become issued and outstanding after the date of the Offers
(as defined below) but prior to the expiry time of the Offers upon the
exchange, conversion or exercise of any securities of Aquiline that are
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Aquiline Shares, but
excluding Aquiline Shares owned by the Company or its affiliates, for
consideration consisting of 0.2495 of a common share in the capital of the
Company (a “Common
Share”) and 0.1 of a common share purchase warrant (a “Consideration Warrant”)
for each Aquiline Share (the “Share Offer”). Each
whole Consideration Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one
Common Share at the price of Cdn.$35.00 per Common Share until December 7,
2014;
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(b)
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any
and all of the outstanding common share purchase warrants of Aquiline,
comprised of Aquiline’s February 2008 series of common share purchase
warrants (the “February
2008 Warrants”), Aquiline’s May 2008 series of common share
purchase warrants (the “May 2008 Warrants”),
Aquiline’s October 2008 series of common share purchase warrants (the
“October 2008
Warrants”), Aquiline’s November 2008 series of common share
purchase warrants (the “November 2008 Warrants”
and, collectively with the February 2008 Warrants, May 2008 Warrants and
October 2008 Warrants, the “Aquiline Warrants”), but
excluding Aquiline Warrants owned by the Company or its affiliates, as
follows:
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(i)
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each
of the outstanding February 2008 Warrants for consideration consisting of
0.2495 of a common share purchase warrant of the Company (a “February 2008 Replacement
Warrant”), with each whole February 2008 Replacement Warrant
exercisable to purchase from the Company one Common Share at an exercise
price of Cdn.$52.10 per Common Share (the “February Warrant
Offer”);
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(ii)
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each
of the outstanding May 2008 Warrants for consideration consisting of
0.2495 of a common share purchase warrant of the Company (a “May 2008 Replacement
Warrant”), with each whole May 2008 Replacement Warrant exercisable
to purchase from the Company one Common Share at an exercise price of
Cdn.$40.08 per Common Share (the “May Warrant
Offer”);
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(iii)
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each
of the outstanding October 2008 Warrants for consideration consisting of
0.2495 of a common share purchase warrant of the Company (an “October 2008 Replacement
Warrant”), with each whole October 2008 Replacement Warrant
exercisable to purchase from the Company one Common Share at an exercise
price of Cdn.$10.02 per Common Share (the “October Warrant Offer”);
and
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(iv)
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each
of the outstanding November 2008 Warrants for consideration consisting of
0.2495 of a common share purchase warrant of the Company (a “November 2008 Replacement
Warrant”), with each whole November 2008 Replacement Warrant
exercisable to purchase from the Company one Common Share at an exercise
price of Cdn.$10.02 per Common Share (the “November Warrant
Offer”),
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(collectively,
the “Warrant
Offers”); and
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(c)
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the
outstanding Convertible Debenture for consideration consisting of a
debenture of the Company (the “Replacement Debenture”),
which may be converted into either:
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(i)
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363,854
Common Shares at a conversion price of Cdn.$48.10 per Common Share;
or
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(ii)
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a
contract granting the holder of the Replacement Debenture the right to
purchase 12.5% of the life of the mine payable silver from the Loma de La
Plata deposit of the Navidad Property,
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(the
“Debenture Offer”
and, together with the Share Offer and the Warrant Offers, the “Offers”), upon the terms
and subject to the conditions set out in the Offer and
Circular.
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On
December 7, 2009, the Company acquired ownership and control of 67,216,956
Aquiline Shares, representing aproximately 81.8% of the issued and
outstanding Aquiline Shares, assuming no other convertible securities of
Aquiline are exercised, and 1,925,000 October 2008
Warrants. Following the take-up of these securities on December
7, 2009, and taking into account the securities of Aquiline owned by the
Company prior to this take-up, the Company owned 72,291,956 Aquiline
Shares (assuming the exercise by the Company of all of the convertible
securities of Aquiline owned by it or taken up by it to date under the
Offers), representing approximately 88.0% of the Aquiline Shares based on
the total number of Aquiline Shares outstanding as of December 7,
2009.
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By
way of a notice of extension and variation dated December 9, 2009, the
Company extended the Share Offer, May Warrant Offer and February Warrant
Offer until December 22, 2009.
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On
December 22, 2009, the Company acquired ownership and control of an
additional 5,403,461 Aquiline Shares, representing aproximately 6.96% of
the issued and outstanding Aquiline Shares, assuming no other convertible
securities of Aquiline are exercised, and an additional 206,366 February
2008 Warrants. Following the take-up of these securities on
December 22, 2009, and taking into account the securities of Aquiline
owned by the Company prior to this take-up, the Company owned 77,901,783
Aquiline Shares (assuming the exercise by Pan American of all of the
convertible securities of Aquiline owned by it or taken up by it to date
under the Offers), representing approximately 92.7% of the Aquiline Shares
based on the total number of Aquiline Shares outstanding as of December
22, 2009.
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On
December 23, 2009, the Company announced its intention to acquire the
remaining Aquiline Shares by exercising its statutory right of compulsory
acquisition under the Business Corporations
Act (Ontario). On January 22, 2010, the Company
completed its compulsory acquisition (the “Compulsory Acquisition”)
of the remaining Aquiline Shares and is now the holder of 100% of the
outstanding Aquiline Shares.
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The
31,134 February 2008 Warrants which were not deposited to the Warrant
Offers or exercised in advance of the completion of the Compulsory
Acquisition will remain outstanding in accordance with their respective
terms.
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2.3
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Consideration
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Pursuant
to the Offers and the Compulsory Acquisition, the Company issued an
aggregate of 19,644,669 Common Shares, 7,873,618 Consideration Warrants,
480,287 October 2008 Replacement Warrants, 51,488 February 2008
Replacement Warrants and the Replacement Debenture.
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2.4
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Effect
on Financial Position
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The
Company does not currently have any plans or proposals for material
changes in the business or affairs of either the Company or Aquiline which
may have a significant impact on the results of operations and financial
position of the Company.
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2.5
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Prior
Valuations
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Not
applicable.
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2.6
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Parties
to Transaction
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Prior
to the acquisition, Aquiline was not an informed person, associate or
affiliate of the Company.
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2.7
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Date
of Report
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February
22, 2010.
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ITEM
3
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FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
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The
following financial statements are incorporated, and form part of, this
Business Acquisition Report, and are attached hereto as Schedule
“A”:
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1.
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Unaudited
pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations and for the nine
months ended September 30, 2009 and for the year ended December 31, 2008
and condensed consolidated balance sheet for the nine months ended
September 30, 2009.
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The
financial statements listed below are incorporated, and form a part of,
this Business Acquisition Report, and are attached hereto as Schedule
“B”:
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2.
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Audited
financial statements of Aquiline at December 31, 2008 and 2007 and for the
years then ended; and
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3.
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Unaudited
financial statements of Aquiline for the three and nine months ended
September 30, 2009 and 2008.
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DATED
at Vancouver, British Columbia this 22nd
day of February, 2010.
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By:
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(signed)
Delaney Fisher
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Name:
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Delaney
Fisher
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Title:
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Secretary
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Pan
American Silver Corp.
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Aquiline
Resources Inc.
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Pro
forma adjustments
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Note
5
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Pro
forma consolidated
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(Schedule
1)
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Assets
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Current
assets
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Cash and cash
equivalents
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$ | 65,249 | $ | 2,329 | $ | - | $ | 67,578 | ||||||||||||
Short-term
investments
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84,198 | 7,108 | (9,473 | ) | a | 81,833 | ||||||||||||||
Accounts receivable, and
prepaid expenses
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79,908 | 2,032 | - | 81,940 | ||||||||||||||||
Inventories
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93,878 | - | - | 93,878 | ||||||||||||||||
Future Income
Taxes
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4,578 | - | - | 4,578 | ||||||||||||||||
Total
Current Assets
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327,811 | 11,469 | (9,473 | ) | 329,807 | |||||||||||||||
Mineral
properties, plant and equipment, net
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664,256 | 121,052 | (7,707 | ) | i | 1,489,974 | ||||||||||||||
(8,710 | ) | b | ||||||||||||||||||
476,285 | b | |||||||||||||||||||
244,798 | h | |||||||||||||||||||
664,256 | 121,052 | 704,666 | 1,489,974 | |||||||||||||||||
Other
assets
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16,020 | 5,013 | - | 21,033 | ||||||||||||||||
Total
Assets
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$ | 1,008,087 | 137,534 | 695,193 | $ | 1,840,814 | ||||||||||||||
Liabilities
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Current
liabilities
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Accounts payable and accrued
liabilities
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$ | 66,764 | 1,883 | 11,000 | g | $ | 79,647 | |||||||||||||
Income taxes
payable
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1,189 | - | - | 1,189 | ||||||||||||||||
Other current
liabilities
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2,175 | - | - | 2,175 | ||||||||||||||||
Total
current liabilities
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70,128 | 1,883 | 11,000 | 83,011 | ||||||||||||||||
Convertible
debentures
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- | - | 20,788 | f | 20,788 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
for asset retirement obligations and reclamation
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59,135 | 1,220 | - | 60,355 | ||||||||||||||||
Future
income taxes
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47,717 | 11,664 | 244,798 | h | 304,179 | |||||||||||||||
106,852 | 12,884 | 265,586 | 385,321 | |||||||||||||||||
Non-controlling
interests
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6,657 | - | - | 6,657 | ||||||||||||||||
Shareholders’
equity
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Share
capital
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754,536 | 130,698 | (130,698 | ) | b | 1,238,882 | ||||||||||||||
484,346 | c | |||||||||||||||||||
Capital
surplus
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4,987 | 21,276 | (21,276 | ) | b | 62,428 | ||||||||||||||
18,313 | e | |||||||||||||||||||
Issue
new warrants
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- | - | 39,128 | d | ||||||||||||||||
Convertible
debentures
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- | 14,569 | (14,569 | ) | f | - | ||||||||||||||
Other
comprehensive income
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4,500 | (212 | ) | 212 | b | 448 | ||||||||||||||
(4,052 | ) | a | ||||||||||||||||||
Retained
earnings (deficit)
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60,427 | (43,564 | ) | 43,564 | b | 64,066 | ||||||||||||||
3,639 | a | |||||||||||||||||||
Total
shareholder’s equity
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824,450 | 122,767 | 418,607 | 1,365,824 | ||||||||||||||||
Total
liability and stockholder’s equity
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$ | 1,008,087 | 137,534 | 695,193 | $ | 1,840,814 |
Pan
American Silver Corp.
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Aquiline
Resources Inc.
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Pro
forma adjustments
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Note
5
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Pro
forma consolidated
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(Schedule
2)
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Sales
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$ | 300,406 | - | - | 300,406 | |||||||||||||||
Cost
of sales
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172,940 | - | - | 172,940 | ||||||||||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
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58,794 | - | - | 58,794 | ||||||||||||||||
Mine
operating earnings
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68,672 | - | - | 68,672 | ||||||||||||||||
General
and administrative
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9,198 | 1,911 | - | 11,109 | ||||||||||||||||
Exploration
and project development
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5,325 | 1,536 | 4,868 | a | 11,729 | |||||||||||||||
Accretion
of asset retirement obligation
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2,245 | 77 | - | 2,322 | ||||||||||||||||
Operating
earnings (loss)
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51,904 | (3,524 | ) | (4,868 | ) | 43,512 | ||||||||||||||
Other
income (expense)
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Investment and other (expense)
income
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(2,435 | ) | 12 | - | (2,423 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Foreign exchange
(losses)
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(2,799 | ) | (736 | ) | - | (3,535 | ) | |||||||||||||
Interest and financing
expenses
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(1,820 | ) | - | - | (1,820 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Net (losses) and gains on
commodity and currency contracts
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2,332 | - | - | 2,332 | ||||||||||||||||
Net gains on sale of
assets
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(228 | ) | - | (2,713 | ) | b | (2,941 | ) | ||||||||||||
Earnings
(loss) before non-controlling interest
and income taxes
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46,954 | (4,248 | ) | (7,581 | ) | 35,125 | ||||||||||||||
Non-controlling
interests
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(234 | ) | - | - | (234 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Income
tax provisions
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(12,527 | ) | - | - | (12,527 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Net
earnings (loss)
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$ | 34,193 | (4,248 | ) | (7,581 | ) | 22,364 | |||||||||||||
Net
earnings (loss) per share
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Basic and
diluted
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$ | 0.40 | (0.06 | ) | - | 0.21 | ||||||||||||||
Weighted
average number of common shares outstanding (000’s)
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||||||||||||||||||||
Basic
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86,210
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71,503
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- |
105,379
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Diluted
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86,506
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71,503
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- |
106,184
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Pan
American Silver Corp.
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Aquiline
Resources Inc.
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Pro
forma adjustments
|
Note
5
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Pro
forma consolidated
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(Schedule
3)
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Sales
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$ | 338,600 | $ | - | $ | - | $ | 338,600 | ||||||||||||
Cost
of sales
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199,032 | - | - | 199,032 | ||||||||||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
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46,349 | - | - | 46,349 | ||||||||||||||||
Mine
operating earnings
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93,219 | - | - | 93,219 | ||||||||||||||||
General
and administrative
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10,435 | 8,088 | - | 18,523 | ||||||||||||||||
Exploration
and project development
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5,494 | - | 19,027 | a | 24,521 | |||||||||||||||
Accretion
of asset retirement obligation
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2,687 | 118 | - | 2,805 | ||||||||||||||||
Write-down
of assets
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15,117 | 18,488 | - | 33,605 | ||||||||||||||||
Operating
earnings (loss)
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59,486 | (26,694 | ) | (19,027 | ) | 13,765 | ||||||||||||||
Other
income (expense)
|
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Investment and other (expense)
income
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(1,970 | ) | 600 | - | (1,370 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Foreign exchange
(losses)
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(6,147 | ) | 152 | - | (5,995 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Interest and financing
expenses
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(951 | ) | - | - | (951 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Net (losses) and gains on
commodity and currency contracts
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(1,619 | ) | - | - | (1,619 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Net gains on sale of
assets
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998 | - | - | 998 | ||||||||||||||||
Earnings
(loss) before non-controlling interest and income taxes
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49,797 | (25,942 | ) | (19,027 | ) | 4,828 | ||||||||||||||
Non-controlling
interest
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(765 | ) | - | - | (765 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Income
tax (provision) benefit
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(24,430 | ) | 5,738 | - | (18,692 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Net
earnings (loss)
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$ | 24,602 | $ | (20,204 | ) | $ | (19,027 | ) | $ | (14,629 | ) | |||||||||
Net
earnings (loss) per share
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Basic
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$ | 0.31 | $ | (0.33 | ) | $ | - | $ | (0.15 | ) | ||||||||||
Diluted
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$ | 0.30 | $ | (0.33 | ) | $ | - | $ | (0.15 | ) | ||||||||||
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding (000’s) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Basic
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80,236 | 61,626 | - | 99,405 | ||||||||||||||||
Diluted
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80,773 | 61,626 | - | 100,146 |
1.
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Basis of
presentation
|
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a)
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A
pro forma condensed consolidated balance sheet
combining:
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i.
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the
unaudited interim consolidated balance sheet of Pan American as at
September 30, 2009;
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ii.
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the
unaudited interim consolidated balance sheet of Aquiline as at September
30, 2009.
|
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b)
|
A
pro forma consolidated statement of operations for the nine months ended
September 30, 2009 combining:
|
|
i.
|
the
unaudited interim consolidated statement of operations of Pan American for
the nine months ended September 30,
2009;
|
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ii.
|
the
unaudited interim consolidated statement of operations of Aquiline for the
nine months ended September 30,
2009
|
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c)
|
A
pro forma consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December
31, 2008 combining:
|
|
i.
|
the
audited consolidated statement of operations of Pan American Silver
Corp for the year ended December 31,
2008;
|
|
ii.
|
the
audited consolidated statement of operations of Aquiline for the year
ended December 31, 2008.
|
2.
|
Conversion of historical
financial statements to U.S.
dollars
|
$
|
||
As
at December 7, 2009
|
1.05830
|
|
As
at September 30, 2009
|
1.08610
|
|
Average
for the nine months ended September 30, 2009
|
1.17000
|
|
Average
for the year ended December 31, 2008
|
1.06669
|
3.
|
Significant accounting
policies
|
4.
|
Pro forma purchase price
allocation
|
|
a)
|
19,169,178
Pan American common shares at CDN $26.74 per share (USD $25.27) for a
total fair value of $484.3 million;
and
|
|
b)
|
7,683,037
Pan American warrants at CDN$5.39 per warrant (US $5.09) for a total fair
value of $39.1 million; plus
|
|
c)
|
1,009,851
of Aquiline replacement warrants at an average CDN $16.59 per warrant (US
$15.68) for a total fair value of $15.8 million;
plus
|
|
d)
|
517,713
replacement stock options at an average CDN$5.07per option (US$4.79) for a
total fair value of $2.5 million:
plus
|
|
e)
|
a
replacement convertible debenture with a fair value of $20.8 million;
and
|
|
f)
|
tendered
Aquiline common shares and warrants owned by Pan American prior to the
acquisition with a fair value of $17.8 million;
plus
|
|
g)
|
the
estimated transaction costs of $11.0
million.
|
Risk-free
interest rate
|
1.795%
|
|
Expected
volatility
|
48
- 61%
|
|
Expected
life years
|
0.17
- 5
|
|
Dividend
rate
|
Nil
|
($
thousands)
|
|||||
Acquisition
costs
|
|||||
19.2 million shares of Pan
American Silver Corp.
|
484,346 | ||||
New warrants
|
39,128 | ||||
Replacement
warrants
|
15,834 | ||||
Replacement stock
options
|
2,479 | ||||
Replacement convertible
debenture
|
20,788 | ||||
Tendered investment in
Aquiline
|
17,771 | ||||
Acquisition
costs
|
11,000 | ||||
591,346 | |||||
Allocation
of acquisition costs:
|
($
thousands)
|
||||
Cash and cash
equivalents
|
2,329 | ||||
Short term
investments
|
7,108 | ||||
Accounts
receivable
|
2,032 | ||||
Mineral properties, plant and
equipment
|
845,429 | ||||
Other non-current
assets
|
5,013 | ||||
Accounts payable and accrued
liabilities
|
(12,883 | ) | |||
Asset retirement
obligations
|
(1,220 | ) | |||
Future income
taxes
|
(256,462 | ) | |||
591,346 |
5.
|
Pro forma assumptions and
adjustments
|
|
a)
|
To
adjust for a previously owned investment in Aquiline shares and
warrants.
|
Shares
|
Warrants
|
Total
|
||
Cost
|
2,370
|
338
|
2,708
|
|
FMV
@ 9/30/2009
|
6,422
|
3,051
|
9,473
|
|
FMV
@ 12/7/2009
|
11,080
|
6,691
|
17,771
|
|
b)
|
To
record the asset acquisition at $591.3 million, with mineral properties,
plant and equipment net of a $8.3 million unrealized gain on previously
owned Aquiline shares and eliminate the equity of
Aquiline.
|
|
c)
|
Issue
new shares of Pan American Silver recorded at fair
value.
|
|
d)
|
Issue
new warrants of Pan American Silver recorded at fair
value.
|
|
e)
|
Issue
replacement warrants and stock options recorded at fair
value.
|
|
f)
|
Issue
replacement convertible debenture recorded at fair value. The
convertible debenture can be converted into either Pan American common
shares, or a contract for the right to purchase certain future silver
production at a fixed price (the “Silver Stream”), and is accounted for as
a long term liability.
|
|
g)
|
Estimated
direct issue costs $11 million.
|
|
h)
|
Tax
adjustments for gross up of excess purchase price over carrying amount of
net assets.
|
|
i)
|
To
expense exploration costs capitalized by Aquiline in accordance with Pan
American Silver’s accounting
policies.
|
|
a)
|
To
expense exploration costs capitalized by Aquiline in accordance with Pan
American Silver’s accounting
policies.
|
|
b)
|
To
adjust for previously owned Aquiline warrants included in income $2,713
million (FMV at 9/30/2009 $3.051 million less Cost of $0.338
million).
|
6.
|
Pro forma loss per
share
|
Nine
months ended
September
30
2009
|
Year
ended
December
31,
2008
|
||||||||
Weighted
average number of Pan American Silver Corp. outstanding
(basic)
|
86,210,000 | 80,236,000 | |||||||
Adjustment
to reflect the acquisition of Aquiline
|
19,169,178 | 19,169,178 | |||||||
Shares
after acquisitions (basic)
|
105,379,178 | 99,405,178 |
Nine
months ended
September
30
2009
|
Year
ended
December
31,
2008
|
||||||||
Weighted
average number of Pan American Silver Corp. outstanding
(diluted)
|
86,506,000 | 80,773,000 | |||||||
Adjustment
to reflect the acquisition of Aquiline
|
19,169,178 | 19,169,178 | |||||||
Adjustment
to reflect warrants
|
509,000 | ||||||||
Shares
after acquisitions (diluted)
|
106,184,178 | 99,942,178 |
Canadian
|
Exchange
rate adjustment
|
U.S.
|
||||||||||
Assets
|
||||||||||||
Current
assets
|
||||||||||||
Cash and cash
equivalents
|
$ | 2,529 | $ | (200 | ) | $ | 2,329 | |||||
Short-term
investments
|
7,720 | (612 | ) | 7,108 | ||||||||
Accounts receivable, and
prepaid expenses
|
2,207 | (175 | ) | 2,032 | ||||||||
Inventories
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
FIT
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Total
Current Assets
|
12,456 | (987 | ) | 11,469 | ||||||||
Mineral
properties, plant and equipment, net
|
131,475 | (10,423 | ) | 121,052 | ||||||||
Other
assets
|
5,445 | (432 | ) | 5,013 | ||||||||
Total
assets
|
$ | 149,376 | $ | (11,842 | ) | $ | 137,534 | |||||
Liabilities
|
||||||||||||
Current
liabilities
|
||||||||||||
Accounts payable and accrued
liabilities
|
$ | 2,045 | $ | (162 | ) | $ | 1,883 | |||||
Current portion of
debt
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Income taxes
payable
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Other current
liabilities
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Total
current liabilities
|
2,045 | (162 | ) | 1,883 | ||||||||
Provision
for asset retirement obligations and reclamation
|
1,325 | (105 | ) | 1,220 | ||||||||
Convertible
debentures
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Future
income taxes
|
12,668 | (1,004 | ) | 11,664 | ||||||||
Other
non-current liabilities
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
13,993 | (1,109 | ) | 12,884 | |||||||||
Non-controlling
interests
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Shareholders’
equity
|
||||||||||||
Share
capital
|
141,951 | (11,253 | ) | 130,698 | ||||||||
Capital
surplus
|
23,108 | (1,832 | ) | 21,276 | ||||||||
Convertible
debentures
|
15,823 | (1,254 | ) | 14,569 | ||||||||
Other
comprehensive loss
|
(230 | ) | 18 | (212 | ) | |||||||
Returned
earnings (deficit)
|
(47,314 | ) | 3,750 | (43,564 | ) | |||||||
Total
shareholder’s equity
|
133,338 | (10,571 | ) | 122,767 | ||||||||
Total
liabilities and shareholder’s equity
|
$ | 149,376 | $ | (11,842 | ) | $ | 137,534 |
Nine
months
ended
September
30
2009
|
Nine
months
ended
September
30
2009
|
|||||||||||
Canadian
|
Exchange
rate adjustment
|
U.S.
|
||||||||||
Sales
|
$ | - | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||
Cost
of sales
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Mine
operating earnings
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
General
and administrative
|
2,236 | (325 | ) | 1,911 | ||||||||
Exploration
and project development
|
1,797 | (261 | ) | 1,536 | ||||||||
Accretion
of asset retirement obligation
|
90 | (13 | ) | 77 | ||||||||
Operating
earnings (loss)
|
(4,123 | ) | 599 | (3,524 | ) | |||||||
Other
income (expense)
|
||||||||||||
Investment and other (expense)
income
|
(14 | ) | (2 | ) | 12 | |||||||
Foreign exchange
(losses)
|
(861 | ) | 125 | (736 | ) | |||||||
Interest and financing
expenses
|
||||||||||||
Net (losses) and gains on
commodity and currency contracts
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Net gains on sale of
assets
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Earnings
(loss) before non-controlling income taxes
|
(4,970 | ) | 722 | (4,248 | ) | |||||||
Income
tax provisions
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Net
loss
|
$ | (4,970 | ) | $ | 722 | $ | (4,248 | ) | ||||
Net
loss per share
|
||||||||||||
Basic and
diluted
|
$ | (0.07 | ) | $ | - | $ | (0.06 | ) | ||||
Weighted
average number of common shares outstanding (000’s)
|
||||||||||||
Basic and
Diluted
|
71,503 | - | 71,503 |
Year
ended
December
31
2008
|
Year
ended
December
31
2008
|
|||||||||||
Canadian
|
Exchange
rate adjustment
|
U.S.
|
||||||||||
Sales
|
||||||||||||
Cost
of sales
|
||||||||||||
Depreciation
and amortization
|
||||||||||||
Mine
operating earnings
|
||||||||||||
General
and administrative
|
$ | 8,627 | $ | (539 | ) | $ | 8,088 | |||||
Exploration
and project development
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Accretion
of asset retirement obligation
|
126 | (8 | ) | 118 | ||||||||
Write-down
of assets
|
19,721 | (1,233 | ) | 18,488 | ||||||||
Operating
earnings (loss)
|
(28,474 | ) | 1,780 | (26,694 | ) | |||||||
Other
income (expense)
|
||||||||||||
Investment and other (expense)
income
|
640 | (40 | ) | 600 | ||||||||
Foreign exchange
(losses)
|
162 | (10 | ) | 152 | ||||||||
Interest and financing
expenses
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Net (losses) and gains on
commodity and currency contracts
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Net gains on sale of
assets
|
- | - | ||||||||||
Earnings
(loss) before non-controlling interest and income taxes
|
(27,672 | ) | 1,730 | (25,942 | ) | |||||||
Non-controlling
interest
|
- | - | - | |||||||||
Income
tax provision (benefit)
|
6,121 | (383 | ) | 5,738 | ||||||||
Net
earnings (loss)
|
$ | (21,551 | ) | $ | 1,347 | $ | (20,204 | ) | ||||
Net
earnings (loss) per share
|
||||||||||||
Basic
|
$ | (0.35 | ) | $ | $ | (0.33 | ) | |||||
Diluted
|
$ | (0.35 | ) | $ | $ | (0.33 | ) | |||||
Weighted
average number of common shares outstanding (000’s)
|
||||||||||||
Basic
|
61,626 | - | 61,626 | |||||||||
Diluted
|
61,626 | - | 61,626 |
(signed)
|
(signed)
|
Marc
Henderson
|
Dennis
Gibson
|
President
and Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief
Financial Officer
|
701
Evans Avenue
8th
Floor
Toronto,
Ontario Canada
M9C
1A3
|
telephone:
facsimile:
email:
website:
|
(416)
626 6000
(416)
626 8650
info@mscm.ca
www.mscm.ca
|
Signed:
"MSCM
LLP"
|
|
Chartered
Accountants
Licensed
Public
Accountants
|
December 31, |
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||
Assets | |||||||||
Current | |||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$ | 2,357,921 | $ | 3,734,398 | |||||
Short-term
investments (Note 6)
|
4,020,000 | 2,900,000 | |||||||
Investments
held for trading (Note 9)
|
- | 374,400 | |||||||
Other
receivables and prepaids (Note 20)
|
1,236,377 | 553,276 | |||||||
Prepaid
transaction costs (Note 3(b))
|
- | 188,000 | |||||||
Promissory
note receivable (Note 7)
|
- | 225,000 | |||||||
Current
portion of long-term foreign tax recoverable (Note 8)
|
884,831 | 308,234 | |||||||
8,499,129 | 8,283,308 | ||||||||
Long-term foreign tax recoverable (Note 8) | 6,416,917 | 1,165,063 | |||||||
Long-term investments (Note 9) | 74,000 | 2,615,320 | |||||||
Property and equipment (Note 10) | 1,608,121 | 176,244 | |||||||
Deferred payments for future acquisition (Note 3(a)) | - | 21,407,914 | |||||||
Resource assets (Note 11) | 123,682,815 | 34,849,462 | |||||||
$ | 140,280,982 | $ | 68,497,311 |
Liabilities | |||||||||
Current | |||||||||
Payables
and accruals (Note 20)
|
$ | 5,975,113 | $ | 806,829 | |||||
Debt
(Note 12)
|
514,212 | - | |||||||
6,489,325 | 806,829 | ||||||||
Asset retirement obligation (Note 13) | 1,326,930 | 422,240 | |||||||
Future income tax liability (Note 18) | 12,413,000 | 7,655,000 | |||||||
20,229,255 | 8,884,069 | ||||||||
Shareholders' Equity | |||||||||
Capital stock (Note 14(a)) | 123,860,329 | 70,994,372 | |||||||
Warrants (Note 14(c)) | 7,461,455 | - | |||||||
Contributed surplus | 15,514,378 | 8,305,078 | |||||||
Convertible debenture (Note 15) | 15,822,904 | - | |||||||
Deficit | (42,344,839 | ) | (20,794,375 | ) | |||||
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income | (262,500 | ) | 1,108,167 | ||||||
120,051,727 | 59,613,242 | ||||||||
$ | 140,280,982 | $ | 68,497,311 | ||||||
Years Ended December 31, |
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||
Expenses | |||||||||
Office
and administration
|
$ | 680,710 | $ | 355,382 | |||||
IMA
legal costs (Note 20)
|
8,556 | 307,476 | |||||||
Legal
and audit (Note 20)
|
192,924 | 301,192 | |||||||
Accretion
of asset retirement obligation (Note 13)
|
125,607 | 1,433 | |||||||
Amortization
|
24,830 | 29,541 | |||||||
Travel
|
271,847 | 365,401 | |||||||
Investor
relations
|
852,192 | 545,476 | |||||||
Salaries
and consulting
|
2,273,996 | 580,782 | |||||||
Capital
tax
|
21,014 | 126,895 | |||||||
Stock
option compensation (Note 14(b))
|
4,301,437 | 540,457 | |||||||
8,753,113 | 3,154,035 | ||||||||
Loss before the following | (8,753,113 | ) | (3,154,035 | ) | |||||
Interest
income
|
143,030 | 356,579 | |||||||
Write-down
of resource assets (Note 11)
|
(19,721,079 | ) | (684,193 | ) | |||||
Foreign
exchange gain (loss)
|
162,489 | (309,480 | ) | ||||||
Unrealized
(loss) gain on investments held for trading
|
(11,700 | ) | 229,400 | ||||||
Gain
(loss) on sale of long-term investments
|
508,909 | (6,945 | ) | ||||||
Net loss before income taxes | (27,671,464 | ) | (3,568,674 | ) | |||||
Future income tax recovery (Note 18) | (6,121,000 | ) | - | ||||||
Net loss for the year | $ | (21,550,464 | ) | $ | (3,568,674 | ) | |||
Basic and diluted loss per share (Note 19) | $ | (0.35 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | |||
Years
Ended December 31,
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||
Capital
Stock
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of year
|
$ | 70,994,372 | $ | 56,574,750 | ||||
Exercise
of warrants
|
149,999 | 7,027,875 | ||||||
Value
attributed to warrants exercised
|
77,297 | 2,771,950 | ||||||
Exercise
of stock options
|
3,593,450 | 3,346,550 | ||||||
Value
attributed to stock options exercised
|
1,412,987 | 1,273,247 | ||||||
Private
placement, net of issue costs
|
25,299,260 | - | ||||||
Warrants
valuation
|
(6,866,755 | ) | - | |||||
Shares
issued to acquire Absolut Resources Corp.
|
29,199,719 | - | ||||||
Balance
at end of year
|
$ | 123,860,329 | $ | 70,994,372 | ||||
Warrants
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of year
|
$ | - | $ | 2,771,950 | ||||
Warrants
exercised
|
(77,297 | ) | (2,771,950 | ) | ||||
Warrants
issued
|
7,461,455 | - | ||||||
Warrants
expired
|
(637,712 | ) | - | |||||
Warrants
issued to acquire Absolut Resources Corp.
|
715,009 | - | ||||||
Balance
at end of year
|
$ | 7,461,455 | $ | - | ||||
Contributed
Surplus
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of year
|
$ | 8,305,078 | $ | 7,400,386 | ||||
Stock
options vested
|
6,893,725 | 2,177,939 | ||||||
Stock
options issued to acquire Absolut Resources Corp.
|
1,090,850 | - | ||||||
Stock
options exercised
|
(1,412,987 | ) | (1,273,247 | ) | ||||
Warrants
expired
|
637,712 | - | ||||||
Balance
at end of year
|
$ | 15,514,378 | $ | 8,305,078 | ||||
Convertible
debenture
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of year
|
$ | - | $ | - | ||||
Convertible
debenture, net of issue costs
|
15,822,904 | - | ||||||
Balance
at end of year
|
$ | 15,822,904 | $ | - | ||||
Deficit
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of year
|
$ | (20,794,375 | ) | $ | (17,225,701 | ) | ||
Net
loss for the year
|
(21,550,464 | ) | (3,568,674 | ) | ||||
Balance
at end of year
|
$ | (42,344,839 | ) | $ | (20,794,375 | ) | ||
Accumulated
Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of year
|
$ | 1,108,167 | $ | - | ||||
Transition
adjustments - financial instruments
|
- | 134,325 | ||||||
Reclassification
of unrealized gain on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
(1,253,217 | ) | (116,975 | ) | ||||
Net
unrealized (loss) gain on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
(117,450 | ) | 1,090,817 | |||||
Balance
at end of year
|
$ | (262,500 | ) | $ | 1,108,167 |
Years
Ended December 31,
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||
Net loss for the
year
|
$ | (21,550,464 | ) | $ | (3,568,674 | ) | ||
Other
comprehensive loss
|
||||||||
Net
unrealized (loss) gain on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
(117,450 | ) | 1,090,817 | |||||
Reclassification
of unrealized gains on
|
||||||||
available-for-sale
long-term investments
|
(1,253,217 | ) | (116,975 | ) | ||||
Total
comprehensive loss
|
$ | (22,921,131 | ) | $ | (2,594,832 | ) |
Years
Ended December 31,
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||
CASH
(USED IN) PROVIDED BY:
|
||||||||
OPERATING
ACTIVITIES
|
||||||||
Net
loss for the year
|
$ | (21,550,464 | ) | $ | (3,568,674 | ) | ||
Adjustments
for:
|
||||||||
Amortization
|
24,830 | 29,541 | ||||||
Long-term
foreign tax recoverable
|
- | (407,527 | ) | |||||
Accretion
of asset retirement obligation
|
125,607 | 1,433 | ||||||
Stock
option compensation
|
4,301,437 | 540,457 | ||||||
Unrealized
(loss) gain on investments held for trading
|
11,700 | (229,400 | ) | |||||
(Gain)
loss on sale of long-term investments
|
(508,909 | ) | 6,945 | |||||
Future
income tax recovery
|
(6,121,000 | ) | - | |||||
Write-down
of resource assets
|
19,721,079 | 684,193 | ||||||
Net
change in non-cash working capital (Note 17)
|
(2,714,410 | ) | (898,258 | ) | ||||
(6,710,130 | ) | (3,841,290 | ) | |||||
FINANCING
ACTIVITIES
|
||||||||
Repayment
of debt
|
- | - | ||||||
Issue
of common shares, net of share issue costs
|
29,042,709 | 10,374,425 | ||||||
Proceeds
from convertible debenture and warrants, net of issue
costs
|
16,417,604 | - | ||||||
45,460,313 | 10,374,425 | |||||||
INVESTING
ACTIVITIES
|
||||||||
Prepaid
transaction costs
|
- | (80,000 | ) | |||||
Promissory
note receivable
|
- | (225,000 | ) | |||||
Purchase
of long-term investments
|
(877,500 | ) | (1,193,153 | ) | ||||
Proceed
on disposal of long-term investments
|
1,022,945 | 1,162,805 | ||||||
Purchase
of property and equipment
|
(581,921 | ) | (45,392 | ) | ||||
Proceeds
on sale of exploration equipment
|
- | 33,225 | ||||||
Deferred
payments for future acquisition
|
- | (11,299,684 | ) | |||||
Net
redemption of short-term investments
|
(1,120,000 | ) | 13,714,214 | |||||
Acquisition
of Minera Argenta S.A. and Aquiline Holdings Inc.
|
(15,000,150 | ) | - | |||||
Cash
acquired on Minera Argenta S.A. and Aquiline Holdings Inc.
|
1,515,747 | - | ||||||
Cash
acquired on Absolut Resources Inc.
|
505,040 | - | ||||||
Purchase
of investments held for trading
|
- | (145,000 | ) | |||||
Purchase
of resource assets
|
(26,543,935 | ) | (5,758,545 | ) | ||||
(41,079,774 | ) | (3,836,530 | ) |
Years
Ended December 31,
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||
Effect
of translation on foreign currency net monetary assets
|
953,114 | 584,512 | ||||||
(Decrease)
increase in cash and cash equivalents
|
(1,376,477 | ) | 3,281,117 | |||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, beginning of year
|
3,734,398 | 453,281 | ||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, end of year
|
$ | 2,357,921 | $ | 3,734,398 | ||||
Cash
and cash equivalents consist of:
|
||||||||
Cash
|
$ | 2,307,921 | $ | 859,628 | ||||
Guaranteed
investment certificates
|
50,000 | 2,874,770 | ||||||
$ | 2,357,921 | $ | 3,734,398 | |||||
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
1.
|
Nature
of Operations and Going Concern
|
Aquiline
Resources Inc. ("Aquiline" or the "Corporation") is a publicly traded
company listed on the TSX under the symbol "AQI" involved in the
exploration and development of gold and silver projects in Argentina and
Peru. The majority of the Corporation's deferred exploration expenses
relate to the development of the Calcatreu property located in the
Province of Rio Negro, Argentina, the Navidad Silver Project and the
Regalo gold property in the Chubut Province of Argentina and the Pico
Machay and Chaparra gold projects in Peru. Aquiline also owns and has
interests in platinum and palladium projects in the Sudbury region of
Ontario, Canada and holds a net smelter royalty ("NSR") on a development
stage gold and silver project in Mexico (“La Jojoba Project”). The
Corporation also holds equity share positions in exploration and
development companies that operate within certain countries in the
Americas.
|
|
The
business of mining for minerals involves a high degree of risk. The
underlying value of the mineral properties is dependent upon the existence
and economic recovery of mineral reserves, the ability to raise long-term
financing to complete the development of the properties, government
policies and regulations, and upon future profitable production or,
alternatively upon the Corporation’s ability to dispose of its interest on
an advantageous basis; all of which are uncertain.
|
|
In
order to meet future expenditures, the Corporation will need to raise
additional funding. Although the Corporation has been successful in
raising funds to date, there can be no assurance that adequate funding
will be available in the future, or available under terms favorable to the
Corporation. These consolidated financial statements have been prepared on
a going concern basis that assumes the Corporation will be able to
continue to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal
course of business. In the event the Corporation is not able to obtain
adequate funding, there is uncertainty as to whether the Corporation will
be able to continue as a going concern and maintain or complete the
exploration and development of its resource properties. These consolidated
financial statements do not reflect the adjustments to the carrying values
of assets and liabilities that would be necessary if the Corporation were
unable to obtain adequate financing. Changes in future
conditions could require material write downs of the carrying values of
resource assets.
|
|
2.
|
Summary
of Significant Accounting Policies
|
Principles
of consolidation
|
|
The
consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Corporation
and its wholly-owned subsidiaries in Canada, Absolut Resources Inc.
("Absolut"), in Peru, Minera Calipuy S.A.C., in Mexico, Minera Aquilon
S.A. de C.V. and Minera San Isidro S.A. de C.V, and in Argentina, Minera
Aquiline Argentina S.A, Minera Argenta S.A. and Aquiline Holdings Inc.,
which were formed or acquired to facilitate the acquisition, exploration
and development of mineral properties in these respective countries. These
consolidated financial statements have been prepared by management in
accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting
principles.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
2.
|
Summary
of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)
|
Measurement
uncertainty
|
|
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with Canadian generally
accepted accounting principles 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 amount of revenues and expenses
during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from those
estimates. Significant estimates and assumptions include those related to
the valuation of resource assets, recoverability of foreign taxes,
determinations as to whether costs are expensed or deferred, asset
retirement obligations, future income taxes and stock compensation
valuation assumptions.
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Cash
and cash equivalents
|
|
Cash
and cash equivalents comprise cash at banks and on hand and other highly
liquid short term investments, which may be settled on demand or within a
maximum 90 day period at the date of acquisition.
|
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Short-term
investments
|
|
Short-term
investments are liquid investments with an original maturity greater than
three months but less than one year at the date of
acquisition.
|
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Resource
assets
|
|
The
cost of the resource assets and related exploration and development costs
are deferred until the properties are placed into production, become
inactive, or are sold or abandoned. These costs will be amortized over the
estimated useful lives of the properties following the commencement of
production or written off if the properties are sold, allowed to lapse, or
abandoned. The amount shown for resource assets represents costs incurred
to date and is not intended to reflect present or future
values.
|
|
Although
the Corporation has taken steps to verify title to resource assets in
which it has an interest, these procedures do not guarantee the
Corporation's title. Property title may be subject to unregistered prior
agreements and non-compliance with regulatory
requirements.
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Property
and equipment
|
|
Property
and equipment are recorded at cost. Amortization on office equipment is
recorded on the declining balance basis at an annual rate of 30%.
Amortization on leasehold improvements is recorded on the straight line
basis over the lease term. Amortization is recorded on a straight line
basis over periods ranging from 3 to 10 years and is charged to resource
assets.
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December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
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2.
|
Summary
of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)
|
Stock
option compensation
|
|
The
fair value of any stock options granted to directors, officers,
consultants and employees is recorded over the vesting period with a
corresponding increase recorded to contributed surplus. Costs directly
related to the mineral properties or deferred payments for future
acquisition are capitalized, indirect costs are expensed. The fair value
of the stock option compensation is determined using the Black-Scholes
option pricing model and management's assumptions as disclosed in Note
14(b). Upon exercise of the stock options, consideration paid by the
option holder together with the amount previously recognized in
contributed surplus is recorded as an increase to capital
stock.
|
|
Income
taxes
|
|
Income
taxes are calculated using the asset and liability method of tax
accounting. Under this method, current income taxes are recognized for the
estimated income taxes payable for the current period. Future income tax
assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the
financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and on
unclaimed losses carried forward and are measured using the substantively
enacted tax rates that will be in effect when the differences are expected
to reverse or losses are expected to be utilized. A valuation allowance is
recognized to the extent that the recoverability of future income tax
assets is not considered more likely than not.
|
|
Loss
per share
|
|
Basic
loss per share is computed by dividing the loss for the year by the
weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year,
including contingently issuable shares which are included when the
conditions necessary for issuance have been met. Diluted earnings per
share is calculated in a similar manner, except that the weighted average
number of common shares outstanding is increased to include potentially
issuable common shares from the assumed exercise of common share purchase
options and warrants, if dilutive. The number of additional shares
included in the calculation is based on the treasury stock method for
options and warrants. The effect of potential issuances of shares under
options and warrants would be anti-dilutive and accordingly basic and
diluted loss per share are the same.
|
|
Foreign
currency translation
|
|
The
operations of the Corporation's subsidiaries are considered to be of an
integrated nature. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign
currencies are translated at the exchange rates in effect at the balance
sheet date. Non-monetary items are translated at historical rates.
Revenues and expenses are translated at the average exchange rate during
the year. Translation gains and losses are included in
operations.
|
|
Asset
retirement obligation
|
|
The
fair value of the liability for an asset retirement obligation is recorded
when it is incurred and can be reasonably estimated, and the corresponding
increase to the asset is amortized over the life of the asset. The
liability is increased over time to reflect an accretion element
considered in the initial measurement at fair
value.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
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2.
|
Summary
of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)
|
|
Impairment
of long-lived assets
|
||
Long-lived
assets held and used by the Corporation and subject to amortization are
reviewed for possible impairment whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be
recoverable. If changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount
of an asset that an entity expects to hold and use may not be recoverable,
future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its
disposition must be estimated. If the sum of discounted value of the
future cash flows is less than the carrying amount of the asset or if
long-lived assets are abandoned, the excess of the carrying amount over
the estimated fair value, based on discounted future cash flows, is
recorded as a charge to net income.
|
||
Financial
instruments, comprehensive income (loss) and hedges
|
||
The
Corporation’s long-term investments are classified as “available-for-sale”
and are measured at fair value. Changes in fair value are recognized in
other comprehensive income (loss) until their disposition, at which time
they are transferred to net income. Investments in securities having
quoted market values and which are publicly traded on a recognized
securities exchange and for which no sales restrictions apply are recorded
at values based on the current bid prices.
|
||
The
Corporation has classified its cash and cash equivalents and short-term
investments as held for trading, which are measured at fair value. Other
receivables, promissory note receivable and foreign tax recoverable are
classified as loans and receivables, which are measured at amortized cost.
Payables and accruals, long-term debt and asset retirement obligations are
classified as other financial liabilities, which are measured at amortized
cost.
|
||
Capital
Disclosures and Financial Instruments – Disclosures and
Presentation
|
||
On
December 1, 2006, the CICA issued three new accounting standards: Capital
Disclosures (Handbook Section 1535), Financial Instruments – Disclosures
(Handbook Section 3862), and Financial Instruments – Presentation
(Handbook Section 3863). These new standards became effective for the
Corporation on January 1, 2008.
|
||
Capital
Disclosures
|
||
Handbook
Section 1535 specifies the disclosure of (i) an entity’s objectives,
policies and processes for managing capital; (ii) quantitative data about
what the entity regards as capital; (iii) whether the entity has complied
with any capital requirements; and (iv) if it has not complied, the
consequences of such noncompliance. The Corporation has included
disclosures recommended by the new Handbook section in Note 4 to these
consolidated financial statements.
|
||
Financial
Instruments
|
||
Handbook
Sections 3862 and 3863 replace Handbook Section 3861, Financial
Instruments – Disclosure and Presentation, revising and enhancing its
disclosure requirements, and carrying forward unchanged its presentation
requirements. These new sections place increased emphasis on disclosures
about the nature and extent of risks arising from financial instruments
and how the entity manages those risks. The Corporation has included
disclosures recommended by the new Handbook sections in Note 5(b) to these
consolidated financial statements.
|
||
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
2.
|
Summary
of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)
|
|
Future
Accounting Pronouncements
|
||
International
Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”)
|
||
In
January 2006, the CICA’s Accounting Standards Board ("AcSB") formally
adopted the strategy of replacing Canadian GAAP with IFRS for Canadian
enterprises with public accountability. The conversion
timetable calls for financial reporting under IFRS for accounting periods
commencing on or after January 1, 2011. Accordingly, IFRS will be required
for interim and annual financial statements relating to fiscal years
beginning on or after January 1, 2011. Aquiline will be required to have
prepared, in time for its first quarter 2011 filing, comparative financial
statements in accordance with IFRS for the three months ended March 31,
2010.
|
||
Goodwill
and Intangible Assets
|
||
Section
3064, Goodwill and Intangible Assets, establishes revised standards for
recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of goodwill and
intangible assets. Concurrent with the introduction of this standard, the
CICA withdrew EIC 27, Revenues and expenses during the pre-operating
period. As a result of the withdrawal of EIC 27, the Corporation will no
longer be able to defer costs and revenues incurred prior to commercial
production at new operations. The new standard is effective as of January
1, 2009.
|
||
Business
Combinations. Consolidated Financial Statements and Non-Controlling
Interests
|
||
The
CICA issued three new accounting standards in January 2009: Section 1582,
Business Combinations, Section 1601, Consolidated Financial Statements and
Section 1602, Non-Controlling interests. These new standards will be
effective for fiscal years beginning on or after January 1, 2011. The
Corporation is in the process of evaluating the requirements of the new
standards.
|
||
Sections
1582 replaces section 1581 and establishes standards for the accounting
for a business combination. It provides the Canadian equivalent to IFRS 3
- Business Combinations. The section applies prospectively to business
combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning
of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after January 1,
2011. Sections 1601 and 1602 together replace section 1600, Consolidated
Financial Statements. Section 1601, establishes standards for the
preparation of consolidated financial statements. Section 1601 applies to
interim and annual consolidated financial statements relating to fiscal
years beginning on or after January 1, 2011. Section 1602 establishes
standards for accounting for a non-controlling interest in a subsidiary in
consolidated financial statements subsequent to a business combination. It
is equivalent to the corresponding provisions of IFRS lAS 27 -
Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements and applies to interim and
annual consolidated financial statements relating to fiscal years
beginning on or after January 1, 2011.
|
||
The
Corporation is currently assessing the impact of these new accounting
standards on its consolidated financial
statements.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|||
3.
|
Business
Combinations
|
||
(a)
|
Navidad
Silver Project, Argentina
|
||
A
positive legal decision was received on July 14, 2006 from the Supreme
Court of British Columbia awarding the Corporation ownership of the
Navidad Silver Project (“Navidad”) and its surrounding claims located in
the Chubut Province of Argentina. The Navidad project would likely be an
open pit mine which is currently the subject of a ban in the Chubut
province. The continued ban on open pit mining may prohibit the project
feasibility at current resource estimates.
|
|||
On
October 19, 2006 the Corporation announced that it had reached agreement
with IMA Exploration Inc. (“IMA”) to give effect to the July 14, 2006
judgment. During the appeal period, Aquiline operated the Navidad Project
under the terms of an Interim Project Development Agreement (the “IPDA”)
that had been executed by the parties. The key terms of the IPDA are as
follows:
|
|||
•
|
The
shares (the “Shares”) of IMA’s wholly owned subsidiaries Inversiones
Mineras Argentinas Inc. and Inversiones Mineras Argentinas S.A. (the
“Subsidiaries”) would be held in trust pending the completion of the
appeal process. The boards of these companies would be replaced with
nominees of Aquiline and the ongoing development of the Navidad Project
would be funded by Aquiline. Aquiline had sole operational control of the
Navidad Project. IMA representatives had observer status and would be kept
apprised of Aquiline’s exploration and development
plans.
|
||
•
|
The
parties agreed that IMA’s reimbursable costs for Navidad were $18.5
million, a figure which excluded Aquiline's legal costs which could have
been set off against IMA’s reimbursable costs in the event that Aquiline
is determined to be the ultimate owner of the Navidad Project in the court
action.
|
||
•
|
On
completion of the trust transfer of the Shares, Aquiline had to deposit
$7.5 million into escrow to partially secure payment of IMA’s reimbursable
costs.
|
||
•
|
Aquiline
agreed to spend up to $11 million to further the development of the
Navidad Project during the appeal period.
|
||
•
|
A
standstill clause provided that neither party would attempt to acquire the
other, solicit proxies in the other, or encourage any third parties in
such an endeavour for the duration of the appeal
period.
|
||
In
February 2007, an additional 900,000 shares of Consolidated Pacific Bay
and 300,000 shares of Tinka Resources Inc. ("Tinka") with a market value
of $184,500 and $96,000 respectively were received and were being held in
trust pending the outcome of the judgment. Upon payment of the final $11
million, these shares were released to the Corporation.
|
|||
On
June 7, 2007, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released its judgment
in favour of Aquiline. The appeal launched by IMA was dismissed, with no
variations made to the original judgment. IMA filed to seek leave to
appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court of
Canada.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|||
3.
|
Business
Combinations (Continued)
|
||
(a)
|
Navidad
Silver Project, Argentina (Continued)
|
||
On
December 20, 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed with costs the
application for leave to appeal brought by IMA. IMA had no further
recourse and its appeal was terminated. Aquiline was determined to be the
sole beneficial owner of the Navidad silver deposit, subject to payment of
amounts owed to IMA under the IPDA, as follows:
|
|||
(i)
|
the
parties would cause the sum of $7.5 million plus interest accrued thereon,
held in trust, to be released to IMA by no later than December 31, 2007.
This amount was released;
|
||
(ii)
|
Aquiline
would pay to IMA the sum of $11 million, provided however that Aquiline is
entitled to set off its legal costs against such amount. This amount was
paid;
|
||
(iii)
|
on
the date upon which the last of the payments in subparagraphs (i) and (ii)
above were made, the trust was terminated and Aquiline then held sole
legal and beneficial title to the Shares and the underlying Navidad
property.
|
||
As
at December 31, 2007, the deferred payments for future acquisition of
$21,407,914 was comprised of a loan to Minera Argenta S.A. (the holder of
the Navidad property) in the amount of $10,151,259, stock option
compensation of $794,576, other advances and expenses of $8,959,079 and
related capitalized future income tax costs of
$1,503,000.
|
|||
On
February 11, 2008, Aquiline paid the sum of $11 million owing to IMA as
final payment for the acquisition of IMA's wholly owned subsidiaries,
pursuant to the court decision on December 20, 2007. The acquisition of
IMA's wholly owned subsidiaries, Minera Argenta S.A. and Aquiline Holdings
Inc., was accounted for using the purchase method. The results of
operations are included in the accounts from February 11, 2008, the
effective date of acquisition.
|
|||
Details
of the acquisition are as follows:
|
|||||
Purchase
Price
|
|||||
Cash
paid
|
$ | 18,500,000 | |||
Transaction
costs
|
4,000,000 | ||||
$ | 22,500,000 | ||||
Fair
Value of Net Assets Acquired
|
|||||
Current
assets
|
$ | 4,272,008 | |||
Long-term
investments
|
93,000 | ||||
Resource
assets
|
37,231,082 | ||||
Property
and equipment
|
746,245 | ||||
42,342,335 | |||||
Less:
current liabilities
|
(13,938,907 | ) | |||
Less:
future tax liabilities
|
(5,470,000 | ) | |||
Less:
asset retirement obligation
|
(433,428 | ) | |||
$ | 22,500,000 |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
3.
|
Business
Combinations (Continued)
|
|
(b)
|
Acquisition
of Absolut Resources Corp. ("Absolut")
|
|
On
October 2, 2007, Aquiline entered into a binding letter agreement (the
"Letter Agreement") pursuant to which Aquiline offered to acquire 100% of
the issued and outstanding shares of Absolut.
|
||
The
agreement contemplated that the Absolut shareholders would receive
Aquiline shares based on the following exchange ratio: (i) 1 common share
of Aquiline for 10 common shares of Absolut, (ii) 1 warrant of Aquiline
for each 10 warrants of Absolut and (iii) 1 option of Aquiline for each 10
options of Absolut, subject to adjustment of the exchange ratio based on
the ratio of trading prices of the respective companies based on the
average share prices of the last five trading days before the Special
Meeting of the Absolut shareholders. The exchange ratio was restricted to
a maximum of 1 for 11 and a minimum of 1 for 9.
|
||
The
special meeting of the Absolut shareholders was held on March 5, 2008 and
the transaction was approved. Based on the trading on the last five days
before the special meeting, the exchange ratio was determined to be 1 for
9.
|
||
The
transaction was closed on April 1, 2008 and 2,961,432 Aquiline common
shares, 218,889 Aquiline options and 205,558 Aquiline warrants were issued
in exchange for common shares, options and warrants of Absolut. This
transaction is between two companies with an established historical
relationship, and resulted in the creation of a gold division within
Aquiline, the initial focus of which will be Absolut’s Pico Machay project
in Peru and Aquiline’s Calcatreu project in Argentina.
|
||
Details
of the acquisition are as follows:
|
|||||
Purchase
Price
|
|||||
2,961,432
common shares issued in exchange for
|
|||||
26,652,888
Absolut common shares outstanding
|
|||||
(net
of 3,025,000 shares in Absolut held by the Corporation)
|
$ | 29,199,719 | |||
Fair
value of 205,558 warrants issued in exchange for 1,850,000 Absolut
warrants
|
715,009 | ||||
Fair
value of 218,889 options issued in exchange for 1,970,000 Absolut
options
|
1,090,850 | ||||
Cost
of 3,025,000 Absolut shares originally held by the
Corporation
|
1,989,817 | ||||
Transaction
costs
|
260,770 | ||||
$ | 33,256,165 | ||||
Fair
Value of Net Assets Acquired
|
|||||
Current
assets
|
$ | 737,008 | |||
Resource
assets
|
45,751,349 | ||||
Property
and equipment
|
557,510 | ||||
47,045,867 | |||||
Less:
current liabilities
|
(1,603,110 | ) | |||
Less:
long-term liabilities
|
(317,592 | ) | |||
Less:
future tax liabilities
|
(11,869,000 | ) | |||
$ | 33,256,165 |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
4.
|
Capital
Management
|
|
The
capital of the Corporation consists of items included in shareholders'
equity and debt obligations, net of cash and cash equivalents and
short-term investments.
|
||
The
Corporation manages its capital structure and makes adjustments to it,
based on the funds available to the Corporation, in order to support the
acquisition, exploration and development of resource assets. The Board of
Directors does not establish quantitative return on capital criteria for
management, but rather relies on the expertise of the Corporation's
management to sustain future development of the
business.
|
||
The
properties in which the Corporation currently has an interest are in the
exploration stage; as such the Corporation is dependent on external
financing to fund its activities. In order to carry out the planned
exploration and pay for administrative costs, the Corporation will spend
its existing working capital and raise additional amounts as needed. The
Corporation will continue to assess new properties and seek to acquire an
interest in additional properties if it feels there is sufficient geologic
or economic potential and if it has adequate financial resources to do
so.
|
||
Management
reviews its capital management approach on an ongoing basis and believes
that this approach, given the relative size of the Corporation, is
reasonable.
|
||
There
were no changes in the Corporation's approach to capital management during
the year ended December 31, 2008. Neither the Corporation nor its
subsidiaries are subject to externally imposed capital
requirements.
|
||
5.
|
Property
and Financial Risk Factors
|
|
(a)
|
Property
risk
|
|
The
Corporation's major mineral properties are the Calcatreu gold property,
Navidad Silver Project and Pico Machay gold property. Unless the
Corporation acquires or develops additional material properties, the
Corporation will be mainly dependent upon these three properties. If no
additional major mineral exploration properties are acquired by the
Corporation, any adverse development affecting these three properties
would have a material adverse effect on the Corporation's financial
condition and results of operations.
|
||
(b)
|
Financial
risk
|
|
The
Corporation's activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: credit
risk, liquidity risk and market risk (including interest rate, foreign
exchange rate and other price risk).
|
||
Risk
management is carried out by the Corporation's management team with
guidance from the Audit Committee under policies approved by the Board of
Directors. The Board of Directors also provides regular guidance for
overall risk management.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
5.
|
Property
and Financial Risk Factors (Continued)
|
|
(b)
|
Financial
risk (Continued)
|
|
Credit
risk
|
||
The
Corporation's credit risk is primarily attributable to short-term
investments, other receivables and foreign tax recoverable. The
Corporation has no significant concentration of credit risk arising from
operations. Short-term investments consist of guaranteed investment
certificates, which have been invested with reputable financial
institutions, from which management believes the risk of loss to be
remote. Other receivables consist of goods and services tax due from the
Federal Government of Canada and receivables from other companies. Foreign
tax recoverable consists of value added taxes paid on exploration costs
that are refundable from the Government of Argentina. In Argentina, claims
for the foreign tax recoverable can only be made one year after the stated
expenditures have been paid when there is no tax collection from revenues
to offset. $7,301,748 represents the maximum credit exposure. Management
believes that the credit risk concentration with respect to other
receivables and foreign tax recoverable is remote. Management does not
believe the receivables are impaired.
|
||
Liquidity
risk
|
||
The
Corporation's approach to managing liquidity risk is to ensure that it
will have sufficient liquidity to meet liabilities when due. As at
December 31, 2008, the Corporation had cash and cash equivalents and
short-term investments of $6,377,921 (December 31, 2007 - $6,634,398) to
settle current liabilities of $6,489,325 (December 31, 2007 - $806,829).
Other than its current debt (see Note 12), all of the Corporation's
financial liabilities have contractual maturities of less than 90 days and
are subject to normal trade terms.
|
||
Market
risks
|
||
Interest
rate risk
|
||
The
Corporation has cash balances and no interest-bearing debt. The
Corporation's current policy is to invest excess cash in investment-grade
short-term deposit certificates issued by its banking institutions. The
Corporation periodically monitors the investments it makes and is
satisfied with the credit ratings of its banks.
|
||
Foreign
currency risk
|
||
The
Corporation's functional currency is the Canadian dollar and major
purchases are transacted in Canadian dollars, Argentine Pesos and Peruvian
New Soles. The Corporation funds major operations and exploration expenses
in Argentina and Peru. The Corporation maintains Argentine pesos bank
accounts in Argentina and Peruvian sole bank accounts in Peru. The
Corporation is subject to gains and losses due to fluctuations in
Argentine Peso and Peruvian New Sole against the Canadian
dollar.
|
||
Price
risk
|
||
The
Corporation is exposed to price risk with respect to commodity and equity
prices. Equity price risk is defined as the potential adverse impact on
the Corporation's earnings due to movements in individual equity prices or
general movements in the level of the stock market. Commodity price risk
is defined as the potential adverse impact on earnings and economic value
due to commodity price movements and volatilities. The Corporation closely
monitors commodity prices of gold and silver, individual equity movements,
and the stock market to determine the appropriate course of action to be
taken.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
5.
|
Property
and Financial Risk Factors (Continued)
|
|
(b)
|
Financial
risk (Continued)
|
|
Financial
Instruments
|
||
The
Corporation's financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents,
short-term investments, other receivables, foreign tax recoverable,
long-term investments, payables and accruals, current debt and asset
retirement obligations. As at December 31, 2008, the carrying and fair
value amounts of the Corporation's financial instruments are the same.
Changes in fair value of the Corporation's long-term investments are
recognized in other comprehensive income.
|
||
Sensitivity
analysis
|
||
Based
on management's knowledge and experience of the financial markets, the
Corporation believes the following movements are "reasonably possible"
over a twelve month period.
|
||
Short-term
investments include deposits at call which are at variable rates.
Sensitivity to a plus or minus 1% change in rates would affect net loss by
$40,200.
|
||
The
Corporation's long-term investments are denominated in Canadian dollars.
Sensitivity to a plus or minus 10% movement in the Canadian listed equity
prices would affect comprehensive loss by $7,400.
|
||
The
Corporation is exposed to foreign currency risk on fluctuations of
financial instruments related to cash and cash equivalents, other
receivables, foreign tax recoverable, payables and accruals that are
denominated in Argentine Pesos and Peruvian New Soles. Sensitivity to a
plus or minus 5% change in the foreign exchange rate would affect net loss
by $105,339.
|
||
Price
risk is remote since the Corporation is not a producing
entity.
|
||
6.
|
Short-Term
Investments
|
|
Short-Term
Investments are Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs) of $4,020,000
(2007 - $2,900,000) with maturity dates of more than 90 days and not more
than 12 months, redeemable without penalty after 30 days. Of these
investments $20,000 (2007 - $50,000) is collateral for the Corporation's
credit cards.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
7.
|
Promissory
Note Receivable
|
On
December 14, 2007, the Corporation advanced $225,000 to Absolut under a
promissory note secured by a general security agreement. This note has
been eliminated upon acquisition of Absolut, see Note
3(b)).
|
|
8.
|
Foreign
Tax Recoverable
|
Foreign
tax recoverable consists of value added taxes ("VAT") paid on exploration
costs that are refundable from the Government of Argentina. In Argentina,
claims for the VAT refund can only be made one year after the stated
expenditures have been paid when there is no VAT collection from revenues
to offset. The ability to make such claims for refunds began in fiscal
year 2005.
|
|
The
timing of receipt of the refunds subsequent to submission of the claim
depends on the timing of approval and processing of the claim by the
Government of Argentina. There is limited previous payment history upon
which to predict the timing of the receipt of these amounts. Expenditures
for which the one year waiting period has passed and a claim has been made
are classified as current. All other expected refund amounts have been
classified as long term.
|
|
9.
|
Investments
Held for Trading and Long-Term Investments
|
The
Corporation's long-term investments
include:
|
December
31,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||
Number
of
|
Number
of
|
|||||||||||||||
Shares
|
Value
|
Shares
|
Value
|
|||||||||||||
Absolut
Resources Corp. common shares
|
- | $ | - | 2,766,000 | $ | 2,406,420 | ||||||||||
Absolut
Resources Corp. warrants
|
- | - | 1,170,000 | 374,400 | ||||||||||||
Sierra
Minerals Inc. common shares
|
170,000 | 21,250 | 170,000 | 71,400 | ||||||||||||
Sierra
Minerals Inc. warrants
|
- | - | 50,000 | - | ||||||||||||
Columbia
Metals Corporation Limited
|
||||||||||||||||
common
shares
|
625,000 | 43,750 | 625,000 | 137,500 | ||||||||||||
Columbia
Metals Corporation Limited
|
||||||||||||||||
warrants
|
- | - | 625,000 | - | ||||||||||||
Tinka
Resources Ltd. common shares
|
300,000 | 9,000 | - | - | ||||||||||||
74,000 | 2,989,720 | |||||||||||||||
Less:
classified as held for trading
|
- | (374,400 | ) | |||||||||||||
Long-term
investments
|
$ | 74,000 | $ | 2,615,320 |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
9.
|
Investments
Held for Trading and Long-Term Investments (Continued)
|
|
(a)
|
In
2007, the Corporation sold 2,339,500 common shares of Absolut for total
proceeds of $1,162,805 and subscribed to an additional 2,340,000 units at
a price of $0.50 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one
half of one common share purchase warrant. One whole common share purchase
warrant entitled the holder to purchase one common share at a price of
$0.75 per share for a period of eighteen months from February 26, 2007. At
the time of acquisition, the warrants were assigned a value of $145,000
using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. These warrants were
considered a derivative financial instrument and accordingly were
classified as held for trading. At December 31, 2007, these warrants had a
fair value of $374,400. The resulting increase in value has been
recognized in net income - unrealized gain on investments held for
trading.
|
|
800,000
warrants matured in December 2007 and were not exercised by the
Corporation.
|
||
In
2008, the Corporation sold 911,000 common shares of Absolut for total
proceeds of $1,022,945 and subscribed to an additional 1,170,000 common
shares at a price of $0.75 per common share.
|
||
On
April 1, 2008, the Corporation acquired Absolut. Refer to Note 3(b) for
further details.
|
||
(b)
|
In
2006, the Corporation subscribed to 100,000 shares of Sierra Minerals Inc.
("Sierra") at $0.35 per share as part of a 3,395,449 share non-brokered
placement by Sierra. 50,000 warrants were also received as part of the
placement. Each warrant entitled the holder to purchase one common share
at a price of $0.50 per share over a period of 18 months from the date of
closing. These warrants had no value as at January 1, 2007 and December
31, 2007.
|
|
The
50,000 warrants matured in March 2008 and were not exercised by the
Corporation.
|
||
(c)
|
Pursuant
to a Settlement Agreement as detailed in Note 11, the Corporation
subscribed to 625,000 units of Columbia Metals Corporation Limited
("Columbia") at a price of $0.80 per unit and acquired a 2% net smelter
return royalty for $500,000. The purchase price was allocated $450,000 to
the purchase of units in Columbia and $50,000 to the net smelter return
royalty as part of the resource assets. Each unit in Columbia was
comprised of one common share and one common share purchase warrant
entitling the purchaser to purchase one common share of Columbia at the
price of $0.90 per share until March 17, 2008. The warrants had no value
at January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.
|
|
The 625,000 warrants matured in March 2008 and were not exercised by the Corporation. | ||
(d)
|
In
February 2008, with the acquisition of Navidad Silver Project, the
Corporation received 300,000 shares of Tinka (see Note
3(a)).
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
10.
|
Property
and Equipment
|
Accumulated
|
Net
|
||||||||||||
Cost
|
Amortization
|
Book
Value
|
|||||||||||
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Office
equipment
|
$ | 167,159 | $ | 117,540 | $ | 49,619 | |||||||
Leasehold
improvements
|
46,028 | 34,804 | 11,224 | ||||||||||
Exploration
equipment
|
2,001,501 | 454,223 | 1,547,278 | ||||||||||
$ | 2,214,688 | $ | 606,567 | $ | 1,608,121 | ||||||||
Accumulated
|
Net
|
||||||||||||
Cost
|
Amortization
|
Book
Value
|
|||||||||||
2007
|
|||||||||||||
Office
equipment
|
$ | 114,315 | $ | 73,452 | $ | 40,863 | |||||||
Leasehold
improvements
|
28,825 | 22,274 | 6,551 | ||||||||||
Exploration
equipment
|
256,573 | 127,743 | 128,830 | ||||||||||
$ | 399,713 | $ | 223,469 | $ | 176,244 |
11.
|
Resource
Assets
|
As
of December 31, 2008 accumulated costs with respect to the Corporation's
interest in mineral properties owned, leased or under option, consisted of
the following:
|
Opening
|
Ending
|
||||||||||||||||
December
31,
|
Acquisitions/
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||||||||
Description
|
2007
|
Additions
|
Reductions
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Calcatreu
gold property - Argentina
|
$ | 34,068,894 | $ | 1,718,783 | $ | - | $ | 35,787,677 | |||||||||
Platinum
and palladium - Sudbury,
|
|||||||||||||||||
Ontario
|
730,568 | 2,681 | (683,249 | ) | 50,000 | ||||||||||||
Gold
properties - La Jojoba, Mexico
|
50,000 | - | - | 50,000 | |||||||||||||
Regalo
gold property - Argentina
|
- | 268,035 | - | 268,035 | |||||||||||||
Navidad
Silver Project - Argentina
|
- | 57,527,103 | - | 57,527,103 | |||||||||||||
Pico
Machay - Peru
|
- | 44,553,784 | (16,553,784 | ) | 28,000,000 | ||||||||||||
Chaparra
- Peru
|
- | 4,484,046 | (2,484,046 | ) | 2,000,000 | ||||||||||||
$ | 34,849,462 | $ | 108,554,432 | $ | (19,721,079 | ) | $ | 123,682,815 | |||||||||
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
11.
|
Resource
Assets (Continued)
|
Opening
|
Ending
|
||||||||||||||||
December
31,
|
Acquisitions/
|
December
31,
|
|||||||||||||||
Description
|
2006
|
Additions
|
Reductions
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||
Calcatreu
gold property - Argentina
|
$ | 24,203,830 | $ | 9,865,064 | $ | - | $ | 34,068,894 | |||||||||
Platinum
and palladium - Sudbury,
|
|||||||||||||||||
Ontario
|
1,385,025 | 29,736 | (684,193 | ) | 730,568 | ||||||||||||
Gold
properties - La Jojoba, Mexico
|
50,000 | - | - | 50,000 | |||||||||||||
$ | 25,638,855 | $ | 9,894,800 | $ | (684,193 | ) | $ | 34,849,462 |
Calcatreu
Gold Property - Argentina
|
|
In
July 2003, the Corporation acquired Minera Normandy Argentina S.A. a fully
owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation ("Newmont") and
subsequently renamed it Minera Aquiline Argentina S.A. Through this
subsidiary, Aquiline acquired Newmont’s gold project ("Calcatreu
property") which was at the time comprised of 73,000 hectares in Argentina
for US $2,135,000 with a vendor take back non interest bearing mortgage
having an undiscounted value of US $2,035,000. Upon satisfaction of the
purchase price, Newmont will receive a 2.5% net smelter royalty on gold,
silver and base metal production. The vendor take back mortgage was repaid
in staged cash payments over a 36 month period ending July 2006. Both the
2.5% net smelter royalty and the vendor take back mortgage were secured by
the Calcatreu property. In October 2006 the security lien for the mortgage
was removed as the mortgage was paid in full. The 2.5% net smelter royalty
continues to be secured by the Calcatreu property. In February 2008,
Newmont assigned the 2.5% net smelter royalty to Franco Nevada
Corporation.
|
|
Since
purchasing the project in July 2003, the Corporation conducted exploration
and development programs advancing the Calcatreu Gold project to the mine
feasibility stage.
|
|
On
March 15, 2007 a mine feasibility study on the Calcatreu Project was
announced which supported the project feasibility based on the use of
cyanide and confirmed that other processes are not viable alternatives for
the Calcatreu Project. The objective of this program was to increase the
resource to one million gold-silver equivalent ounces and increase the
mine life and profitability.
|
|
Mine
permitting efforts have been complicated by a political decision. On July
21, 2005, the Governor of Rio Negro successfully passed through the
legislative council a law that has enforced a provincial wide ban on the
use of cyanide within the mining industry. This action was inconsistent
with the position of the Argentinean Federal Government and their
pro-active stance on encouraging mineral development within Argentina. The
Corporation’s management is now actively participating in discussions with
senior officials, from both the federal and provincial governments of
Argentina on this issue. Due to the ongoing of negotiations and the
potential net present value of the project, as calculated in the 2007 mine
feasibility study, no impairment is required at this time. The
continued ban on the use of cyanide may prohibit the project feasibility
at current resource estimates.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
11.
|
Resource
Assets (Continued)
|
Regalo
gold property - Argentina
|
|
On
March 12, 2008, the Corporation and Consolidated Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd.
("Pacific Bay") signed a definitive option and joint venture agreement
regarding the Regalo gold property ("Regalo") located in Chubut Province,
Argentina (the “Agreement”).
|
|
Under
the Agreement, Aquiline can earn a 70% interest in Regalo by paying
Pacific Bay US$100,000 on signing of the Agreement (paid), reimbursing
(within 30 days) Pacific Bay US$169,000 for an airborne survey already
underway (subsequently reimbursed), returning to Pacific Bay 900,000 of
Pacific Bay’s common shares issued to Aquiline under a prior agreement
(within 30 days) (returned), and completing 3,000 metres of drilling on
the Regalo property within two years. There have not been any drilling to
date. Once Aquiline has completed the forgoing, it will have earned a 70%
interest in Regalo, and the parties will thereafter form a joint venture
whereby each company will participate in programs according to their
respective interests. If either party’s interest is diluted through
non-participation in programs to 15% or less, that party’s interest
automatically converts to a 2% NSR, which either party can purchase from
the other for $2 million.
|
|
Navidad
Silver Project - Argentina
|
|
On
February 11, 2008, the Corporation acquired the Navidad Silver Project.
Total resource assets acquired amounted to $37,231,082 (Note 3(a)). The
balance of $20,296,021 consists of additions during the
period.
|
|
Upon
the acquisition of the Navidad Silver project, Aquiline held an aggregate
land position in Chubut of 401,700 hectares. Exploration concessions are
administered by the province of Chubut, which imposes limitations on the
number of exploration cateos granted to an individual legal entity. These
limitations apply to cateos that have been granted (ie. not to cateos that
are in progress or to mining claims). Granted cateos to an individual
legal entity are limited to 200,000 hectares or 20 individual cateos.
Aquiline is below this limit, at 7 granted cateos covering 34,000
hectares. However, Aquiline entered into a dialogue with the government
concerning the disposition of cateos that are currently in progress so
that Aquiline maintains compliance with the provincial regulation and has
reduced its land position in Chubut to 184,811
hectares.
|
|
Total
drilling at Navidad now stands at 185,371 metres in 920 drill holes at
December 31, 2008; 74,595 of the drilling was done in
2008.
|
|
Pico
Machay and Chaparra - Peru
|
|
On
April 1, 2008, the Corporation acquired the Pico Machay and the Chaparra
Projects. Total resource assets acquired amounted to $45,751,349 (Note
3(b)). The balance of $3,286,481 consists of additions during the period
(Note 3(b)). Most of the work completed at Pico Machay during 2008 was
focused on completing an internal feasibility study (non NI 43-101
compliant).
|
|
The
Pico Machay and the Chaparra Projects were written-down in December 2008
to $28,000,000 and $2,000,000, respectively, to reflect their fair
value.
|
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
11.
|
Resource
Assets (Continued)
|
|
Platinum
and palladium properties - Sudbury, Ontario
|
||
The
principal Canadian resource assets of the Corporation are the interests it
holds in properties in the Sudbury region of Ontario as
follows:
|
||
Central
River Valley Property
|
||
On
March 4, 1999, the Corporation entered into a sub option agreement with
Mustang Gold Corporation to earn up to a 70% interest in 96 units. Under
this agreement, the Corporation paid $15,000 and issued 100,000 common
shares and agreed to pay an additional $75,000 over the next two years to
the optionor. The Corporation had also undertaken to expend at least
$500,000 prior to December 2006 on the property in order to maintain in
force the working rights and option granted to it. Due to changed metal
prices, the project is not economical at this time and the Corporation had
no plans to do more work on this property and accordingly, the property
was written-down to $50,000 in December 2008. Total capitalized costs on
this property as at December 31, 2008 were $50,000 (December 31, 2007 -
$730,568).
|
||
Dana
North Property
|
||
This
property consists of 62 units in Dana and Pardo Townships, with a 2% and
3% net smelter royalty. The property was written off as of December 31,
2007.
|
||
Anaconda
Property
|
||
This
property consists of 36 claim units located in Dana Township. 150,000
common shares of the Corporation may be issued to the original vendor if
the property advances through the pre feasibility stage. The property was
written off as of December 31, 2007.
|
||
La
Jojoba - Mexico
|
||
The
Corporation entered into an agreement in April 2005 (the "Settlement
Agreement") with Columbia Metals Corporation Limited ("Columbia"), under
which the parties agreed that Columbia would pay Aquiline $500,000 in
satisfaction of its indebtedness to the Corporation and Aquiline would
subscribe to 625,000 units of Columbia at a price of $0.80 per unit. Each
unit was comprised of one common share of Columbia and one common share
purchase warrant of Columbia, each warrant entitling the holder to
purchase one Columbia common share at the price of $0.90 per share until
March 17, 2008. In March 2006 the Corporation completed this subscription
and acquired the common shares and purchase warrants in Columbia for long
term investment purposes (Note 9).
|
||
In
addition, under the Settlement Agreement, upon the closing of the
transaction, Columbia granted a 2% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty to
Aquiline on the La Jojoba Property. Columbia has the right to acquire the
2% NSR royalty from Aquiline, free and clear of any encumbrances upon the
payment of $1,000,000 for each 1% NSR royalty. As of December 31, 2008,
Columbia has not acquired back any portion of the NSR.
|
||
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
12.
|
Debt
|
This
debt is related to Absolut's Chaparra acquisition in 2005. The debt arose
on June 8, 2005, is in $US, and no interest is payable. No security has
been taken by the creditors.
|
|
The
fair value of the loan at the date of issue was $575,527 calculated using
an 8% discount rate. The deemed interest of $24,776 (December 31, 2007 -
$Nil) for the nine month period since acquisition of Absolut has been
capitalized and recorded in resource
assets.
|
Balance
|
|||
December
31,
|
|||
Creditor/
|
Repayment
|
2008
|
|
Creditor
group
|
$US
|
($Cdn)
|
|
Ex-Shareholders
of Compania Minera Colorado
|
September
2008:$75,000**
|
||
(includes
a related party*)
|
September
2009: $375,000
|
$514,212
|
|
*
The related party, an officer of Compania Minera Colorado, was owed 35% or
$US210,000 of the original face amount of the loans (December 31, 2008 -
US $131,250) and is paid on the same basis as other
creditors.
|
|||
**
The US $75,000 due in September 2008 has not been
paid.
|
13.
|
Asset
Retirement Obligation
|
The
following table summarizes the changes in asset retirement obligations
during the fiscal years presented:
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||
Opening
balance
|
$ | 422,240 | $ | 26,999 | |||||
Additions
|
673,374 | 393,808 | |||||||
Accretion
expense
|
125,607 | 1,433 | |||||||
Foreign
exchange effect on liability
|
131,894 | - | |||||||
Reclamation
costs incurred
|
(26,185 | ) | - | ||||||
$ | 1,326,930 | $ | 422,240 | ||||||
Asset retirement obligations relate to the Corporation's Calcatreu gold property and Navidad Silver Project in Argentina, Pico Machay in Peru and the dismantling of the mine facilities and environmental reclamation of the areas affected by mining operations. |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
13.
|
Asset
Retirement Obligation (Continued)
|
|
Calcatreu gold
property
|
||
At
December 31, 2008, management estimates that the total undiscounted amount
of the estimated cash flows required to settle the Corporation's asset
retirement obligations is $449,600 USD. It is expected that this amount
will be incurred over the years 2009 to 2010. The credit-adjusted,
risk-free interest rates used to discount estimated cash flows for
liabilities incurred was 10%.
|
||
Navidad Silver
Project
|
||
At
December 31, 2008, management estimates that the total undiscounted amount
of the estimated cash flows required to settle the Corporation's asset
retirement obligations for the Navidad Silver Project is $710,000 USD. It
is expected that this amount will be incurred over the years 2009 to 2010.
The credit adjusted, risk-free interest rates used to discount estimated
cash flows for liabilities incurred was 10%.
|
||
At
December 31, 2008, management estimates that the total undiscounted amount
of the estimated cash flow required to settle the Corporation's asset
retirement obligation should be increased to $710,000
USD.
|
||
Pico Machay Project
and Chaparra Project
|
||
On
April 1, 2008, the Corporation acquired the Pico Machay Project and the
Chaparra Project. Total asset retirement obligation acquired amounted to
$89,000 USD for the Pico Machay Project and $20,000 USD for the Chaparra
Project (Note 3(b)).
|
||
14.
|
Capital
Stock
|
|
(a)
|
The
authorized capital of the Corporation consists of an unlimited number of
no par value common shares.
|
Shares
|
Value
|
||||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2006
|
52,226,654 | $ | 56,574,750 | ||||||
Exercise
of warrants
|
2,342,625 | 7,027,875 | |||||||
Value
attributed to warrants exercised
|
- | 2,771,950 | |||||||
Exercise
of stock options
|
1,912,600 | 3,346,550 | |||||||
Value
attributed to stock options exercised
|
- | 1,273,247 | |||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2007
|
56,481,879 | 70,994,372 | |||||||
Private
placement, net of issue costs (i)
|
1,818,182 | 14,886,054 | |||||||
Warrants
valuation (i)
|
- | (3,027,273 | ) | ||||||
Private
placement, net of issue costs (ii)
|
5,310,000 | 10,413,206 | |||||||
Warrants
valuation (ii)
|
- | (3,839,482 | ) | ||||||
Proceeds
from exercise of warrants
|
22,222 | 149,999 | |||||||
Value
attributed to warrants exercised
|
- | 77,297 | |||||||
Exercise
of stock options
|
1,016,400 | 3,593,450 | |||||||
Value
attributed to stock options exercised
|
- | 1,412,987 | |||||||
Shares
issued to acquire Absolut (Note 3(b))
|
2,961,432 | 29,199,719 | |||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2008
|
67,610,115 | $ | 123,860,329 |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
14.
|
Capital
Stock (Continued)
|
|
(i)
|
On
May 7, 2008, the Corporation closed a non-brokered private placement
financing for gross proceeds of $15,000,000. The offering was placed with
a mining company whose identity remains confidential. The investor has
specified use of proceeds to be dedicated to accelerating the exploration
and development activities of the Navidad silver project in Chubut,
Argentina.
|
|
The
offering was comprised of 1,818,182 Units at $8.25, consisting of one
common share and one warrant to purchase one common share at an exercise
price of $10.00 up to the expiry date of December 31,
2009.
|
||
The
fair value of the warrants was estimating using the Black-Scholes pricing
model as follows: dividend yield 0%; expected volatility 55%; risk-free
interest rate 2.62% and an expected average life of 1.66 years. Value
assigned was $3,027,273.
|
||
The
common shares and warrants sold under this offering were restricted for a
period of four months from the closing date. No external advisors were
engaged by either party, and as such, no advisory or investment banking
fees are deductible from the gross proceeds, other than legal
fees.
|
||
(ii)
|
A
total of 5,310,000 Units of the Corporation were issued in a private
placement at a price of $2.00 per Unit. Total proceeds received of
$10,413,206 is net of cost of issue and commission for $206,794. The Units
were issued in two tranches, with 3,695,000 Units issued in the first
tranche closed on October 22, 2008 and 1,615,000 Units issued in the
second and final tranche closed on November 6, 2008.
|
|
Each
Unit consisted of one common share and one warrant to purchase one common
share at an exercise price of $2.50 with an expiry date of three
years.
|
||
The
fair value of the warrants was estimating using the Black-Scholes pricing
model as follows: dividend yield 0%; expected volatility 70%-78%;
risk-free interest rate 1.80%-2.09% and an expected average life of 2.25
years. Value assigned was $3,839,482.
|
||
The
common shares and warrants sold under this offering were restricted for a
period of four months from the closing date. No external advisors were
engaged by either party, and as such, no advisory or investment banking
fees are deductible from the gross proceeds other than legal
fees.
|
||
(b)
|
Stock
options
|
|
The
Corporation has a Stock Option Plan (the "Plan"), which has been approved
by the shareholders to provide incentive for the directors, officers,
employees, consultants and service providers of the Corporation (and its
subsidiaries). The number of stock options to be granted is limited to not
more than 10% of the issued Common Shares of the Corporation at the time
of the stock option grant. Stock options are granted in accordance with
the Plan at not less than the closing price of the Common Shares on the
business day immediately prior to the effective date of
grant.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
14.
|
Capital
Stock (Continued)
|
|
(b)
|
Stock
options (Continued)
|
|
A
summary of the status of the Corporation's stock option plan as of
December 31, 2008 and 2007 is as
follows:
|
Share
Purchase
|
Weighted
Average
|
||
Options
|
Exercise
price ($)
|
||
Outstanding,
December 31, 2006
|
4,420,000
|
3.49
|
|
Options
granted
|
685,000
|
8.54
|
|
Options
exercised
|
(1,912,600)
|
1.75
|
|
Outstanding,
December 31, 2007
|
3,192,400
|
5.62
|
|
Options
granted
|
4,495,000
|
6.98
|
|
Options
exercised
|
(1,016,400)
|
3.54
|
|
Options
expired/cancelled
|
(1,644,445)
|
8.20
|
|
Options
issued to acquire
|
|||
Absolut
(Note 3(b))
|
218,889
|
6.15
|
|
Outstanding,
December 31, 2008
|
5,245,444
|
6.40
|
|
The
following table reflects the stock options outstanding at December 31,
2008:
|
Weighted
|
Weighted
|
|||||
Average
|
Average
|
|||||
Options
|
Exercise
|
Options
|
Exercise
|
Contractual
|
Expiry
|
|
Granted
|
Price
($)
|
Exercisable
|
Price
($)
|
Life
(Years)
|
Date
|
|
156,000
|
8.00
|
156,000
|
8.00
|
0.01
|
January
3, 2009
|
|
500,000
|
1.35
|
500,000
|
1.35
|
0.21
|
March
19, 2009
|
|
150,000
|
8.92
|
150,000
|
8.92
|
0.30
|
April
20, 2009
|
|
11,112
|
5.40
|
11,112
|
5.40
|
0.36
|
May
12, 2009
|
|
16,667
|
9.00
|
16,667
|
9.00
|
0.69
|
September
9, 2009
|
|
3,333
|
5.58
|
3,333
|
5.58
|
1.76
|
October
6, 2010
|
|
1,835,000
|
12.00
|
917,500
|
12.00
|
2.13
|
February
15, 2011
|
|
100,000
|
12.00
|
75,000
|
12.00
|
2.25
|
April
1, 2011
|
|
150,000
|
8.25
|
75,000
|
8.25
|
2.44
|
June
9, 2011
|
|
125,000
|
8.25
|
62,500
|
8.25
|
2.45
|
June
14, 2011
|
|
2,155,000
|
2.00
|
2,155,000
|
2.00
|
2.93
|
December
4, 2011
|
|
43,332
|
6.30
|
43,332
|
6.30
|
3.56
|
July
23, 2012
|
|
5,245,444
|
6.40
|
4,165,444
|
5.07
|
|||
For fiscal 2008, the aggregate fair value of options granted (excluding the options issued to acquire Absolut) was $7,493,775 (fiscal 2007 - $2,429,870) or $1.67 (fiscal 2007 - $3.55) per share. As at December 31, 2008, 1,080,000 options remain unvested. |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|||
14.
|
Capital
Stock (Continued)
|
||
(b)
|
Stock
options (Continued)
|
||
(i)
|
On
January 3, 2007, the Corporation granted 285,000 stock options to
employees and consultants with an exercise price of $8.00
expiring January 3, 2009. These stock options vested immediately at time
of grant. The fair value of these options was recorded as follows:
$225,540 expensed as stock option compensation, $322,200 recorded as
deferred payments for future acquisition and $370,530 capitalized as
resource assets.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 86.6%,
risk - free interest rate 3.97% and an expected average life of 1.5 years.
Value assigned was $918,270.
|
|||
(ii)
|
On
April 20, 2007, the Corporation granted 400,000 stock options to officers
and employee with an exercise price of $8.92 expiring April 20, 2009.
These stock options vested 50% on October 20, 2007 and 50% on April 20,
2008. The fair value of these options was recorded as follows: $377,900
expensed as stock option compensation, $566,850 capitalized as deferred
payments for future acquisition and $566,850 recorded as resource
assets.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 86.9%,
risk - free interest rate 4.17% and an expected average life of 1.5 years.
Value assigned was $1,511,600.
|
|||
(iii)
|
On
February 15, 2008, the Corporation granted 1,965,000 stock options to
directors, officers and employees with an exercise price of $12.00
expiring February 15, 2011. These options will be recorded as stock option
compensation in the statement of operations or resource assets as the
options vest. These stock options will vest 50% on August 15, 2008 and 50%
on February 15, 2009. The fair value of these options was recorded as
follows: $2,825,286 expensed as stock option compensation and $2,023,358
capitalized as resource assets. The remaining value of $323,236 will be
expensed or capitalized, as appropriate, in the remainder of
2009.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 53.2%,
risk - free interest rate 3.12% and an expected average life of 1.5 years.
Value assigned is $5,171,880.
|
|||
(iv)
|
On
April 1, 2008, the Corporation granted 100,000 stock options to a director
with an exercise price of $12.00 expiring April 1, 2011. These options
will be recorded as stock option compensation in the statement of
operations as the options vest. These stock options will vest 50%
immediately, 25% on October 1, 2008 and 25% on April 1, 2009. The fair
value of these options was recorded as follows: $288,672 expensed as stock
option compensation. The remaining value of $9,694 will be expensed as
appropriate, in the remainder of 2009.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 75.7%,
risk - free interest rate 2.66% and an expected average life of 2 years.
Value assigned is $298,366.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|||
14.
|
Capital
Stock (Continued)
|
||
(b)
|
Stock
options (Continued)
|
||
(v)
|
On
April 1, 2008, the Corporation granted 218,889 stock options to stock
option holders of Absolut with an exercise price between $4.50 to $9.00
and which expire at various dates between December 9, 2008 to July 23,
2012. These options are included in the purchase price of
Absolut.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility from 47%
to 68%, risk - free interest rate from 2.29% to 2.63% and an expected
average life from 0.67 to 2 years. Value assigned is
$1,090,850.
|
|||
(vi)
|
On
June 9, 2008, the Corporation granted 150,000 stock options to a director
with an exercise price of $8.25 expiring June 9, 2011. These options will
be recorded as stock option compensation in the statement of operations as
the options vest. These stock options will vest 50% on December 10, 2008
and 50% on June 9, 2009. The fair value of these options was recorded as
follows: $342,265 expensed as stock option compensation. The remaining
value of $96,460 will be expensed as appropriate, in the remainder of
2009.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 75.7%,
risk - free interest rate 2.60% and an expected average life of 2 years.
Value assigned is $438,725.
|
|||
(vii)
|
On
June 14, 2008, the Corporation granted 125,000 stock options to a director
with an exercise price of $8.25 expiring June 14, 2011. These options will
be recorded as stock option compensation in the statement of operations as
the options vest. These stock options will vest 50% on December 14, 2008
and 50% on June 14, 2009. The fair value of these options was recorded as
follows: $128,450 expensed as stock option compensation. The remaining
value of $188,158 will be expensed as appropriate, in the remainder of
2009.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 79%, risk
- free interest rate 2.77% and an expected average life of 2 years. Value
assigned is $316,608.
|
|||
(viii)
|
On
December 4, 2008, the Corporation granted 2,155,000 stock options to
directors, officers and employees with an exercise price of $2.00 expiring
December 4, 2011. These stock options vested immediately at time of grant.
The fair value of these options was recorded as follows: $638,296 expensed
as stock option compensation and $463,166 capitalized as resource
assets.
|
||
The
fair value of the stock options was estimating using the Black-Scholes
pricing model as follows: dividend yield 0%, expected volatility 75%, risk
- free interest rate 1.52% and an expected average life of 2.25 years.
Value assigned is $1,101,462.
|
|||
For
the year ended December 31, 2008, the fair value of previous year stock
options granted that vested during the period was recorded as follows:
$4,301,437 (2007 - $540,457) expensed as stock option compensation,
$2,592,288 (2007 - $842,906) capitalized as resource assets and $Nil (2007
- $749,576) recorded as deferred payments for future
acquisition.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
14.
|
Capital
Stock (Continued)
|
|
(c)
|
Warrants
|
|
The
following table reflects the continuity of
warrants:
|
December
31,
|
December
31,
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
2007
|
2008
|
Warrant
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Expiry
Date
|
Balance
|
Issued
|
Exercised
|
Expired
|
Balance
|
Value
|
|||||||||||||||||||
(i)
See Note 15
|
- | 237,500 | - | - | 237,500 | $ | 594,700 | ||||||||||||||||||
September
16, 2008 (ii)
|
- | 205,558 | (22,222 | ) | (183,336 | ) | - | - | |||||||||||||||||
December
31, 2009 (iii)
|
- | 1,818,182 | - | - | 1,818,182 | 3,027,273 | |||||||||||||||||||
October
22, 2011 (iv)
|
- | 3,695,000 | - | - | 3,695,000 | 2,580,587 | |||||||||||||||||||
November
6, 2011 (v)
|
- | 1,615,000 | - | - | 1,615,000 | 1,258,895 | |||||||||||||||||||
- | 7,571,240 | (22,222 | ) | (183,336 | ) | 7,365,682 | $ | 7,461,455 |
December
31,
|
December
31,
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006
|
2007
|
Warrant
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Expiry
Date
|
Balance
|
Issued
|
Exercised
|
Expired
|
Balance
|
Value
|
|||||||||||||||||||
October
2007
|
2,342,625 | - | (2,342,625 | ) | - | - | $ | - |
(i)
|
On
February 8, 2008, the Corporation issued 237,500 warrants in connection
with the convertible debenture (Note 15).
|
|
(ii)
|
On
April 1, 2008, the Corporation issued 205,558 warrants in connection with
the acquisition of Absolut (Note 3(b)). 22,222 of these warrants were
exercised and 183,336 warrants matured and were not exercised by the
holder.
|
|
(iii)
|
On
May 7, 2008, the Corporation closed a non-brokered private placement
financing and issued 1,818,182 warrants (Note
14(a)(i)).
|
|
(iv)
|
On
October 22, 2008, the Corporation closed the first tranche of a
non-brokered private placement financing and issued 3,695,000 warrants
(Note 14(a)(ii)).
|
|
(v)
|
On
November 6, 2008, the Corporation closed the second and final tranche of a
non-brokered private placement financing and issued1,615,000 warrants
(Note 14(a)(ii)).
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
15.
|
Convertible
Debenture
|
On
February 8, 2008, Silverstone Resources Corp. ("Silverstone") purchased a
$17.5 million convertible debenture (the “Debenture”) from Aquiline.
Silverstone may elect to convert the Debenture into Common Shares of
Aquiline at a conversion price of $12.00 or into a contract (“Contract”)
granting Silverstone the right to purchase, at the lesser of US$4.00 per
ounce of silver and the prevailing market price per ounce of silver on the
London Metal Exchange at the time production is delivered, 12.5% of the
life of mine payable silver from the Loma de La Plata zone which is one of
seven zones comprising the Navidad project, or if unavailable, from the
other zones of the Navidad project.
|
|
Silverstone
may elect to convert the Debenture into Common Shares of Aquiline or a
Contract at any time until the Conversion Deadline, which is defined as 30
days after the earlier of: (a) January 8, 2010; and (b) the Maturity Date
which is defined as the later of the completion of a feasibility study on
the Property, the decision of Aquiline to proceed with a mine, and receipt
of all necessary permits to proceed with construction of a
mine.
|
|
Silverstone
and Aquiline shall negotiate a definitive Contract not yet signed which
shall be subject to Exchange approval. Upon conversion to the Contract,
the $17.5 million face value of the Debenture will form part of an upfront
payment by Silverstone of US$50 million to secure the silver, structured
as: upon election to convert to the Contract, US$17,599,750 being
equivalent to the CDN$17.5 million face value of the Debenture;
US$14,900,250 on the Conversion Deadline; and US$17.5 million in four
equal installments of US$4,375,000, each three months apart, the first
installment starting three months after the start of construction and the
remaining installments due every three months
thereafter.
|
|
The
Debenture carries a coupon of 150,000 warrants in lieu of interest, with
each warrant entitling Silverstone to purchase one Common Share at an
exercise price of CDN$13.00 per Common Share for a period expiring six
months after the Conversion Deadline.
|
|
The
Corporation paid a finder’s fee of 6% in cash of the Debenture principal
amount (CDN$1.05 million) and 87,500 warrants with the same terms as those
granted to Silverstone, and incurred costs of $32,396.
|
|
The
fair value of the 237,500 warrants was estimated on the date of grant
using the Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following
assumptions: dividend yield - 0%; volatility - 53.3%; risk-free interest
rate - 3.06% and an expected life of 1.5 years. The fair value attributed
to the warrants was $594,700.
|
|
Neither
of the conversion options give rise to a contractual obligation on the
part of the Corporation to deliver cash or another financial asset or to
exchange another financial instrument under conditions that are
potentially unfavourable. As such the Corporation has classified the
debenture as an equity instrument net of cash issue costs in the amount of
$1,082,396 and the value attributed to the warrants of
$594,700.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
16.
|
Segmented
Information
|
The
Corporation operates in the mining, exploration and development business
and has operations in Argentina, Canada, Peru and Mexico. The Corporation
has no operating revenue. The interest income and realized gain on
investments held for trading relate to investments held in
Canada.
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Canada
|
Argentina
|
Mexico
|
Peru
|
Consolidated
|
|||||||||||||||||
Current
assets
|
$ | 6,463,176 | $ | 1,854,024 | $ | - | $ | 181,929 | $ | 8,499,129 | |||||||||||
Property
and equipment
|
63,244 | 1,146,956 | - | 397,921 | 1,608,121 | ||||||||||||||||
Other
assets
|
74,000 | 6,416,917 | - | - | 6,490,917 | ||||||||||||||||
Resource
assets
|
50,000 | 93,582,815 | 50,000 | 30,000,000 | 123,682,815 | ||||||||||||||||
$ | 6,650,420 | $ | 103,000,712 | $ | 50,000 | $ | 30,579,850 | $ | 140,280,982 |
2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Canada
|
Argentina
|
Mexico
|
Peru
|
Consolidated
|
|||||||||||||||||
Current
assets
|
$ | 7,226,116 | $ | 1,057,192 | $ | - | $ | - | $ | 8,283,308 | |||||||||||
Property
and equipment
|
47,414 | 128,830 | - | - | 176,244 | ||||||||||||||||
Other
assets
|
15,037,038 | 10,151,259 | - | - | 25,188,297 | ||||||||||||||||
Resource
assets
|
730,568 | 34,068,894 | 50,000 | - | 34,849,462 | ||||||||||||||||
$ | 23,041,136 | $ | 45,406,175 | $ | 50,000 | $ | - | $ | 68,497,311 |
17.
|
Supplemental
Cash Flow Information
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||
Changes
in non-cash working capital items:
|
|||||||||
Other
receivables and prepaids
|
$ | (451,133 | ) | $ | (189,391 | ) | |||
Current
portion of long-term foreign tax recoverable
|
(576,597 | ) | (27,086 | ) | |||||
Long-term
foreign tax recoverable
|
(5,251,854 | ) | - | ||||||
Payables
and accruals
|
3,565,174 | (681,781 | ) | ||||||
$ | (2,714,410 | ) | $ | (898,258 | ) | ||||
Interest
received
|
$ | 143,030 | $ | 356,579 |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
18.
|
Income
Taxes
|
The
following table reconciles the expected income tax recovery at the
Canadian statutory income tax rate of 33.5% (2007 - 36%) to the amounts
recognized in the consolidation statements of
operations:
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||
Loss
before income taxes reflected in consolidated
|
|||||||||
financial
statements
|
$ | 27,671,464 | $ | 3,568,674 | |||||
Expected
income tax recovery at Canadian statutory rate
|
9,270,000 | 1,285,000 | |||||||
Non-taxable
foreign exchange
|
54,000 | (191,000 | ) | ||||||
Non-taxable
component of gains on investments
|
275,000 | - | |||||||
Non-deductible
expenses and other items
|
(528,000 | ) | - | ||||||
Deductible
share issue costs
|
176,000 | 119,000 | |||||||
Stock
option compensation expense
|
(1,441,000 | ) | (195,000 | ) | |||||
Unrealized
gain on investments held for trading
|
- | 83,000 | |||||||
Valuation
allowance
|
(1,685,000 | ) | (1,101,000 | ) | |||||
Income
tax recovery recognized
|
$ | 6,121,000 | $ | - | |||||
The following table reflects future income tax assets at December 31, 2008 and 2007: |
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||
Excess
of tax resources pools over book value of
|
|||||||||
Canadian
resource assets
|
$ | 1,289,000 | $ | 289,000 | |||||
Share
issue costs
|
544,000 | 252,000 | |||||||
Excess
of tax cost of marketable securities over carrying value
|
56,000 | - | |||||||
Canadian
non-capital losses
|
6,640,000 | 4,266,000 | |||||||
Less:
recognized to offset future income tax liabilities
|
- | (516,000 | ) | ||||||
Valuation
allowance
|
(8,529,000 | ) | (4,291,000 | ) | |||||
$ | - | $ | - |
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
18.
|
Income
Taxes (Continued)
|
The
following table reflects future income tax liabilities at December 31,
2008 and 2007:
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||
Book
value of financial instruments in excess of tax value
|
$ | - | $ | (516,000 | ) | ||||
Excess
of book value of Argentina and Peru resource properties
over
|
|||||||||
eligible
deductible costs (1)
|
(12,413,000 | ) | (7,655,000 | ) | |||||
Less:
reduction due to utilization of available future income tax
assets
|
- | 516,000 | |||||||
$ | (12,413,000 | ) | $ | (7,655,000 | ) | ||||
(1)
The
Corporation has incurred costs in Canada related to its resource assets
that are not deductible or eligible for tax pools. As such, the
Corporation has recorded a future tax liability and capitalized the costs
to the associated property.
|
|||||||||
As
at December 31, 2008, the Corporation had Canadian non-capital losses, for
which no future income tax asset has been recognized in these consolidated
financial statements, which may be applied against future taxable income,
expiring as follows:
|
2009
|
$ |
1,413,000
|
|||
2010
|
1,912,000
|
||||
2014
|
2,742,000
|
||||
2015
|
3,652,000
|
||||
2026
|
2,134,000
|
||||
2027
|
2,025,000
|
||||
2028
|
4,995,000
|
||||
$ |
18,873,000
|
19.
|
Basic
and Diluted Loss Per Share
|
The
following table sets out the computation for basic and diluted loss per
share:
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||
Numerator:
|
|||||||||
Loss
for the period
|
$ | (21,550,464 | ) | $ | (3,568,674 | ) | |||
Denominator:
|
|||||||||
Weighted
average number of
|
|||||||||
common
shares outstanding
|
61,626,489 | 53,689,338 | |||||||
Basic
and diluted loss per share
|
$ | (0.35 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | |||
Diluted
loss per share has not been presented for the years ended December 31,
2008 and 2007 because the effect of dilutive options and warrants is
anti-dilutive.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
|
20.
|
Related
Party Transactions and Balances
|
During
the year, the Corporation was charged $85,450 ($71,000 in 2007) for
consulting fees by a company in which a director of the Corporation has a
beneficial interest. $20,000 of the $85,450 (December 31, 2007 - $71,000)
consulting fees were included in resource assets. At December 31, 2008,
$5,000 was due by the Corporation (at December 31, 2007, $20,747 of
general and office expenses recovery were due to the
Corporation).
|
|
At
December 31, 2008, the Corporation held 170,000 shares (December 31, 2007
- 170,000 shares) of Sierra Minerals Inc. ("Sierra") (see Note 9).
Included in other receivables and prepaids is $151,561 (December 31, 2007
- $126,882) receivable from Sierra. The balance pertains to general and
office expenses paid on behalf of Sierra of which $78,776 were collected
at the date of this report.
|
|
Included
in other receivables and prepaids is $41,897 (December 31, 2007 - $65,733)
receivable from Laramide Resources Ltd., with which the Corporation has a
director in common and common management. Such amount was collected at the
date of this report.
|
|
Payables
to a law firm in which a partner is an officer of the Corporation were
$97,361 at December 31, 2008 (December 31, 2007 - $110,592). Also, as at
December 31, 2008, the law firm held $20,000 (December 31, 2007 - $Nil) on
behalf of the Corporation. The Corporation was charged $298,071 by this
law firm for the year ended December 31, 2008 (December 31, 2007 -
$227,111) for legal services included in IMA legal costs and legal and
audit expenses.
|
|
Included
in other receivables and prepaids is $14,420 (December 31, 2007 - $Nil)
receivable from Crown Point Ventures Ltd. with which the Corporation has a
director in common.
|
|
Included
in other receivables and prepaids is $41,405 (December 31, 2007 - $146)
receivable from Treasury Metals Inc. with which the Corporation has an
officer and director in common.
|
|
Included
in other receivables and prepaids is $7,731 (December 31, 2007 - $184)
receivable from Lydian International Limited with which the Corporation
has a common director.
|
|
Transactions
with related parties were in the normal course of operations and are
measured at the exchange amounts which is the amount agreed to by the
related parties. Any amounts due to or from these related parties are
subject to normal trade payment terms.
|
|
21.
|
Contingencies
|
The
Corporation is involved in various litigation matters arising in the
ordinary course of its business. The Corporation has no reason to believe
that the disposition of any such current matter could reasonably be
expected to have a materially adverse impact on the Corporation financial
position and results of operations.
|
December
31, 2008 and 2007
|
||
22.
|
Commitments
|
|
(a)
|
The Corporation entered into
agreements to lease office spaces and warehouses until June 30, 2013.
Minimum annual rent payable in each of the next five years are as
follows:
|
2009
|
$ |
386,279
|
|||
2010
|
391,162
|
||||
2011
|
327,958
|
||||
2012
|
140,399
|
||||
2013
|
70,200
|
||||
$ |
1,315,998
|
||||
|
The
Corporation has arrangements with the tenants in its corporate offices and
expects to recover approximately 24% of the indicated
amounts.
|
|
(b)
|
As
per the purchase option agreement with Chaparra's concession holders, a
payment of US$850,000 is required by the Corporation in October 2009 in
order to complete the purchase option of these mining rights. No security
has been taken by the concession holders other than the mining
rights.
|
23.
|
Subsequent
Events
|
(a) |
Subsequent
to December 31, 2008, the Corporation received $675,000 from the exercise
of 500,000 stock options which expired on March 19, 2009 and had an
exercise price of $1.35.
|
|
|
(b)
|
On
June 4, 2009, the Corporation closed an equity financing for gross
proceeds of $18,225,000 or $17,025,484 net of issue costs. The
offering was comprised of 8,100,000 common shares at $2.25
each.
|
(c)
|
On
July 14, 2009 the Corporation announced the signing of a letter of intent
(“LOI”) with Monterrico Metals PLC (“Monterrico”), a subsidiary of Xiamen
Zijin Tonguuan Investment Development Co. Ltd., a consortium of three
Chinese companies. The LOI would allow Aquiline to acquire all of
Monterrico’s right, title and interest in and to, certain mining
concessions associated with the Pico Machay Gold Project in Peru. On
October 7, 2009, the Corporation announced the closing of the purchase.
The transaction was implemented pursuant to a share purchase agreement
("Share Purchase Agreement") whereby the Corporation purchased all of the
issued and outstanding shares of the Pico Machay Cayman Limited ("Pico
Cayman") from Intercontinental Resources Inc. ("IRI"), a subsidiary of
Monterrico. Pico Cayman owns Minera Pico Machay SAC ("Pico Peru") which
hold the mining concessions to the Pico Machay Gold Project. The total
purchase price was US$7.8 million, of which US$1.2 million was paid on or
before closing, and US$6.6 million is outstanding and reflected by the
issuance by the Corporation of a promissory note in favour of IRI (the
"Note"). The Note has a two year term, and is payable in eight quarterly
installments of US$825,000 each. The Note bears no interest, unless there
is a default on any of the payments in which case a default interest rate
equal to 5% above the floating LIBOR rate will apply to the defaulted
payment and the full remaining balance commencing 30 days after the due
date of such first defaulted payment. After the first payment default, any
subsequent payments must be made on their due date; if payment is not made
by the due date, then Monterrico has the right to exercise security and
accelerate payment of the full balance including interest. The Note is
secured by (i) a guarantee from the Corporation for the Corporation's
obligations under the Note and for certain indemnity obligations of the
Corporation under the Share Purchase Agreement, (ii) a pledge of shares in
Pico Cayman;
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31, 2008 and 2007
|
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23.
|
Subsequent
Events (Continued)
|
|
|
(iii)
a pledge of shares in Pico Peru; and (iv) a mining mortgage in the Pico
Machay Gold Project. The pledges and the mining mortgage will be released
once the Note is paid in full. The guarantee has a term of five years from
the date of signing. The Note is not assignable, and in case of a change
of control of the Corporation the Note will become immediately due, unless
IRI consents to the new controlling person assuming the obligations of the
Corporation, as applicable.
The first installment payment of US$825,000 under the
note was made in December 2009. In January 2010 the US$5,775,000 balance
of the debt was paid in full as a result of the change of control
resulting from the take-over of Aquiline by Pan American Silver Corp.
(“Pan American”).
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|
(d)
|
On
October 14, 2009, the Corporation announced that it had signed a support
agreement ("Support Agreement") pursuant to which Pan American would make
a formal take over bid to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares
of the Corporation (the “Share Offer”).
Contemporaneously
with the Share Offer, Pan American also proposed to make formal take over
bids for each outstanding series of Aquiline warrants and the Aquiline
convertible debenture (together, the “Convertible Security Offers”). The
transaction value implied by all of the offers was approximately $626
million.
The
Share Offer was made on the basis of 0.2495 of a Pan American common
share, plus 0.1 of a Pan American common share purchase warrant for each
Aquiline common share. Each of these warrants entitle the holder to
acquire one Pan American common share at a price of $35.00 per Pan
American common share for a period of five years after the date on which
Pan American first pays for Aquiline common shares tendered to the Share
Offer (the “Five Year Pan American Warrant”). The consideration offered
pursuant to the Convertible Security Offers consisted of replacement Pan
American securities, exercisable to acquire Pan American common shares,
with similar terms to the respective Aquiline securities, subject to an
adjustment based on a 0.2495 exchange ratio.
Based
on the closing price of Pan American common shares on the TSX on October
13th, 2009 (and assuming a value of $0.81 for each 0.1 of a Five Year Pan
American Warrant), the implied value of the Share Offer is $7.47 per
Aquiline common share, which represented a premium of approximately 36.6%
over the closing price of Aquiline common shares on the TSX on the same
date, and a 62.0% premium to Aquiline’s 10 day volume weighted average
price. Aquiline shareholders would own approximately 19% of the enlarged
Pan American.
The
Board of Directors of Aquiline, after receiving the recommendation of a
special committee of independent directors, unanimously determined (i)
that the Share Offer is fair to Aquiline’s shareholders and is in the best
interest of Aquiline, and (ii) to recommend that Aquiline shareholders
tender their common shares to the Share Offer. BMO Capital Markets,
financial advisor to Aquiline, delivered a fairness opinion to the Board
of Directors of Aquiline in connection with the Share Offer. Cormark
Securities Inc. also delivered a fairness opinion to the Board of
Directors of Aquiline in connection with the Share Offer. The offers were
conditional on the directors and senior officers of Aquiline entering into
lock up agreements with Pan American and agreeing to tender all of their
Aquiline shares in support of the Share Offer. The Support Agreement and
the transactions contemplated therein arose as a result of a review of
strategic alternatives undertaken by
Aquiline.
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31, 2008 and 2007
|
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23.
|
Subsequent
Events (Continued)
|
|
|
Under
the terms of the Support Agreement, Aquiline was subject to certain
customary non solicitation covenants, including the obligation to pay Pan
American a non completion fee of $18 million under certain
circumstances.
In
addition, Aquiline provided Pan American with certain other customary
rights including a five business day right to match a proposal deemed
superior by the Aquiline Board of Directors. Under certain other
circumstances, where the Support Agreement is terminated, Aquiline is
obligated to reimburse Pan American’s reasonable expenses up to a maximum
of $3 million.
The
Share Offer and each of the Convertible Securities Offers were conditional
upon a minimum of 66 2/3% of the outstanding Aquiline shares on a diluted
basis being tendered to the Share Offer. The Share Offer was not
contingent on a successful take up under any of the Convertible Securities
Offers.
The
transaction was subject to stock exchange approvals, the receipt of
certain confirmations under Argentinean anti trust laws, and other
customary closing conditions, all of which were subsequently fulfilled or
waived. Pan American shareholders were not required to vote on the
transaction.
The
Corporation incurred transaction costs of $10,282,366 reflecting advisory
completion fees, legal, and due diligence expenditures related to the
transaction.
On
December 8, 2009 Pan American announced that 81.8% of the outstanding
shares of Aquiline had been deposited to the Share Offer, Pan American had
taken-up all the Aquiline shares deposited to that date and that the Share
Offer for the remaining outstanding Aquiline securities had been extended
to December 22, 2009.
On
December 22, 2009 Pan American announced that 92.4% of the outstanding
Aquiline shares had been deposited to the Share Offer and that Pan
American would exercise its right to acquire the remaining outstanding
shares.
The
common shares of Aquiline were delisted from the TSX on January 13,
2010.
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(e)
|
Subsequent
to the March 31, 2009, $4,581,589 was received on the exercise of
2,191,665 stock options and $4,712,500 was received on the exercise of
1,885,000 warrants.
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701
Evans Avenue
8th
Floor
Toronto,
Ontario Canada
M9C
1A3
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telephone:
facsimile:
email:
website:
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(416)
626 6000
(416)
626 8650
info@mscm.ca
www.mscm.ca
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Signed:
"MSCM
LLP"
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Chartered
Accountants
Licensed
Public
Accountants
|
December
31, 2008
|
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
Total
Assets
|
Total
Liabilities
|
Shareholders’
Equity
|
|||||||||
Reported
under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | 140,281 | $ | 20,229 | $ | 120,052 | ||||||
Adjustment
to capitalized expenditures (a)
|
(50,411 | ) | - | (50,411 | ) | |||||||
Related
future income tax effect (b)
|
38 | (5,014 | ) | 5,052 | ||||||||
Reported
under US GAAP
|
$ | 89,908 | $ | 15,215 | $ | 74,693 |
December
31, 2007
|
||||||||||||
Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
Total
Assets
|
Total
Liabilities
|
Shareholders’
Equity
|
|||||||||
Reported
under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | 68,497 | $ | 8,884 | $ | 59,613 | ||||||
Adjustment
to capitalized expenditures (a)
|
(25,175 | ) | - | (25,175 | ) | |||||||
Related
future income tax effect (b)
|
(4,498 | ) | (4,498 | ) | - | |||||||
Reported
under US GAAP
|
$ | 38,824 | $ | 4,386 | $ | 34,438 |
December
31, 2008
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accumulated
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
Statement
|
Share
|
|
Contributed
|
Convertible
|
Comprehensive | |||||||||||||||||||||||
of
Shareholders’ Equity
|
Capital
|
Warrants
|
Surplus
|
Debentures
|
Deficit
|
Income
(Loss)
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Reported
under
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canadian
GAAP
|
$ | 123,860 | $ | 7,462 | $ | 15,514 | $ | 15,823 | $ | (42,345 | ) | $ | (262 | ) | $ | 120,052 | ||||||||||||
Exploration
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
expenditures
|
- | - | - | - | (50,411 | ) | - | (50,411 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Related
future
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
income
tax effect
|
- | - | - | - | 5,052 | - | 5,052 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Reported
under
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
US GAAP | $ | 123,860 | $ | 7,462 | $ | 15,514 | $ | 15,823 | $ | (87,704 | ) | $ | (262 | ) | $ | 74,693 |
December
31, 2007
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
Statement of
Shareholder’s
Equity
|
Share
Capital
|
Contributed
Surplus
|
Retained
Earnings/
(Deficit)
|
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income
(Loss)
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||||
Reported
under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | 70,994 | $ | 8,305 | $ | (20,794 | ) | $ | 1,108 | $ | 59,613 | |||||||||
Exploration
expenditures
|
- | - | (25,175 | ) | - | (25,175 | ) | |||||||||||||
Related
future income tax effect
|
- | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Reported
under US GAAP
|
$ | 70,994 | $ | 8,305 | $ | (45,969 | ) | $ | 1,108 | $ | 34,438 |
December
31
|
||||||||
Consolidated
Statements of Operations
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||
Net
loss reported under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | (21,550 | ) | $ | (3,569 | ) | ||
Effect
of expensing exploration expenditures
|
(28,856 | ) | (6,830 | ) | ||||
Effect
on write-off of resource properties
|
3,620 | 684 | ||||||
Related
future income tax effect
|
5,052 | |||||||
Net
loss reported under US GAAP
|
$ | (41,734 | ) | $ | (9,715 | ) |
Consolidated
Statements of Operations (Under US GAAP)
|
||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||
Expenses
|
||||||||
Office
administration
|
$ | 679 | $ | 358 | ||||
IMA legal costs
|
9 | 307 | ||||||
Legal and audit
|
193 | 301 | ||||||
Accretion of asset retirement
obligation
|
126 | 1 | ||||||
Amortization
|
25 | 30 | ||||||
Travel
|
272 | 365 | ||||||
Investor
relations
|
852 | 545 | ||||||
Salaries and
consulting
|
2,274 | 581 | ||||||
Capital tax
|
21 | 127 | ||||||
Stock option
compensation
|
4,301 | 540 | ||||||
Exploration
expenditures
|
28,856 | 6,830 | ||||||
37,608 | 9,985 | |||||||
Loss
before the following
|
(37,608 | ) | (9,985 | ) | ||||
Interest income
|
143 | 357 | ||||||
Write-down of resource
assets
|
(16,101 | ) | - | |||||
Foreign exchange gain
(loss)
|
162 | (309 | ) | |||||
Unrealized (loss) gain on
investments held for trading
|
(12 | ) | 229 | |||||
Gain (loss) on sale of long-term
investments
|
509 | (7 | ) | |||||
Loss
before income taxes
|
(52,907 | ) | (9,715 | ) | ||||
Future
income tax recovery
|
(11,173 | ) | - | |||||
Net
loss for the year
|
$ | (41,734 | ) | $ | (9,715 | ) | ||
Earnings
per share
|
||||||||
Basic
|
$ | (0.68 | ) | $ | (0.18 | ) | ||
Diluted
|
$ | (0.68 | ) | $ | (0.18 | ) | ||
Weighted
average number of common shares outstanding
|
||||||||
Basic
|
61,626,489 | 53,689,338 | ||||||
Diluted
|
61,626,489 | 53,689,338 |
December
31
|
||||||||
Consolidated
Summarized Statement of Cash Flows – US GAAP
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||
Cash
flow (used in) operating activities
|
$ | (35,566 | ) | $ | (10,671 | ) | ||
Cash
flow (used in) provided by investing activities
|
(12,224 | ) | 2,993 | |||||
Cash
flow provided by financing activities
|
45,460 | 10,374 | ||||||
Effect
of translation on foreign currency net monetary assets
|
953 | 585 | ||||||
(Decrease)
increase in cash and cash equivalents under US GAAP
|
$ | (1,377 | ) | $ | 3,281 |
a) Mineral Property
Expenditures
|
Under
Canadian GAAP, mineral property exploration expenditures can be deferred
on prospective mineral rights until mine development and construction
commences at which time such costs form part of the mineral property costs
and are amortized or depleted over the life of the mine. If the
property or rights are sold or abandoned, all related deferred
expenditures are written off. For Canadian GAAP purposes, the
Company’s policy is to capitalize all expenditures associated with its
properties and mineral exploration rights including costs of acquisition,
costs incurred to maintain the properties or rights and all direct and
attributable indirect costs incurred with respect to exploration of its
resource assets.
|
Under
US GAAP, expenditures incurred to acquire an interest in a mineral
property and exploration rights are capitalized. However, all
exploration expenditures are expensed. Accordingly, as at
December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 resource assets have been reduced
by $50,411 and $25,175 respectively for purposes of US
GAAP. Certain amounts expensed under US GAAP provide for
additional tax deductions. The benefits of these additional
deductions, $5,052 for the year ended December 31, 2008 and $Nil for the
year ended December 31, 2007, have been recognized to the extent it is
more likely than not that they will be realized.
|
For
Canadian GAAP, cash flows relating to resource asset costs are reported as
investing activities. For purposes of US GAAP these costs would
be characterized as operating activities. Accordingly, for the year ended
December 31, 2008, cash used in operating activities has increased by
$28,856 and cash used in investing activities has decreased by
$28,856. For the year ended December 31, 2007, cash used in
operating activities has increased by $6,830 and cash used in investing
activities has decreased by $6,830.
|
b) Income
Taxes
|
Under
Canadian GAAP, future income taxes are calculated based on enacted or
substantively enacted tax rates applicable to future
years. Under US GAAP, only enacted rates are used in the
calculation of future income taxes. This GAAP difference
resulted in no difference in the financial position, results of operations
or cash flows of the Company for the years presented.
|
As
of January 1, 2007, the Company adopted, for U.S. GAAP purposes, FASB
Interpretation No. 48 “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an
interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109”. This interpretation
clarifies financial statement recognition and disclosure requirements for
uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax
return. Guidance is also provided on the derecognition of
previously recognized tax benefits and the classification of tax
liabilities on the balance sheet. The adoption of this
interpretation did not have a material impact on the Company’s
consolidated financial statements. There have been no
significant changes to the Company’s unrecognized tax benefits in the year
ended December 31, 2008.
|
Under
Canadian GAAP, certain expenditures capitalized and included in resource
assets do not have a related tax basis. Accordingly, for these
capitalized expenditures, the related future income tax cost has been
included in the capitalized amount and a future income tax liability
recorded. Under US GAAP, as noted in item a), certain of these
expenditures may not be capitalized. Accordingly, the future
income tax liability has been reduced to reflect the expensing of these
expenditures. As at December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 the
future income tax liability has been reduced by $5,014 and $4,498
respectively for purposes of US GAAP.
|
c) Stock-Based
Compensation
|
For
US GAAP purposes, the Company accounts for stock-based compensation
associated with stock options under Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 123, Share-Based Payments (“SFAS
123R”). Consistent with Canadian GAAP, SFAS 123(R) requires
that all share based payments to employees, including grants of employee
stock options, be recognized based on the fair values of the options as
they vest. However, in calculating compensation to be
recognized, SFAS 123(R) requires the Company to estimate
forfeitures. Under Canadian GAAP the Company accounts for
forfeitures as they occur. The effects of forfeitures are
immaterial and no adjustments for any periods are
required.
|
d) Other Comprehensive
Income
|
The
Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued SFAS No. 130, “Reporting Comprehensive
Income”, which was required to be adopted beginning on January 1,
1998. SFAS 130 establishes standards for the reporting and
display of other comprehensive income (“OCI”) and its components.
Additionally, under SFAS 115, “Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt
and Equity Securities”, portfolio investments classified as
available-for-sale securities are recorded at market value. The
resulting gain and loss are included in determination of
OCI. The Company adopted Section 1530 on January 1, 2007, which
now aligns treatment of OCI the same under both US GAAP and
Canadian
|
December
31
|
||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||
Net
loss under US GAAP
|
$ | (41,734 | ) | $ | (9,715 | ) | ||
Unrealized
(loss) gain on available securities
|
(117 | ) | 1,091 | |||||
Reclassification
of unrealized losses on available-for-sale
long-term
investments
|
(1,253 | ) | (117 | ) | ||||
Comprehensive
net loss under US GAAP
|
$ | (43,104 | ) | $ | (8,741 | ) |
|
e)
|
Recently Adopted
Accounting Pronouncements
|
|
Level
1
|
Unadjusted
quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement
date for identical, unrestricted assets or
liabilities;
|
|
Level
2
|
Quoted
prices in markets that are not active, or inputs that are observable,
either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the
asset or liability;
|
|
Level
3
|
Prices
or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both significant to
the fair value measurement and unobservable (supported by little or no
market activity).
|
Fair
Value at December 31, 2008
|
||||||||||||||||
Total
|
Level
1
|
Level
2
|
Level
3
|
|||||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$ | 2,358 | $ | 2,358 | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||||
Short-term
investments
|
4,020 | 4,020 | - | - | ||||||||||||
Long-term
investments
|
74 | 74 | - | - | ||||||||||||
$ | 6,452 | $ | 6,452 | $ | - | $ | - |
|
f)
|
Recent Accounting
Pronouncements
|
September
30,
|
December
31,
|
|||||||
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Assets
|
||||||||
Current
|
||||||||
Cash and cash
equivalents
|
$ | 2,528,523 | $ | 2,357,921 | ||||
Short-term
investments
|
7,720,000 | 4,020,000 | ||||||
Other receivables and prepaids
(Note 15)
|
1,026,046 | 1,236,377 | ||||||
Prepaid transaction costs (Note
18(b))
|
473,193 | - | ||||||
Current portion of long-term
foreign tax recoverable
|
708,267 | 884,831 | ||||||
12,456,029 | 8,499,129 | |||||||
Long-term
foreign tax recoverable
|
5,339,329 | 6,416,917 | ||||||
Long-term
investments (Note 5)
|
106,200 | 74,000 | ||||||
Property
and equipment (Note 6)
|
1,420,686 | 1,608,121 | ||||||
Resource
assets (Note 7)
|
130,053,934 | 123,682,815 | ||||||
$ | 149,376,178 | $ | 140,280,982 | |||||
Liabilities
|
||||||||
Current
|
||||||||
Payables and accruals (Note
15)
|
$ | 2,045,056 | $ | 5,975,113 | ||||
Debt (Note 8)
|
- | 514,212 | ||||||
2,045,056 | 6,489,325 | |||||||
Asset
retirement obligation (Note 9)
|
1,324,742 | 1,326,930 | ||||||
Future
income tax liability
|
12,668,380 | 12,413,000 | ||||||
16,038,178 | 20,229,255 | |||||||
Shareholders'
Equity
|
||||||||
Capital
stock (Note 10(a))
|
141,951,467 | 123,860,329 | ||||||
Warrants
(Note 10(c))
|
7,461,455 | 7,461,455 | ||||||
Contributed
surplus
|
15,647,243 | 15,514,378 | ||||||
Convertible
debenture
|
15,822,904 | 15,822,904 | ||||||
Deficit
|
(47,314,769 | ) | (42,344,839 | ) | ||||
Accumulated
other comprehensive loss
|
(230,300 | ) | (262,500 | ) | ||||
133,338,000 | 120,051,727 | |||||||
$ | 149,376,178 | $ | 140,280,982 |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Expenses
|
||||||||||||||||
Office and
administration
|
$ | 214,344 | $ | 55,376 | $ | 565,759 | $ | 348,064 | ||||||||
IMA legal costs
|
- | - | - | 8,556 | ||||||||||||
Legal and audit (Note
15)
|
4,555 | 82,440 | 243,697 | 203,443 | ||||||||||||
Accretion of asset
retirement
|
||||||||||||||||
obligation
(Note 9)
|
27,630 | 31,167 | 90,099 | 91,484 | ||||||||||||
Amortization
|
6,730 | 76,125 | 23,004 | 233,498 | ||||||||||||
Travel
|
36,496 | 68,752 | 76,383 | 237,020 | ||||||||||||
Investor
relations
|
69,525 | 81,690 | 374,357 | 694,882 | ||||||||||||
Salaries and
consulting
|
256,631 | 225,061 | 564,504 | 1,765,625 | ||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation (Note
10(b))
|
- | 1,148,422 | 388,629 | 3,254,161 | ||||||||||||
615,911 | 1,769,033 | 2,326,432 | 6,836,733 | |||||||||||||
Loss
before the following
|
(615,911 | ) | (1,769,033 | ) | (2,326,432 | ) | (6,836,733 | ) | ||||||||
Interest income
|
7,573 | 21,671 | 13,807 | 130,401 | ||||||||||||
Write-down of resource assets
(Note 7)
|
(1,796,579 | ) | - | (1,796,579 | ) | - | ||||||||||
Foreign exchange (loss)
gain
|
(322,190 | ) | 527,372 | (860,726 | ) | (535,101 | ) | |||||||||
Loss on investments held for
trading
|
- | - | - | (11,700 | ) | |||||||||||
Gain on sale of long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | 508,909 | ||||||||||||
Net loss for the period
|
$ | (2,727,107 | ) | $ | (1,219,990 | ) | $ | (4,969,930 | ) | $ | (6,744,224 | ) | ||||
Basic
and diluted loss per share (Note 14)
|
$ | (0.04 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | $ | (0.11 | ) |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Deficit,
beginning of period
|
$ | (44,587,662 | ) | $ | (26,318,609 | ) | $ | (42,344,839 | ) | $ | (20,794,375 | ) | ||||
Net
loss for the period
|
(2,727,107 | ) | (1,219,990 | ) | (4,969,930 | ) | (6,744,224 | ) | ||||||||
Deficit, end of period | $ | (47,314,769 | ) | $ | (27,538,599 | ) | $ | (47,314,769 | ) | $ | (27,538,599 | ) |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Net loss for the
period
|
$ | (2,727,107 | ) | $ | (1,219,990 | ) | $ | (4,969,930 | ) | $ | (6,744,224 | ) | ||||
Other
comprehensive loss
|
||||||||||||||||
Net unrealized gain (loss) on
available-for-
|
||||||||||||||||
sale long-term
investments
|
20,050 | (119,950 | ) | 32,200 | (160,000 | ) | ||||||||||
Reclassification of unrealized
loss on
|
||||||||||||||||
available-for-sale
long-term investments
|
- | - | - | (1,160,217 | ) | |||||||||||
Total
comprehensive loss
|
$ | (2,707,057 | ) | $ | (1,339,940 | ) | $ | (4,937,730 | ) | $ | (8,064,441 | ) |
Capital
Stock
|
Warrants
|
Contributed
Surplus
|
Convertible
Debenture
|
Deficit
|
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
(Loss)
Income
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
December 31, 2007
|
$ | 70,994,372 | $ | - | $ | 8,305,078 | $ | - | $ | (20,794,375 | ) | $ | 1,108,167 | $ | 59,613,242 | |||||||||||||
Exercise
of warrants
|
149,999 | - | - | - | - | - | 149,999 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Value
attributed to warrants exercised
|
77,297 | (77,297 | ) | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||
Exercise
of stock options
|
3,593,450 | - | - | - | - | - | 3,593,450 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Value
attributed to stock options exercised
|
1,412,987 | - | (1,412,987 | ) | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||
Private
placement, net of issue costs
|
25,299,260 | - | - | - | - | - | 25,299,260 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Warrants
valuation
|
(6,866,755 | ) | - | - | - | - | - | (6,866,755 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Shares issued
to acquire Absolut Resources Corp.
|
29,199,719 | - | - | - | - | - | 29,199,719 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Warrants
issued
|
- | 7,461,455 | - | - | - | - | 7,461,455 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Warrants
expired
|
- | (637,712 | ) | 637,712 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||
Warrants
issued to acquire Absolut Resources Corp.
|
- | 715,009 | - | - | - | - | 715,009 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
options vested
|
- | - | 6,893,725 | - | - | - | 6,893,725 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stock options
issue to acquire Absolut Resources Corp.
|
- | - | 1,090,850 | - | - | - | 1,090,850 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Convertible
debenture, net of issue costs
|
- | - | - | 15,822,904 | 15,822,904 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
loss for the year
|
- | - | - | - | (21,550,464 | ) | (21,550,464 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Reclassification
of unrealized gain on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | - | - | (1,253,217 | ) | (1,253,217 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Net
unrealized loss on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | - | - | (117,450 | ) | (117,450 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
December 31, 2008
|
123,860,329 | 7,461,455 | 15,514,378 | 15,822,904 | (42,344,839 | ) | (262,500 | ) | 120,051,727 | |||||||||||||||||||
Private
placement, net of issue costs
|
17,025,484 | - | - | - | - | - | 17,025,484 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Exercise
of stock options
|
675,000 | - | - | - | - | - | 675,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Value
attributed to stock options exercised
|
390,654 | - | (390,654 | ) | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
option vested
|
- | - | 523,519 | - | - | - | 523,519 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net
loss for the period
|
- | - | - | - | (4,969,930 | ) | - | (4,969,930 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Net
unrealized gain on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | - | - | 32,200 | 32,200 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
September 30, 2009
|
$ | 141,951,467 | $ | 7,461,455 | $ | 15,647,243 | $ | 15,822,904 | $ | (47,314,769 | ) | $ | (230,300 | ) | $ | 133,338,000 |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
CASH
AND CASH EQUIVALENTS (USED IN) PROVIDED BY:
|
||||||||||||||||
OPERATING
ACTIVITIES
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
loss for the period
|
$ | (2,727,107 | ) | $ | (1,219,990 | ) | $ | (4,969,930 | ) | $ | (6,744,224 | ) | ||||
Adjustments
for:
|
||||||||||||||||
Amortization
|
6,730 | 76,125 | 23,004 | 233,498 | ||||||||||||
Accretion of asset retirement
obligation
|
27,630 | 31,167 | 90,099 | 91,484 | ||||||||||||
Stock-based
compensation
|
- | 1,148,422 | 388,629 | 3,254,161 | ||||||||||||
Loss on investments held for
trading
|
- | - | - | 11,700 | ||||||||||||
Gain on sale of long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | (508,909 | ) | |||||||||||
Write-down of resource
assets
|
1,796,579 | - | 1,796,579 | - | ||||||||||||
Net
change in non-cash working
|
||||||||||||||||
capital (Note
13)
|
(209,848 | ) | (359,226 | ) | (2,938,767 | ) | (3,060,429 | ) | ||||||||
(1,106,016 | ) | (323,502 | ) | (5,610,386 | ) | (6,722,719 | ) | |||||||||
FINANCING
ACTIVITIES
|
||||||||||||||||
Repayment of
debt
|
- | - | - | (75,010 | ) | |||||||||||
Issue of common shares, net
of
|
||||||||||||||||
share issue
costs
|
(150,536 | ) | (7,108 | ) | 17,700,484 | 18,629,503 | ||||||||||
Proceeds from convertible
debenture
|
||||||||||||||||
and
warrants, net of issue costs
|
- | - | - | 16,417,604 | ||||||||||||
(150,536 | ) | (7,108 | ) | 17,700,484 | 34,972,097 | |||||||||||
INVESTING
ACTIVITIES
|
||||||||||||||||
Purchase of long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | (877,500 | ) | |||||||||||
Proceed on disposal of
long-term
|
||||||||||||||||
investments
|
- | - | - | 1,022,945 | ||||||||||||
Net purchase of property and
equipment
|
46,687 | (205,239 | ) | 117,798 | (1,119,367 | ) | ||||||||||
Net redemption (purchase) of
short-term
|
||||||||||||||||
investments
|
6,350,000 | 7,729,973 | (3,700,000 | ) | 2,829,973 | |||||||||||
Acquisition of Minera Argenta
S.A. and
|
||||||||||||||||
Aquiline
Holdings Inc.
|
- | - | - | (12,250,000 | ) | |||||||||||
Cash acquired on Minera
Argenta S.A.
|
||||||||||||||||
and Aquiline
Holdings Inc.
|
- | - | - | 1,519,508 | ||||||||||||
Cash acquired on Absolut
Resources Inc.
|
- | - | - | 505,040 | ||||||||||||
Additions to resource
assets
|
(2,987,211 | ) | (8,810,440 | ) | (8,245,007 | ) | (20,715,067 | ) | ||||||||
3,409,476 | (1,285,706 | ) | (11,827,209 | ) | (29,084,468 | ) |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
|||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Effect
of translation on foreign currency
|
||||||||||||||||
net monetary
assets
|
(120,956 | ) | (1,737 | ) | (92,287 | ) | (19,125 | ) | ||||||||
Increase
(decrease) in cash and
|
||||||||||||||||
cash
equivalents
|
2,031,968 | (1,618,053 | ) | 170,602 | (854,215 | ) | ||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents,
|
||||||||||||||||
beginning of
period
|
496,555 | 4,498,236 | 2,357,921 | 3,734,398 | ||||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents,
|
||||||||||||||||
end of period
|
$ | 2,528,523 | $ | 2,880,183 | $ | 2,528,523 | $ | 2,880,183 |
i) | minimizing discretionary disbursements; | |
ii) | reducing or eliminating exploration expenditures which are of limited strategic value; | |
iii) | exploring alternate sources of liquidity. |
|
(a)
|
Property
Risk
|
|
The
Corporation's major mineral properties are the Calcatreu gold property,
Navidad Silver Project and Pico Machay gold property. Unless the
Corporation acquires or develops additional material properties, the
Corporation will be mainly dependent upon these three properties. If no
additional major mineral exploration properties are acquired by the
Corporation, any adverse development affecting these three properties
would have a material adverse effect on the Corporation's financial
condition and results of
operations.
|
|
(b)
|
Financial
Risk
|
|
The
Corporation's activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: credit
risk, liquidity risk and market risk (including interest rate, foreign
exchange rate and other price risk).
Risk
management is carried out by the Corporation's management team with
guidance from the Audit Committee under policies approved by the Board of
Directors. The Board of Directors also provides regular guidance for
overall risk management.
|
i)
|
Credit Risk
The Corporation's credit risk is primarily attributable to short-term investments, other receivables and foreign tax recoverable. The Corporation has no significant concentration of credit risk arising from operations. Short-term investments consist of guaranteed investment certificates, which have been invested with reputable financial institutions, from which management believes the risk of loss to be remote. Other receivables consist of goods and services tax due from the Federal Government of Canada and receivables from other companies. Foreign tax recoverable consists of value added taxes paid on exploration costs that are refundable from the Government of Argentina. In Argentina, claims for the foreign tax recoverable can only be made one year after the stated expenditures have been paid when there is no tax collection from revenues to offset. $6,047,596 represents the maximum credit exposure. Management believes that the credit risk concentration with respect to other receivables and foreign tax recoverable is remote. Management does not believe the receivables are impaired. |
|
(b)
|
Financial
risk (Continued)
|
Cumulative
|
|||||||||||||||||
Other
|
|||||||||||||||||
Comprehensive
|
September
|
December
|
|||||||||||||||
Income
|
30, 2009 | 31, 2008 | |||||||||||||||
Cost
|
Adjustment
|
Fair
Value
|
Fair
Value
|
||||||||||||||
Sierra
Minerals Inc. (i)
|
$ | 56,000 | $ | (20,300 | ) | $ | 35,700 | $ | 21,250 | ||||||||
Columbia
Metals Corporation Limited (ii)
|
187,500 | (150,000 | ) | 37,500 | 43,750 | ||||||||||||
Tinka
Resources Ltd. common shares (iii)
|
- | 33,000 | 33,000 | 9,000 | |||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 243,500 | $ | (137,300 | ) | $ | 106,200 | $ | 74,000 |
Accumulated
|
Net
|
||||||||||||
September
30, 2009
|
Cost
|
Amortization
|
Book
Value
|
||||||||||
Office
equipment
|
$ | 218,803 | $ | 135,218 | $ | 83,585 | |||||||
Leasehold
improvements
|
55,591 | 40,864 | 14,727 | ||||||||||
Exploration
equipment
|
1,941,731 | 619,357 | 1,322,374 | ||||||||||
$ | 2,216,125 | $ | 795,439 | $ | 1,420,686 |
Accumulated
|
Net
|
||||||||||||
December
31, 2008
|
Cost
|
Amortization
|
Book
Value
|
||||||||||
Office
equipment
|
$ | 167,159 | $ | 117,540 | $ | 49,619 | |||||||
Leasehold
improvements
|
46,028 | 34,804 | 11,224 | ||||||||||
Exploration
equipment
|
2,001,501 | 454,223 | 1,547,278 | ||||||||||
$ | 2,214,688 | $ | 606,567 | $ | 1,608,121 |
Opening
|
Ending
|
||||||||||||||||
December
31,
|
Acquisitions/
|
September
30,
|
|||||||||||||||
Description
|
2008
|
Additions
|
Reductions
|
2009
|
|||||||||||||
Calcatreu
gold property - Argentina
|
$ | 35,787,677 | $ | 88,150 | $ | - | $ | 35,875,827 | |||||||||
Platinum
and palladium - Sudbury,
|
|||||||||||||||||
Ontario
|
50,000 | 17,961 | - | 67,961 | |||||||||||||
Gold
properties - La Jojoba, Mexico
|
50,000 | - | - | 50,000 | |||||||||||||
Regalo
gold property - Argentina
|
268,035 | - | - | 268,035 | |||||||||||||
Navidad
Silver Project - Argentina
|
57,527,103 | 7,463,885 | - | 64,990,988 | |||||||||||||
Pico
Machay - Peru
|
28,000,000 | 801,123 | - | 28,801,123 | |||||||||||||
Chaparra
- Peru
|
2,000,000 | 278,394 | (2,278,394 | ) | - | ||||||||||||
$ | 123,682,815 | $ | 8,649,513 | $ | (2,278,394 | ) | $ | 130,053,934 |
Balance
|
Balance
|
||||||||
September
|
December
|
||||||||
Creditor/
|
30, 2009 | 31, 2008 | |||||||
Creditor
group
|
($Cdn)
|
($Cdn)
|
|||||||
Ex-Shareholders
of Compania Minera Colorado*
|
$ | - | $ | 514,212 |
|
This
debt is related to Absolut Resources Inc. ("Absolut") Chaparra acquisition
in 2005. and was incurred to purchase the shares of Compania Minera
Colorado S.A.C. which owned both concessions around the Chaparra property
and an option to purchase the Chaparra mining concessions. The debt arose
on June 8, 2005, is in $US, and no interest is payable. No security has
been taken by the creditors. The fair value of the loan at the
date of issue was $575,527 calculated using an 8% discount rate. The
deemed interest of $56,279 (December 31, 2008 - $24,776) since acquisition
of Absolut has been capitalized and recorded in resource assets.
Repayments of $85,702 (US $75,000) was due in September 2008 and $428,510
(US $375,000) was due in September 2009. Neither of these payments were
made. An officer of Minera Calipuy S.A.C., a wholly owned subsidiary, was
owed 35% or US $157,500 of the original face amount of the debt and is
paid on the same basis as other
creditors.
|
September
30,
|
December
31,
|
||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
||||||||
Opening
balance
|
$ | 1,326,930 | $ | 422,240 | |||||
Additions
|
- | 673,374 | |||||||
Accretion
expense
|
90,099 | 125,607 | |||||||
Foreign
exchange effect on liability
|
(92,287 | ) | 131,894 | ||||||
Reclamation
costs incurred
|
- | (26,185 | ) | ||||||
$ | 1,324,742 | $ | 1,326,930 |
|
(a)
|
The
authorized capital of the Corporation consists of an unlimited number of
no par value common shares.
|
Shares
|
Value
|
||||||||
Outstanding
at December 31, 2008
|
67,610,115 | $ | 123,860,329 | ||||||
Adjustment
to number of shares issued for
|
|||||||||
acquisition
of Absolut Resources Inc.
|
78,592 | - | |||||||
Equity
financing, net of issue costs (i)
|
8,100,000 | 17,025,484 | |||||||
Exercise
of stock options
|
500,000 | 675,000 | |||||||
Value
attributed to stock options exercised
|
- | 390,654 | |||||||
Outstanding
at September 30, 2009
|
76,288,707 | $ | 141,951,467 |
Share
Purchase
|
Weighted
Average
|
||||||||
Options
|
Exercise
Price
|
||||||||
Outstanding,
December 31, 2008
|
5,245,444 | $ | 6.40 | ||||||
Options
exercised
|
(500,000 | ) | 1.35 | ||||||
Options
expired/cancelled
|
(478,779 | ) | 9.27 | ||||||
Outstanding,
September 30, 2009
|
4,266,665 | $ | 6.67 |
Weighted
|
Weighted
|
|||||
Average
|
Average
|
|||||
Options
|
Exercise
|
Options
|
Exercise
|
Contractual
|
Expiry
|
|
Granted
|
Price
($)
|
Exercisable
|
Price
($)
|
Life
(Years)
|
Date
|
|
3,333
|
5.58
|
3,333
|
5.58
|
1.02
|
October
6, 2010
|
|
1,700,000
|
12.00
|
1,700,000
|
12.00
|
1.38
|
February
15, 2011
|
|
100,000
|
12.00
|
100,000
|
12.00
|
1.50
|
April
1, 2011
|
|
150,000
|
8.25
|
150,000
|
8.25
|
1.69
|
June
9, 2011
|
|
125,000
|
8.25
|
125,000
|
8.25
|
1.70
|
June
14, 2011
|
|
2,145,000
|
2.00
|
2,145,000
|
2.00
|
2.18
|
December
4, 2011
|
|
43,332
|
6.30
|
43,332
|
6.30
|
2.81
|
July
23, 2012
|
|
4,266,665
|
6.67
|
4,266,665
|
6.67
|
1.87
|
December
31,
|
September
30,
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008
|
2009
|
Warrant
|
Exercise
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Expiry
Date
|
Balance
|
Issued
|
Exercised
|
Expired
|
Balance
|
Value
|
Price
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
(i)
|
237,500 | - | - | - | 237,500 | $ | 594,700 | $ | 13.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
December
31, 2009
|
1,818,182 | - | - | - | 1,818,182 | 3,027,273 | $ | 10.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||
October
22, 2011
|
3,695,000 | - | - | - | 3,695,000 | 2,580,587 | $ | 2.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||
November
6, 2011
|
1,615,000 | - | - | - | 1,615,000 | 1,258,895 | $ | 2.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||
7,365,682 | - | - | - | 7,365,682 | $ | 7,461,455 |
|
(i)
On February 8, 2008, the Corporation issued 237,500 warrants in connection
with the convertible debenture. The warrants expire six months after the
Conversion Deadline (Note 11).
|
Canada
|
Argentina
|
Mexico
|
Peru
|
Consolidated
|
|||||||||||||||||
Current
assets
|
$ | 11,161,400 | $ | 1,088,667 | $ | - | $ | 205,962 | $ | 12,456,029 | |||||||||||
Property
and equipment
|
101,447 | 1,121,292 | - | 197,947 | 1,420,686 | ||||||||||||||||
Other
assets
|
106,200 | 5,339,329 | - | - | 5,445,529 | ||||||||||||||||
Resource
assets
|
67,961 | 101,134,850 | 50,000 | 28,801,123 | 130,053,934 | ||||||||||||||||
$ | 11,437,008 | $ | 108,684,138 | $ | 50,000 | $ | 29,205,032 | $ | 149,376,178 |
Canada
|
Argentina
|
Mexico
|
Peru
|
Consolidated
|
|||||||||||||||||
Current
assets
|
$ | 6,463,176 | $ | 1,854,024 | $ | - | $ | 181,929 | $ | 8,499,129 | |||||||||||
Property
and equipment
|
63,244 | 1,146,956 | - | 397,921 | 1,608,121 | ||||||||||||||||
Other
assets
|
74,000 | 6,416,917 | - | - | 6,490,917 | ||||||||||||||||
Resource
assets
|
50,000 | $ | 93,582,815 | 50,000 | 30,000,000 | 123,682,815 | |||||||||||||||
$ | 6,650,420 | $ | 103,000,712 | $ | 50,000 | $ | 30,579,850 | $ | 140,280,982 |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
||||||||||||||||
September
30,
|
September
30,
|
||||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
||||||||||||||
Changes
in non-cash working capital items:
|
|||||||||||||||||
Other receivables and
prepaids
|
$ | (7,758 | ) | $ | 322,334 | $ | 210,331 | $ | (654,353 | ) | |||||||
Prepaid transaction
costs
|
(473,193 | ) | - | (473,193 | ) | - | |||||||||||
Current portion of long-term
foreign
|
|||||||||||||||||
tax
recoverable
|
23,899 | (32,745 | ) | 176,564 | (534,434 | ) | |||||||||||
Long-term foreign tax
recoverable
|
323,669 | (907,834 | ) | 1,077,588 | (4,348,306 | ) | |||||||||||
Payables and
accruals
|
(76,465 | ) | 259,019 | (3,930,057 | ) | 2,476,664 | |||||||||||
$ | (209,848 | ) | $ | (359,226 | ) | $ | (2,938,767 | ) | $ | (3,060,429 | ) |
Three
Months Ended
|
Nine
Months Ended
|
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September
30,
|
September
30,
|
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2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
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Numerator:
|
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Loss
for the period
|
$ | (2,727,107 | ) | $ | (1,219,990 | ) | $ | (4,969,930 | ) | $ | (6,744,224 | ) | |||||
Denominator:
|
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Weighted
average number of
|
|||||||||||||||||
common
shares outstanding
|
76,288,711 | 62,300,115 | 71,503,379 | 60,116,692 | |||||||||||||
Basic
and diluted loss per share
|
$ | (0.04 | ) | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (0.07 | ) | $ | (0.11 | ) |
|
(a)
|
The Corporation entered into
agreements to lease office spaces and warehouses until September 30, 2013.
Minimum annual rent payable in each of the next five years are as
follows:
|
2009
|
$ | 86,542 | |||
2010
|
312,376 | ||||
2011
|
151,006 | ||||
2012
|
149,098 | ||||
2013
|
70,200 | ||||
$ | 769,222 |
|
The
Corporation has arrangements with the tenants in its corporate offices and
expects to recover approximately 44% of the indicated
amounts.
|
|
(b)
|
As
per the purchase option agreement with Chaparra's concession holders, a
payment of US $850,000 is required by the Corporation in October 2009 in
order to complete the purchase option of these mining rights. No security
has been taken by the concession holders other than the mining
rights.
The
Corporation has decided not to exercise the purchase option; therefore,
the Chaparra project has been written-off. In consequence, the above
indicated commitment is no longer considered an obligation for the
Corporation as of September 30,
2009.
|
As
at September 30, 2009
|
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
Total
Assets
|
Total
Liabilities
|
Shareholder's
Equity
|
|||||||||
Reported
under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | 149,376 | $ | 16,038 | $ | 133,338 | ||||||
Adjustment
to capitalized expenditures (a)
|
(58,805 | ) | - | (58,805 | ) | |||||||
Related
future income tax effect (b)
|
(217 | ) | (5,269 | ) | 5,052 | |||||||
Reported
under US GAAP
|
$ | 90,354 | $ | 10,769 | $ | 79,585 |
As
at December 31, 2008
|
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
Total
Assets
|
Total
Liabilities
|
Shareholder's
Equity
|
|||||||||
Reported
under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | 140,281 | $ | 20,229 | $ | 120,052 | ||||||
Adjustment
to capitalized expenditures (a)
|
(50,411 | ) | - | (50,411 | ) | |||||||
Related
future income tax effect (b)
|
38 | (5,014 | ) | 5,052 | ||||||||
Reported
under US GAAP
|
$ | 89,908 | $ | 15,215 | $ | 74,693 |
Three
months ended
September
30
|
Nine
months ended
September
30
|
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Consolidated
statement of operations
|
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
||||||||||||
Net
(loss) reported under Canadian GAAP
|
$ | (2,727 | ) | $ | (1,220 | ) | $ | (4,970 | ) | $ | (6,744 | ) | ||||
Expense
capitalized resource asset expenditures (a)
|
(2,942 | ) | (9,817 | ) | (8,394 | ) | (22,095 | ) | ||||||||
Related
future income tax effect
|
- | 1,350 | - | 4,100 | ||||||||||||
Net
(loss) reported under US GAAP
|
$ | (5,669 | ) | $ | (9,687 | ) | $ | (13,364 | ) | $ | (24,739 | ) | ||||
Net
(loss) per share under US GAAP
|
||||||||||||||||
Basic
and diluted
|
$ | (0.07 | ) | $ | (0.16 | ) | $ | (0.19 | ) | $ | (0.41 | ) | ||||
Weighted
average number of common shares outstanding
|
||||||||||||||||
Basic
and diluted
|
76,288,711 | 62,300,115 | 71,503,379 | 60,116,692 |
Three
months ended
September
30
|
Nine
months ended
September
30
|
|||||||||||||||
Consolidated
summarized statement of cash flows – US GAAP
|
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
||||||||||||
Cash
flow (used in) operating activities
|
$ | (4048 | ) | $ | (10,141 | ) | $ | (14,005 | ) | $ | (28,818 | ) | ||||
Cash
flow provided by (used in) investing activities
|
6,352 | 8,532 | (3,433 | ) | (6,989 | ) | ||||||||||
Cash
flow provided by (used in) financing activities
|
(151 | ) | (7 | ) | 17,701 | 34,972 | ||||||||||
Effect
of translation on foreign currency net monetary assets
|
(121 | ) | (2 | ) | (92 | ) | (19 | ) | ||||||||
Increase
(decrease) in cash under US GAAP
|
$ | 2,032 | $ | (1,618 | ) | 171 | $ | (854 | ) |
Three
months ended
September
30
|
Six
months ended
September
30
|
|||||||||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||
Net
(loss) under US GAAP
|
$ | (5,669 | ) | $ | (9,687 | ) | $ | (13,364 | ) | $ | (24,739 | ) | ||||
Net
unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
20 | (120 | ) | 32 | (160 | ) | ||||||||||
Reclassification
of unrealized loss on available-for-sale long-term
investments
|
- | - | - | (1,160 | ) | |||||||||||
Comprehensive
net (loss) under US GAAP
|
$ | (5,649 | ) | $ | (9,807 | ) | $ | (13,332 | ) | $ | (26,059 | ) |
Level
1
|
Unadjusted
quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement
date for identical, unrestricted assets or
liabilities;
|
Level
2
|
Quoted
prices in markets that are not active, or inputs that are observable,
either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the
asset or liability;
|
Level
3
|
Prices
or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both significant to
the fair value measurement and unobservable (supported by little or no
market activity).
|
Fair
Value at September 30, 2009
|
||||||||||||||||
Total
|
Level
1
|
Level
2
|
Level
3
|
|||||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$ | 2,528,523 | $ | 2,528,523 | $ | - | $ | - | ||||||||
Short-term
investments
|
7,720,000 | 7,720,000 | - | - | ||||||||||||
Long-term
investments
|
106,200 | 106,200 | - | - | ||||||||||||
$ | 10,354,723 | $ | 10,354,723 | $ | - | $ | - |
PAN
AMERICAN SILVER CORP
|
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(Registrant)
|
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Date:
|
March
5, 2010
|
By:
|
/s/
Robert Pirooz
|
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Name:
|
Robert
Pirooz
|
|||||
Title:
|
General
Counsel, Secretary and Director
|