MIRASOL RESOURCES LTD.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
To the Shareholders of
Mirasol Resources Ltd.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated financial statements of Mirasol Resources Ltd., which comprise the
consolidated statements of financial position as at June 30, 2014 and 2013 and the consolidated statements of loss (income)
and comprehensive loss (income), changes in equity, and cash flows for the years then ended, and a summary of significant
accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Management’s Responsibility for the Consolidated Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these consolidated financial statements in accordance
with International Financial Reporting Standards, and for such internal control as management determines is necessary to
enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or
error.
Auditors’ Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our
audits in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we comply with
ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial
statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated
financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors’ judgment, including the assessment of the risks of
material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk
assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the
consolidated financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the
purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the
appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained in our audits is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit
opinion.
Opinion
In our opinion, these consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Mirasol
Resources Ltd. as at June 30, 2014 and 2013 and its financial performance and its cash flows for the years then ended in
accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.
Vancouver, Canada
October 24, 2014
“DAVIDSON & COMPANY LLP”
Chartered Accountants
Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Financial Position
Canadian Funds
As at
ASSETS
Current Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Receivables and advances (Note 6)
Investment (Note 7)
Equipment and Software (Note 8)
Exploration and Evaluation Assets (Note 9)
LIABILITIES
Current Liabilities
June 30,
2014
June 30,
2013
$
$
18,120,310
1,300,000
878,187
10,653,639
30,952,136
27,786,195
1,415,928
1,196,092
18,315,659
48,713,874
140,184
2,832,215
166,416
2,832,215
$
33,924,535
$
51,712,505
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (Note 10 and 11)
$
465,991
$
6,057,594
37,858,186
14,820,837
1,605
(19,222,084)
33,458,544
37,821,160
14,823,477
(1,267)
(6,988,459)
45,654,911
$
33,924,535
$
51,712,505
EQUITY
Share Capital (Note 12)
Reserves
Accumulated Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income
Deficit
Nature of Business (Note 1)
On Behalf of the Board:
“ Stephen C. Nano ”
“ Nick DeMare ”
,
,
Director
Director
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Loss (Income) and Comprehensive Loss (Income)
For the Years Ended June 30
Canadian Funds
Operating Expenses
Exploration costs (Note 9 and 11b)
Professional fees
Shareholder information
Office and miscellaneous
Management fees (Note 11a)
Director fees (Note 11)
Business development
Travel
Listing and filing fees
Share-based payments (Note 12c)
Depreciation
Interest income
Foreign exchange gain
Gain on sale of Joaquin Property (Note 9)
Realized and unrealized loss on investment (Note 7)
$
2014
2013
6,712,452 $
357,001
282,340
152,635
669,674
43,022
126,366
54,821
24,605
11,886
10,538
8,342,584
376,214
152,037
139,253
1,857,109
2,000
-
53,596
38,744
1,065,617
9,535
8,445,340
12,036,689
(85,694)
(863,453)
-
5,565,812
4,616,665
(36,354)
(2,955,515)
(58,990,546)
12,664,608
(49,317,807)
Net Loss (Income) for the Year before Income Taxes
Income tax expense (recovery) (Note 15)
Net Loss (Income) for the Year
13,062,005
(828,380)
(37,281,118)
4,123,309
$
12,233,625 $
(33,157,809)
Other Comprehensive Loss (Income) to be Reclassified to Profit or
Loss in Subsequent Periods
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations
Comprehensive Loss (Income) for the Year
Basic Loss (Income) per Share (Note 13)
Diluted Loss (Income) per Share (Note 13)
(2,872)
1,267
12,230,753 $
(33,156,542)
0.28 $
0.28 $
(0.76)
(0.76)
$
$
$
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding – Basic (Note 13)
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding – Diluted (Note 13)
44,166,757
44,166,757
43,460,373
43,890,565
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity
Canadian Funds
Share Capital
Common Shares
Reserves
Number
$
$
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
(Loss) income
$
Deficit
Total
$
$
Balance – June 30, 2012
42,700,661
36,029,893
14,019,377
Options exercised
(Note 12c)
Fair value of options
exercised (Note 12c)
Bonus shares issued
(Note 12e)
Share-based
payments (Note 12c)
Foreign currency
translation
adjustment
Income for the year
Options exercised
(Note 12c)
Fair value of options
exercised (Note 12c)
Share-based
payments (Note 12c)
Foreign currency
translation
adjustment
Loss for the year
955,000
504,750
-
-
261,517
(261,517)
500,000
1,025,000
-
1,065,617
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(40,146,268)
9,903,002
-
-
-
-
504,750
-
1,025,000
1,065,617
-
-
(1,267)
-
-
33,157,809
(1,267)
33,157,809
90,000
22,500
-
14,526
(14,526)
11,886
-
-
-
-
-
-
22,500
-
11,886
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,872
-
-
(12,233,625)
2,872
(12,233,625)
Balance – June 30, 2013
44,155,661
37,821,160
14,823,477
(1,267)
(6,988,459)
45,654,911
Balance – June 30, 2014
44,245,661
37,858,186
14,820,837
1,605
(19,222,084)
33,458,544
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
For the Years Ended June 30
Canadian Funds
Operating Activities
Income (loss) for the year
Adjustments for:
Gain on sale of Joaquin Property (Note 9)
Realized and unrealized loss on investments (Note 7)
Bonus share compensation (Note 12e)
Share-based payments (Note 12c)
Interest income
Depreciation
Depreciation included in exploration expenses
Unrealized foreign exchange
Changes in non-cash working capital items:
Receivables and advances
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Income taxes paid, net
Cash used in operating activities
Investing Activities
Acquisition of exploration and evaluation assets (Note 9)
Proceeds from sale of Joaquin Property (Note 9)
Short-term investments redeemed (purchased), net
Proceeds from sale of investment (Note 7)
Interest received
Purchase of equipment and software (Note 8)
Cash provided by investing activities
Financing Activities
Exercise of incentive share purchase options (Note 12c)
Cash provided by financing activities
2014
2013
$
(12,233,625) $
33,157,809
-
5,565,812
-
11,886
(85,694)
10,538
52,549
(895,366)
(7,573,900)
(655,283)
(1,494,246)
(4,097,357)
(58,990,546)
12,664,608
1,025,000
1,065,617
(36,354)
9,535
58,381
(2,271,816)
(13,317,766)
82,444
4,410,933
-
(13,820,786)
(8,824,389)
-
961,413
116,472
2,460,146
85,822
(36,855)
3,586,998
(208,212)
28,831,815
(415,928)
-
34,047
(25,462)
28,216,260
22,500
22,500
504,750
504,750
Effect of Exchange Rate Change on Cash and Cash Equivalents
545,403
1,063,534
Change in Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and Cash Equivalents - Beginning of Year
(9,665,885)
27,786,195
20,960,155
6,826,040
Cash and Cash Equivalents - End of Year
$
18,120,310
$
27,786,195
Supplemental Schedule of Non-Cash Investing and Financing
Transactions:
Coeur shares received (Note 7)
Shares issued under bonus share plan (Note 12e)
Fair value of options exercised (Note 12c)
Cash and Cash Equivalents Consist of:
Cash
Cash equivalents
$
$
$
$
$
-
-
14,526
$
$
$
29,825,985
1,025,000
261,517
709,049
17,411,261
$
$
2,336,172
25,450,023
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
1. Nature of Business
Mirasol Resources Ltd. (“Mirasol” or the “Company”) is incorporated under the laws of the Province of British
Columbia, Canada. The Company’s corporate registered and records office is located at 600 – 890 West
Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mirasol engages in acquiring and exploring mineral properties, principally located in Chile and Argentina, with
the objective of identifying mineralized deposits economically worthy of subsequent development, mining or
sale.
The business of mining and exploration involves a high degree of risk and there can be no assurance that
current exploration programs will result in profitable mining operations. The Company has no source of
revenue, and has significant cash requirements to meet its administrative overhead and maintain its
exploration and evaluation assets. The recovery of the Company’s exploration and evaluation assets is
dependent on the discovery of economically recoverable reserves, the ability of the Company to obtain the
necessary financing to complete the development of these properties, and future profitable production or
proceeds from disposition of exploration and evaluation assets. While the Company has been successful in the
past with its financing efforts, there can be no assurance that it will be able to do so in the future.
Management believes that the Company has sufficient working capital to maintain its operations and activities
for the next twelve months.
2. Basis of Presentation
Statement of compliance
The financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with International Financial
Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) and
interpretations of the IFRS Interpretations Committee (“IFRIC”). The policies presented in Note 3 were
consistently applied to all periods presented. The Board of Directors approved the consolidated financial
statements on October 17, 2014.
Basis of measurement
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a historical cost basis, except for financial
instruments classified as financial instruments at fair value through profit and loss, which are stated at their fair
value. In addition, these consolidated financial statements have been prepared using the accrual basis of
accounting except for cash flow information.
Comparative figures
Certain of the comparative figures have been changed to conform to the presentation used in the current year.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
3. Significant Accounting Policies
a) Consolidation
These consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company (the “Parent”) and its
subsidiaries. The principal subsidiaries of the Company, their activities, and their geographic locations as at
June 30, 2014 were as follows:
Subsidiary
Principal activity
Location
Minera Mirasol Chile Limitada
Cabo Sur S.A
Australis S.A
Minera Del Sol S.A
Nueva Gran Victoria S.A.
Recursos Mirasol Holdings Ltd.
MDS Property Holdings Ltd.
Mineral exploration
Mineral exploration
Mineral exploration
Mineral exploration
Mineral exploration
Holding company
Holding company
Chile
Argentina
Argentina
Argentina
Argentina
British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Proportion of
interest held
by the
consolidated
Company
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
The accounts of Mirasol Argentina S.R.L were included up to the date of disposition, being December 21,
2012.
The transactions among the entities in the consolidated group pertain to the transfer of funds and payment of
third party costs. All inter-group balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.
b) Significant Accounting Estimates and Judgments
The preparation of financial statements requires management to make judgments, estimates and
assumptions that affect the application of policies and reported amounts of assets and liabilities, profit and
expenses. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and various other
factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis of
making the judgments about carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other
sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting
estimates are recognized in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period
or in the period of the revision and further periods if the review affects both current and future periods.
Significant accounting estimates and judgments are related to, but are not limited to, the following:
(i)
Impairment of exploration and evaluation assets: The net carrying value of each mineral license is
reviewed regularly for conditions that are indicators of impairment. This review requires significant
judgment as the Company does not have any proven and probable reserves that enable future cash
flows to be compared to the carrying values. Factors considered in the assessment of asset impairment
include, but are not limited to, whether there has been a significant adverse change in the legal,
regulatory, accessibility, title, environmental or political factors that could affect the licenses’ value;
whether there has been an accumulation of costs significantly in excess of the amounts originally
expected for the licenses’ acquisition, development or cost of holding; whether exploration activities
produced results that are not promising such that no more work is being planned in the foreseeable
future; and whether the Company has the necessary funds to be able to maintain its interest in the
mineral licenses. As at June 30, 2014, the Company has concluded that impairment conditions do not
exist.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
(ii) Valuation of share purchase options and warrants: The Company provides compensation benefits to its
employees, directors and officers through a stock option plan. The Company also grants warrants in
conjunction with private placements and as compensation for debt financing arrangements. The fair
value of each option award is estimated on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing
model. Expected volatility is based on historical volatility of the Company’s share price. The Company
uses historical data to estimate option exercises and forfeiture rates with the valuation model. The risk-
free interest rate for the expected term of the option is based on the yields of government bonds.
Changes in these assumptions, especially the volatility and the expected life determination could have a
material impact on the Company’s comprehensive loss (income). All estimates used in the model are
based on historical data which may not be representative of future results.
respect
(iii) Income taxes: The Company is subject to income taxes in numerous jurisdictions. Uncertainties exist
with
tax
payable/refundable based on its interpretations of tax regulations which may differ from the
interpretations of the tax authorities. Such differing interpretations may impact the Company’s current
income tax payable/refundable.
regulations. The Company
recognizes current
interpretations of
tax
to
Judgment is required in determining whether deferred tax assets are recognized on the statement of
financial position. The recognition of deferred tax assets requires management to assess the likelihood
that the Company will generate taxable income in future periods to utilize the deferred tax assets. Due to
a history of losses deferred tax assets have not be recognized.
(iv) Functional currencies: The functional currency of an entity is the currency of the primary economic
environment in which an entity operates. The determination of an entity’s functional currency requires
judgement based on analysis of relevant criteria. The functional currency of the Company and its
subsidiaries was determined by conducting an analysis of the consideration factors identified in IAS 21,
The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates (“IAS 21”).
c) Foreign Currencies
The functional currency of the Company and its operating subsidiaries, Minera Del Sol S.A., Australis S.A.,
Nueva Gran Victoria S.A., Cabo Sur S.A., and Minera Mirasol Chile Limitada, is the Canadian Dollar (“$”).
The functional currency of its holding subsidiaries, Recursos Mirasol Holdings and MDS Property Holdings is
the United States Dollar.
Any transactions in currencies other than the functional currency have been translated to the Canadian
Dollar in accordance with IAS 21. Transactions in currencies other than the functional currency are recorded
at the rates of exchange prevailing on dates of transactions. At the end of each reporting period, monetary
assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the rates prevailing at that
date. Non-monetary assets and liabilities carried at fair value that are denominated in foreign currencies are
translated at rates prevailing at the date when the fair value was determined. All gains and losses on
translation of these foreign currency transactions are included in the statements of loss (income) and
comprehensive loss (income). Non-monetary items that are measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign
currency are not retranslated.
Assets and liabilities of entities with a functional currency other than the Canadian Dollar are translated at
the period end rates of exchange, and the results of their operations are translated at average rates of
exchange for the period. The resulting changes are recognized in accumulated other comprehensive
income/loss (“AOCI”) in equity as a foreign currency translation adjustment.
The Company’s presentation currency is the Canadian Dollar.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
d) Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash on deposit with banks and short-term interest-bearing
investments with maturities of three months or less at the purchase date. Deposits with banks and short-term
interest-bearing investments with original term to maturity greater than three months but less than one year
are presented as short-term investments.
e) Financial Instruments
All financial instruments are initially recognized at fair value on the statement of financial position. The
Company has classified each financial instrument into one of the following categories: (1) financial assets or
liabilities at fair value through profit or loss (“FVTPL”), (2) loans and receivables, (3) financial assets
available-for-sale, (4) financial assets held-to maturity, and (5) other financial liabilities. Subsequent
measurement of financial instruments is based on their classification.
Financial assets and liabilities at FVTPL are subsequently measured at fair value with changes in those fair
values recognized in the statement of loss (income) and comprehensive loss (income). Financial assets
available-for-sale are subsequently measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in other
comprehensive loss/income, net of tax. Financial assets and liabilities held-to-maturity, loans and
receivables, and other financial liabilities are subsequently measured at amortized cost using the effective
interest method.
f)
Impairment of Financial Assets
At each reporting date, the Company assesses whether there is objective evidence that a financial asset is
impaired. If such evidence exists, the Company recognizes an impairment loss as follows:
(i) Financial assets carried at amortized cost: The loss is the difference between the amortized cost of the
asset and the present value of the estimated future cash flows, discounted using the instrument’s
original effective interest rate. The carrying amount of the asset is reduced by this amount either directly
or indirectly through the use of an allowance account.
(ii) Available-for-sale financial assets: The impairment loss is the difference between the original cost of the
asset and its fair value at the measurement date, less any impairment losses previously recognized in
the statement of loss (income) and comprehensive loss (income). This amount represents the
cumulative loss in accumulated other comprehensive income that is reclassified to the statement of loss
(income) and comprehensive loss (income).
Impairment losses on financial assets carried at amortized cost are reversed in subsequent periods if the
amount of the loss decreases and the decrease can be related objectively to an event occurring after the
impairment was recognized. Impairment losses on available-for-sale financial assets are not reversed.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
g)
Impairment of Non-financial Assets
The carrying amounts of non-financial assets are reviewed for impairment whenever facts and
circumstances suggest that the carrying amounts may not be recoverable. If there are indicators of
impairment, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of any
impairment. For the purpose of measuring recoverable amounts, assets are grouped at the lowest levels for
which there are separately identifiable cash flows (“cash-generating units” or “CGUs”). The recoverable
amount is the higher of an asset’s fair value less costs to sell and value in use (being the present value of
the expected future cash flows of the relevant asset or CGU). An impairment loss is recognized for the
amount by which the asset’s carrying amount exceeds its recoverable amount.
Non-financial assets that have been impaired in prior periods are tested for possible reversal of impairment
whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the impairment has reversed. If the impairment
has reversed, the carrying amount of the asset is increased to its recoverable amount but not beyond the
carrying amount that would have been determined had no impairment loss been recognized for the asset in
the prior periods. A reversal of an impairment loss is recognized in the statement of loss (income) and
comprehensive loss (income).
h) Equipment and Software
Equipment and software is stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment
losses. Cost includes expenditures that are directly attributable to the acquisition of the asset. Subsequent
costs are included in the asset’s carrying amount or recognized as a separate asset, as appropriate, only
when it is probable that future economic benefits associated with the item will flow to the Company and the
cost can be measured reliably. The carrying amount of a replaced asset is derecognized when replaced.
The Company provides for depreciation as follows:
Exploration equipment: 30% declining balance;
Computer hardware: 30% declining balance; and
Computer software: straight-line over the estimated life of three years.
For exploration equipment and computer hardware, the Company applies only one-half of the applicable rate
in the year of acquisition.
The Company allocates the amount initially recognized to each asset’s significant components and
amortizes each component separately. Residual values, depreciation methods and useful lives of the assets
are reviewed periodically and adjusted on a prospective basis as required.
i)
Exploration and Evaluation Assets
The Company capitalizes the direct costs of acquiring mineral property interests as exploration and
evaluation assets. Option payments are considered acquisition costs if the Company has the intention of
exercising the underlying option.
Exploration and evaluation costs are charged to operations in the period incurred until such time as it has
been determined that a property has economically recoverable reserves, in which case subsequent
exploration and development costs are capitalized. Exploration costs include value-added taxes because the
recoverability of these amounts is uncertain.
Ownership of exploration and evaluation assets involves certain risks due to the difficulties of determining
and obtaining clear title to claims as well as the potential for problems arising from the frequently ambiguous
conveyance history characteristics of many exploration and evaluation assets. The Company has
investigated ownership of its exploration and evaluation assets and, to the best of its knowledge, ownership
of its interests are in good standing.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
j)
Provisions
(i) Decommissioning and restoration provision: Future obligations to retire an asset, including dismantling,
remediation and ongoing treatment and monitoring of the site related to normal operations are initially
recognized and recorded as a liability based on estimated future cash flows discounted at a risk free
rate. The decommissioning and restoration provision is adjusted at each reporting period for changes to
factors including the expected amount of cash flows required to discharge the liability, the timing of such
cash flows and the pre-tax rate for risk specific to the liability.
The liability is also accreted to full value over time through periodic charges to earnings. This unwinding
of the discount is charged to financing expense in the statement of loss (income) and comprehensive
loss (income).
The amount of the decommissioning and restoration provision initially recognized is capitalized as part
of the related asset’s carrying value and depreciated to earnings. The method of depreciation follows
that of the underlying asset. The costs related to a decommissioning and restoration provision are only
capitalized to the extent that the amount meets the definition of an asset and can bring about future
economic benefit.
For the years presented, the Company does not have any decommissioning or restoration provisions.
(ii) Other provisions: Provisions are recognized when a current legal or constructive obligation exists, as a
result of past events, and it is probable that an outflow of resources that can be reliably estimated will be
required to settle the obligation. Where the effect is material, the provision is discounted using an
appropriate pre-tax rate for risk specific to the liability.
k)
Income Taxes
Income tax expense (recovery) is comprised of current and deferred tax. Income tax is recognized in the
statement of loss (income) and comprehensive loss (income) except to the extent that it relates to items
recognized directly in equity, in which case the income tax is also recognized directly in equity.
Current tax is the expected tax payable on the taxable income for the year, using tax rates enacted or
substantively enacted, at the end of the reporting period, and any adjustment to tax payable in respect of
previous years.
In general, deferred tax is recognized in respect of temporary differences arising between the tax bases of
assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts in the consolidated financial statements. Deferred income
tax is determined on a non-discounted basis using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or
substantively enacted at the date of statement of financial position and are expected to apply when the
deferred tax asset or liability is settled. Deferred tax assets are recognized to the extent that it is probable
that the assets can be recovered.
Deferred tax is provided on temporary differences arising on investments in subsidiaries and associates,
except, in the case of subsidiaries, where the timing of the reversal of the temporary difference is controlled
by the Company and it is probable that the temporary difference will not reverse in the foreseeable future.
Deferred tax assets and liabilities are presented as non-current.
Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when there is a legally enforceable right to set off current tax
assets against current tax liabilities, when they relate to income taxes levied by the same taxation authority
and when the Company intends to settle its current tax assets and liabilities on a net basis.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
l)
Share Capital
Share capital issued as non-monetary consideration is recorded at an amount based on fair market value of
the shares issued.
The proceeds from the issue of units is allocated between common shares and common share purchase
warrants on a pro-rated basis on relative fair values as follows: the fair value of common shares is based on
the price at market close on the date the units are issued and the fair value of the common share purchase
warrants is determined using a Black-Scholes pricing model.
m) Share-based Payments
The Company grants share options to buy common shares of the Company to directors, officers, employees
and service providers. The Company recognizes share-based payment expense based on the estimated fair
value of the options. A fair value measurement is made for each vesting instalment within each option grant
and is determined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The fair value of the options is recognized
over the vesting period of the options granted as both share-based payment expense and reserve. This
includes a forfeiture estimate, which is revised for actual forfeitures in subsequent periods. The reserve
account is subsequently reduced if the options are exercised and the amount initially recorded is then
credited to share capital.
In situations where equity instruments are issued to non-employees and some or all of the goods or services
received by the entity as consideration cannot be specifically identified, they are measured at fair value of
the share-based payment. Otherwise, share-based payments are measured at the fair value of goods or
services received.
n) Earnings/Loss per Share
Basic earnings/loss per share is computed by dividing income/loss available to common shareholders by the
weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. The computation of diluted
earnings per share assumes the conversion, exercise or contingent issuance of securities only when such
conversion, exercise or issuance would have a dilutive effect on the earnings per share. The dilutive effect of
convertible securities is reflected in the diluted earnings per share by application of the "if converted"
method. The dilutive effect of outstanding options and warrants and their equivalents is reflected in the
diluted earnings per share by application of the treasury stock method.
o) Comprehensive Loss (Income)
Comprehensive loss (income) consists of net loss (income) and other comprehensive loss (income) and
represents the change in shareholders’ equity which results from transactions and events from sources other
than the Company’s shareholders. The Company’s translation of its subsidiaries which have a functional
currency other than the Canadian Dollar is the only item affecting comprehensive loss (income) for the years
presented.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
4. Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Certain new standards, interpretations, amendments and improvements to existing standards were issued by
the IASB or IFRIC.
The Company adopted the following new standards effective July 1, 2013:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
IFRS 7, Financial Instruments: Disclosures, was amended to enhance disclosure requirements related to
offsetting of financial assets and financial liabilities. The amendment of this standard did not have a
significant impact on the Company.
IFRS 10, Consolidated Financial Statements, replaced IAS 27, Consolidated and Separate Financial
Statements, and requires all controlled entities to be consolidated based on a single control model, whereby
control is defined as the exposure to, or having rights to, returns from its involvement in its investee, and the
ability to affect those returns through this power over the investee. The standard also provides additional
guidance to assist in the determination of control where this is difficult to assess. The Company conducted a
review of all of its subsidiaries and determined that the adoption of IFRS 10 did not result in any change in
the consolidation status of any of its subsidiaries.
IFRS 11, Joint Arrangements, replaced the existing IAS 31, Joint Ventures and provides for the accounting
of joint arrangements by focusing on the rights and obligations of the arrangement, rather than its legal form.
The Standard also eliminates the option to account for jointly controlled entities using the proportionate
consolidation method. The Company does not have any joint arrangements and as a result the adoption of
IFRS 11 did not have any impact on these consolidated financial statements.
IFRS 12, Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities, provides certain disclosure requirements about
subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, as well as unconsolidated structured entities and replaced
existing disclosure requirements. The key features are the requirement to disclose judgements and
assumptions made when deciding how to classify involvement with another entity, interest that non-
controlling entities have in consolidated entities and the nature of the risks associated with interests in other
entities. The adoption of IFRS 12 resulted in incremental disclosure in Note 3 of these consolidated financial
statements.
IFRS 13, Fair Value Measurement, establishes a single source of guidance for fair value measurements,
when fair value is permitted by IFRS. The standard does not affect when fair value is used, it just describes
how to measure fair value. The standard provides a single framework for measuring fair value, while
requiring enhanced disclosures when fair value is applied, establishes the definition of fair value as the “exit
price” and clarifies that the concepts of highest and best use and valuation premise are relevant only for
non-financial assets and liabilities. The standard did not have any impact on the Company’s statement of
financial position. Any specific disclosure requirements are addressed in these consolidated financial
statements.
IAS 1, Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income (“OCI”) (“IAS 1”), was revised to change the
disclosure of items presented in OCI, including a requirement to separate items presented in OCI into two
groups based on whether or not they may be recycled to profit or loss in the future. The adoption of IAS 1
affects the presentation of the Company’s statement of comprehensive loss (income).
IAS 27, Separate Financial Statements, was amended as a result of IFRS 10, IFRS 11, and IFRS 12. IAS27
deals solely with separate financial statements, and has had no impact on the consolidated statements of
the Company.
IAS 28, Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures, has been amended and provides accounting and
disclosure guidance for investments in associates and joint ventures. The Company does not have any
investment in associates and as a result the adoption of the standard did not have any impact on these
consolidated financial statements.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
The following new standards and amendments to standards have been issued but are not effective during the
year ended June 30, 2014:
a)
b)
c)
d)
IFRS 7, Financial Instruments: Disclosures, will be amended to require additional disclosures on transition
from IAS 39 and IFRS 9, and is effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2015. The
Company is currently evaluating the impact of the amendment.
IFRS 9, Financial Instruments: Classification and Measurement, is the first part of a new standard on
classification and measurement of financial assets that will replace IAS 39. IFRS 9 has two measurement
categories: depreciated cost and fair value. All equity instruments are measured at fair value. A debt
instrument is recorded at depreciated cost only if the entity is holding the instrument to collect contractual
cash flows and the cash flows represent principal and interest. Otherwise it is recorded at fair value through
profit or loss. This standard will be effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2018. The
Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard.
IAS 32, Financial Instruments: Presentation, updates the application guidance to clarify some of the
requirements for offsetting financial assets and financial liabilities on the statement of financial position. This
is effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2014. The Standard is not expected to have
a significant impact on the Company.
IFRIC 21, Levies, sets out the accounting for an obligation to pay a levy that is not income tax. The
interpretation addresses what the obligating event is that gives rise to pay a levy and when should a liability
be recognized. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2014, with early
application permitted. The Company is not currently subjected to significant levies and therefore expects
that the impact from the adoption of the Standard will not be material.
5. Financial Instruments
Categories of financial instruments
Financial assets
Fair Value Through Profit and Loss
Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Investments
Loans and receivables
Receivables and advances (Note 6)
Financial liabilities
Other financial liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
(Note 10)
June 30,
2014
June 30,
2013
18,120,310 $
1,300,000
10,653,639
27,786,195
1,415,928
18,315,659
-
972,515
30,073,949 $
48,490,297
465,991 $
1,934,285
$
$
$
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
a) Fair Value
Financial instruments measured at fair value are classified into one of three levels in the fair value hierarchy
according to the relative reliability of the inputs used to estimate the fair values. The three levels of the fair
value hierarchy are:
Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities;
Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices that are directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability;
and,
Level 3 – Inputs that are not based on observable market data;
Level 1
Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Investments
June 30,
2014
June 30,
2013
$
$
$
18,120,310 $
1,300,000 $
10,653,639 $
27,786,195
1,415,928
18,315,659
Fair value of investments traded in active markets is based on quoted market prices on the date of the
statement of financial position. A market is regarded as active if quoted prices are readily and regularly
available from an exchange, dealer, broker, industry group, pricing service, or regulatory agency, and those
prices represent actual and regularly occurring market transactions on an arm’s length basis. The quoted
market price used for investments held by the Company is the current bid price of the held securities. These
securities are therefore included in level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.
The fair values of the Company’s other financial instruments approximates their carrying values because of
the short-term nature of these instruments.
b) Management of Capital Risk
The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Company’s ability to continue as a
going concern in order to pursue the development of its exploration and evaluation assets and to maintain a
flexible capital structure which optimizes the costs of capital at an acceptable risk. In the management of
capital, the Company includes the components of equity.
The Company manages the capital structure and makes adjustments to it in light of changes in economic
conditions and the risk characteristics of the underlying assets. To maintain or adjust the capital structure,
the Company may attempt to issue new shares, acquire or dispose of assets, enter into joint ventures or
obtain debt financing. In order to facilitate the management of its capital requirements, the Company
prepares annual expenditure budgets that are updated as necessary depending on various factors, including
successful capital deployment and general industry conditions.
In order to maximize ongoing development efforts, the Company does not pay out dividends.
The Company’s investment policy is to invest its cash in highly liquid short-term interest-bearing investments
with maturities of twelve months or less from the original date of acquisition, selected with regards to the
expected timing of expenditures from continuing operations. The Company is not subject to externally
imposed capital requirements. There were no changes to the Company’s approach to capital management
during the year.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
c) Management of Financial Risk
The Company’s financial instruments are exposed to certain financial risks. The risk exposures and the
impact on the Company's financial instruments are summarized below.
i. Currency risk
The Company is exposed to the financial risk related to the fluctuation of foreign exchange rates. The
Company operates in Canada, Argentina and Chile and a portion of its expenses are incurred in United
States (“US”) dollars, Australian dollars and in Argentine and Chilean Pesos. A significant change in the
currency exchange rates between the US and Australian dollar relative to the Canadian dollar and the
Argentine and Chilean Peso to the Canadian dollar could have an effect on the Company’s results of
operations, financial position or cash flows. The Company has not hedged its exposure to currency
fluctuations.
At June 30, 2014, the Company is exposed to currency risk through the following assets and liabilities
denominated in US and Australian dollars and Argentine and Chilean Pesos:
Cash and cash equivalents
Receivables and advances
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
US
Dollars
15,658,206
-
(43,309)
Australian
Dollars
131,276
-
(210,402)
Argentine
Peso
829,161
2,270,900
(3,220,742)
Chilean
Peso
10,616,497
-
(8,011,572)
Based on the above net exposures as at June 30, 2014, and assuming that all other variables remain
constant, a 10% depreciation or appreciation of the Canadian dollar against the US and Australian dollar
would result in an increase/decrease of $1,667,046 and $7,965, respectively in the Company’s
comprehensive loss. Likewise, a 10% depreciation or appreciation of the Canadian dollar against the
Argentine and Chilean Peso would result in an increase/decrease of $1,585 and $503, respectively in the
Company’s comprehensive loss.
ii. Credit risk
Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or third party to a financial instrument fails to
meet its contractual obligations.
The Company’s cash is held through large financial institutions. The Company’s receivables consist of
Goods and Services tax due from the Federal Government. Management believes that credit risk
concentration with respect to receivables is remote.
iii. Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due.
The Company manages liquidity risk through the management of its capital structure and financial
leverage as outlined above. As at June 30, 2014, the Company’s financial liabilities consist of accounts
payable and accrued liabilities totalling $465,991. All of the Company’s obligations are expected to be
paid within 90 days. Management believes the Company has sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they
become due.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
iv.
Interest rate risk
Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate
because of changes in market interest rates. The risk that the Company will realize a loss as a result of a
decline in the fair value of the short-term investments included in cash is limited because these
investments are generally held to maturity. The applicable rates of interest on such investments range
between 1.40% and 1.65%.
v. Price risk
The Company is exposed to equity securities price risk because of investments held by the Company and
classified on the statement of financial position as FVTPL and also to the price risk with respect to
commodity prices.
The Company does not typically invest in equity securities and the maximum exposure to the price risk is
represented by the changing fair value of such investments. Assuming all variables remain constant, a
10% increase/decrease in the quoted market price of the Company’s investments would result in an
increase/decrease in the Company’s income of approximately US$997,905.
The Company closely monitors commodity prices to determine the appropriate course of action to be
taken by the Company.
6. Receivables and Advances
Good and services tax receivable
Other receivable, prepaid expenses and advances
Holdback receivable (Note 9)
Income tax refund receivable (Note 15)
June 30,
2014
4,928
70,831
-
802,428
$
June 30,
2013
22,746
200,831
972,515
-
878,187
$
1,196,092
$
$
7. Investment
On December 21, 2012, the Company, in conjunction with the sale of its Joaquin Property (Note 9), received
as partial consideration, 1,310,043 common shares of Coeur Mining Inc. (formerly Coeur d’Alene Mines
Corporation) (“Coeur”) valued at $29,825,985 (US$29,999,985).
Opening balance
Disposed of for cash
Loss from change in fair market value (i)
Exchange differences
$
Quantity
1,310,043
(223,000)
-
-
June 30,
2014
18,315,659 $
(2,460,146)
(5,565,812)
363,938
June 30,
2013
29,825,985
-
(12,664,608)
1,154,282
18,315,659
(i) The cumulative change in fair market value of the common shares of Coeur, since the date of the
acquisition by the Company, includes $2,616,936 which represents the realized loss on the disposal of
223,000 of such common shares.
10,653,639 $
1,087,043
$
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
8. Equipment and Software
Cost
Balance as at June 30, 2012 $
Additions for the year
Balance as at June 30, 2013 $
Additions for the year
Balance as at June 30, 2014 $
Accumulated Depreciation
Balance as at June 30, 2012 $
Depreciation for the year (i)
Balance at June 30, 2013
Depreciation for the year (i)
$
Balance as at June 30, 2014 $
Exploration
Equipment
Computer
Hardware
Computer
Software
360,139 $
23,105
383,244 $
4,947
388,191 $
162,511 $
64,189
226,700 $
58,273
284,973 $
29,747 $
2,357
32,104 $
898
33,002 $
18,505 $
3,727
22,232 $
3,091
25,323 $
- $
-
- $
31,010
31,010 $
- $
-
- $
1,723
1,723 $
Total
389,886
25,462
415,348
36,855
452,203
181,016
67,916
248,932
63,087
312,019
Carrying Amounts
As at June 30, 2013
As at June 30, 2014
$
$
156,544 $
103,218 $
9,872 $
7,679 $
- $
29,287 $
166,416
140,184
(i) Allocated between depreciation expense and exploration costs on the statement of loss (income) and
comprehensive loss (income).
9. Exploration and Evaluation Assets
The Company owns 100% of the mineral exploration rights to large portfolio of properties focused in two
mining regions, namely Santa Cruz Province in southern Argentina and the Atacama region in Northern Chile.
The Company also focuses on generative exploration to identify and acquire new prospects.
Chile
The Company has a portfolio of gold, silver and copper projects in Northern Chile.
100% Owned Properties:
The Company currently has 100% interest in nine precious metals properties that define the Gorbea Belt. The
Gorbea Project is a reconnaissance program engaged in prospect generation and exploration of disseminated
gold and copper prospects in the region. The Company’s focus along the Gorbea Belt has been on the
advancement of Atlas and Titan gold-silver projects.
Atlas Property
The Company holds a 100% interest in the Atlas Property in northern Chile, acquired by staking on open
ground. During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company acquired mineral concessions on the property for
a claim block titled Dos Hermanos for $174,178 (US$175,000). The amount was capitalized to exploration and
evaluation assets.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
Titan Property
The Company holds 100% interest in the Titan Property in Northern Chile. The property was acquired through
staking on open ground, as part of the Company’s Miocene Arc exploration program.
Properties Joint Ventured to Other Companies:
Rubi Property
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Rubi property located 22 km southwest of El Salvador in Northern
Chile.
On September 11, 2013, the Company signed a binding letter Agreement with First Quantum Minerals Ltd.
("First Quantum") which permits First Quantum to earn an interest in the Rubi property. The definitive Option
and Joint Venture Agreement (the “Definitive Agreement”) was signed subsequent to the year ended June 30,
2014, on August 14, 2014.
The Definitive Agreement requires First Quantum to make an exploration expenditure commitment of at least
US$1.5 million by the end of the first year, with a minimum exploration commitment which includes a project-
wide magnetic geophysical survey and 3,000 m of core drilling on the Rubi Property. The Definitive Agreement
provides for First Quantum to earn a 55% interest in the Rubi Property upon completion of a US$6.5 million
investment in exploration over four years from the date of signing the Definitive Agreement including at least
US$1.0 million in annual staged cash payments following the first year. After the initial earn-in, First Quantum’s
participating interest may be increased to 65% on completing, within an additional two years, a NI 43-101
compliant technical report, including an indicated resource estimate and Preliminary Economic Assessment
(“PEA”) of more than 1.0 million tonnes of contained Cu metal, using a 0.20% cut-off grade. First Quantum
may further increase its interest to 75% by declaring a decision to mine and provide mine financing to Mirasol
at commercial terms if requested by Mirasol, to include interest calculated at LIBOR + 4% and the repayment
of Mirasol’s proportion of mine finance to be made from 50% of the cash flow to which it is entitled.
Earn-In Joint Venture on Third Party Projects:
Frontera JV
In fiscal 2013, the Company signed a definitive exploration and option agreement (the “Agreement”) with an
arms-length private Chilean company. This agreement, referred to as the Frontera JV, covers a portfolio of
prospective, early-stage mineral properties located within the area of Mirasol’s Miocene Arc Generative
Program, with some of these properties being adjacent to or contiguous with Mirasol’s Gorbea Belt properties
including Titan and Atlas projects in Northern Chile.
The Frontera JV Agreement provides for Mirasol to earn a 51% interest in any, or all, of the exploration
properties by expending US$3 million within a four year period which commenced on December 26, 2012, of
which US$300,000 is committed to be spent in the first year (completed). After vesting, each party will
contribute in proportion to its equity position. Should a discovery be put into production, a 1.5% net smelter
return royalty (NSR) is payable by Mirasol to its venture partner from Mirasol’s percentage of production,
capped at 51% of total production. If either party dilutes below 10% interest, ownership will convert to a 1%
NSR.
One of these Frontera JV properties, Vaquillas has been the focus of exploration activities to date.
Argentina
In the Santa Cruz province of Argentina, the Company controls the mineral exploration rights to over 20
precious metals properties.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
Claudia Property
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Claudia property situated in south-central part of the Santa Cruz
Mining District, Argentina.
La Curva Property
The Company owns a 100% interest in mining claims of La Curva gold project in Southern Argentina.
La Libanesa Property
The Company owns a 100% interest in mining claims of La Libanesa property in the Santa Cruz Mining
District, Argentina. The property was staked in 2006.
Santa Rita Property and Virginia Zone
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Santa Rita property situated in the Santa Cruz Mining District,
Argentina. The Santa Rita property also hosts the Virginia prospect, thus together Santa Rita and Virginia
account for total expenditures on the Santa Rita property.
During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company completed the purchase of the surface rights over the
Virginia prospect for $34,034 (Argentine Pesos 157,564). The cost of surface rights was capitalized to
exploration and evaluation assets.
Pipeline Projects:
Mirasol carries exploration program on a number of projects which are prospective for gold and/or silver
mineralization in southern Argentina. Projects with active exploration programs in recent years are as follows:
a) Espejo Property
The Company owns a 100% interest in mining claims of Espejo property situated in the Santa Cruz Mining
District, Argentina, by staking.
The Company entered into an option agreement on October 4, 2012 with Pan American Silver Corp. (“Pan
American”) allowing Pan American to earn a 51% interest in the Espejo property by expending US$4 million
over four years, and to reach a 61% interest by completing a NI 43-101 compliant feasibility study, and then to
further increase the interest to 70% by providing mine financing at commercial terms. Pan American
terminated the option agreement in July 2013 due to their budget constraints.
b) Sascha and Joaquin Properties
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Sascha Property situated in the Santa Cruz Mining District,
Argentina.
The Company had a signed option agreement with Coeur for the exploration of Sascha and Joaquin gold-silver
projects. The agreement provided Coeur the option to earn an initial 51% in both projects by expending a total
of US$8 million in exploration over four years. In October 2008, Coeur returned the Sascha property to Mirasol.
The total earn-in on both properties reached US$6 million and Coeur vested at 51% interest in the Joaquin
property in December 2010.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
On December 21, 2012, the Company completed the sale of its remaining 49% interest in the Joaquin Property
to Coeur for total consideration of $59,652,000 (US$60,000,000). The transaction was carried out through the
sale of the Company’s Argentine subsidiary, Mirasol Argentina S.R.L, holding the 49% interest in the Joaquin
Property. One-half of the consideration was paid in cash (with a holdback of $994,200 (US$1,000,000) to
cover any relevant taxes on the transfer of ownership in Argentina) and the balance was paid with 1,310,043
shares of common stock in the capital of Coeur (Note 7). The holdback receivable of US$925,147, net of
transfer taxes paid was collected on July 12, 2013.
The transaction resulted in a pre-tax accounting gain of $58,990,546 during the year ended June 30, 2013,
calculated as follows:
Cash consideration (US $30,000,015)
Common shares of Coeur (US $29,999,985)
Transaction costs
Working capital of Argentine subsidiary
Gain on Sale of Joaquin Property
c) Nico Property
$
$
29,826,015
29,825,985
(686,076)
24,622
58,990,546
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Nico property mining interests situated in the Santa Cruz Mining
District, Argentina, by staking.
d) Pajaro, Veloz and Los Loros Properties
The Company owns 100% of the rights to three exploration properties, Pajaro, Los Loros and Veloz, in Santa
Cruz Province, Argentina. These exploration properties were acquired by the Company issuing 100,000
common shares. The shares had a fair value acquisition cost at issuance of $69,801.
A reconciliation of capitalized acquisition costs is as follows:
Acquisition Costs
Chile
Atlas - Dos Hermanos
Argentina
Santa Rita and Virginia
Nico
Pajaro, Veloz and Los Loros
Chile
Atlas - Dos Hermanos
Argentina
Santa Rita and Virginia
Nico
Pajaro, Veloz and Los Loros
Balance at
June 30, 2013
Additions during
the period
Balance at
June 30, 2014
174,178 $
- $
174,178
2,579,704
8,532
69,801
2,832,215 $
-
-
-
- $
2,579,704
8,532
69,801
2,832,215
Balance at
June 30, 2012
Additions during
the year
Balance at
June 30, 2013
- $
174,178 $
174,178
2,545,670
8,532
69,801
34,034
-
-
2,624,003 $
208,212 $
2,579,704
8,532
69,801
2,832,215
$
$
$
$
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
Cumulative exploration expenditures per project under active exploration are as follows:
Exploration Costs
Gorbea Belt – Atlas Project
Gorbea Belt – Titan Project
Gorbea Belt – Other Projects
Rubi – Joint Venture
Frontera – Joint Venture
Project Generation
Operation and Management
Value Added and Other Taxes
Total Chile Properties
Claudia
La Curva
La Libanesa
Santa Rita and Virginia
Argentina Pipeline Projects
Project Generation
Operation and Management
Value Added and Other Taxes
Total Argentina Properties
Total Exploration Costs
Balance at
June 30, 2013
Additions during
the period
Balance at
June 30, 2014
$
855,780 $
1,336,257 $
1,889,924
1,593,109
918,225
153,938
338,702
391,728
149,731
863,269
142,240
149,098
609,793
571,507
393,130
428
2,192,037
2,753,193
1,735,349
1,067,323
763,731
910,209
784,858
150,159
$
$
$
$
6,291,137 $
4,065,722 $
10,356,859
5,029,332 $
1,274,054
887,316
9,667,652
4,161,439
1,610,949
1,747,492
2,406,012
523,847 $
281,678
10,775
395,173
99,817
30,478
1,080,276
224,686
5,553,179
1,555,732
898,091
10,062,825
4,261,256
1,641,427
2,827,768
2,630,698
26,784,246 $
2,646,730 $
29,430,976
33,075,383 $
6,712,452 $
39,787,835
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
During the years ended June 30, the Company incurred exploration and evaluation costs on its properties as
follows:
2014
2013
Chile
Gorbea Belt – Atlas Project
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salaries
Drilling
Environmental
Geophysics
Mining rights and fees
Travel
Gorbea Belt – Titan Project
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salaries
Drilling
Environmental
Geophysics
Mining rights and fees
Travel
Gorbea Belt – Other Projects
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salaries
Geophysics
Mining rights and fees
Travel
$
2,823 $
331,633
606,115
-
-
243,594
49,248
102,844
1,336,257
3,115
250,027
418,612
-
-
98,828
16,886
75,801
863,269
-
25,179
42,043
20,767
48,909
5,342
142,240
-
243,905
242,069
42,741
49,587
141,875
25,661
96,253
842,091
-
215,796
483,964
651,772
11,861
119,469
42,262
84,996
1,610,120
9,446
29,954
87,562
14,634
26,907
15,479
174,536
Total Spend – 100% owned properties
2,341,766
2,626,747
Rubi – Joint Venture
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Environmental
Geophysics
Mining rights and fees
Travel
Total Spend – Properties joint ventured to other companies
598
15,701
-
702
131,036
1,061
149,098
9,255
54,940
14,749
364
149,660
19,050
248,018
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
Chile (Continued)
Frontera – Joint Venture
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Geophysics
Mining rights and fees
Travel
Total Spend – Earn-in joint venture on third party projects
Project Generation
Operation & Management
Value Added & Other Taxes
Total Chile
Argentina
Claudia
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Mining rights and access fees
Travel
La Curva
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Mining rights and access fees
Travel
La Libanesa
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Mining rights and access fees
Santa Rita and Virginia
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Mining rights and access fees
Travel
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$
2014
2013
178,516 $
256,936
48,776
87,972
37,593
609,793
571,507
393,130
428
26,282
36,232
-
91,424
-
153,938
76,426
205,536
25,093
4,065,722
3,335,758
8,490
111,290
305,732
51,925
46,410
523,847
3,480
60,053
180,255
12,073
25,817
281,678
3,189
718
6,868
10,775
1,844
95,180
269,497
9,737
18,915
395,173
52,275
579,324
705,749
943
97,466
1,435,757
14,927
116,882
271,309
333
48,100
451,551
12,288
2,898
1,108
16,294
36,671
349,344
653,572
1,201
98,399
1,139,187
Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
Argentina (Continued)
Argentina Pipeline Projects
Assays and sampling
Camp and general
Consultants and salary
Mining rights and fees
Travel
2014
2013
$
5,150 $
17,184
62,315
4,330
10,838
99,817
14,219
68,416
102,070
11,479
16,040
212,224
Total Spend – 100% owned properties
1,311,290
3,255,013
Project Generation
Operation & Management
Value Added & Other Taxes
Total Argentina
30,478
15,851
1,080,276
1,129,277
224,686
606,685
2,646,730
5,006,826
Total Exploration and Evaluation Costs
$
6,712,452 $
8,342,584
10. Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities
Trade payables
Accrued liabilities
Income tax provision (Note 15)
June 30,
2014
395,991 $
70,000
-
465,991 $
June 30,
2013
1,257,565
676,720
4,123,309
6,057,594
$
$
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
11. Related Party Transactions
Details of the transactions between the Company’s related parties are disclosed below.
a) Compensation of key management personnel
Key management personnel include persons having the authority and responsibility for planning, directing, and
controlling the activities of the Company as a whole.
The remuneration of the chief executive officer, vice president of exploration, exploration manager and
directors were as follows:
Management compensation (i) (ii)
Management bonus (i)
Share bonus (iii)
Share-based payments (iv)
Director’s fees
Year Ended June 30,
2014
2013
$
$
1,063,335
-
-
-
25,022
414,403
630,720
768,750
522,586
2,000
$
1,088,357
$
2,338,459
(i) Management compensation and bonus are included in Management fees (2014 - $200,133; 2013 -
$819,685) and in Exploration costs (2014 - $393,661; 2013 - $225,438) in the Company’s consolidated
statements of loss (income) and comprehensive loss (income).
(ii) During the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company paid $469,541 (US$432,000) for the full settlement
payment for the Transition and Settlement Agreement with the former CEO.
(iii) During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company issued 375,000 common shares of the Company to
related parties under its share bonus plan (Note 12e). The common shares were valued at $2.05 per
share each. The bonus of $768,750 is included within management fees in the Company’s statement of
loss (income) and comprehensive loss (income).
(iv) Share-based payments represent the expense for years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013.
b) Transactions with other related parties
Certain of the Company’s officers and directors render services to the Company as sole proprietors or through
companies in which they are an officer, director, or partner.
The following companies are related parties through association of the Company’s directors and officers:
Miller Thomson
Avisar Chartered Accountants
Chase Management Ltd.
Global Ore Discovery
Nature of transactions
Legal fees
Accounting fees
Professional fees
Exploration costs and project management fees
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
The Company incurred the following fees and expenses with related parties as follows:
Legal fees
Accounting fees
Professional fees
Other operating expenses
Exploration costs and project management fees
$
Year Ended June 30,
$
2014
162,950
96,000
18,000
2,135
809,877
2013
188,240
96,000
-
-
961,672
$
1,088,962
$
1,245,912
Included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities at June 30, 2014 is an amount of $258,492 (June 30, 2013
- $655,046) owing to directors and officers of the Company and to companies where the directors and officers
are principals.
12. Share Capital
a) Authorized Share Capital
The Company’s authorized share capital consists of an unlimited number of common shares without par value.
All issued common shares are fully paid.
b) Reconciliation of Changes in Share Capital
No equity financings were conducted by the Company during the years ended June 30, 2014 and 2013.
c) Share Purchase Options
The Company has established a share purchase option plan whereby the board of directors may, from time to
time, grant options to directors, officers, employees or consultants. Options granted must be exercised no later
than five years from the date of grant or such lesser period as determined by the Company’s board of
directors. The exercise price of an option is equal to or greater than the closing market price on the TSX
Venture Exchange (“TSX-V”) on the day preceding the date of grant. The vesting terms for each grant are set
by the Board of Directors. The option plan provides that the aggregate number of shares reserved for issuance
under the plan shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued and outstanding shares. At June 30, 2014, a
total of 4,424,566 options were reserved under the option plan with 3,227,800 options outstanding.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
(i) Movements in share options during the period
A summary of the Company’s options, which includes options issued under the Company’s share option plan
and agent’s options at June 30, 2014 and the changes for the year are as follows:
Options outstanding at June 30, 2012
Granted
Exercised
Forfeited
Options outstanding as at June 30, 2013
Granted
Exercised
Forfeited
Options outstanding as at June 30, 2014
Options exercisable at June 30, 2014
Number of
Options
3,672,800
1,125,000
(955,000)
(85,000)
3,757,800
30,000
(90,000)
(470,000)
3,227,800
3,227,800
Weighted
Average
Exercise Price
$3.47
$1.42
$0.53
$4.30
$2.99
$1.18
$0.25
$3.17
$3.02
$3.02
During the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company issued 90,000 common shares on exercise of share
purchase options for gross proceeds of $22,500. These options had a fair value of $14,526.
During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company issued 955,000 common shares on the exercise of
share options for gross proceeds of $504,750. These options had a fair value of $261,517.
On January 19, 2012, the Company announced the amendment of the exercise price of 775,000 incentive
share options originally granted on March 23, 2011 from $6.25 per share to $3.32 per share. On October 15,
2012, the Company received approval from the TSX-V for the amendment. In accordance with TSX-V
policies, the repricing of options held by officers and directors was approved at the Company’s 2012 Annual
General Meeting of shareholders held on December 18, 2012. The incremental estimated fair value of these
share options was determined to be $238,433, which was recorded in the Company’s statement of loss and
comprehensive loss during the year ended June 30, 2013.
The fair value of the amended incentive share options, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, was
based on the following weighted average assumptions:
Expected dividend yield
Expected share price volatility
Risk-free interest rate
Expected life of options
(ii) Fair value of share options granted
2013
0.0%
69.3%
1.16%
1.8 years
On October 7, 2013, the Company granted options to a consultant of the Company to purchase up to 30,000
common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $1.18. The estimated fair value of these share
options was determined to be $11,886 using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which was recognized
as share-based payments expense in the Company’s statement of loss (income) during the year ended June
30, 2014.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
On May 14, 2013, the Company granted options to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the
Company to purchase up to 980,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $1.28. The
estimated fair value of these share options was determined to be $690,440 using the Black-Scholes option
pricing model and the amount was recognized as share-based payments expense in the Company’s
statement of loss during the year ended June 30, 2013.
On September 26, 2012, the Company granted options to employees and consultants to purchase up to
145,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $2.34. The estimated fair value of these
share options was determined to be $147,467 using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Of the total fair
value, $136,744 was recognized as share-based payments expense in the Company’s statement of loss,
using the graded vesting method, during the year ended June 30, 2013, due to the forfeiture of 10,000
unvested options valued at $10,723.
The fair value of options granted was estimated on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option
pricing model, with the following weighted average assumptions:
Expected dividend yield
Expected share price volatility
Risk-free interest rate
Expected life of options
Fair value of options granted (per share option)
(iii) Share options outstanding at the end of the year
Year Ended June 30,
2014
0.0%
62.3%
1.19%
1.85 years
$0.40
2013
0.0%
78.3%
1.17%
3.41 years
$0.75
A summary of the Company’s options outstanding as at June 30, 2014 is as follows:
Expiry Date
July 29, 2014 (i) (ii)
August 31, 2014 (i) (ii)
August 31, 2014 (i) (ii)
August 31, 2014 (i) (ii)
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015
October 5, 2015
December 16, 2015
March 23, 2016
August 4, 2016
September 26, 2017
May 14, 2018
Exercise
price
$1.18
$2.90
$3.32
$5.23
$1.28
$2.90
$3.32
$5.23
$2.90
$5.55
$3.32
$5.23
$2.34
$1.28
Options
Outstanding
30,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
100,000
150,000
100,000
65,000
717,800
50,000
555,000
570,000
107,500
767,500
3,227,800
Weighted
Average
Remaining Life
of Options
0.08 years
0.17 years
0.17 years
0.17 years
0.92 years
0.92 years
0.92 years
0.92 years
1.27 years
1.46 years
1.73 years
1.96 years
3.24 years
3.87 years
2.12 years
Options
Exercisable
30,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
100,000
150,000
100,000
65,000
717,800
50,000
555,000
570,000
107,500
767,500
3,227,800
(i) These options expired unexercised subsequent to year end.
(ii) The expiry dates were changed due to the resignation of certain employees and consultants.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
d) Warrants
On December 20, 2013, 2,000,000 private placement warrants, exercisable at $4.30 per share and 200,000
broker warrants exercisable at $3.30 per share, expired without being exercised. The warrants were issued in
conjunction with the private placement during the year ended June 30, 2012.
e) Share Bonus Plan
The Company established a TSX-V approved share bonus plan in 2007. The plan allows for the issuance of
common shares to the directors, officers, employees and consultants with significant contributions to the
discovery of an ore body containing at least 500,000 gold equivalent ounces. The Company can issue 500,000
shares for an initial 500,000 ounces of gold and gold equivalent of “Indicated Mineral Resource”, as defined in
the NI 43-101, for an individual project, and up to 1,000,000 shares in total on any of the Company’s properties
in which the Company retains an interest of at least 20%. During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company
issued 500,000 common shares, valued at $1,025,000 to directors, senior management and consultants under
the share bonus plan. 375,000 of these common shares valued at $768,750 were issued to related parties.
13. Loss (Earnings) Per Share
Loss (Earnings) per share, calculated on a basic and diluted basis, is as follows:
Loss (Earnings) per share
Basic
Diluted
Net loss (income) available to common shareholders – basic
Net loss (income) available to common shareholders – diluted
Weighted average number of shares outstanding
Weighted average number of shares outstanding – basic
Dilutive securities:
Share options
Weighted average number of shares outstanding – diluted
Year Ended June 30,
2014
2013
$
$
$
$
0.28 $
0.28 $
12,233,625 $
12,233,625 $
(0.76)
(0.76)
(33,157,809)
(33,157,809)
44,166,757
43,460,373
-
44,166,757
430,192
43,890,565
For the year ended June 30, 2014, exercisable common equivalent shares totalling 3,227,800 (year ended
June 30, 2013 – 5,012,033) consisting of shares issuable on the exercise of outstanding stock options and
share purchase warrants have been excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share because the
effect is anti-dilutive.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
14. Segmented Information
The Company’s business consists of a single reportable segment being mineral exploration and development.
Details on a geographical basis are as follows:
Total Non-Current Assets
Canada
Argentina
Chile
15. Income Taxes
June 30,
2014
49,858 $
2,727,426
195,115
2,972,399 $
June 30,
2013
29,385
2,769,722
199,524
2,998,631
$
$
The Company is subject to Canadian federal and provincial tax for the estimated assessable profit for the
years ended June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2013 at a rate of 26.00% and 25.25% respectively. The Company
has no assessable profit in Canada for the year ended June 30, 2014 but did so for the year ended June 30,
2013.
The tax expense at statutory rates for the Company can be reconciled to the reported income taxes per the
statement of loss and comprehensive loss as follows:
Net income (loss) before income taxes
Canadian federal and provincial income tax rates
Expected income tax expense (recovery) based on the above rates
Non-deductible expenses
Difference between Canadian and foreign tax rates
Tax effect of deferred tax assets for which no tax benefit has been
recorded
Deferred taxes transferred on sale of subsidiary
Foreign exchange and other
Total income tax expense (recovery)
Represented by:
Current income taxes
Deferred income taxes
Year Ended
June 30, 2014
Year Ended
June 30, 2013
(13,062,005) $
26.00%
37,281,118
25.25%
(3,396,121) $
336,203
1,141,477
9,413,482
(8,392,747)
1,791,570
1,036,034
-
54,027
(828,380) $
329,914
1,755,421
(774,331)
4,123,309
(828,380) $
-
(828,380) $
4,123,309
-
4,123,309
$
$
$
$
$
The Canadian Federal and provincial statutory income tax rate increased to 26.00% due to legislated
changes.
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Mirasol Resources Ltd.
(An Exploration Stage Company)
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
June 30, 2014
Canadian Funds
The Company’s unrecognized deferred tax assets are as follows:
Unrecognized deferred income tax assets:
Non-capital losses
Investments
Exploration and evaluation assets
Share issue costs
Other
Total unrecognized deferred income tax assets
June 30,
2014
429,980
1,832,384
6,272,786
136,573
803,636
9,475,359
$
$
June 30,
2013
505,764
1,646,399
5,360,872
233,711
692,579
8,439,325
$
$
In assessing the recoverability of deferred tax assets other than deferred tax assets resulting from the initial
recognition of assets and liabilities that do not affect accounting or taxable profit, management considers
whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized. The
ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during
the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible.
Deductible temporary differences, unused tax losses and unused tax credits:
Non-capital losses
Exploration and evaluation assets
Investments
Share issue costs
Other
June 30,
2014
June 30,
2013
Expiry date
Range
$
1,390,117 $
20,615,791
14,095,265
525,282
2,739,954
See below
1,583,734
16,859,992 Not applicable
12,664,608 Not applicable
2035 - 2036
2,157,315 Not applicable
898,888
For the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company has requested to carry back its non-capital and capital
losses to reduce the previous year’s taxable income. As a result, as at June 30, 2014, estimated income tax
refund of $802,428 is reflected as receivable in the Company’s statement of financial position (2013 – payable
of $4,123,309). During the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company paid CRA assessed net income taxes for
the year ended June 30, 2013 of $4,097,357, resulting in additional income tax recovery of $25,952.
The Company has non-capital loss carry-forwards of approximately $1,390,117 that may be available for tax
purposes. The loss carry-forwards are principally in respect of Canadian, Argentine and Chilean operations
and expire as follows:
2019
2020
2034
No-expiry
Argentina
156,707 $
786,842
-
-
943,549 $
$
$
Chile
-
-
-
446,568
446,568
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Form 51-102F1
Management Discussion and Analysis
For Mirasol Resources Ltd
Introduction
to supplement Mirasol Resources Ltd.’s (“Mirasol” or
The Management Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) is prepared as of October 17, 2014 and is
intended
the “Company”) audited
consolidated financial statements for the period ended June 30, 2014. All financial information,
unless otherwise indicated, has been prepared in accordance with the principles of International
Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board
(“IASB”). All dollar amounts referenced, unless otherwise indicated, are expressed in Canadian
funds.
The following discussion of the Company’s financial condition and results of operations should be
read in conjunction with its audited consolidated financial statements and related notes for the
period ended June 30, 2014.
For this financial year Mirasol has delivered the Schedule of Resource Property Costs with a new
break-up of cost centres that is aimed at providing a clearer understanding of which projects have
received the majority of spend for the year. This format also separates the project generation, an
activity that Mirasol regards as its research and development, from its exploration corporate and
management costs in Chile and Argentina.
Forward-Looking Information
This MD&A contains certain forward-looking statements and information relating to Mirasol that are
based on the beliefs of its management as well as assumptions made by and information currently
available to the Company. When used in this document, the words “anticipate”, “believe”,
“estimate”, “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to Mirasol or its management, are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. This MD&A contains forward-looking statements
relating to, among other things, the Company’s goals and plans going forward, regulatory
compliance, the sufficiency of current working capital, and the estimated cost and availability of
funding for the continued exploration and development of the Company’s exploration properties.
Such statements reflect the current views of Mirasol with respect to future events and are subject
to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many factors could cause the actual results,
performance or achievement of the Company to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements.
Overview
Mirasol (TSXV-MRZ) is an exploration and development company focused on the discovery and
acquisition of new, high-potential gold, silver and copper deposits in Chile and Argentina. The
Company operates exploration activities in South America via its subsidiaries; Minera Del Sol S.A.,
Cabo Sur S.A., Australis S.A., and Nueva Gran Victoria S.A. in Argentina, and Minera Mirasol Chile
Limitada, in Chile. Mirasol offers its shareholders access to growth via a portfolio of 100%-owned
high-quality exploration-stage projects in regions with high potential for mineral discovery. Mirasol
negotiates strong joint venture agreements with quality mining companies, attracting investment to
advance its projects, manage shareholder dilution and reduce exploration risk.
1
Mirasol Resources remains in a strong position with 44.2 million shares on issue, $17.5 million in
cash (October 17, 2014) and just over 1 million shares in Coeur Mining Inc. (“Coeur”) as a result of
the Joaquin project sale in December 2012. These funds allow Mirasol to continue quality
exploration without diluting its share structure during a challenging time for the minerals industry.
Mirasol’s directors and management see this continuity of exploration activity as a competitive
advantage and management is striving to take advantage of this opportunity while reviewing other
corporate activities to build opportunities for shareholder wealth creation.
Mirasol is managed by a group of experienced, discovery focused and successful industry
professionals who recognize that strategic management of an exploration budget is key to
delivering exploration success. However, Mirasol also recognizes the importance of maintaining a
sustainable level of exploration expenditures, and accordingly, has implemented a number of
budget directives during the financial year 2014 that will extend into 2015, to reduce overall
exploration expenditure spending to levels of $5.5 to $6.0 million per year. The impact of these
directives is evidenced in the reduced total exploration and evaluation costs from $8.3 million in
fiscal 2013 to $6.7 million in fiscal 2014 (see Note 9 to the accompanying consolidated financial
statements).
Mirasol continues to direct a larger proportion of its exploration budget into Chile, reducing
spending in Argentina with total exploration costs for the financial year 2014 of $4.06 and $2.65
million respectively (See Note 9 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements). This
trend reflects a strategic decision made in 2010 to reactivate Mirasol’s Chilean program together
with successfully securing a joint venture partner at the Company’s Rubi property and the
discovery of the Atlas and Titan gold projects in the Gorbea Belt. Chile will remain the focus of the
Company’s exploration program for the financial year 2015. However, Mirasol retains a long term
commitment to Argentina and views the current downturn in exploration investment as an
opportunity for strategic counter-cyclic activity in quality projects with low holding costs. The
company is also actively seeking joint venture partners to advance its quality gold and silver
projects in Argentina and will initiate field reviews with potential partners during the South
American summer season.
Mirasol holds 100% of the mineral exploration rights to a large portfolio (Figure1) of highly
prospective properties focused in two mining regions with rich metal endowment; Santa Cruz
Province in southern Argentina and the Atacama region of Northern Chile. Both regions have
historically delivered world-class gold, silver and copper ore bodies. Mirasol’s management
believe that well directed exploration can deliver further discoveries of this calibre in these focus
regions.
The Company’s activities in the Santa Cruz Region, Argentina:
Mirasol owns 100% of the large Claudia gold-silver project which hosts the strike extension
of the adjoining world class Cerro Vanguardia vein field, where since 1998 AngloGold
Ashanti have operated a large open pit and underground mine. Mirasol’s Claudia project
hosts five exploration prospects including the recently recognized 14-kilometre-long
Curahue vein trend.
Mirasol owns 100% of the La Curva gold project where Mirasol has recognized a new gold-
silver district, outlining four separate large area drill-ready gold prospects which host high
grade surface gold assays, strong geophysical anomalies, and in a prospective geological
setting.
Mirasol owns 100% of the high grade Virginia epithermal silver project where Mirasol’s
drilling has outlined high grade silver mineralization in seven deposits (shoots). Recent
surface exploration has defined 10 drill-ready targets to test for additional mineralization.
2
Mirasol owns 100% of the mineral rights to over 17 additional precious metal properties,
many with drill-ready targets defined.
The Company’s activities in the Atacama Region, Chile:
Mirasol owns the Rubi porphyry project located in the El Salvador copper-gold mining
district and has signed a definitive Option and Joint Venture Agreement with First Quantum
Minerals Ltd. (“First Quantum”) for the exploration and development of the project.
Mirasol owns 100% of the exploration mineral rights to nine precious metal properties that
define the new Gorbea Belt, including the Atlas and Titan epithermal gold silver projects,
within a portion of the Company’s “Miocene Volcanic Arc” generative program.
Mirasol operates an earn-in JV agreement with a private Chilean company, the Frontera JV,
where Mirasol can earn a controlling interest in a portfolio of early-stage exploration
properties that fall within the “Miocene Volcanic Arc” generative program and are in some
cases contiguous with Mirasol’s 100%-owned Gorbea Belt projects. The JV includes claims
that are located in the same belt as Gold Fields’ new Salares Norte discovery which hosts a
mineral resource of 23.3 Mt at 4.2 g/t gold and 44.8 g/t silver.
Figure 1: Location of Mirasol Resources Exploration Projects.
3
Mirasol’s goals and objectives for 2015 financial year are as follows;
Advance the Rubi porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum property in Chile through to drill
testing via its strong JV with copper producer First Quantum.
Secure a strong JV with a quality exploration partner for the Gorbea Belt projects in Chile
that will include drilling key targets at Atlas and potentially at other projects in 2015.
Seek JV partners to explore and drill test a range of permissive, drill-ready targets outlined
by Mirasol’s exploration at Claudia and La Curva in Argentina.
To deliver a National Instrument (“NI”) 43-101 compliant initial resource for its high-grade
Virginia silver project in Santa Cruz and seek a JV partner to advance the project through
drill testing of the new exploration targets identified by Mirasol in the financial year 2014.
Re-initiate Mirasol’s project generative pipeline. Primarily focused in the world class
porphyry and epithermal belts of Chile, but also where appropriate to secure quality projects
in Argentina with low holding cost as part of counter-cyclic investment strategy.
Advance the Frontera JV by completing first-pass reconnaissance sampling of this package
of early-stage exploration claims that lie with the highly prospective Miocene- age volcanic
arc of northern Chile.
Consider a range of external opportunities for accretive value creation and future growth.
Highlights for the Year Ended June 30, 2014
On May 1, 2014, Mary L. Little resigned as the CEO of the Company and Stephen C. Nano was
appointed as the new CEO. Both Ms. Little and Mr. Nano are co-founders of the Company, and
each has played significant and integral roles in the development and exploration achievements of
the Company. Ms. Little will continue to serve as director and a consultant to the Company.
On March 1, 2014, the Company announced a transition of the day-to-day management of the
Company from Mary L. Little, the President, CEO, and director to Stephen C. Nano, who has
served as Vice President of Exploration for the past 10 years. Under the first stage of this
succession plan, Mr. Nano was appointed as a director and the President of the Company.
On February 26, 2014, Mirasol announced that it had identified what it believes to be a new
precious metal district in Chile, the Gorbea Belt. The Atlas and Titan projects are the most
advanced of nine 100%-owned, precious metal projects comprising the Gorbea Belt property
portfolio that is a sub-region within Mirasol’s Chilean Miocene Volcanic Arc generative program.
Mirasol also announced assay results from new surface sampling at the Atlas project. These
results expanded the footprint of the Atlas Gold Zone (“AGZ”) and Atlas Silver Zone (“ASZ”)
prospects, with assays up to 492.0 g/t Ag from the ASZ. This phase of sampling also identified
new prospects at Atlas, outlined by rock float and outcrop assays of up to 2.91 g/t Au and 2,470.0
g/t Ag.
On February 24, 2014, the Company reported that First Quantum, under the terms of the new JV
letter agreement (see news release September 18, 2013), had commenced an aggressive
exploration program at Mirasol’s Rubi copper – gold porphyry project, with a 2,460 line-km
helicopter-borne magnetic survey. This survey identified magnetic anomalies in the Portezuelo
and Lithocap targets that are consistent with large-scale alteration systems, potentially associated
with porphyry style mineralization. The magnetic survey also outlined additional magnetic features
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under gravel cover in the Pampa Del Inca plain and at the Corner Zone prospect that represent
new exploration targets.
On February 21, 2014, a NI 43-101 technical report for the Company’s Virginia silver project was
filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). This presented drill results that outlined seven silver vein shoots
drilled to date and initial metallurgical results from the higher -grade silver vein/ breccia
mineralization, and lower- grade halo material. The report also outlined 21 new undrilled targets
that warrant priority further exploration, including 10 new target areas that are classified as drill-
ready. These targets significantly expand the potential scope of the Virginia vein zone for
discovery of new silver mineralization.
On January 23, 2014, Mirasol Resources announced results of an aggressive exploration program
at its La Curva gold project in southern Argentina, where four large-scale undrilled gold-silver
prospects have been identified. Mirasol's exploration suggests that the La Curva project may be
part of a newly recognized, large, low-sulphidation precious metal district. This announcement
also presented results of an IP electrical geophysical survey and a mapping and sampling program
at the Cerro Chato prospect. This outlined a large covered chargeable and resistive geophysical
anomaly centered on small hill with a defined 670 m by 450 m zone of silica replacement of
volcanic rock. Rock chip sampling of isolated, centimetre wide veinlets, breccia outcrop and float
across the hill returned assays up to 8.69 g/t Au and 5.6 g/t Ag. These mineralized structures may
represent geochemical leakage from the covered geophysical anomaly.
On November 25, 2013, the Company reported results from a 15 hole, 3,218 m reverse circulation
(“RC”) drill program at its 100%-owned Titan gold project, in the prospective Miocene-aged gold-
copper belt of northern Chile. This drill program provided a first-pass test of a number of
geochemical, geophysical and conceptual geological targets. Fourteen of the 15 drill holes
returned oxide gold intersections at an 0.1 g/t cut off, including a best length-weighted average
down hole intersection of 44 m at 1.21 g/t Au from hole TIRC_01B. Higher-grade oxide gold
intersections calculated using a 0.25 g/t Au cut-off included:
Hole TIRC_01B with 18 m at 2.16 g/t Au, including 10 m at 3.85 g/t Au
Hole TIRC_05A with 10 m at 1.87 g/t Au including 8 m at 2.24 g/t Au
Hole TIRC_02 with 24 m at 0.63 g/t Au including 12 m at 0.86 g/t Au
On September 11, 2013, the Company signed a binding Letter Agreement with First Quantum
which permits First Quantum to a earn a 55% interest on the Rubi property by expending US $6.5
million over four years and US $1.1 million in staged cash payments. The exploration expenditure
commitment during the first year is US $1.5 million which will include conducting a geophysical
survey of the claims and 3,000 m of drilling.
Highlights Subsequent to the Year Ended June 30, 2014
On September 3, 2014, the Company provided an exploration update on its Rubi porphyry copper -
gold JV with First Quantum. First Quantum has been conducting an aggressive surface exploration
program under the terms of a binding Letter Agreement, spending approximately US $680,000 in
the September 2013 to June 2014 period. An archeological and environmental management plan,
and drill proposal, was submitted to the Chilean authorities in July 2014.
In August 2014 First Quantum was granted an exploration drill permit for the Rubi project and has
subsequently let the drill contact to Geotec Bolyes a well-recognized Chilean drill company with
over 35 years’ experience in drilling in the Atacama region.
It is anticipated that drilling of the phase 1 targets at Rubi will start in Q2 of the financial year 2015.
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On August 14, 2014, the Company signed the definitive Option and Joint Venture Agreement (the
"Definitive Agreement") with its partner, First Quantum for the exploration and development of its
100%-owned, 13,659 hectare Rubi Property, located in the El Salvador copper-gold mining district
of Region III, northern Chile (see September 18, 2013 update below).
The Definitive Agreement requires First Quantum to make an exploration expenditure commitment
of at least US $1.5 million by the first year anniversary of the signing of this agreement, with a
minimum exploration commitment which includes a project-wide magnetic geophysical survey and
3,000 m of core drilling on the Rubi Property. The Definitive Agreement provides for First Quantum
to earn a 55% interest in the Rubi Property upon completion of a US $6.5 million investment in
exploration over four years from the date of signing the Definitive Agreement including at least US
$1.1 million in annual staged cash payments following the first year. After the initial earn-in, First
Quantum’ participating interest may be increased to 65% on completing, within an additional two
years, a NI 43-101 compliant technical report, including an indicated resource estimate and
Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of more than 1.0 million tonnes of contained Cu metal,
using a 0.20% cut-off grade. First Quantum may further increase its interest to 75% by declaring a
"decision to mine", and will provide mine financing to Mirasol at commercial terms if requested by
Mirasol, to include interest calculated at LIBOR+4% and the repayment of Mirasol's proportion of
mine finance is to be made from 50% of the cash flow to which it is entitled.
On July 23, 2014, the Company reported advancing Atlas AGZ prospect in the Miocene belt of
Chile with new rock chip and trench gold - silver results (also see July 18, 2014 update below):
At the AGZ prospect surface rock chip sampling has outlined an 800 by 500 m area hosting
multiple gold-anomalous quartz-alunite alteration trends, with 55 of 473 rock chips assaying
between 1.0 and 50.3 g/t gold.
Detailed re-sampling of existing AGZ trenches which lie within the area of the rock chip gold
anomaly returned best length-weighted average channel samples of:
o 8.4 m at 1.85 g/t Au and 0.5 g/t Ag
o 11.3 m at 1.32 g/t Au and 7.3 g/t Ag
o 14.9 m at 1.67 g/t Au and 0.6 g/t Ag
Highest individual channel samples from the re-sampled trenches include 1.2 m at 8.85 g/t
Au and 45.8 g/t Ag, and 1.0 m at 5.63 g/t Au and 5.13 g/t Ag.
On July 18, 2014, the Company reported high-grade gold and silver assays associated with
geophysical anomalies at the Atlas project in Chile. At season's end approximately 80% of the +25
sq. km Atlas alteration system had been systematically reconnaissance sampled with over 2,479
surface rock chip and 334 stream sediment samples collected this season These results have
expanded the dimensions and upgraded the potential of the AGZ and the ASZ prospects as well as
defining a large gold-silver anomaly at the new Pampa prospect. Highlights of the results are as
follows:
ASZ prospect - Rock chip samples from this silver-enriched zone outline 700 m long trend
with hydrothermal breccia and silicified tuffs returning new silver results up to 215.0 g/t Ag
and anomalous gold from recent sampling.
Atlas Pampa prospect - Float and subcrop rock chip samples have outlined this new gold-
silver prospect.
An IP electrical geophysical survey over the central part of the Atlas alteration system
outlined a series of large highly resistive anomalies spatially associated with gold-silver
bearing surface rock chips.
Mirasol is very encouraged by the results received this season from the Atlas project where
exploration to date has identified anomalous gold and silver mineralization in multiple centres over
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a 6.7 sq. km area, in what is emerging as a large precious metal system with potential to develop
multiple drill targets.
Activities During the Financial Year 2014 - Project Generation
Generative exploration is a key strategy employed by Mirasol for identifying and acquiring new
prospects. Mirasol considers both acquisition of other company properties via outright purchase or
earn-in JV, and staking of open-ground opportunities via concept-driven project generation to be
project generative activities. Concept-driven target generation leading to open-ground staking is a
core speciality of the Company. This approach has delivered to Mirasol the vast majority of its
project portfolio in Chile and Argentina and is considered a cost effective way to build shareholder
value.
For accounting purposes costs of generative exploration are not attributable to specific Mirasol
projects but are consolidated under separate project generation cost centres for Chile and
Argentina. When Mirasol applies for exploration claims to secure a target area it is deemed to be a
new project. Expenditure is then accounted for under a separate new cost code for each new
project secured. This year Mirasol has reformatted the presentation of the financial statements
(see Note 9 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements) so that expenditure on project
generation is identified. For the financial year 2014 Mirasol invested $571,507 in Chile and $30,478
in Argentina on other company evaluations and project generative activities.
Acquisition of other company properties
During the 2014 financial reporting period Mirasol undertook evaluation of a range of other
company properties in Chile and elsewhere, with the objective of identifying projects for acquisition.
This program is staffed by senior Chilean geologists that have extensive knowledge of Andean
mineral deposits and large contact networks in the exploration and mining industry to leverage.
This aspect of our generative activity is primarily targeting pre-drill through to pre-resource stage
precious metal and copper projects where Mirasol can leverage its technical skill and investment
exploration fund to deliver a potential large-scale discovery. These activities are targeting
epithermal precious metal and porphyry copper gold deposits of the three principal Tertiary age
mineral belts in Chile – Paleocene, Oligocene and Miocene.
Other company property evaluations during the financial year 2014 have identified several projects
with permissive geologic features suggesting the potential for large undiscovered mineral systems.
Mirasol’s management is planning to undertake discussions with the property owners to determine
if commercially acceptable deals terms can be reached for these properties.
Concept- driven project generation
Mirasol is recognized as one of the more successful project generation companies reflecting its
discovery record and strong project portfolio. Mirasol’s reputation as a project generator is built on
the successful application of innovative concept-driven project generation integrated with high
quality field geology that turns targets into quality projects. Mirasol’s Joaquin and Virginia silver
discoveries were outcomes of this generative process, as is the large project portfolio in Santa
Cruz and the Atacama. Mirasol leverages this skill set with strong earn-in JV deals with high
calibre mining companies to deliver the potential for shareholder wealth creation through discovery.
Mirasol has previously undertaken two concept-driven target generation efforts in Chile. The first
during 2007 and 2008 led to the staking of the Rubi project, currently being evaluated under JV to
First Quantum. The second concept driven effort in 2010 to 2012 led to the staking of the nine
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Gorbea Belt properties including the discovery of the Atlas and Titan gold – silver systems, which
are currently the subject of JV negotiations with several quality mining companies.
While Mirasol has not undertaken new concept-driven generative exploration in Chile during the
financial year 2014, the Company has commenced acquiring and compiling new data sets with the
goal of initiating a new generative program in Chile during the financial year 2015. This program
will be primarily focused in the Oligocene and Miocene age volcanic belts targeting giant
epithermal precious metal and porphyry deposits.
Activities the Financial Year 2014 - Mineral Projects
The Company carries out early-stage exploration for gold, silver and copper in Chile and Argentina.
Properties are advanced through surface exploration to a stage where the Company can attract the
participation of major resource companies that have the expertise and financial capability to test
and advance these properties to commercial production. Where the drill targets defined by this
work are considered to be of exceptional calibre Mirasol may elect to drill properties with its own
funds, as was the case at Virginia in Argentina and Titan in Chile.
As previously discussed, during the financial year 2014 Mirasol refocused the Company’s spend
into Chile, evident in the Company’s exploration spend on its mineral projects which totalled $2.34
million in Chile and $1.31 million in Argentina.
In Argentina expenditures were predominately directed to the Claudia, La Curva and Virginia
projects for surface mapping, sampling and geophysics programs designed to identify new drill
targets and to prepare these projects to be offered for JV in the financial year 2015. Field work on
these projects was completed by November 2013. Subsequent work in the financial year 2014 on
these projects has been limited to processing and desk top integrated analysis of the information to
refine drill targets.
In Chile, exploration funds were primarily directed to the nine 100%-owned Gorbea Belt gold silver
projects and initial reconnaissance of one of the Frontera JV claims that adjoins Mirasol’s Titan
project.
Mirasol also presented its nine, 100%-owned Gorbea Projects (including Atlas and Titan) to
number of high calibre potential JV partner companies as a belt play. This process included field
reviews of the projects with number of industry-leading precious metal producers. As a result
Mirasol has received several competitive JV offers that match the investment and exploration
objectives of the Company. Mirasol is finalizing discussions and deal terms, with the object of
selecting a JV partner so that exploration of these projects, under the terms of the JV, can
proceed during the southern hemisphere summer season of October 2014 to May 2015.
Titan Property, Gorbea Belt Chile
The Titan property was staked by and is 100%-held by the Company and comprises approximately
5,500 hectares. Mineralization at Titan is related to a gold and silver bearing, high-sulphidation
epithermal alteration system that shows some geological evidence that suggests a relation to a
deeper porphyry target or intrusive center.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
Mirasol's exploration at Titan for the reporting period has been focused on detailed remapping of
the original 3,285 m of trenching, mapping of the surface geology and selected sampling of the
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different mineralizing phases seen in the breccias at the project. A new high resolution (0.5 m
pixel) Pleiades satellite image as been acquired as a mapping base for this work.
This exploration is aimed at providing detailed geological context to interpret the oxide gold drill
intersections from last season’s drilling and to assist in developing an exploration model for the
deeper conceptual porphyry target that may exist at the project.
Summary of previous Mirasol exploration at Titan
Mirasol published geochemical results from surface trenching and rock chip channel sampling
conducted at Titan as part of its first-pass exploration (news release January 21, 2013).
Original reconnaissance samples from the project returned assays up to 1.60 g/t Au from outcrops
and small hand-dug pits. Mirasol also completed a 3,285 m mechanical surface trenching program
which defined a gold anomaly at Titan in excess of 700 by 660 m in extent. The trench sampling
defined multiple intervals in-excess of 100 m in length of anomalous gold mineralization, with the
best averaging 0.41 g/t Au over 194 m. At a 0.1 g/t Au cut-off, the results included 132 m at 0.55
g/t, 80 m at 0.56 g/t, 24 m at 0.95 g/t and 10 m at 2.93 g/t Au.
Mirasol completed a 17.2 sq-km high-resolution ground magnetics survey and a 26.6 line-km pole-
dipole IP electrical geophysical survey at the project (news release March 1, 2013). Results from
these surveys were consistent with the Company's geological concept model of a near-surface
epithermal gold-bearing zone positioned over a postulated mineralized intrusion at depth. Such
systems are known to host economic precious and base-metals mineralization elsewhere in this
belt.
The Company also completed a 15 hole, 3,218 m RC drill program during the financial year 2014
(news release November 25, 2013). This program provided a first-pass test of a number of
geochemical, geophysical and conceptual geological targets. Fourteen of the 15 completed drill
holes returned oxide gold intersections at an 0.1 g/t cut off, including a best length-weighted
average down hole intersection of 44 m at 1.21 g/t Au from hole TIRC_01B. Higher grade oxide
gold intersections calculated using a 0.25 g/t Au cut-off included
Hole TIRC_01B with 18 m at 2.16 g/t Au, including 10 m at 3.85 g/t Au
Hole TIRC_05A with 10 m at 1.87 g/t Au including 8 m at 2.24 g/t Au
Hole TIRC_02 with 24 m at 0.63 g/t Au including 12 m at 0.86 g/t Au
Intense alteration related to the Titan mineralizing system, combined with strong surface
weathering and related oxidation that is typical of northern Chile, has produced very friable rock in
the near surface. In areas of more intense hydrothermal alteration, which are often associated with
gold mineralization, the rock can have a fine-grained, powdery texture which is difficult to drill with
reliable sampling. Consequently, drill sample recovery calculations as reported have significant
inherent uncertainties, principally related to the low number of actual specific gravity (SG)
determinations of the sample material used in the calculations. While this is common in the early-
stages of project exploration, it could mean that the calculated, reported, recoveries may improve
or be downgraded as more data is gathered.
Atlas Project, Gorbea Belt Chile
Atlas is a 100%-owned exploration property located adjacent to the Company’s Titan gold project
in the Miocene-aged volcanic belt of northern Chile. The Atlas project covers a high-sulphidation
epithermal precious metal system that shows some geological similarities to mineralization at
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Kinross's La Coipa mine (located 150 km to the south) by virtue of its high-grade silver content,
classic high- sulphidation epithermal mineralisation style and similar age of mineralization.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
In February Mirasol announced assay results from new surface sampling at the Atlas project
completed over the 2013 October to December period. These results expanded the foot print of
the AGZ and ASZ prospects, with assays up to 492.0 g/t Ag from the ASZ. This phase of sampling
also identified new prospects at Atlas, outlined by rock float and outcrop assays of up to 2.91 g/t
Au and 2,470.0 g/t Ag.
Mirasol continued the aggressive reconnaissance program of the large Atlas alteration system over
the January to May period 2014, collecting an additional 1,180 surface rock chip samples and
completing a detailed stream sediment program over the claims area. The rock chip and stream
sediment program was aimed at extending the mineralized foot print of the known prospects and
undertaking first-pass sampling of previously unprospected areas within the claims block. This
work has outlined a zone of subcroping, northwest trending vuggy silica structures and breccias
which are textually similar to gold-bearing structures exposed in last season’s trenching in the
AGZ. Assay results from the January to May exploration are being received and collated and will
be reported in the near future.
A detailed remapping and resampling program was also completed for the trenches excavated
during last season’s exploration. This will provide an improved understanding of the structural
controls on mineralization and has demonstrated a strong association of gold mineralization in the
Atlas Gold Zone with classic vuggy silica structures and brecciated / rebrecciated vuggy silica
zones with coarsely crystalline alunite cement, typical of classic high-sulphidation epithermal
mineralization. The majority of precious metal mineralization encountered to date at Atlas is
strongly oxidized, suggesting the potential for oxide gold and silver targets to be outlined at the
project.
A 5.4 sq- km IP electrical geophysical survey covering the AGZ and ASZ prospects and new zones
of mineralization identified by this field season’s exploration was completed in mid-May. This data
is being processed and once compete will be analysed in conjunction with the assays and new
geological information for drill target selection.
A new high resolution (0.5 m pixel) Pleiades satellite image was acquired for the Atlas project area.
Processing of the image is complete and will provide a detailed base for geological mapping.
Summary of previous Mirasol exploration at Atlas
Exploration for the 2013 financial year outlined two separate areas of at-surface precious metal
anomalies: the AGZ, and the nearby ASZ which is located 2 km south of the AGZ. Five trenches
were completed at these prospects as a follow-up of gold and silver rock chip anomalies.
Preliminary geological interpretation of the results suggested that the mineralized zones found at
AGZ and ASZ may extend under adjacent thin cover, beyond the limit of current trenching. The
distribution of gold plus silver anomalous surface rock chips also highlighted other potential targets
in the AGZ and ASZ prospects that warrant trenching. PIMA (hand held infrared mineral
spectrometer) analyses of the mineralized trench samples showed an advanced argillic alteration
mineral assemblage typical of high-sulphidation epithermal precious metal systems.
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The Frontera JV, Miocene Arc program Chile
In the financial year 2013, the Company signed a definitive exploration and option agreement (the
Frontera JV) with an arms-length private Chilean company, to explore a portfolio of prospective,
early-stage mineral properties that fall within the Miocene Volcanic Arc generative program in
northern Chile. These claims are in some cases contiguous with Mirasol’s 100%-owned Gorbea
Belt projects and cover all or parts of up to 15 alteration systems that have received little previous
exploration.
The Frontera JV provides for Mirasol to earn a 51% interest in any, or all, of the exploration
properties by expending US $3 million within a four year period which commenced on December
26, 2012, of which US $300,000 was committed to be spent in the first year (completed). After
vesting, each party will contribute in proportion to its equity position. Should a discovery be put
into production, a 1.5% net smelter return royalty (“NSR”) is payable by Mirasol to its venture
partner from Mirasol’s percentage of production, capped at 51% of total production. If either party
dilutes below 10% interest, ownership will convert to a 1% NSR.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
To date Mirasol’s in field exploration in the Frontera JV properties has been focused on the
Vaquillas claims that are contiguous with the northern portion of the Titan project. Vaquillas covers
an area of hydrothermal alteration evident on satellite imagery that has not previously been
systematically sampled for precious metal mineralization. Mirasol has undertaken an integrated
remote sensing alteration targeting study at Vaquillas and completed a systematic rock chip and
detailed stream sediment sampling program over the altered areas. Results from this program are
being collated and analysed.
Rubi porphyry JV project, Chile
The Rubi property in northern Chile, covering more than 13,000 hectares, was initially staked in
December 2006 and is located in the Paleocene - Oligocene metallogenic belt which hosts some of
the world’s largest porphyry copper deposits. The Rubi project is located adjacent to two large
porphyry copper - gold mining districts in what Mirasol believes is an underexplored section of one
of the world's more productive porphyry copper belts. Mirasol will continue to report on progress
toward drill testing of the Rubi Project as new information is received.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
On September 11, 2013, the Company signed a binding Letter Agreement with First Quantum
which permits First Quantum to a earn a 55% interest on the Rubi property by expending US $6.5
million over four years and US $1.1 million in staged cash payments. The exploration expenditure
commitment during the first year is US $1.5 million to include a magnetic survey of the claims and
3,000 m of drilling.
For the period September 2013 to June 2014 (see news release September 3, 2014), First
Quantum have undertaken aggressive exploration program spending approximately US $680,000
completing;
A 2,460 line-km, detailed, low-altitude, helicopter-borne magnetic (helimag) survey covering
the entire Rubi property and immediate surrounding lands.
Processing of the detailed helicopter magnetics survey of the project with leading-edge 3D
modelling software to highlight structure and potential exploration target areas.
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An extensive property-wide soil survey using both conventional soil samples in areas of
locally derived soils and enzyme partial leach technique in the gravel-covered areas. The
partial leach technique was applied in the gravel areas, as under some circumstances this
approach can detect mineralization through transported overburden.
Soil buffer capacity (acidity) was also measured as an additional technique to potentially
detect buried areas of oxidizing sulphide mineralization.
A gravity survey covering much of the property was completed and combined with field
observations to model the depth of gravel cover over the majority of the property. These
results suggest that much of the project is covered by zero to less than 100 metres of
gravel. This is considered relatively thin cover for modern Chilean porphyry exploration. The
gravity model will be used to help prioritize targets in the shallower cover areas for drill
testing.
Outcropping areas of alteration were surveyed with grid-based hand-held infrared
spectrometer measurements. This information is used to identify alteration mineral species
and changes in chemical composition and degree of crystallinity of these minerals. A
combination of these factors can be used to vector towards more prospective parts of a
mineralized system. Systematic geological mapping and rock chip sampling was also
completed over the main prospects where outcropping alteration is evident.
Initial integrated analysis of the new data sets by First Quantum has highlighted eight preliminary
target areas in the Rubi claims. These include;
1. Refining of targets in the Lithocap, Corner Zone and Portezuelo areas originally identified
by Mirasol; and
2. A number of prospective new target areas identified within the large gravel-covered plain at
the centre of the project.
Mirasol's management are pleased with the exploration approach and outcomes to-date from the
First Quantum program at Rubi. This work has increased the number of potential targets and has
built a strong knowledge-base to leverage final drill target selection.
Summary of previous Mirasol exploration at Rubi
During 2008, Mirasol consolidated its mineral land position at Rubi and conducted additional
detailed mapping, sampling and re-interpretation of the area’s geology, resulting in the recognition
of two high-priority prospects, Lithocap and Portezuelo and the recognition of gravel covered
conceptual targets at the Pampa del Inca plain and Corner Zone prospects. Lithocap is an
altered and mineralized target which returned copper, molybdenum and gold anomalies in surface
and stream sediment samples, and suggests the potential for a porphyry copper (gold) system
may exist, partially covered by post-mineral gravels (news release June 12, 2007). Portezuelo is
an outcropping copper-mineralized sheeted vein system that requires mapping and an electrical
geophysical survey to refine drill targets.
Virginia Project, Santa Rita Property, Argentina
The Virginia Santa Rita property comprises “manifestaciones de descubrimiento”1 and exploration
“cateos”2 located in the northwestern sector of the Deseado Massif volcanic terrain of southern
1 “Manifestacion de descubrimiento”, or simply “M.D.” is the second level of mineral property in Argentina, after Cateo, and must be
registered with a “discovery” location. An M.D. may be converted into the third level, "mina" on completion of certain requirements.
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“Cateo” is the initial stage of exploration mineral property which can be staked in Argentina. The maximum size of an individual cateo
is 10 km by 10 km.
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Argentina. The Virginia high-grade, silver vein zone was discovered at the Santa Rita property
following-up priority exploration targets generated by Mirasol consultants from satellite imagery.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
Mirasol filed a NI 43-101 technical report on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) for the Virginia silver
property in February 2014.
This report details results of initial metallurgical tests on composited material from seven quartz
vein shoots at the Virginia vein system. Non-optimized recoveries for higher-grade mineralized
vein material, using two conventional technologies of agitated leach and flotation, yielded silver
recoveries of 75% to 81%, which fall within the expected range of recoveries for similar deposits for
this stage of test work. Metallurgical testing on peripheral lower-grade material returned
significantly lower recoveries. Test work to date has not been able to improve recoveries in the low
grade halo mineralization.
An extensive evaluation of all exploration data for the Virginia project and immediate surrounds
identified 21 priority target areas of further detailed exploration. Eleven of these target zones
require trenching and further surface work to define drill targets. Ten of these targets are
considered drill-ready; in some cases have high-grade silver in surface trenching, or are
associated with well-developed veining that may at current outcrop expressions represent a the
low-grade top of potentially concealed silver shoots. These targets significantly expand the foot
print of the Virginia silver system outside the area that have been drill tested to date.
Mirasol intends to seek a strategic partner to test these new targets and advance exploration on
the known silver shoots at the Virginia Project.
Summary of previous Mirasol exploration at Virginia
On January 6, 2010, the Company reported initial results at Virginia from 30 rock chip samples
taken over a two-km length of the Julia Vein sector. The average silver grade of the initial 30 chip
samples was 645 g/t Ag, and on February 16, 2010, Mirasol reported assays ranging up to 3,170
g/t Ag from rock chip sampling of the Julia vein and surrounding veins.
Sawn channel samples from all 58 of the Julia vein channels averaged 805 g/t Ag (news release
March 4, 2010). Ground geophysical surveys, including magnetics and gradient array IP, were
completed.
Additional press releases in May and June, 2010, reported significant silver values had been
returned from sampling of additional veins at Virginia which parallel, and surround, the Julia vein.
These veins include the Ely, Naty, Margarita and Roxane. Outlying veins were also discovered to
the east and northwest of the principal vein zone. The Virginia discovery presently has more than
9 km of exposed and/or interpreted vein length.
From 2010 through mid-2011, Mirasol drill campaigns systematically tested 1,780 m of veining
strike-length outlined at Virginia. These diamond drilling campaigns totalled 9,266 m in 117 drill
holes, and four distinct silver deposits at Julia North, Julia Central, Julia South and Naty veins were
defined. The vein shoots comprised potentially economic silver grades and widths at a nominal drill
spacing of 50 m by 50 m, or closer. Mirasol re-drilled a total of 22 of the holes to try and improve
core recoveries; results from 14 of these re-drilled holes included significant silver intersections
with excellent core recovery, among them:
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Julia North: VG-6A, with 24.27 m of 326 g/t Ag (96% core recovery), including 5.48 m of
1,038 g/t Ag (98% recovery).
Julia Central: VG-50A, with 28.25m of 220 g/t Ag (98% percent recovery), including 18.11
m of 303 g/t Ag (96% recovery).
In addition, encouraging intersections from “scout” holes drilled at Naty Extension, Ely South and
Martina indicated several zones of high priority for follow-up drilling (news release July 18, 2011).
In October 2011, the Company commenced a new diamond drilling program to test new veins, vein
extensions, and to try and expand the Virginia project’s resource for potential additional shallow
oxide silver deposits. This program expanded drilling in the areas successfully tested by scout
holes. Highlights included (news release January 26, 2012):
Naty Extension: 1.5 m of 797 g/t Ag (VG-096); 2.0 m of 214 g/t Ag, including a 0.3 m
interval of 1,195 g/t Ag (VG-097).
Martina: 3.8 m of 155 g/t Ag within a longer intercept of 25.4 m grading 61 g/t Ag (VG-
119B); 10.9 m of 63 g/t Ag which included a high-grade interval of 1.1 m of 141 g/t Ag (VG-
122A).
Ely South: 21.8 m of 79 g/t Ag, including a 1.9 m interval of 495 g/t Ag (VG-113); and 18.2
m of 63 g/t Ag, with a high-grade 4.5 m interval of 109 g/t Ag (VG-111). 26.9 m (estimated
true thickness of 15.0m) of 135 g/t Ag, which included a 1.19 m bonanza grade interval of
1,760 g/t Ag (VG-127); and 28.0 m (estimated true thickness of 18.4 m) grading 195 g/t
Ag, which included a 4.6 m interval of 493 g/t Ag (VG-138). Final results from Phase IV
drilling were published on June 25, 2012.
La Curva Property, Argentina
The La Curva property comprises four exploration cateos totalling 36,721 hectares, located in the
eastern Deseado Massif, and has year round access from the paved national highway.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
Mirasol announced results of a property-wide exploration program at its La Curva gold project in
southern Argentina, where four large-scale undrilled gold-silver prospects have been identified at
Cerro Chato, Loma Arthur, Southwest and Curva West. The program included 57 sq-km of
geological mapping, 630 rock chip samples, over 108 line-km of pole-dipole IP and 77.3 sq-km of
ground magnetics. Results were presented for an IP electrical geophysical survey and a mapping
and sampling program at the Cerro Chato prospect.
Cerro Chato exploration outlined a 1,700 m by 1,000 m argillic-silica alteration zone centered on a
670 m by 450 m zone of silica replacement of a laminated volcanic rock. Rock chip sampling of
isolated centimetre wide veinlets, breccia outcrop and float across the zone returned assays up to
8.69 g/t Au and 5.6 g/t Ag.
The geophysical survey defined a 2,100 m by 1,200 m chargeability anomaly (+ 10 mV/V)
underlying the alteration zone and extending out under gravel cover. Additionally, the survey
outlined a 1,000 m by 650 m resistive body (+ 200 ohm-m) centered under mapped alteration and
coincident with the core of the stronger (+20 mV/V) chargeability anomaly. Chargeability and
resistivity anomalies of this magnitude can indicate sulphide and silica bodies, and may represent
zones of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization underlying the Cerro Chato hill at shallow
depths
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These geological features suggest the current outcrop level may be the top of the epithermal
alteration system and that the narrow mineralized structures may represent geochemical leakage
from the covered geophysical anomaly.
Mirasol is seeking a JV partner to advance exploration of this project.
Summary of previous Mirasol exploration at La Curva
In the financial year 2013, surface mapping, geophysical surveys and systematic geochemical
sampling defined rhyolitic domes in the west, and further explored three gold-anomalous targets
on the east side with associated gold-bearing quartz veins. The three principal targets include the
Loma Arthur vein system and Cerro Chato, which hosts gold-rich veins and silicified breccias
(news releases April 1, 2008 and February 24, 2009), and the Southwest target. During the 2012-
2013 season, exploration focused on the western part of the property where gold and pathfinder
element geochemical anomalies defined several new gold-anomalous targets. Ground magnetic
and IP geophysical survey coverage was expanded over the western zone, and identified
coincident structural and gold-anomalous dome-hosted mineralization.
Claudia Property, Argentina
The large Claudia Property (of approximately 129,000 hectares) comprises exploration cateos
located in the south-central part of Santa Cruz Province, beginning at the property boundary of,
and extending for approximately 30 km to the south of AngloGold Ashanti’s Cerro Vanguardia gold-
silver mine. The Company has identified five discrete zones of mineralized quartz veins: Rio Seco
in the east, and Laguna Blanca, Ailen, Curahue and Curahue West all located in the western part
of the property.
Exploration for the financial year 2014
Exploration for the reporting period was focused on the Rio Seco and Curahue prospects and
includes:
Extending and infill of the IP electrical geophysics.
New detailed ground magnetic surveys to cover extension of the mineralized trends
Detailed volcanic facies mapping
Rock chip geochemistry
The Curahue prospects was significantly expanded by this program and can now be traced in
trenching, surface geochemistry and electrical geophysics intermittently for approximate 14
kilometre strike length. These exploration results are being analysed for drill target selection.
However it is evident from results to date that the Curahue represents an extensive new gold silver
bearing vein system that has that has not been previously drill tested.
Result from the Rio Seco new geophysics and geology have provided context for the results from
the 2012 – 13 drilling a trenching program showing strong resistive features at depth or adjacent to
the better anomalous gold silver intersections. This new data is being analysed in conjunction with
previous information to identify follow-up drill targets.
Mirasol is seeking a JV partner to advance exploration of this project.
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Summary of previous Mirasol exploration at Claudia
Initial reconnaissance assay results at Rio Seco from systematic channel sampling returned values
reaching 3.28 g/t Au with 15.33 g/t Ag over 1.7 m, and individual vein results up to 14.2 g/t Au with
229 g/t Ag over 0.7 m were obtained in the “J vein” sector of the Rio Seco Zone (news releases
August 3, 2006, November 1, 2007, January 8, 2009, and June 1, 2009).
Mirasol signed a joint venture agreement with Hochschild Mining Group in February 2007, which
completed 3,871 m of core drilling by December 2007, and 3,011 m of RC drilling in December
2008. Drilling was designed to test both outcropping Cerro Vanguardia-style quartz veins and
covered geophysical targets. Although multiple mineralized targets were intersected, on April 7,
2009 Hochschild elected to return 100% of the property to the Company.
The Company’s 2011-2012 exploration at Claudia focused on four separate prospects: Laguna
Blanca, Ailen, the 15-km Curahue Trend, and the Rio Seco vein zone. At Rio Seco, Mirasol
completed geological mapping, rock chip sampling, excavation of more than 53 trenches, a 10.7
sq-km gradient-array IP geophysical survey, and 11.1 line-km of pole-dipole IP geophysics (news
release March 5, 2012). Rock chip assays returned up to 20.1 g/t Au and 34 g/t Ag, and saw-cut
channel and trench sample composites returned 0.7 m at 13.9 g/t Au and 229 g/t Ag, and 10.5 m of
1.9 g/t Au and 22 g/t Ag from mineralized zones. A geophysical survey at the Curahue prospect
(news release April 18, 2012) defined a 10 km-long zone which hosts cobbles of epithermal
mineralization in an alluvial terrace that partially covers the zone, and which returned assays up to
2.0 g/t Au and 213.0 g/t Ag. Trenching in this zone returned assays up to 0.9 m at 4.7 g/t Au with
120.0 g/t Ag from veins in bedrock, and up to 26 m at 0.45 g/t Au and 1.9 g/t Ag from a veinlet
zone.
In 2012-2013, the Curahue trend was extended and new veins were discovered at Curahue West.
A 25 hole, 2,599 m diamond drill campaign was carried out at the Rio Seco Zone in May 2012,
targeting gold plus silver anomalies exposed in shallow trenches and found in vein outcrop and
float material (news release March 4, 2013). Nine of the 25 diamond drill holes returned
anomalous gold and silver assays; the better results included individual assays of up to 0.83 m at
6.59 g/t Au and 139.3 g/t Ag (9.12 g/t gold-equivalent) and broad intersections of anomalous gold
and silver up to 15.3 m of 0.29 g/t Au and 50.9 g/t Ag. The majority of the anomalous drill results
are clustered around the structural intersection of the “Loma Alta Trend” and the “Rio Seco Main”
veins.
Subsequently, a Phase 2 trenching program was completed in 2013 at Rio Seco totalling 1,216 m
in 31 trenches (news release March 4, 2013). Trenching successfully extended the Loma Alta vein
trend for an additional 900 m to the west, for 3 km total length, and returned assays of up to 6.9 g/t
Au and up to 448 g/t Ag.
Other Properties
Mirasol holds a number of early-stage exploration properties which are prospective for gold and/or
silver mineralization in southern Argentina and northern Chile.
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Mirasol’s Results of Operations
For the Year Ended June 30, 2014 as compared to the Year Ended June 30, 2013
The Company’s net loss for the year ended June 30, 2014 (“Current Year”) was $12,233,625 or
$0.28 per share (Basic and Diluted) compared to a net income of $33,157,809 or $0.76 per share
(Basic and Diluted) for the year ended June 30, 2013 (“Comparative Year”).
The net income during the Comparative Year was largely attributable to the gain recorded on the
sale of the Company’s Joaquin Project. In December 2012, the Company reached an agreement
with Coeur for the sale of its 49% interest in the Joaquin Project, executed through the sale of its
Argentine subsidiary which held the interest in the Project, for $59,652,000 (US $60,000,000). The
proceeds, netted against the transaction costs and working capital deficiency of the Company’s
subsidiary disposed of, for a total of $661,454, resulted in an accounting gain of $58,990,546
during the year ended June 30, 2013.
Other than the recognition of an accounting gain described above, the Company incurred a net
loss of $25,832,737 in the Comparative Year compared to $12,233,625 in the Current Year from its
operations, a reduction in loss of $13,599,112.
The higher loss from operations in the Comparative Year is primarily attributable to the change in
the fair value of Coeur’s common shares held by the Company. Aside from cash payment of
$29,826,015, of which $994,200 was deferred, Coeur paid for the remaining purchase price of
$29,825,985 via issuance of 1,310,043 shares of its common stock to the Company. The fair value
of these shares, during the period between December 2012 and June 2013, decreased
significantly which resulted in the recognition of an accounting loss of $12,664,608 during the
Comparative Year. In comparison, during the Current Year, the Company sold 223,000 of such
shares for cash and recorded the realized and unrealized loss in the market value of the shares
held by the Company of $5,565,812, resulting in a decrease in overall loss in the Current Year by
$7,098,796. As at June 30, 2014, the Company owned 1,087,043 common shares of Coeur. In
addition, the Company’s exploration expenditures were lower in the Current Year by $1,630,132
(2014 - $6,712,452; 2013 - $8,342,584), as described above.
The Company’s management fees expense also decreased in the Current Year by $1,187,435
(2014 - $669,674; 2013 - $1,857,109). During the Comparative Year, the Company issued shares
of its common stock pursuant to its share bonus plan to certain members of the Company’s
management for significant contributions in the discovery of a deposit of more than 500,000 gold
equivalent ounces at the Joaquin Project. The Company issued 500,000 shares valued at $2.05
per share resulting in additional costs of $1,025,000, recorded as management fees, of which
$768,750 represented the value of the common shares issued to related parties. The Company
also accrued $630,720 (US $600,000) as cash bonus compensation to management. During the
Current Year, the Company paid $469,541 (US $432,000) as a settlement payment for termination
of services to the former CEO of the Company, offsetting the higher management fees in the
Comparative Year described above.
The Company incurred lower share-based payments expense ($11,886 in the Current Year
compared to $1,065,617 in the Comparative Year) as a result of fewer incentive stock options
granted during the year ended June 30, 2014.
The lower loss from operations in the Current Year as a result of the above was offset by lower
foreign exchange gain of $863,453 compared to $2,955,515 during the year ended June 30, 2013,
a difference of $2,092,062. The lower foreign exchange gain is attributable to the steadying of the
US dollar relative to the Canadian dollar during the Current Year compared to the period from
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December 2012 to June 2013 in the Comparative Year, when the Company first received
significant amount of US dollars from the sale of its interest in the Joaquin Project. The US dollar
exchange rate moved from $0.9942 to $1.0512 Canadian dollars during the period from December
21, 2012 to June 30, 2013 compared to the exchange rate movement from 1.0512 at June 30,
2013 to 1.0676 on June 30, 2014. The Company also spent more funds for its marketing and
business developments efforts during the Current Year. Shareholder information increased to
$282,340 from $152,037 in the Comparative Year, a change of $130,303. Business development
costs, consisting of evaluation of corporate opportunities, were $126,366 in the Current Year with
no similar costs in the Comparative Year.
During the Current Year, the Company recorded an income tax recovery of $828,380 as a result of
an update to the Company’s estimate of the refund for taxes paid on the income earned during the
Comparative Year and also due to its application to carry-back the Current Year capital and non-
capital losses. During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company had estimated an income tax
expense of $4,123,309.
All other costs remained consistent with those incurred during the year ended June 30, 2013.
For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2014 as compared to the Three Months Ended June
30, 2013
The Company’s net loss for the three month period ended June 30, 2014 (“Current Quarter”) was
$3,013,516 or $0.07 per share compared to a net loss of $9,934,313 or $0.22 per share for the
three month period ended June 30, 2013 (“Comparative Quarter”), an overall decrease in loss of
$6,920,797.
The decrease in loss was primarily attributable to the change in market value of Coeur’s common
shares acquired by the Company in conjunction with the sale of its 49% interest in the Joaquin
Project on December 21, 2012. The total loss in the fair value of the 1,310,043 common shares of
Coeur initially acquired was $7,397,468 during the Comparative Quarter. During the Current Year,
the Company sold 223,000 of such shares and recorded a realized and unrealized loss in the
market value of the common shares of Coeur in the Current Quarter of $189,190, resulting in the
reduction of the overall loss by $7,208,278. Also, the Company’s exploration strategy during the
Current Quarter involved a reduced focus on its Argentine properties which resulted in lower
exploration costs. Exploration costs incurred during the Current Quarter were $1,807,651
compared to $2,992,907 during the three months ended June 30, 2013, a decrease of $1,185,256.
The Company’s management fees were lower during the Current Quarter by $178,794 (2014 -
$500,069; 2013 - $678,863). During the Comparative Quarter, the Company recorded an additional
bonus to senior management of $630,720. The settlement payment for termination of services of
the former CEO in the Current Quarter of $469,541 offset the higher cost in the Comparative
Quarter. The Company also recorded an additional share-based payments expense of $679,718
primarily attributable to the estimated fair value of the 980,000 incentive stock options granted
during the Comparative Quarter.
The decrease in the overall loss described above was offset by foreign exchange loss of $978,830
during the Current Quarter compared to a foreign exchange gain of $1,447,724 in the Comparative
Quarter, a change of $2,426,554. The foreign exchange movement during the quarters was a
function of the change in the value of the US dollar relative to the Canadian dollar, thereby
changing the value of the Company’s US denominated assets. The US dollar exchange rate
moved from 1.1027 to 1.0676 Canadian dollars during the Current Quarter (a loss of 0.0351
Canadian dollars) compared to the exchange rate movement from 1.0167 to 1.0512 during the
Comparative Quarter (a gain of 0.0345 Canadian dollars).
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During the Current Quarter, the Company recorded an income tax recovery of $802,428 as a result
of its application to carry-back the capital and non-capital losses incurred during the Current Year
to offset against the taxes paid on the income earned during the year ended June 30, 2013.
During the Comparative Quarter, the Company had revised its estimated income tax liability and
recorded a tax recovery of $576,691.
All other costs remained consistent with those incurred during the three months ended June 30,
2013.
Selected Annual Information and Summary of Quarterly Results
The following table sets out selected annual financial information of the Company and is derived
from the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2013
and 2012.
2014
2013
2012
Sales
$
- $
- $
-
Income (loss) for the Year
$ (12,233,625) $
33,157,809 $ (16,142,997)
Earnings (loss) per Share - Basic
$
Earnings (loss) per Share - Diluted $
(0.28) $
(0.28) $
0.76 $
0.76 $
(0.40)
(0.40)
Total Assets
Total Long-term Liabilities
Dividends Declared
$
$
$
33,924,535 $
51,712,505 $
10,888,209
- $
NIL $
- $
NIL $
-
NIL
The following table sets out selected unaudited quarterly financial information of Mirasol and is
derived from unaudited quarterly consolidated financial statements prepared by management in
accordance with IAS 34 and accounting policies consistent with IFRS.
Period
4th Quarter 2014
3rd Quarter 2014
2nd Quarter 2014
1st Quarter 2014
4th Quarter 2013
3rd Quarter 2013
2nd Quarter 2013
1st Quarter 2013
Revenues
$
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Income (Loss)
from Continued
Operations
$
(3,013,516)
(2,505,598)
(2,270,222)
(4,444,289)
(9,934,313)
(7,453,050)
52,371,426
(1,826,254)
Basic Income
(Loss) per Share
from Continued
Operations
$
(0.07)
(0.06)
(0.05)
(0.10)
(0.22)
(0.17)
1.22
(0.04)
Diluted Income
(Loss) per Share
from Continued
Operations
$
(0.07)
(0.06)
(0.05)
(0.10)
(0.22)
(0.17)
1.20
(0.04)
The Company’s annual and quarterly results will vary primarily in accordance with the Company’s
exploration activities. To finance its operations, the Company also grants incentive stock options
to its directors, management, employees, and consultants, which will also cause variation in the
Company’s results from period to period. The movement in the value of the US dollar relative to the
Canadian dollar could also have a significant impact on the Company’s results from one period to
the next.
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The significantly higher losses during the 3rd and 4th quarter of the financial year 2013 pertain to the
decrease in the market value of the Company’s investment in the common shares of Coeur. The
Company’s net income during the 2nd quarter of the financial year 2013 was as a result of the sale
of its Joaquin Project as described above.
Please also see above for detailed discussion comparing the Company’s results in the Current
Year and Current Quarter to the Comparative Year and Comparative Quarter, respectively.
Liquidity
During the financial year 2013 the Company raised approximately $30 million from the sale of its
interest in the Joaquin Project. The Company’s intention is to utilize the funds to continue with its
exploration activities and other administrative matters, which the Company has continued with
during the financial year 2014, as described above.
The Company’s net working capital as at June 30, 2014 was $30,486,145 compared to a net working
capital of $42,656,280 at June 30, 2013. The cash and short-term investment and current receivable
and advances balance at June 30, 2014 were $20,298,497 compared to $30,398,215 at June 30,
2013. As at June 30, 2014 current liabilities were $465,991 compared to $6,057,594 at June 30,
2013. The main use of cash during the Current Year was for the Company’s exploration activities
and the net payment of income taxes of $4,097,357.
On October 17, 2014, the Company has 44,245,661 shares issued and outstanding. The
Company also has 3,182,800 incentive stock options with a weighted average exercise price of
$3.03, which if exercised, would allow the Company to raise approximately $9.65 million.
On October 17, 2014, the Company holds a total of 1,087,043 shares of common stock of Coeur.
These shares are traded on the NYSE at US $4.78 for a fair value of US $5.2 million, which could
potentially result in additional cash flows for the Company should the Company choose to sell such
shares. As at June 30, 2014, these shares were being traded at US $9.18 per share. The fair
value of such shares has therefore declined by approximately 48% resulting in a potential loss for
the Company in the event of any planned sale of such shares of approximately US $4.8 million
during the period from June 30, 2014 to the date of this MD&A.
Investing Activities
During the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company collected $961,413 initially held back by
Coeur from the purchase consideration from sale of the Company’s Joaquin Project during the
financial year 2013. As a result of the sale of 223,000 common shares of Coeur, the Company
received $2,460,146 in cash. The Company redeemed short-term investments of $116,472 and
expended $36,855 for purchase of equipment and software. The Company also received interest
from its funds held in banks of $85,822 during the Current Year.
During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company received $28,831,815 from sale of its 49%
interest in the Joaquin Project. Other investing activities consisted of the purchase of surface
rights overlaying its Virginia project in Argentina and the purchase of mineral rights overlaying the
Atlas property in Chile for a total cash outlay of $208,212, funds invested in short-term deposits of
$415,928 and also purchase of exploration equipment of 25,462. The Company received interest
from its funds held in banks of $34,047.
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Financing Activities
During the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company’s outstanding 2,200,000 warrants expired
unexercised. The Company collected $22,500 upon exercise of 90,000 incentive stock options.
During the year ended June 30, 2013, the Company received cash proceeds of $504,750 from the
exercise of 955,000 incentive stock options. The Company also issued 500,000 shares of its
common stock as a discovery bonus to management, including certain directors, under its share
bonus plan.
Capital Resources
The Company has no operations that generate cash flow and its long term financial success is
dependent on management’s ability to discover economically viable mineral deposits. The mineral
exploration process can take many years and is subject to factors that are beyond the Company’s
control.
In order to finance the Company’s exploration programs and to cover administrative and overhead
expenses, the Company primarily raises money through equity sales and from the exercise of
convertible securities (share purchase options and warrants). Many factors influence the Company’s
ability to raise funds, including the health of the resource market, the climate for mineral exploration
investment, the Company’s track record and the experience and calibre of its management.
With working capital of $30,486,145, the Company believes it has sufficient funds to meet its
administrative, corporate development and discretionary exploration activities over the next twelve
months. Actual funding requirements may vary from those planned due to a number of factors.
The Company believes it will be able to raise equity capital as required in the long term but
recognizes there will be risks involved that may be beyond its control.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
The Company has no significant off-balance sheet arrangements.
Transactions with Related Parties
Details of the transactions between the Company’s related parties are disclosed below.
Compensation of key management personnel
Key management personnel include persons having the authority and responsibility for planning,
directing, and controlling the activities of the Company as a whole.
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The remuneration of the CEO, VP Exploration, Exploration Manager, and the independent
directors was as follows:
Management compensation (i)
Management bonus
Share bonus
Share-based payments
Director’s fees
Year Ended
June 30
2014
2013
$
$
1,063,335 $
-
-
-
25,022
1,088,357 $
414,403
630,720
768,750
522,586
2,000
2,338,459
(i) During the year ended June 30, 2014, the Company paid $469,541 (US$432,000) being the full
settlement payment for the Transition and Settlement Agreement with the former CEO. The vice
president of exploration assumed the responsibilities of the CEO effective May 1, 2014.
Ongoing contractual remuneration during the Current Year, included within management
compensation is as follows: former CEO: $200,133; new CEO: $231,785; Exploration Manager:
$161,876.
The Company has an arrangement whereby the independent directors of the Company are paid
$1,000 per month.
Transactions with other related parties
Certain of the Company’s officers and directors render services to the Company as sole proprietors
or through companies in which they are an officer, director, or partner.
The following companies are related parties through association of the Company’s directors and
officers:
Related Party
Miller Thomson
Relation
Corporate Secretary is a
Partner
Nature of transactions
Legal advice
Avisar Chartered Accountants CFO is a Partner
Chase Management Ltd.
Global Ore Discovery
Director is the President Consulting services
VP Exploration / CEO is
a Director
Exploration consulting
Financial reporting compliance
The Company has agreements with all related parties and is charged service fee based on the
related parties’ regular charge-out rates for similar services provided to arm’s length parties.
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The Company incurred the following fees and expenses with these related parties:
Legal fees
Accounting fees
Professional fees
Other operating expenses
Exploration costs and project
management fees
Year Ended
June 30
2014
162,950 $
96,000
18,000
2,135
2013
188,240
96,000
-
-
809,877
1,088,962 $
961,672
1,245,912
$
$
Included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities at June 30, 2014 is an amount of $258,492
(June 30, 2013 - $655,046) owing to directors and officers of the Company and to companies
where the directors and officers are principals.
Significant Accounting Policies
The details of the Company’s accounting policies are presented in Note 3 of the Company’s
consolidated financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2014. The following policies are
considered by management to be essential to the understanding of the processes and reasoning
that go into the preparation of the Company’s financial statements and the uncertainties that could
have a bearing on its financial results.
Exploration and Evaluation Assets
The Company capitalizes the direct costs of acquiring mineral property interests. Option payments
are considered acquisition costs if the Company has the intention of exercising the underlying
option.
Exploration and evaluation costs are charged to operations in the period incurred until such time as
it has been determined that a property has economically recoverable reserves, in which case
subsequent exploration and development costs are capitalized. Exploration costs include value-
added taxes because the recoverability of these amounts is uncertain.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Certain new standards, interpretations, amendments and improvements to existing standards were
issued by the IASB or IFRIC.
The Company adopted the following new standards effective July 1, 2013:
a) IFRS 7, Financial
to enhance disclosure
requirements related to offsetting of financial assets and financial liabilities. The amendment
of this standard did not have a significant impact on the Company.
Instruments: Disclosures, was amended
b) IFRS 10, Consolidated Financial Statements, replaced IAS 27, Consolidated and Separate
Financial Statements, and requires all controlled entities to be consolidated based on a single
control model, whereby control is defined as the exposure to, or having rights to, returns from
its involvement in its investee, and the ability to affect those returns through this power over
the investee. The standard also provides additional guidance to assist in the determination of
control where this is difficult to assess. The Company conducted a review of all of its
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subsidiaries and determined that the adoption of IFRS 10 did not result in any change in the
consolidation status of any of its subsidiaries.
c) IFRS 11, Joint Arrangements, replaced the existing IAS 31, Joint Ventures and provides for
the accounting of joint arrangements by focusing on the rights and obligations of the
arrangement, rather than its legal form. The Standard also eliminates the option to account
for jointly controlled entities using the proportionate consolidation method. The Company
does not have any joint arrangements and as a result the adoption of IFRS 11 did not have
any impact on the consolidated financial statements of the Company.
d) IFRS 12, Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities, provides certain disclosure requirements
about subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, as well as unconsolidated structured
entities and replaced existing disclosure requirements. The key features are the requirement
to disclose judgements and assumptions made when deciding how to classify involvement
with another entity, interest that non-controlling entities have in consolidated entities and the
nature of the risks associated with interests in other entities. The adoption of IFRS 12
resulted in incremental disclosure in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements of the
Company for the year ended June 30, 2014.
e) IFRS 13, Fair Value Measurement, establishes a single source of guidance for fair value
measurements, when fair value is permitted by IFRS. The standard does not affect when fair
value is used, it just describes how to measure fair value. The standard provides a single
framework for measuring fair value, while requiring enhanced disclosures when fair value is
applied, establishes the definition of fair value as the “exit price” and clarifies that the
concepts of highest and best use and valuation premise are relevant only for non-financial
assets and liabilities. The standard did not have any impact on the Company’s statement of
financial position. Any specific disclosure requirements are addressed in the consolidated
financial statements of the Company for the year ended June 30, 2014.
f)
IAS 1, Presentation of Items of Other Comprehensive Income (“OCI”) (“IAS 1”), was revised
to change the disclosure of items presented in OCI, including a requirement to separate items
presented in OCI into two groups based on whether or not they may be recycled to profit or
loss in the future. The adoption of IAS 1 affects the presentation of the Company’s statement
of comprehensive (income) loss.
g) IAS 27, Separate Financial Statements, was amended as a result of IFRS 10, IFRS 11, and
IFRS 12. IAS27 deals solely with separate financial statements, and has had no impact on
the consolidated financial statements of the Company.
h) IAS 28, Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures, has been amended and provides
accounting and disclosure guidance for investments in associates and joint ventures. The
Company does not have any investment in associates and as a result the adoption of the
standard did not have any impact on the consolidated financial statements of the Company.
The following new standards and amendments to standards have been issued but are not effective
during the year ended June 30, 2014:
a) IFRS 7, Financial Instruments: Disclosures, will be amended to require additional disclosures
on transition from IAS 39 and IFRS 9, and is effective for annual periods beginning on or after
January 1, 2015. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the amendment.
b) IFRS 9, Financial Instruments: Classification and Measurement, is the first part of a new
standard on classification and measurement of financial assets that will replace IAS 39. IFRS
9 has two measurement categories: depreciated cost and fair value. All equity instruments
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are measured at fair value. A debt instrument is recorded at depreciated cost only if the
entity is holding the instrument to collect contractual cash flows and the cash flows represent
principal and interest. Otherwise it is recorded at fair value through profit or loss. This
standard will be effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2018. The
Company is currently evaluating the impact of this standard.
c) IAS 32, Financial Instruments: Presentation, updates the application guidance to clarify some
of the requirements for offsetting financial assets and financial liabilities on the statement of
financial position. This is effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2014.
The Standard is not expected to have a significant impact on the Company.
d) IFRIC 21, Levies, sets out the accounting for an obligation to pay a levy that is not income
tax. The interpretation addresses what the obligating event is that gives rise to pay a levy and
when should a liability be recognized. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning
on or after January 1, 2014, with early application permitted. The Company is not currently
subjected to significant levies and therefore expects that the impact from the adoption of the
Standard will not be material.
Significant Accounting Estimates and Judgments
The preparation of financial statements requires management to make judgments, estimates and
assumptions that affect the application of policies and reported amounts of assets and liabilities,
profit and expenses. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical
experience and various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances,
the results of which form the basis of making the judgments about carrying values of assets and
liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these
estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to
accounting estimates are recognized in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision
affects only that period or in the period of the revision and further periods if the review affects both
current and future periods.
Significant accounting estimates and judgments are related to, but are not limited to, the following:
(i) Impairment of exploration and evaluation assets: The net carrying value of each mineral
license is reviewed regularly for conditions that are indicators of impairment. This review
requires significant judgment as the Company does not have any proven and probable
reserves that enable future cash flows to be compared to the carrying values. Factors
considered in the assessment of asset impairment include, but are not limited to, whether
there has been a significant adverse change in the legal, regulatory, accessibility, title,
environmental or political factors that could affect the licenses’ value; whether there has
been an accumulation of costs significantly in excess of the amounts originally expected for
the licenses’ acquisition, development or cost of holding; whether exploration activities
produced results that are not promising such that no more work is being planned in the
foreseeable future; and whether the Company has the necessary funds to be able to
maintain its interest in the mineral licenses. As at June 30, 2014, the Company has
concluded that impairment conditions do not exist.
(ii) Valuation of share purchase options and warrants: The Company provides compensation
benefits to its employees, directors and officers through a stock option plan. The Company
also grants warrants in conjunction with private placements and as compensation for debt
financing arrangements. The fair value of each option award is estimated on the date of the
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grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Expected volatility is based on
historical volatility of the Company’s share price. The Company uses historical data to
estimate option exercises and forfeiture rates with the valuation model. The risk-free
interest rate for the expected term of the option is based on the yields of government
bonds. Changes in these assumptions, especially the volatility and the expected life
determination could have a material impact on the Company’s comprehensive (income)
loss. All estimates used in the model are based on historical data which may not be
representative of future results.
(iii) Income taxes: The Company is subject to income taxes in numerous jurisdictions.
Uncertainties exist with respect to interpretations of tax regulations. The Company
recognizes it current tax payable/refundable based on its interpretations of tax regulations
which may differ from the interpretations of the tax authorities. Such differing
interpretations may impact the Company’s current income tax payable/refundable.
Judgment is required in determining whether deferred tax assets are recognized on the
statement of financial position. The recognition of deferred tax assets requires
management to assess the likelihood that the Company will generate taxable income in
future periods to utilize the deferred tax assets. Due to a history of losses deferred tax
assets have not be recognized.
(iv) Functional currencies: The functional currency of an entity is the currency of the primary
economic environment in which an entity operates. The determination of an entity’s
functional currency requires judgement based on analysis of relevant criteria. The
functional currency of the Company and its subsidiaries was determined by conducting an
analysis of the consideration factors identified in IAS 21, The Effects of Changes in Foreign
Exchange Rates (“IAS 21”).
Financial Instruments
The Company’s financial instruments as at June 30, 2014 consist of cash and cash equivalents,
receivable, investments (recorded at fair value using publicly available data), and accounts payable
and accrued liabilities. The fair value of cash and cash equivalents, receivable, and accounts
payable and accrued liabilities approximates their carrying value. There are no off-balance sheet
financial instruments.
The Company’s financial instruments are exposed to certain financial risks. The risk exposures
and the impact on the Company's financial instruments are summarized below.
i. Currency risk
The Company is exposed to the financial risk related to the fluctuation of foreign exchange
rates. The Company operates in Canada, Argentina and Chile and a portion of its
expenses are incurred in United States (“US”) dollars, Australian dollars and in Argentine
and Chilean Pesos. A significant change in the currency exchange rates between the US
and Australian dollar relative to the Canadian dollar and the Argentine and Chilean Peso to
the Canadian dollar could have an effect on the Company’s results of operations, financial
position or cash flows. The Company has not hedged its exposure to currency fluctuations.
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At June 30, 2014, the Company is exposed to currency risk through the following assets
and liabilities denominated in US and Australian dollars and Argentine and Chilean Pesos:
Cash and cash equivalents
Receivables and advances
Accounts
accrued liabilities
payable
and
US
Dollars
15,658,206
-
Australian
Dollars
131,276
-
Argentine
Peso
829,161
2,270,900
Chilean
Peso
10,616,497
-
(43,309)
(210,402)
(3,220,742)
(8,011,572)
Based on the above net exposures as at June 30, 2014, and assuming that all other
variables remain constant, a 10% depreciation or appreciation of the Canadian dollar
against the US and Australian dollar would result in an increase/decrease of $1,667,046
and $7,965, respectively in the Company’s comprehensive loss. Likewise, a 10%
depreciation or appreciation of the Canadian dollar against the Argentine and Chilean Peso
would result in an increase/decrease of $1,585 and $503, respectively in the Company’s
comprehensive loss.
ii. Credit risk
Credit risk is the risk of an unexpected loss if a customer or third party to a financial
instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations.
The Company’s cash is held through large financial institutions. The Company’s
receivables consist of Goods and Services tax due from the Federal Government.
Management believes that credit risk concentration with respect to receivables is remote.
iii. Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as
they fall due. The Company manages liquidity risk through the management of its capital
structure and financial leverage as outlined above. As at June 30, 2014, the Company’s
financial liabilities consist of accounts payable and accrued liabilities totalling $465,991. All
of the Company’s obligations are expected to be paid within 90 days. Management believes
the Company has sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they become due.
iv. Interest rate risk
Interest rate risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument
will fluctuate because of changes in market interest rates. The risk that the Company will
realize a loss as a result of a decline in the fair value of the short-term investments included
in cash is limited because these investments are generally held to maturity. The applicable
rates of interest on such investments range between 1.40% and 1.65%.
v. Price risk
The Company is exposed to equity securities price risk because of investments held by the
Company and classified on the statement of financial position as “fair value through profit or
loss” and also to the price risk with respect to commodity prices.
The Company does not typically invest in equity securities and the maximum exposure to
the price risk is represented by the changing fair value of such investments. Assuming all
variables remain constant, a 10% increase/decrease in the quoted market price of the
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Company’s investments would result in an increase/decrease in the Company’s income of
approximately US$997,905.
The Company closely monitors commodity prices to determine the appropriate course of
action to be taken by the Company.
Capital Management
The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Company’s ability to
continue as a going concern in order to pursue the development of its exploration and evaluation
assets and to maintain a flexible capital structure which optimizes the costs of capital at an
acceptable risk. In the management of capital, the Company includes the components of equity.
The Company manages the capital structure and makes adjustments to it in light of changes in
economic conditions and the risk characteristics of the underlying assets. To maintain or adjust
the capital structure, the Company may attempt to issue new shares, acquire or dispose of assets,
enter into joint ventures or obtain debt financing. In order to facilitate the management of its capital
requirements, the Company prepares annual expenditure budgets that are updated as necessary
depending on various factors, including successful capital deployment and general industry
conditions.
In order to maximize ongoing development efforts, the Company does not pay out dividends.
The Company’s investment policy is to invest its cash in highly liquid short-term interest-bearing
investments with maturities of six months or less from the original date of acquisition, selected with
regards to the expected timing of expenditures from continuing operations. The Company does
not invest in commercial paper. The Company is not subject to externally imposed capital
requirements.
Additional Disclosure for Venture Issuers without Significant Revenue
Additional disclosure concerning Mirasol’s operating expenses and exploration and evaluation
costs is provided in the Company’s audited consolidated statements of (income) loss and
comprehensive (income) loss and in Note 9 of the audited consolidated financial statements for the
year ended June 30, 2014 that is available on Mirasol’s website at www.mirasolresources.com or
on its SEDAR company page accessed through www.sedar.com.
Approval
The Audit Committee of the Company has approved the disclosure contained in this MD&A.
Additional Information
Additional information relating to Mirasol is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the
Company’s website at www.mirasolresources.com.
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