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19 Jan 2012financial restatement▼ BadMajor
Restated its FY2010 and Q1 FY2011 financial statements after finding it had been misapplying accounting rules for capitalizing lease and option payments on the Excalibur, Longstreet and Jet properties since 2008 — an accounting fix, not a change to the underlying assets.
Switched auditors from Jewett, Schwartz, Wolfe & Associates to DeCoria Maichel Teague; no disagreements were reported, though the outgoing firm's last opinion had already flagged going-concern doubt.
Added a third, much smaller MinQuest option — the 4-claim Jet Project in Esmeralda County — for a modest $5,000 upfront plus $35,000 in further payments and $70,000 of spending over seven years.
Star Gold optioned a second, larger MinQuest property — the 60-claim Longstreet project near Tonopah, Nevada — under a 7-year deal requiring $250,000 in payments and $3.55 million of exploration spending to earn a 100% interest, less a 3% royalty to MinQuest. Longstreet would go on to become the company's flagship asset.
Now renamed Star Gold Corp., the company expanded Excalibur from 8 to 50 claims after MinQuest staked 42 more claims around the original ground and folded them into the purchase agreement.
Elan Development signed a purchase agreement with MinQuest on April 11, 2008, giving it the right to acquire 100% of the Excalibur property, 8 unpatented claims in Mineral County, Nevada. It would lose all rights and payments made if it failed to make the required payments.
The same-day amended filing disclosed the company had also raised $60,000 in a private placement (600,000 shares and warrants at $0.10) to help fund the new Excalibur acquisition.