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Riverside Resources Inc. — Management Reports 2021
Aug 31, 2021
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RIVERSIDE RESOURCES INC.
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2021
RIVERSIDE RESOURCES INC. (An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
INTRODUCTION
The management discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations (“MD&A”) focuses upon the activities, results of operations, liquidity and capital resources of Riverside Resources Inc. (the “Company” or “Riverside”) for the nine months ended June 30, 2021. In order to better understand the MD&A, it should be read in conjunction with the unaudited financial statements and related notes for the nine months ended June 30, 2021 and audited financial statements and related notes for the year ended September 30, 2020. The Company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) and filed with appropriate regulatory authorities in Canada. This MD&A is current to August 30, 2021 and in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated.
Additional information relating to the Company, including its Information Circular for the financial year ended September 30, 2020, is available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this MD&A may involve forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Forwardlooking statements are statements that relate to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “plan”, “estimate”, “expect”, and “intend”, statements that an action or event “may”, “might”, “could”, “should”, or “will” be taken or occur, or other similar expressions. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein including, without limitation; statements about the size and timing of future exploration on and the development of the Company’s properties are forwardlooking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the following risks: the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mineral exploration; fluctuations in commodity prices; title matters; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the volatility of our common share price and volume and other reports and filings with the TSX Venture Exchange and applicable Canadian securities regulations. Forward-looking statements are made based on management’s beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made and the Company undertakes no obligation to update forwardlooking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as required by applicable securities laws. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and future events and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations are disclosed in the Company’s documents filed from time to time via SEDAR with the Canadian regulatory agencies to whose policies the Company is bound. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements.
The users of this information, including but not limited to investors and prospective investors, should read it in conjunction with all other disclosure documents provided including but not limited to all documents filed on SEDAR (www.SEDAR.com).
CORPORATE OVERVIEW
The Company is a mineral exploration and evaluation company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “RRI” and is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and evaluation of exploration and evaluation assets in the Americas including Canada, the United States and Mexico where the technical team collectively has more than 100 years of exploration experience and has been part of more than five discoveries that have gone into production.
The Company combines the experience of mine discoverer John-Mark Staude (President, CEO, Director), Freeman Smith (Vice President Exploration), and Alberto Orozco (VP Corporate Development) with the finance and business management expertise of Rob Scott (CFO), Brian Groves (Director), James Clare (Director), Walter Henry (Director) and Carol Ellis (Director). Management has experience in developing significant shareholder value and they have assembled a team that can build a valuable and successful organization.
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RIVERSIDE RESOURCES INC. (An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
HIGHLIGHTS OF EVENTS OCCURING DURING AND SUBSEQUENT TO JUNE 30, 2021
Plan of Arrangement
On October 30, 2019, the Company incorporated a new subsidiary, Capitan Mining Inc. (“Capitan”) and Rios DE Suerte S.A de C.V., another new subsidiary was incorporated on November 29, 2019 in order to facilitate a plan of arrangement (“Arrangement”) whereby the Company’s 100% interest in the Peñoles Project was spun out to Capitan.
On August 14, 2020, the Company transferred its 100% interest in the Peñoles Project and completed the Arrangement to spin out the shares of Capitan to the shareholders of Riverside. Pursuant to the Arrangement, holders of common shares of Riverside on August 13, 2020 received one new common share of Riverside (each, a "Riverside Share") and 0.2594 of a Capitan share (each, a "Capitan Share") for each common share held.
The carrying value of the net assets transferred to Capitan, pursuant to the Arrangement, consisted of the following assets:
| Assets | $ |
|---|---|
| Carrying value of exploration and evaluation | 1,082,717 |
| assets | |
| Fair value of net assets transferred | 3,500,000 |
| Gainon transfer of spin-out assets | 2,417,283 |
In accordance with IFRIC 17, Distribution of Non-cash Assets to Owners, the Company recognized the distribution of net assets to Riverside shareholders at fair value with the difference between that value and the carrying amount of the net assets recognized in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss).
The Arrangement resulted in a reduction of share capital amounting to $3,500,000.
Under the terms of the Arrangement, each issued and outstanding Riverside option and warrant has been adjusted to compensate the option and warrant holders for the assets spun-out. The exercise prices of the Riverside replacement stock options and warrants were adjusted based on the proportional market value of the two companies after completion of the Arrangement.
COVID19 update
Although Riverside during 2020 and now into 2021, strives to maintain a safe, healthy working environment for all, with a strong safety culture where everyone is continually reminded of the importance of keeping themselves and their colleagues healthy and injury-free. Throughout the year, the company continued to advance implementation of its sustainability performance management framework, which includes standards specific to safety leadership and managing higher-risk activities. The company's overarching commitment is to have all employees and contractors return home safe every day.
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The company responded rapidly and proactively and implemented several initiatives to help protect the health and safety of the company's employees, their families and the communities in which the company operates.
Specifically, each program site activated established COVID19 management plans and developed specific plans that have enabled the Company to meet and respond to changing conditions associated with COVID-19. The company has adopted the advice of public health authorities and is adhering to government regulations with respect to COVID-19 in the jurisdictions in which it operates.
The following measures have been instituted at sites to prevent the potential spread of the virus:
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Medical screening for all personnel prior to entry to site for symptoms of COVID-19;
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Testing of personnel at all operating sites prior to starting their work rotation;
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Vaccinations supported for contractors and employees;
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Training on proper hand hygiene and social distancing;
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Remote work options have been implemented for eligible team members;
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Social distancing practices have been implemented for all meetings, office work, field work and transportation;
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Mandatory use of personal protective equipment for employees where social distancing is not practicable;
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Proactive camp and site hygiene protocols have been instituted and are being followed;
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Elimination of all non-essential business travel;
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In addition, since the COVID-19 pandemic began the company's teams in Mexico have donated their time, medical supplies and training to help combat the effects and spread of the virus.
COVID 19 -- impact on projects
Given the significant precautionary measures taken by the company, and thanks to the dedication of its employees, contractors and stakeholders, projects remain relatively unaffected by COVID-19. All the company's programs continue to incur additional costs related to testing of personnel, lodging and transportation, which have been included in exploration costs.
Sale of short-term investments
On January 5, 2021, the Company sold 700,000 shares of Arizona Metals Corp. for net proceeds of $712,053. Subsequently, the Company sold another 400,000 shares of Arizona Metal Corp. for net proceeds of $752,289 on March 25, 2021. Recently, the Company sold additional 75,500 shares of Arizona Metal Corp. for net proceeds of $340,840 on August 9, 2021.
Sale of mineral claims
On February 10, 2021, the Company announced the sales of Oakes, Pichette and Longrose projects in northwestern Ontario for 8,000,000 common shares and a one-time bonus $500,000 in cash or share consideration for drill results of 100 g/m gold intercept at any of the three properties sold by the Company to iMetal Resources Inc., as well as the Company retaining a 2.5% Net Smelter Royalty (NSR) on each project. Please refer to the section of “OPERATIONS” for details.
Option payments and exploration advances
Los Cuarentas, Sonora, Mexico
On June 17, 2020, the Company entered into a Definitive Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Minera Hochschild Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“Hochschild”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hochschild Mining PLC for the Company’s 100% owned Los Cuarentas Gold-Silver Project (the “Project”). On July 20, 2020, the Company received US$90,467 on signing the Agreement and to reimburse the Company for prepaid maintenance fees. Subsequently, the Company received US$312,614 as exploration advances for the period from July to September 2020 generation exploration on July 27, 2020. As of September 30, 2020, the Company had spent the US$312,614 for generative exploration in the first year.
On November 9, 2020, the Company received US$228,699 as exploration advance for the generative exploration for the period from October 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. As of December 31,2021, the Company had spent the US$228,699 for generative exploration in the first year.
During the period ended June 30, 2021, the Company received US$244,721 in total as the recoveries of exploration expenditures for the generative exploration during the period from October 2020 to February 2021.
On April 9, 2021, Hochschild initiated the termination of the option agreement by undertaking the costs of reclamation works and the federal annual concession maintenance fees due prior to September 6, 2021. Therefore, on May 14, 2021, the Company received US$23,793 as exploration advance for the reclamation costs and the federal annual concession maintenance fees during the period from April to September 2021. Please refer to the section of “OPERATIONS” for details.
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Cecilia, Sonora, Mexico
On July 15, 2020, the Company entered into a Definitive Option Agreement with Carlyle Commodities Corp. (“Carlyle”) whereby Carlyle could acquire a 100% interest in the Cecilia Property, a silver-gold project, by paying $200,000 in cash, issuing 1,500,000 common shares and 3,000,000 special warrants, and incurring exploration expenditures of $2,500,000 over a threeyear period while retaining a 2.5% Net Smelter Royalty (NSR).
On June 23, 2020, the Company received $10,000 on signing of LOI. Subsequently, the Company received 1,500,000 common shares and 3,000,000 special warrants on July 13, 2020 as well as received $40,000 as per Option Agreement on July 16, 2020.
On August 17, 2020, the Company received $150,000 as exploration advance for the general exploration during the period from July 15 to September 30, 2020. During the year-ended September 30, 2020, the Company had spent the $150,000 for the generative exploration program. On November 24, 2020, the Company received $200,000 as exploration advance for the general exploration during the period from October to December 2020. Subsequently, on December 31, 2020, the company received $400,000 as exploration advance for the general exploration during the period from January to April 2021. As of June 30, 2021, the Company had spent the overall $600,000 for the generative exploration program.
On July 13, 2021, the Company received $50,000 option payment and 500,000 special warrants are vested and exercisable as per the Definitive Option Agreement. Please refer to the section of “OPERATIONS” for details.
La Silla, Sinaloa, Mexico
On December 9, 2020, the Company entered into an option agreement, signing a Definitive Agreement with Upper Canada Inc. (“Upper Canada”) whereby Upper Canada could acquire up to 100% undivided interests in the La Silla Property, a silvergold project, by paying $500,000 in cash, issuing 10,600,000 common shares and incurring exploration expenditures of $20,000,000 over a four-year period. On September 11, 2020, the Company received 600,000 shares of Upper Canada with a fair market value of $nil. On December 9, 2020, the Company received additional 5,000,000 common shares as per option agreement. As at December 31, 2020, the Company did not receive the $50,000 cash payment that was due on December 9, 2020 from Upper Canada. As a result, the Company terminated the option agreement with Upper Canada on February 4, 2021 and therefore, Upper Canada has no further obligation with respect to the project. Please refer to the section of “OPERATIONS” for details.
Options and warrants exercise
As of June 30, 2021, the Company issued 2,173,000 common shares for the exercise of warrants for net proceeds of $366,285.
As of June 30, 2021, the Company issued 717,500 common shares for the exercise of options for net proceed of $79,925.
CAPITAL STOCK
As at June 30, 2021, the Company had $25,468,861 in capital stock and 71,017,631 common shares outstanding.
Options
Stock option activity for the period ended June 30, 2021 included the following:
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(a) 1,330,000 options were granted, exercisable at a price of $0.30 per common share for a period of 5 years.
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(b) 717,500 options were exercised for net proceed of $79,925
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(c) 15,000 options expired unexercised
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Stock option activity for the year ended September 30, 2020 included the following:
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(d) 723,000 stock options expired unexercised
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(e) 1,265,000 options were granted, exercisable at a price of $0.135 per common share for a period of 5 years.
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(f) 150,000 options were granted, exercisable at a price of $0.16 per common share for a period of 5 years.
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(g) 667,000 options were exercised for net proceed of $100,561
Warrants
During the period ended June 30, 2021, the Company issued 2,173,000 common shares for the exercise of warrants for proceeds of $366,285.
There were nil share purchase warrants outstanding as June 30, 2021 (September 30, 2020 – 13,297,932).
OPERATIONS
The Company’s exploration team remains active in Mexico and Canada. The Company has added four gold projects in Ontario, Canada continuing to cost-effectively build a strong asset portfolio of gold, silver and copper exploration projects. The Company continues to focus on northern and central Mexico where it has exploration partners funding programs that focus on gold, silver and copper. The Company is also seeking new partnerships in Ontario, Canada where the company has added projects in the Beardmore Geraldton Greenstone Gold Belt and Kenora region.
Strategic Funding Agreement with BHP in Sonora, Mexico
On May 16, 2019, the Company signed of a two-year, US$2,000,000 Exploration Financing Agreement with BHP Exploration Chile SpA (“BHP”) for the funding of generative exploration in the copper producing belt of Mexico (the “Program”). The Program focuses on identifying and developing exploration opportunities for new large copper discoveries within an Area of Interest (“AOI”) using Riverside’s technical knowledge base of copper systems and strong generative exploration team strategically based in Hermosillo, Sonora. BHP and Riverside pool their data, including decades of historical work into an integrated database. Riverside leverages geophysical, geochemical and geological technical platforms into a new targeting synthesis to complete tenure acquisitions and this program continues.
BHP will fund US$1,000,000 on an annual basis for a minimum of two (2) years for generative grass-roots exploration within northeastern Sonora in the region of many copper deposits and some very large copper operations. The exploration area being explored is in the central part of the Laramide Copper Belt that continues northward into Arizona and New Mexico, hosting numerous large, Tier 1 copper deposits. For example, the third largest copper mine in the world, the Buenavista del Cobre Operations in Cananea, is located within the AOI.
Properties that are identified and deemed to be of interest will become Defined Projects (“DPs”), which will move to a second phase of the Program whereby BHP would fund up to an additional US$5,000,000 of exploration work and make success fee payments to Riverside on a per project basis (see “Exploration Funding Agreement” summarized in the FY2020 Audited Annual Financial Report).
Operational Details
On January 29, 2020, the Company received an additional US$195,000 as exploration advances for the refinement exploration from January to March 2020. During the year ended September 30, 2020, the Company had spent the overall US$195,000 for the refinement exploration program.
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On June 22, 2020 Riverside announced the continuation of the Exploration Agreement with BHP Exploration Chile SpA (“BHP”) for the funding of generative copper exploration in the copper producing belt of Sonora, Mexico (the “Program”). An increase of funding for the next six months from BHP to the level of providing to Riverside US$720,000 to commence the first part of the second year of the Program to continue to grow the portfolio of copper projects. This is an increase of US$220,000 from the initial plan and better captures the interest to progress toward a Defined Project. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had spent the $720,000 for the first part of generative exploration in the second year.
On September 2, 2020, the Company received US$134,635 as exploration advance for the additional gravity survey project under the first High Value Work Program (“HVWP”) for the exploration expenditures incurred from September to November 2020. As of November 30, 2021, the Company had spent the overall US$134,635 for the gravity survey project.
On December 16, 2020, the Company received US$340,855 as exploration advance for the additional MT survey project under the second HVWP for the exploration expenditures incurred from December 2020 to March 2021 on the Chuin Project. As of March 31, 2021, the Company had completed and spent the US$340,855 for the MT survey project.
On April 8, 2021, the Company received US$546,708 as the second part of exploration advances for the generative exploration during the period from January 1 to May 15, 2021 in the second year. As of May 15, 2021, the Company had spent the US$546,708 for the second part of generative exploration in the second year.
On May 27, 2021 the Company expanded and extended into a 3[rd] year the Generative Exploration program with BHP for copper in Sonora, Mexico with funding of US$1,300,000 that is focused on generating new projects as the Company has now built up a porphyry portfolio.
On June 21, 2021 the Company received approval from BHP to move forward with 5 projects having additional high value funding expanding from the generative budget of US$1,300,000. Further field review with BHP will be completed and planned of announcing MT geophysics in the coming month. On July 16, 2021, the Company received US$650,747 as the first part of exploration advances for the generative exploration during the period from May 15 to October 31, 2021 in the third year.
On July 15, 2021, the Company received approval from BHP to advance Penito and Sinoquipe projects with MT geophysical surveys in northern Sonora as part of the continued copper exploration program that has entered the third year with expanded funding from BHP. BHP approved drill funds for Sonora at this time with the total approved amount of USD$5,400,000. On August 10, 2021, the Company received US$536,665 as exploration advance for the additional Penitas project under the third HVWP and received US$926,609 as exploration advance for the additional Sinoquipe project under the fourth HVWP for the exploration expenditures incurred from June to December 2021.
Canada
As of the year ended September 30, 2020, the Company held 100% interest in the High Lake, Longrose, Oakes, Pichette, and Vincent projects in northwestern Ontario, Canada.
High Lake Greenstone Belt, Kenora, Northwestern Ontario
On August 17, 2020 Riverside announced it had staked the High Lake Greenstone Gold Project which extends from the Manitoba-Ontario border eastward toward Clearwater Bay and the town of Kenora, Ontario. The property comprises about 21,660 hectares. These mineral claims are owned 100% by Riverside Resources Inc. with no underlying royalties or option agreements. The project area lies within the Wabigoon Subprovince a major, east striking subdivision of the Superior Province which hosts several significant mines. The metavolcanic-metasedimentary belt is composed of submarine and subaerial, mafic to felsic, tholeiitic to calc-alkaline to marginally alkaline, volcanic rocks and associated clastic and chemical sedimentary rocks. Marginal batholiths have been recognized to both intrude and act as feeders for more felsic parts of the volcanic terrain. The granitic rocks at High Lake underlain primarily by granodiorite and quartz-feldspar porphyry with felsic dykes and sills.
The focus of past exploration work was in the 1980s when dozens of exploration companies held the ground now held 100% by Riverside. While vein style orogenic type deposits have been explored for, as at the Dupont deposit, stratigraphically controlled deposits like at the Rainy River deposit has not been applied to this region.
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The bedrock near High Lake comprises sericite altered, quartz and feldspar porphyry suggesting intrusive hosted mineralization which has the potential to host large deposits. The area near High Lake was first explored in the 1960s by Selco Exploration and the main showing is know as the Selco-Alcock Occurrence. Selco Exploration reported chalcopyrite and minor bornite mineralization occurs in thin massive veins of pyrite and pyrrhotite in fractures in the porphyry and as disseminations in the porphyry. The length of the zone is about 91.4 m, the average width 1.8 m, with a strike of N70E and a steep dip to the south. A sample of the zone assayed in excess of 1% Cu, 0.03 opt Au and 0.4 opt Ag. This original work was followed up with several drill campaigns in the 1990s. Past drilling in this area included drilling in 1989 by Calnor Exploration which focussed on the gold potential and drilled two holes on RRI claims (Cel-07 and Cel-08). Following this work a small historic gold resource was reported on the High Lake mineral lease (internal to the project) now held by Canadian Star Minerals Ltd. The terrain north of High Lake was explored by Hudson’s Bay Exploration and Teck; both companies drilled several hundred meters targeting base metal mineralization.
Riverside spent four weeks in the fall of 2020 field checking areas of past work and exploring a number of areas with potential to host gold mineralization. Riverside also logged and sampled several holes from the High Lake area. These core samples were part of a diamond drilling program from 1989 and the core is stored in the core library in Kenora managed by the MNDM. The core sampling suggests gold is hosted in larger shears within the intrusive. Several larger 20m long intervals returned subeconomic grades of about 0.5 g/t with narrower intercepts of less than one meter returning up to 9 g/t gold. Surface sampling from these areas also shows copper and silver is present. Subsequent fieldwork with focus on further evaluating the porphyry hosted shears and wider sericite altered bedrock. Fieldwork in 2021 will also focus on specific terranes that process the potential to host Rainy River type deposits.
Oakes Gold Project, Northwestern Ontario
On July 29, 2019, the Company released news on staking and acquiring the Oakes Gold Project located in northwestern Ontario. Riverside’s surface sampling at the Oakes Project has returned several high-grade gold samples. Through this work and the integration of previous surveys the Company has developed a series of drill ready targets the Oakes project. The project is road accessible and located near Trans Canada Highway 17 in the Oakes Township approximately 2 km north of the town of Long Lac, Ontario.
Riverside’s Exploration Work
Riverside’s first phase of work included 29 rock samples taken from both outcrops and old trenches. The 2019/2020 work confirmed three previously identified areas and three additional target zones. There are two predominant target orientations one which trends east-west and is associated with contact zones that have been delineated by VLF (Very Low-Frequency) and IP (Induced Polarization) chargeability geophysical surveys; and a second target zones trend at 340 degrees north-west that is defined by linear magnetic lows, field geology and soil geochemistry. The past magnetic surveys conducted by previous operators is also helpful in outlining diabase dikes and geological contacts where overburden masks the underlying bedrock. Most of the old drill collars could not be located in the field, but sampling of silicified and mineralized outcrop in the general area of the old drill collars returned anomalous (0.5-1.0 g/t) results for gold, suggesting the right geological environment and rationale for the historical drilling. Riverside’s sampling program focused on the area of the soil anomalies and trenches conducted by Golden Chalice Resources in 2010-12.
Historical geophysical work appears to show a direct correlation with the WNW trend of the high-grade gold samples taken to date. VLF (Very Low-Frequency) work conducted in the 1990s was used to delineate linear features and outlined geological contacts, faults, and mineralized veins. At Oakes, the VLF anomalies trend east-west at about 100 degrees subparallel to geological contacts. This recent work appears to show that one of two holes drilled in 1993 intercepted the HG zone at a depth of 117 m below the surface showing. Hole (GL-93-2) drilled by Greater Lenora Resources Corp (GLR) in 1993 was located to test a soil geochem anomaly of 880 ppb Au. The hole was collared at dip -45 degrees at an azimuth of 180 degrees and drilled to a total depth of 154.9 m. This hole intersected a semi massive pod (approx. 8.2 m in core length) of pyrrhotite and pyrite (trace chalcopyrite) within a greater volume of quartz veins and silicification with 9 g/t gold assayed over 1.5 m within this 8.2 m interval.
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The induced polarization (IP) work was conducted in 2010 following the soil sampling and drilling from the 1990s. The IP work produced a similar geophysical trend to the earlier VLF survey showing a 900 m long chargeability anomaly that aligns with Riverside’s surface rock sampling. The geophysical survey work shows that the mineralization may extend both east and west along strike from Trench #1 to Trench #3 and further eastward.
HG Target
Trench #1 in particular showed several shears, the largest being 3 m wide and exposed over an 80 m long strike within the trench. Two quartz-carbonate shears were sampled by Riverside in Trench #1. These shears are within mafic volcanic bedrock with sulphide mineralization primarily pyrrhotite and pyrite. Two of the five samples taken from this trench returned 19.7 and 31.9 g/t gold. Another sample 30 m to the east returned 6.9 g/t gold and an additional sample 275 m along trend returned 1 g/t gold. These Riverside samples are on trend with drill hole GL-93-2, drilled by Greater Lenora Resources Corp. in 1993 which returned >3 g/t gold within sheared metavolcanics rocks. Riverside believes this drill intercept and the trench samples demonstrate a 400 m strike length for the HG Target that could extend, based on interpretation of geology and geophysics for 2 km in total strike length, which will be confirmed with follow up field exploration studies. Subsequent mapping and sampling in 2020 indicate that the gold mineralization in Trench #1 likely continues along strike to the east to Trench #3, 600[+] m to the east. This conclusion is supported through coinciding anomalies in both VLF and IP geophysical surveys.
Brinklow Target
Similar parallel targets were delineated to the south of the more defined HG Target. These zones are oriented roughly east-west and coincident with VLF, IP chargeability and soil geochemistry anomalies. The Brinklow zone may align with the historical hole DDH50-01 which intersected anomalous gold (>3 g/t) within mafic volcanics at only 7.6 m downhole. Bedrock mapping in 2020 indicates that these anomalies coincide with a mostly covered shear within metavolcanic rocks.
Crib Target
The southernmost target roughly parallels the main access Crib Road closer to the southern boundary to the project. This largely geophysical anomaly coincides roughly with the geological boundary between metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks and partially with a gold-in-soil anomaly. Bedrock mapping in this area in 2020 indicates the structural geology in this area is very complex being juxtaposed to the Croll Lake Stock and older ultramafic rocks. The contacts between the metavolcanic, metasedimentary, ultramafic, and granitic rocks show strong but limited alteration with silicification extending over a larger area.
Two other N-NW trending targets were also identified. One of these targets is identified by historical drill holes #1, #3 and #4, which all returned anomalous gold intercepts >3 g/t gold (OGS, website). One grab sample by Riverside south and on trend from these holes returned anomalous gold (0.7 g/t) and may define another target area. The trend of this zone is the same as another zone identified near the eastern boundary. This ‘eastern structure’ target is delineated by a strong linear magnetic low, interpreted as a fault, and a large, coincident north-south trending gold in soil anomaly. The bulk of this area is covered by thick organic and swampy ground.
The Third Phase of Oakes Work Reported February 2020:
On February 27, 2020 Riverside reported that the Company has doubled the land tenure at its Oakes Project and that it had reprocessed the geophysical IP data and completed an inversion study. The 2010 IP survey was followed by a trenching campaign that identified three mineralized shears coincident with VLF geophysical anomalies. Bedrock mapping in 2020 focused on traversing along the geophysical anomalies to ascertain the nature and possible reason (source) of the anomalies. In the case of the most defined target, the HG target, fieldwork indicates the IP/VLF anomaly is located on a large shear hosting quartz carbonate veins along the contact between metavolcanic and gabbroic rocks. Similarly, the Brinklow and Crib targets are located within shears at/along major geological contacts, part of the central panel of the Beardmore-Geraldton Greenstone Belt.
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Longrose Gold Project, Northwestern Ontario
In February 2020 Riverside integrated the surface geochemistry with structural geology of the known mineralized structures and completed targeting work at the Project. The main shear zones are associated with anticlinal and synclinal hinges and axial planes similar to the near by former mine operations. At Longrose and elsewhere in the district the interbeds of banded iron formation provide a reductant trap for ore fluids and gold where structures cut the banded iron formation. Riverside’s mapping at Longrose has been compiled and integrated into GIS which shows that folding is a key control and provides targets for near term drilling. Mineralization on surface is delineated through mapping and tracing within the subsurface through past drilling in the area along. Fold zones show silicification within the metasedimentary rock similar to that found at the Leitch Mine and more generally in the Greenstone Belts of Ontario.
Integration of historical geophysics indicates a trend of structures subparallel to the strike of geological units generally southwest-northeast which fit regional controls in the belt. Geophysical magnetic lows parallel strong magnetic highs which is mapped as the southern iron formation and provides a target that can be tracked downward to illuminate folding controls. As well, a north-northwest trending low that intersects the magnetic high of the iron formation and another linear magnetic-low features that extend westward from the Leitch Mine provides another drill target on Longrose. Parts of the Longrose area are covered by swampy topographic lows and are believed to be associated with a recessive shear structure, part of the Beardmore Syncline. The drill targets at Longrose focus on the anticlinal hinges, cross structures and larger nonmineralized shears.
At Longrose, mineralized shear zones that host gold comprise sulfides and silicification zones that could be readily identified by a modern IP survey. IP geophysics data could be used in conjunction with the regional and detailed magnetic survey to define the four types of conceptual drilling targets developed by Riverside: (1) Strike-slip fault along which right-lateral displacement has disrupted thick iron formation units; inferred fault follows a regional volcanic-sedimentary contact, a prospective conduit for gold mineralization; (2) Trace of axial plane of westward-closing fold; possible site of shear fault that could host high-grade Au-quartz veining; (3) Trace of inferred shear structure that has evidently caused asymmetric ‘drag-fold’ defined by iron formation; and (4) Trace of possible shear structure denoted by ‘kink’ fold in iron formation
Pichette Gold Project, Northwestern Ontario
November 26, 2019, Riverside announced the progression of the Company’s Canadian business growth model with the acquisition of the Pichette Gold Project (the “Project”) near Jellicoe, part of the Beardmore-Geraldton Greenstone Gold Belt in northwestern Ontario. Pichette marks the third high-grade orogenic gold prospect generated by Riverside in 2019. Fieldwork at Pichette included prospecting, mapping and surface sampling of target regions traceable from regional aeromagnetic data and outcrop mapping. Pichette is located to the east of the former producing Hardrock Gold Mine (“Hardrock”).
The Pichette Project is located in the Vincent Township at Nezah and Canadian National Highway 11 about 60 km west of the mining town of Geraldton, Ontario. The Project covers part of the well-endowed Beardmore-Geraldton Greenstone Belt region. The Vincent Township is 28 kilometers east of the Beardmore and the Leitch Mine which produced 850,000 ounces of gold at an average grade of about one ounce per ton[[1]] .
Riverside’s first phase of work included reviewing the historical core and old gold workings in addition to prospecting, mapping and sampling. The recent work confirmed two previously identified gold mineralized areas in addition to new mineralized zones. There are two predominant target orientations on the project one which trends east-west and is associated with large shears related to banded iron formation and contact zones; and a second target trend that strikes at 030 degrees northeast and is defined by cross-cutting faults and/or dikes. Past magnetic surveys have been helpful in outlining banded iron formation, diabase dikes and geological contacts where overburden masks the underlying bedrock. Several of the old drill collars were located and the core from a 1983 diamond drilling campaign was reviewed at the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines core warehouse in Thunder Bay which is available for future review and sampling.
Pichette Targets Updated:
[1] Ontario Geological Survey – Open File Report 5823
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In 2020, additional work on Pichette by Riverside refined the two main areas of gold mineralization along the contact with metasedimentary rocks and banded iron formation. There are several 3m wide shear zones defined by strongly foliated (phyllitic) material which is undrilled and provides immediate targets. The Pichette project is located within the southern panel one of three geological panels that make up the BGGB. At Pichette gold is typically associated with westward plunging folds. The limbs of these folds dip steeply to the south similar to the mineralization noted at the Hardrock Deposit in Geraldton. This similar structural setting at Pichette makes the Hardrock deposit a good analog for target modelling and for further studies.
On February 10, 2021, the Company announced the sale of the Company's Oakes, Pichette and Longrose Projects in northwestern Ontario to iMetal Resources Inc.("iMetal").
Details of the transaction
iMetal will issue 8 million shares from treasury upon TSX Venture Exchange approval to Riverside to complete the transaction of buying Oakes, Longrose, Pichette and Vincent projects. There are no work commitments. Riverside is entitled to a one-time bonus payment of $500,000 in cash or shares at iMetal's option in the event a drill intersection in excess of 100-gram-metres is reported. Riverside will retain a 2.5% Net Smelter Return (NSR) Royalty on materials other than Cu, Pb, Zn which will be a 1.5% NSR. iMetal will have the option to purchase 1.5% (60%) of the NSR within 5 years of closing of the transaction as follows: first 0.5% for $500,000, second 0.5% for $2,000,000, third 0.5% for $5,000,000. As of August 25, 2021, the Company is actively under negotiation with iMetal to ensure the sales are still in good standing.
Mexico
Millrock Property Package, Sonora
On June 26, 2019, Riverside announced it had entered into a binding Letter Agreement, to purchase a 100% undivided right, title and interest in five (5) projects from Millrock Resources Inc. Los Cuarentas, La Union, El Valle, Llano de Nogal and El Pima were acquired by Riverside. Of these the priority project initially is Los Cuarentas which was then explored by Riverside and progressed toward a joint-venture spending partnership.
Los Cuarentas Gold-Silver Project
The Los Cuarentas Project is located 170 km northeast of Hermosillo and nearby Silver Crest Metal’s Las Chispas Project and Premier Gold’s Mercedes mine. Los Cuarentas is a low sulfidation epithermal Au and Ag target characterized by strong argillic and phyllic alteration surrounding low sulfidation epithermal veins that host gold and silver mineralization. Several target zones have been identified and most are ready for drilling such as: Santa Rosalia, Santa Rosalia Sur, El Sombrero and El Chapo.
La Union Gold Project
La Union in western Sonora is part of the orogenic gold belt and has chemistry and geology indicative of high potential new discoveries. The old mining areas have not been drill explored and the broader structures are wide open for further expansion. There are high grade structure for gold and base metals and the district has seen previous mining in this region of western Sonora, Mexico.
El Valle Gold-Silver Project
El Valle is north of Riverside’s Ariel porphyry Cu project and is a volcanic related Au-Ag vein system with a large 28-metrewide quartz vein mined during the 1940s (small inlier claim). El Valle is located in northeastern Sonora, 26 km east of the La Caridad Mine operation complex which is Mexico’s second largest copper operation and has been producing for over 100 years. This acquisition grows Riverside’s tenure and progresses the Company’s plan to consolidate the highest quality mineral districts to present to partners for joint venture.
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Llano del Nogal Copper Project
Llano del Nogal is a series of claims that fit within an area where other companies are active. The porphyry Cu prospecting and nearby drilling has intersected geologically permissive rocks and Riverside will look to form a partnership to consolidate the district following this acquisition by Riverside from Millrock in 2019.
El Pima
El Pima is a concession inside of the Agnico Eagle owned Santa Gertrudis Mining Complex. Riverside will look to partner or sell the claim. El Pima contains mineralization on the tenement and requires further exploration around the sediment hosted gold mine and many open pits of Agnico Eagle.
Los Cuarentas Gold Project, Sonora, Mexico
On September 11, 2019 Riverside announced that the Millrock acquisition has been completed and summary of recent compilations and new work on the Los Cuarentas Project. Work at Los Cuarentas Project could be expanded from the previous results.
On June 17, 2020, the Company entered into a Definitive Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Minera Hochschild Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“Hochschild”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hochschild Mining PLC for the Company’s 100% owned Los Cuarentas Gold-Silver Project (the “Project”). (please see full transaction details below after the targets summary)
Targets:
Santa Rosalia
The Santa Rosalia target is a mineralized structural zone extending for approximately 1 km (see press release January 20, 2020) and part of the uplifted northern block. The Santa Rosalia “vein zone” is defined as multiple sub-parallel mineralized silicainfilled fractures leading to formation of well-developed veins. Those veins can be seen in well-developed structural zones which could be as large as 8 m wide. The latest sampling program highlighted high-grade samples returning 18 g/t Au in a single 0.5 m wide vein, 2.3 g/t Au in quartz vein floats and 0.5 g/t Au along a 1 m channel sample across the entrance of an adit. Additional observation at Santa Rosalia show shallow, hydrothermal textures such as chalcedony quartz, suggesting most of the system has been preserved and likely extends to depth.
Santa Rosalia Sur
Similar to the Santa Rosalia target, the Santa Rosalia Sur target is part of the uplifted northern block. The latest mapping and sampling program highlighted and confirmed the presence of high-grade gold up to 14.8 g/t Au in hydrothermal breccia that extends 200 meters along strike. Laterally, the stockwork bordering the hydrothermal breccia returned 3 g/t Au. As previously described in the press release of January 20, 2020, the mineralized zone is affected by post-mineral faulting to the north, west and south. Although the mineralized bedrock has been dropped-down to the south, the alteration and lower grade gold (1-3 g/t) mineralization can still be traced for an additional 800 meters to the south along the trend.
El Sombrero
El Sombrero target can be defined as a northwest oriented zone of hydrothermally altered of volcanic package. High temperature alteration mineralogy as well as extensive silicification are primarily located along the El Sombrero structure and extend approximately 10 meters on each side of the fault. This observation makes El Sombrero a priority for deeper testing as it is identified as a possible feeder structure.
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El Sombrero Norte
El Sombrero target is mostly covered by post-mineral andesite (see Figure 1 above), however windows of hydrothermal alteration as well as silicified rhyolite dikes indicate that historical samples have been taken along a structural feature, defined now as a new target. This structure is defined as a parallel splay of the Mine fault, which is the main host for the Santa Rosalia high-grade mineralization. Historical samples from Millrock 2017 sampling program returned the highest grade on the property 29.4 g/t Au and another 8.6 g/t Au.
El Sombrerito
El Sombrerito is a new discovery that includes old workings. Historical samples taken by Millrock in 2018 returned up to 16.5 g/t Au and 11 g/t Au from 0.5 m wide stacked veinlets. Mapping identified rhyolite dikes within a thick cover of post-mineral unit. Riverside’s geologists defined the area as a new structural target, which shows potential as a parallel splay in between Santa Rosalia Sur and El Sombrero.
Santa Rosalia Norte
Approximately 450 meters to the north of Santa Rosalia additional old workings were discovered. Outcrops show steam-heated alteration mineralogy and the presence of silicified rhyolitic dikes. This area warrants more work to expand the size of the identified mineralized zone.
On January 20, 2020, Riverside reported on rock sampling and field work from the Project. Riverside rock samples from the Santa Rosalia Mine area s returned high grade gold grading greater than 5 g/t Au and up to 25.7 g/t Au and 119.7 g/t Ag (see Table 1 ). Riverside’s exploration team mapped and sampled known historical work areas to validate the accuracy of the highgrade samples collected in the past and to confirm two of the primary targets at Santa Rosalia and Santa Rosalia Sur.
Table 1: Six Best Gold Assay Results from Riverside’s Selective Sampling at Los Cuarentas
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Sample # Au (ppm) Ag (ppm) Target Type Rock
RRI-5779 25.7 4.5 Santa Rosalia dump breccia
RRI-5782 10.2 9 Santa Rosalia select andesite/veinlets
RRI-5789 6.8 65.1 Santa Rosalia Sur 1-m channel sheeted vein
RRI-5784 6.27 119.7 Santa Rosalia float vein/breccia
RRI-5780 5.3 5.6 Santa Rosalia rock chip stockwork
RRI-5790 5.1 75 Santa Rosalia Sur rock chip sheeted vein
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On April 21, 2020, Riverside report results from the spring 2020 program of rock-chip sampling and target mapping at the Project. Riverside collected channel samples along the primary targets and developed a better understanding of the structural setting identifying two additional vein systems and finding surface exposures with high-grade gold.
The Company also completed permitting for drilling and obtained local access agreements with the surface ranch owners enabling the project to move ahead in a positive way in the coming months. The new assay results show continuity along the principal mineralized zones and included five high-grades gold.
Table 1: Top Five of 31 Gold Assay Results from Riverside’s Second Sampling Program
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Sample ID Au (g/t) Target Zone Sample Type Rock Type
RRI-6023 18.00 Santa Rosalia rock chip vein
RRI-6010 12.30 Santa Rosalia Sur float vein/breccia
RRI-6014 7.19 Santa Rosalia Sur rock chip breccia/vein
RRI-6012 2.99 Santa Rosalia Sur rock chip andesite/stockwork
RRI-6019 2.29 Santa Rosalia float vein/andesite
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Los Cuarentas Option Agreement with Hochschild Mining
On June 24, 2020 Riverside announced that it had entered into a Definitive Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Minera Hochschild Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (“Hochschild”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hochschild Mining PLC for Riverside’s 100% owned Los Cuarentas Gold-Silver Project (the “Project”). This Agreement enables the Project to immediately move ahead with a robust exploration program and reflects the belief, by both parties, of the potential for rapid discovery of new gold-silver deposits.
The intention for the program is to move rapidly toward drill testing and build upon the targeting work that Riverside has completed to-date. Los Cuarentas hosts historical mine workings and multiple know veins, multi-gram gold sampling at surface with no known drilling.
Riverside will act as the project operator during at least the first two years of the Agreement, with the option to extend for an additional year at Hochschild’s request. As operator, Riverside will be entitled to collect administration fees of 10% on contracts of less than US$100k and 5% on contracts or more than $100k and will manage the exploration program.
Transaction Details:
Phase I Earn-In Option:
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Hochschild paid Riverside US$90,467 on signing the Agreement and to reimburse Riverside for prepaid maintenance fees;
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Hochschild to incur expenditures as listed on the table below totaling at least US$8,000,000 of qualifying exploration expenditures before the fifth anniversary of the effective date of the executed Agreement.
Table 1: Phase I Earn-In Option (Qualifying Expenditures)
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By June 17, 2021 Expenditure of US$700,000
1 [st] anniversary of the Effective Date
By June 17, 2022 Expenditure of US$1,000,000
By June 17, 2023 Expenditure of US$1,000,000
By June 17, 2024 Expenditure of US$2,300,000
By June 17, 2025 Expenditure of US$3,000,000
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Phase II Earn-In Option :
In order to exercise the Phase II Earn-in Option, Hochschild shall pay for all Qualifying Expenditures incurred during the Phase 1 Earn-In periods and incur an additional US$3,000,000 plus costs necessary to prepare a Feasibility Study (FS) in accordance with CIM standards before the eighth anniversary of the Effective Date.
Table 2: Phase II Earn-In Option (Qualifying Expenditures)
| June 2025–June 2026 | Expenditure of US$1,000,000 |
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| June 2026–June 2027 | Expenditure of US$1,000,000 |
| June 2027–June 2028 | Expenditure of US$1,000,000 |
| Feasibility Study (FS) | Undefined Expenditure Amount |
Upon Hochschild’s completion of the Phase II Earn-In and Riverside’s acceptance, the parties can form a Joint Venture with Riverside having a 25% interest, and Hochschild having 75% interest. Riverside will have the option to sell its interest in the Project to Hochschild for US$20,000,000, while retaining a 1% Net Smelter Royalty (NSR).
On October 8, 2020, Riverside announced results from the Cuarentas work program of high grade channel sampling and progressing toward drilling which would start later in October. The channel sampling was highlighted with 3.4m of 9 g/t Au at the Santa Rosalia target area. The Santa Rosalia will be the first and main initial focus for drilling at Cuarentas.
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On October 27, 2020, Riverside announced the commencement of a drill program with Hochschild Mining fully funding the testing with 10 initial holes at the Santa Rosalia former mine area. The geology with complex fault structure would be tested with drill centers roughly 100m apart along 400m strike length of the Santa Rosalia vein system and Testarazo Shear Zone which is post-mineral and bounds some of the mineralization.
On December 7, 2020, trenching results were announced and summarized with high grade intercepts and complex fault structures exposed as drilling was continuing at the Cuarentas project.
On January 12, 2021, Riverside announced drill results and published these on the Company website with maps, cross sections and interpretations. Drilling intersected 3.44m of 1.04 g/t Au and 57.8 g Ag among other intercepts on the Santa Rosalia structural target which is one of 4 high priority targets for further drill testing.
On May 19, 2021, the Company completed work with Hochschild Mining with over US$1,200,000 invested in the project including the development of 4 key drill areas of which Hochschild completed work on 1 and now 3 areas remain open and undrilled. Riverside took over control of the project and Hochschild forfeited its option after completing 1,500m of drilling at Santa Rosalia.
On July 29, 2021, the Company announced drill results from the Cuarentas Santa Rosalia Sur intermediate sulfidation vein system which is interpreted as potentially the upper extent for a untested porphyry Cu system. The drill results intersected gold of 3.15m @ 0.36 g/t Au including 0.7m @ 0.88 g/t Au. 1.55m at 0.58 g/t Au was the second intercept in the same drill hole both occurring in the upper 70m of the drill hole and the targets remain open along strike and down dip.
Cecilia Gold Project, Sonora
The Cecilia project is located 40 km southwest of the Mexico-U.S.A. border town of Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico and is easily accessed by paved highway and dirt roads. The project is a low sulphidation epithermal Au-Ag rhyolite flow dome complex and is 6,897 ha (69 km[2] ) in size. Riverside geologic team has completed mapping of targets on the main claim areas, worked on structural geology targeting for the high grade gold zones and integrated data from the as an on-going effort to complete updated cross sections, systematic targeting and three dimensional modeling.
Option Agreement with Carlyle Commodities
On July 15, 2020, Riverside announced that it has entered into a Definitive Option Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Carlyle Commodities Corp (“Carlyle”), for Riverside’s 100% owned Cecilia Gold-Silver Project (the “Project”). The Agreement grants Carlyle 100% undivided right, title, and ownership to the Cecilia Project for an aggressive work program, cash payments, shares and special warrants over-time and a 2.5% NSR with Riverside managing as operator. Riverside developed several targets after consolidating claims and expanding the Project further through the Mexican lottery to grow to a consolidated ~80km² full tenure package.
Transaction Details with Carlyle Commodities Corp
Table 1: Option Payment Schedule
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Cumulative
exploration
Payment Date Cash Payment ($C) Shares Special Warrants Expenditures
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Upon execution of the LOI $10,000 (Received)
Upon Closing $40,000 (Received) 1,500,000(received) 3,000,000(received)
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12 months from Closing $50,000(Received) $750,000
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24 months from Closing $50,000 $500,000
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36 months from Closing $50,000 $1,250,000
TOTAL: $200,000 1,500,000 3,000,000 $2,500,000
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At Cerro Magallanes, one of the largest and central mineralized centers of the project work defines four main target areas with assay intervals with channel sampling including 305 samples ranging from <0.05 to 19.00 g/t Au. Sampling shows consistent gold from the top of Cerro Magallanes at the San Jose Target northeast along the Agua Prieta-North Breccia Target and through the Central and East Target areas.
San Jose (West Area)
The west area of Cerro Magallanes is bisected by a large northwest trending structural zone of up to 60 m wide and hosts more than half a dozen old gold mine workings. Mineralized structures show predominantly silica alteration and commonly dip steeply to the NE with widths of 10-30 m. Sampling by Cambior (1995) within the workings returned 47m @ 1.12 g/t Au along the structural zone, while sampling across the structure by Riverside returned 8m @ 1.50 g/t Au in cross cut #26. The San Jose Target strikes more than 700 m in length and has not yet been drilled, however, historical sampling by Cambior along the structure on surface returned 3 to 9 g/t gold in 2m chip channel samples. These veins show classic epithermal multigenerational opening and filling typical of feeder zones like those at the San Julian Mine in Chihuahua also of the same mid-Tertiary age.
North Breccia
The North Breccia is a wide breccia zone formed along the north margin of the main composite rhyolite dome with historic drill intercepts (Cambior DDH 138-95-08) of 30.4 m @ 1.41 g/t Au). Rock channel sampling by Riverside’s returned 10m @ 3.34 g/t Au (both ends remain open).
The North Breccia extends upslope to the southwest more than 600 m merging with the Agua Prieta Zone and intersecting the San Jose NW trending Target Zone at the topographic peak of the dome complex. The North Breccia was historically rock chip channel sampled, returning good gold grades. The intersection of the North Breccia and the San Jose structure remain a top priority for drill testing. At the North Breccia and elsewhere on Cecilia the rhyolite dome is the main host unit where gold mineralization has been predominantly found in the breccia matrix. The North Breccia target is typical of dome margin breccias and is like deposits found in Peru, Bolivia, and Colorado where gold is largely hosted in the matrix. These deposit types are favorable hosts for bulk mining scenarios .
Agua Prieta Target (striking NE)
The Agua Prieta and North Breccia form a somewhat continuous zone of gold-bearing silicified breccia that extends northwest, downslope from its intersection with the San Jose target to mid-slope of Cerro Magallanes. Sampling on the dome margin here shows anomalous values and frequent higher-grade gold zones in silicified and brecciated rhyolitic rock. The new channel sampling has delineated the drill target that lies above the North Breccia. This target begins near surface and extends downward toward the subvolcanic conglomerate and sediments outcropping near the base of Cerro Magallanes. Cerro Magallanes overall appears analogous to the Pitarilla deposit in Durango, Mexico. Pitarilla hosts >500M Oz Ag grading approximately 100 g/t silver. Pitarilla was discovered by the exploration team at Silver Standard (now SSR Mining Inc.), which included Ron Burk, Technical Advisor to Riverside Resources.
The Agua Prieta target has potential to host high-grade structural gold mineralization along the margins of the dome feeder zones and is supported by sampling at the North Breccia Target which returned: 10m @ 3.34 g/t Au and 5m @ 4.04 g/t Au.
Central Target area
The Central Target has undergone small-scale open pit and focused underground mining. Historical underground rock-chip channel sampling by Cambior (1995) in this area returned: 14m @ 2.44 g/t Au. Riverside surface channel sampling on the Central Target returned 3.5m @ 2.7 g/t Au and 11m @ 0.84 g/t Au. Geochemistry sampling by Riverside where prior work largely did not assay for trace elements shows elevated values in Te, As, F, Pb and Mo which is typical within highly magmatically evolved rhyolite domes. This geochemistry is similar to mining camps in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, and Guanajuato in the Mesa Central and Sierra Madre Occidental dome fields.
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Old workings on the northern slopes of Cerro Magallanes from the 1950-60s chased near surface high-grade structures but did not explore at depth. These old workings drifted-in along several different orientations near one another suggesting possible bulk tonnage targeting scenarios may exist. Riverside will be working to assess this scenario following the positive results of the rock channel sampling.
East Target area
The East Target comprises high-grade, fault-controlled, Ag-rich veins along the margin of the Puma Dome located east of Cerro Magallanes dome. Gold in chip channel samples by Riverside along the trace of a portion of the fault structures returned 11.5m @ 1.57 g/t Au. Grab samples from dump material in this area returned silver values of up to 200 g/t Ag. The East Target is 200 m lower in elevation than Cerro Magallanes peak and might be showing vertical zoning from gold high on Cerro Magallanes to silver lower down closer to the underlying Cretaceous sedimentary rocks.
Casa de Piedra target
The Casa de Piedra target is east of Cerro Magallanes on the recently added Riverside concession, Cecilia 1. The target zone comprises a 2 km long shear fault vein with abundant epithermal mineralization and textures. Casa de Piedra has not seen any exploration making it a high-profile drill target. This target was first identified through soil geochemistry in June 2018 where anomalous Pb, Cu, Te and Hg were noted. In the field the Casa de Piedra target is defined by a 30 m wide N-NE trending structural corridor of altered Cretaceous clastic sedimentary bedrock. Within the main mineralized structure, widespread sericitic, silica and kaolinitic alteration is common including buddingtonite alteration; buddingtonite being a clay often found in proximity to precious metal veins. The structural zone is infilled with quartz veining, quartz veinlets and stockwork and in some areas banded quartz, vuggy quartz and grey calcite. Textures in outcrop are dominated by intact-banded veins and silicified zones and only minor vein breccias. Transport of the clasts appears to be rotated but with minor displacement; anastomosing breccia veins are common in outcrop.
Later carbonates are noted, and some carbonate appears to be leached from the matrix surrounding the quartz, leaving a stringy, net texture with residue of the Mn-oxides and crustiform quartz. This mineralized structure is cross-cut by northwest-trending rhyolitic dikes that do not appear to influence mineralization. Rock sampling (24) in this area returned one sample that assayed 0.9 g/t Au and also included other elements typical of the upper parts of hydrothermal veins. This shear vein is not unique, a second large vein system, Los Llanos described below.
Los Llanos target
The Los Llanos target is located east of the Casa de Piedra vein shear structure east of the Cerro Magallanes peak. The Los Llanos target was first defined by reconnaissance and soil geochemistry where anomalous Pb, Cu and Zn were noted. In the field the Los Llanos target is defined by a 20-30 m wide structural corridor of altered sandstone presently mapped as being 1 km in strike length and trending northeast. Gold mineralization is found in narrow anastomosing veins sometimes as stockwork but primarily as a silicified zone marked by reddish-brown iron oxides. This corridor also hosts rhyolite dikes which are sometimes parallel to the mineralized zone but also cut the zone. To the best of our understanding no exploration work has been done in this area thus making it a newly discovered vein zone. Some evidence of placer mining was noted in the area suggesting gold may have come from this vein; further exploration work is warranted on the Llanos target.
Cruz Target
The Cruz target lies within a large structural corridor northeast of Cerro Magallanes within horst and graben structural terrain. This large northwest trending regional structure extends tens of kilometers and comes across the northeast portion of the Project, is visible on satellite images, and forms a major structural topographic feature in northeastern Sonora. At the outcrop level, mineralization is noted in veins and stockwork alteration zones of up to 100 meters wide. These zones comprise anastomosing quartz veins with breccia that generally strike N-NE (020) and dip vertical to steeply to the west. Within this 100 m wide zone stockwork show syntaxial and druzzy textures. Gold mineralization is associated with pervasive, widespread sericitic and silica alteration; sulphides are rare but noted in this area. Where these veins cut conglomerate bedrock wide areas of silicified material is noted, two out of seven samples taken from this area returned gold grades of 1.6 g/t and 2.3 g/t Au. These veins continue
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through the conglomerate into the adjacent granitic bedrock. Geochemistry in this area shows high Pb, Zn and Cu indicating mineralization in the northern portion of the concession may be lower down in a epithermal system.
Cruz II Target
The Cruz II Target is located in the eastern portion of the Cecilia 1 concession. This target is also a structural corridor of silicification and veining currently mapped at about 2 km in strike length. The structure/vein strikes N-NE (020-030) and cuts through several sedimentary geological units varying in width from several meters to 20 m. Mineralized areas include anastomosing, stockwork or parallel veins with breccias; breccia is sometimes rounded but often angular. Terraspec analysis of altered rock shows pervasive silica and sericite alteration with illite in some areas. In hand sample the alteration is dominated by silicification and Fe-oxides. Individual veinlets are up to 30 cm wide with 3 to 5 parallel veins within a larger 20 m corridor. Stockwork veining, where present, is typically orthogonal and made more obvious by the hematitzation of rare pyrite, sphalerite and galena. Two of eleven samples from Riversides first pass of this area returned gold values of 0.5 g/t Au. Rock geochemistry also shows elements typical of a low-sulphidation epithermal system.
On Sept 21, 2020, Riverside provided an update of high-grade gold mineralization and exploration work that is filed on SEDAR and was published on the company website and distributed. These results raised the profile of the San Jose zone as a priority with high grade gold near surface and in old workings.
On November 5, 2020, Riverside updated investors and filed information on SEDAR and website about new geophysical induced polarity and drone magnetic airborne survey that was completed on the Cecilia project. This work refined the structural geology and provided insights for potential drill targeting in spring of 2021.
On November 18, 2020, Riverside updated investors on the results from channel sampling at the San Jose target area which followed up from the geophysical work announced earlier in the month. With these efforts during the later part of 2020, Riverside poised the project to move ahead with drilling during 2021 with exploration partner Carlyle Commodities Corp providing funding and Riverside being a shareholder of Carlyle.
During early 2021, an initial drill program of 7 holes for a total of 881m was completed by Riverside with funding partner Carlyle Commodities Corporation. The drill results were announced in April 2021.
On April 15, 2021, Riverside updated investors on the assay results from the first five holes at Cecelia with the best intercept being 24.2 m of 1.51 g/t Au starting from only 2.30 m downhole at the North Breccia Target (CED21-005). A further 8.9 m of 0.64 g/t Au intercept was cut near end-of-hole starting from only 40.35 m.
On April 27th Riverside released the assay results from the last two hole, holes 6 and 7 the best results are tabulated below.
Summary of intercepts for hole CED21-006 and CED21-007
| Hole_ID | From (m) | To (m) | Down hole width (m) | Grade (g/t Au) |
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| CED21-006 | 34.50 | 40.15 | 5.65 | 0.39 |
| including | 34.50 | 36.50 | 2 | 0.78 |
| CED21-006 | 47.50 | 49.00 | 1.5 | 0.60 |
| CED21-006 | 70.20 | 70.70 | 0.5 | 0.20 |
| CED21-006 | 106.70 | 110.00 | 3.3 (True width) | 3.70 |
| including | 106.70 | 108.00 | 1.3 (True width) | 8.82 |
| CED21-007 | 35.35 | 37.65 | 2.3 | 0.19 |
| CED21-007 | 45.75 | 48.90 | 3.15 | 0.31 |
| CED21-007 | 60.75 | 63.80 | 3.05 (True width) | 0.67 |
| including | 62.3 | 63.8 | 1.5 (True width) | 1.18 |
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RIVERSIDE RESOURCES INC. (An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
Tajitos Gold Project, Sonora
Located in north-western Sonora State, Mexico, the Tajitos Gold Project consists of two concession block areas. The core Tajitos claim group and the easterly lying El Tejo group of concessions make up the Project. The Project is strategically situated in the Caborca Orogenic Gold Province which includes the major gold mines at La Herradura, Noche Buena, Chinate and San Francisco Mines among other producers. The core claim at Tajitos covers a number of northwesterly striking gold-bearing quartz veins and shear faults that were exploited by small underground mines, now abandoned but still accessible. Riverside geologists conducted field work on the structural control of gold mineralization recently and the adjacent to the east Mexican gold producer.
The gold mineralization intersected in Riverside drill-holes occurs in fault zones and along lithologic contacts like major mines in the area. Due to the wide spacing of the drill-holes a reliable definition of the strike and dip orientations of the mineralized zones could not be refined yet and further drilling is warranted to better determine the extent and tenor of gold mineralization on the Tajitos property.
In addition to the eight boreholes drilled by Riverside on the Tajitos claim group, a program of reverse circulation drilling on the El Tejo claim group was also completed with partners. Twelve RC holes, totaling 1,728 meters, were drilled at Tejo to probe the bedrock lying beneath an extensive and thick cover of alluvial gravels. This work sets the project on a good position going forward to progress and build upon the geology and geochemistry developed previously. Tajitos in 2020 has seen field work, mapping, Leapfrog modeling, 3D mineralization model study, geochemistry, target work with the geophysics and discussions with parties for the project to progress.
La Silla Gold-Silver Project, Sinaloa
The La Silla Project east of Mazatlan in Sinaloa Mexico is a former mining operating district with high grade silver and gold mineralization on Riverside mineral tenure concessions. The project currently 100% owned and controlled by Riverside has had recent field work and mapping, sampling, targeting completed. Two adjoining concessions totaling 1,031.5 hectares are controlled by Riverside. In addition, another two concessions totaling 1,039.3 hectares make up a second target rich area for the project that Riverside controls. Veins on both concession blocks have been progressed at the Project and can move moved ahead with trenching and then drilling.
At the Ciruela and El Roble prospects rock-chip samples have delivered high grade metals and work in the field continues at these target areas. Riverside conducted data integration, review of geology, geochemistry and considerations for strategic steps during the year. The project continues to have interesting growth target potential.
The Company terminated in January 2020 the previously signed Definitive Agreement from a year earlier January 30, 2019, with Sinaloa Resources Corp. (“Sinaloa”) whereby Sinaloa could acquire a 70% interest in the La Silla Property as Riverside had not received payment or required work on the project and the option was ended. Riverside took back control of the project and conducted its own exploration efforts during the year.
On December 9, 2020, the Company entered into an option agreement, signing a Definitive Agreement with Upper Canada Inc. (“Upper Canada”) whereby Upper Canada could acquire up to 100% undivided interests in the La Silla Property, a silvergold project, by paying $500,000 in cash, issuing 10,600,000 common shares and incurring exploration expenditures of $20,000,000 over a four-year period as follows:
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Due Date Cash Common shares Cumulative Percentage
exploration Earned
expenditures
September 11, 2020 600,000 (received) - -
(signing of LOI)
December 9, 2020 $50,000 5,000,000(received) - -
March 9, 2021 $50,000 2,500,000 - -
June 9, 2021 $75,000 2,500,000 - -
December 9, 2021 $150,000 - $ 5,000,000 51%
December 9, 2022 $100,000 - $2,000,000 60%
December 9, 2023 $50,000 - $7,500,000 -
December 9, 2024 $25,000 - $5,000,000 100%
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- As of December 30, 2021, the Company did not receive the $50,000 cash payment that was due on December 9, 2020 from Upper Canada. On February 4, 2021, the Company terminated the option agreement with Upper Canada and therefore, Upper Canada has no further obligation with respect to the project.
On May 25, 2021, the Company received high grade gold assays from La Silla Project with rock chip samples up to 6.1 g/t Au on great than 2 km long vein structures that have no drilling. There are a series of vein systems in the La Silla Project which the Company has been sampling, mapping, and structurally interpreting into drill ready targets. Silver values over 80 g/t Ag in rock chip samples also are announced in this news release.
Australia (Sandy) Gold Project, Sonora
The Sandy Gold Project is located in NW Sonora, Mexico within the prolific Sonora Megashear Gold Belt.
On March 21, 2019, the Company reported initial results from the Company’s first-phase exploration program at the recently staked Sandy Project.
Riverside geologists completed surface sampling, mapping and geophysic interpretation work at the project. The project has potential for gold exploration and is in the prolific mineral belt south of gold mines operated by Fresnillo including the >5Moz Au producer, La Herradura Mine. Sample from old workings returned 38.8 g/t Au. Chip channel samples of 1.5 meter in length returned gold results of 9.3 g/t, 4.7 g/t and 3.7 g/t Au. A total of 71 samples have been analyzed so far and further work at Sandy is anticipated to continue to define the structural nature and intrusion association to the gold.
Higher gold grades appear to be associated with intersecting structures within strongly foliated granitic intrusive bedrock. Primary structures strike NW-SE and dip between 40 and 70 degrees to the east in a general structural character with similar orientation and style to some of the shear zone gold mines in the region. Other smaller faults are noted striking roughly north south and dipping steeply to the east which cut the main shear zone and could possibly hide extensive expansions of the gold system under shallow cover. The cross structures have been intruded by mafic dikes that show pervasive propylitic alteration indicating potential deeper intrusion related gold mineralization. The highest-grade gold material was found associated with a set of variously dipping felsic dikes which could be associated with the intrusive system. Silicification and minor quartz veining is noted associated with the structures and with through-going vein mineralization. The wall rock associated with these structures often shows sericites and silica alteration.
Of note while visiting the property are the vast placer-gold workings immediately north of the project area. The source of the placer gold has not been determined and may be derived from intrusive bedrock within the Sandy project.
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Suaqui Verde and Suaqui Grande, Sonora
Riverside developed copper targets on both the Suaqui Verde and Suaqui Grande properties which are near each other and both have copper potential in the copper belt of central Sonora, Mexico. The Company conducted site work and progressed discussions for the district play. Copper growth areas were reviewed, and further work progressed.
During Q3, 2021 the Company completed further exploration prospecting, geologic mapping, geochemical vectoring for porphyry copper targets. The Riverside property is immediately adjacent to known copper resource areas and former mines for which Riverside may have the structural continuation and exploration work has been progressing on these themes.
The scientific and technical data contained in the property descriptions pertaining to the Company’s portfolio were reviewed by Freeman Smith, P.Geo. who is responsible for ensuring that the geologic information provided in this section of the Management Discussion and Analysis is accurate and acts as a "qualified person" under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Project.
SELECTED ANNUAL INFORMATION
The following table sets forth selected consolidated information of the Company at September 30, 2020 and for each of the prior two fiscal years prepared in accordance with IFRS. The selected consolidated financial information should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company.
| Canadian Dollars | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance, property and other income | $ | 108,871 | $ | 1,348,584 | $ | 176,702 |
| Net income (loss) | 2,631,544 | (1,310,831) | (1,462,695) | |||
| Net income (loss) per share, basic and fully diluted | 0.04 | (0.02) | (0.03) | |||
| Cash and cash equivalent and short-term investments | 6,051,890 | 5,143,379 | 2,868,824 | |||
| Total assets | 12,211,722 | 12,341,457 | 8,869,608 |
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL RESULTS
Three-month period ended June 30, 2021
For the three months ended June 30, 2021, the Company had a net income of $821,455, resulting in an earning per share of $0.00. The income was mainly related to an unrealized gain on short-term investments of $1,030,820 as a result of the increases in fair market value of Arizona Metal Corp shares, which are partially offset by general and administration and share-based compensation The decreases (recoveries) in the management and consulting fees, professional fees were mainly contributed to the recoveries of administration services on BHP, Carlyle and Hochschild alliance programs as well as the cost saving initiatives.
Nine-month period ended June 30, 2021
For the nine months ended June 30, 2021, the Company had a net income of $1,436,386, resulting in an income per share of $0.00. The gain was related to finance income of $11,149, other income of $114,854 and the unrealized gain on short-term investment of $1,075,934 and the realized gain on short-term investment of $1,172,012 mainly due to a significant increase on Arizona Metals Corp. (“Arizona Metals”) fair market value during the period ended June 30, 2021 and the Company completed the sales of 1,100,000 Arizona Metals shares for net proceed of $1,464,342. The net income also was partially offset by the operating expense of $937,563.
Three-month period ended June 30, 2020
For the three months ended June 30, 2020, the Company had a net income of $284,187, resulting in an earning per share of $0.01. The income was related to an unrealized gain on short-term investments of $561,520 and a realised gain on short-term investment of $210,820, which were partially offset by the increases in investor relations, general and administration as well as property investigation and evaluation expenses. The increases in the investor relations, general and administration and
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property investigation and evaluation expenses are mainly contributed to the costs of strategic reorganization. The Company intends to bill back all the related spin-out transaction costs after the completion of Capitan’s listing on TSX-Venture exchange.
Nine-month period ended June 30, 2020
For the nine months ended June 30, 2020, the Company had a net income of $293,146, resulting in an earning per share of $0.00. The gain was related to finance income of $37,055, other income of $49,634 and the unrealized gain on short-term investment of $1,552,258 mainly due to a significant increase on Arizona Metals Corp. fair market value as at June 30, 2020. Accordingly, the Company sold 4,400,000 common shares from Arizona Metal Corp. for net proceeds $784,207 yet recognized a realized loss on short-term investment of $174,294 on Arizona Metal Inc’s shares at the trading date. The net income also was partially offset by the operating expense of $1,171,507.
Exploration and evaluation assets
Nine months ended June 30, 2021
The Company capitalizes all exploration costs relating to its resource interests whereas pre-exploration costs are expensed as incurred. During the nine months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded $497,897 in acquisition and exploration of its properties as follows:
| | Mexico | |
|---|---|---|
o Tajitos |
$ 119,007 | |
o La Silla |
$ 70,964 | |
o Australia |
$ 4,335 | |
o Ariel |
$ 14,123 | |
o Cecilia |
$ 658 | |
o Teco |
$ 31,860 | |
o Suaqui Verde |
$ 654 | |
o Cuarentas |
$ 80,240 | |
o La Union |
$ 8,103 | |
o El Valle, Llano & Pima $ 1,238 |
- Canada
oNorthwestern Ontario $ 166,715
The Company acquired a 100% interest in the Oakes, Longnose, Vincent projects in northwestern Ontario, Canada on April 1, 2019. Subsequently, the Company acquired a 100% interest in Kenora project in northwestern Ontario, Canada in July 2020.
Nine months ended June 30, 2020
The Company capitalizes all exploration costs relating to its resource interests whereas pre-exploration costs are expensed as incurred. During the nine months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $861,527 in acquisition and exploration of its properties as follows:
| | Mexico | |
|---|---|---|
o Peñoles |
$102,442 | |
o Tajitos |
$ 71,870 | |
o La Silla |
$ 33,605 | |
o Australia |
$ 19,139 | |
o Ariel |
$ 6,473 | |
o Cecilia |
$224,988 | |
o Teco |
$ 22,190 | |
o Suaqui Verde |
$ 1,793 | |
o Cuarentas |
$109,523 |
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As at December 31, 2019, the Company has officially acquired a 100% interest in Los Cuarentas, La Union, El Valle, Llano del Nogalo and El Pima.
Full particulars of the deferred exploration costs are shown in Note 9 to the Condensed Interim Consolidate Financial Statements.
Recoveries and Other Income
Nine months ended June 30, 2021
From February 2019 to June 2021, the Company agreed to share their office space with First Helium Inc. (“First Helium”), a company with a common officer with the Company. During the period ended June 30, 2021 the Company recognized rental recovery of $18,000 from First Helium, which was recorded in other income. As well, the Company recognized the exploration equipment and vehicle rentals recovery of $96,854 from the BHP alliance program in other income. Finance income and other income for the period ended June 30, 2021 were $11,149 and $114,854, respectively.
Nine-months ended June 30, 2020
Starting from February 2019, the Company agreed to share their office space with First Helium Inc. (“First Helium”), a company with a common officer with the Company. During the nine months ended June 30, 2020 the Company recognized rental recovery of $18,000 from First Helium, which was recorded in other income. As well, the Company recognized the exploration equipment and vehicle rentals recovery of $31,634 from the BHP alliance program.
Other income consists of revenue from receiving option payment by common shares, exploration equipment and vehicle rentals to the alliance and work programs.
Expenses
Nine months ended June 30, 2021
During the nine months ended June 30, 2021, the Company incurred $57,370 in depreciation, $1,783 in recovery of consulting fees, $27,000 in directors’ fees, $203,546 in investor relations fees, $108,602 in professional fees, $251,602 in share-based compensation, and $79,929 in general and administrative expenses. In addition, the Company incurred $60,946 in rent. The Company earned $11,149 in finance income, $114,854 in other income, and $1,075,934 in unrealized gain on changes of shortterm investments as well as $1,172,012 realized gain on the sales of short-term investments.
Nine months ended June 30, 2020
During the nine months ended June 30, 2020, the Company incurred $39,055 in depreciation, $215,633 in consulting fees, $27,000 in directors’ fees, $219,248 in investor relations fees, $288,130 in professional fees, $121,069 in share-based compensation, and $156,558 in general and administrative expenses. In addition, the Company incurred $59,979 in rent. The Company earned $37,055 in finance income, $49,634 in other income, and $1,552,258 unrealized gain on short-term investment, offset by $174,294 realized loss on sale of short-term investments. The increases in the investor relations, general and administration, professional fees and property investigation and evaluation expenses are mainly contributed to the additional costs of strategic reorganization. The Company intends to bill back all the related spin-out transaction costs after the completion of Capitan’s listing on TSX-Venture exchange.
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Compared to the same period in previous year, increases in net income in 2021 was primarily due to an increase in realized gain on short-term investment by $1,172,012 by completing the sales of Arizona Metal’s shares and the unrealized gain on short-term investment $1,075,934 by recognizing the fair market value of Arizona Metals (“AMC” as per IFRS 9 Financial Instrument’s requirement with less numbers of AMC shares on hand. Partially offset by an increase in share-based compensation by $251,602. Decreases in professional fees by $179,528 and general and administration by $79,629 with respect that there is no such plan of rearrangement transaction incurred during the period ended June 30, 2021. There were no significant variations in other operating expenses over the comparative period.
General and administrative expenses consist of filing fees, director’s fees, rent, general office expenses and administrative services related to maintaining the Company’s exchange listing and complying with securities regulations. Rent and general office expenses decreased compared to the same period in the prior year as the Company spent less funds on promotional and marketing activities, financial advisory and investor relations services and the Company entered into a new contract of rental agreement of Canadian office, resulting in reduced costs in rent.
Share-based payments increased as a result of more share option grants. During the period ended June 30 2021, the Company recorded share-based payments of $251,602 (2020 - $121,069) for the vested portion of the options granted and during the period. Share-based payments expense recorded in the comparative period of the previous fiscal year was higher as there were more options granted during that period.
RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES
In conducting its business, the Company faces a number of risks and uncertainties related to the mineral exploration industry. Some of these risk factors include risks associated with land titles, exploration and development, government and environmental regulations, permits and licenses, competition, dependence on key personnel, fluctuating mineral and metal prices, the requirement and ability to raise additional capital through future financings and price volatility of publicly traded securities.
Property Risks
Title to exploration and evaluation asset interests involves certain inherent risks due to the difficulties of determining the validity of certain claims as well as the potential for problems arising from the frequently ambiguous conveyance history of many mineral claims. The Company has investigated title to all of its exploration and evaluation asset interests and, to the best of its knowledge, title to all of its interests are in good standing. The exploration and evaluation asset interests in which the Company has committed to earn an interest are located in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Title Risks
Although the Company has exercised due diligence with respect to determining title to the properties in which it has a material interest, there is no guarantee that title to such properties will not be challenged or impugned. Third parties may have valid claims underlying portions of the Company’s interests, and the permits or tenures may be subject to prior unregistered agreements or transfers or native land claims and title may be affected by undetected defects. If a title defect exists, it is possible that the Company may lose all or part of its interest in the properties to which such defects relate.
Exploration and Development
Resource exploration and development is a highly speculative business, characterized by a number of significant risks including, among other things, unprofitable efforts resulting not only from the failure to discover mineral deposits but also from finding mineral deposits that, though present, are insufficient in quantity and quality to return a profit from production. Substantial expenses are required to establish reserves by drilling, sampling and other techniques and to design and construct mining and processing facilities. Whether a mineral deposit will be commercially viable depends on a number of factors, including the particular attributes of the deposit (i.e. size, grade, access and proximity to infrastructure), financing costs, the cyclical nature of commodity prices and government regulations (including those relating to prices, taxes, currency controls, royalties, land tenure, land use, importing and exporting of minerals, and environmental protection). The effect of these factors or a combination thereof cannot be accurately predicted but could have an adverse impact on the Company.
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Environmental Regulations Permits and Licenses
The Company’s operations may be subject to environmental regulations promulgated by government agencies from time to time. Environmental legislation provides for restrictions and prohibitions on spills, releases or emissions of various substances produced in association with certain mining industry operations, such as seepage from tailings disposal areas that would result in environmental pollution. A breach of such legislation may result in the imposition of fines and penalties. In addition, certain types of operations require the submission and approval of environmental impact assessments. Environmental legislation is evolving in a manner that means standards are stricter, and enforcement, fines and penalties for noncompliance are more stringent. Environmental assessments of proposed projects carry a heightened degree of responsibility for companies and directors, officers and employees. The cost of compliance with changes in governmental regulations has a potential to reduce the profitability of operations. We intend to comply fully with all environmental regulations.
The current or future operations of the Company, including development activities and commencement of production on our properties, require permits from various federal, state or territorial and local governmental authorities, and such operations are and will be governed by laws and regulations governing prospecting, development, mining, production, exports, taxes, labour standards, occupational health, waste disposal, toxic substances, land use, environmental protection, mine safety and other matters. Such operations and exploration activities are also subject to substantial regulation under applicable laws by governmental agencies that may require that we obtain permits from various governmental agencies. There can be no assurance, however, that all permits that the Company may require for the operations and exploration activities will be obtainable on reasonable terms or on a timely basis or that such laws and regulations will not have an adverse effect on any mining project which the Company might undertake.
Failure to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and permitting requirements may result in enforcement actions thereunder, including orders issued by regulatory or judicial authorities causing operations to cease or be curtailed, and may include corrective measures requiring capital expenditures, installation of additional equipment, or remedial actions. Parties engaged in mining operations may be required to compensate those suffering loss or damage by reason of mining activities and may have civil or criminal fines or penalties imposed for violations of applicable laws or regulations and, in particular, environmental laws.
Competition
The mining industry is intensely competitive in all its phases, and the Company competes with other companies that have greater financial and technical resources. Competition could adversely affect the Company’s ability to acquire suitable properties or prospects in the future.
Dependence on Key Personnel
The success of the Company is currently largely dependent on the performance of the directors and officers. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to maintain the services of the directors and officers or other qualified personnel required to operate its business. The loss of the services of these persons could have a material adverse effect on the Company and the prospects.
Fluctuating Mineral and Metal Prices
Factors beyond our control may affect the marketability of metals discovered, if any. Metal prices have fluctuated widely, particularly in recent years. The effect of these factors on the exploration activities cannot be predicted. For example, gold prices are affected by numerous factors beyond the Company’s control, including central bank sales, producer hedging activities, the relative exchange rate of the U.S. dollar with other major currencies, global and regional demand and political and economic conditions. Worldwide gold production levels also affect gold prices. In addition, the price of gold has on occasion been subject to rapid short-term changes due to speculative activities.
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Future Financings
The Company’s continued operation will be dependent upon the ability to generate operating revenues and to procure additional financing. There can be no assurance that any such revenues can be generated or that other financing can be obtained on acceptable terms. Failure to obtain additional financing on a timely basis may cause the Company to postpone development plans, forfeit rights in some or all of the properties or joint ventures or reduce or terminate some or all of the operations.
Price Volatility of Publicly Traded Securities
In recent years, the securities markets in the United States and Canada have experienced a high level of price and volume volatility, and the market prices of securities of many companies have experienced wide fluctuations in price that have not necessarily been related to the operating performance, underlying asset values or prospects of such companies. There can be no assurance that continual fluctuations in price will not occur. It may be anticipated that any quoted market for the Common Shares will be subject to market trends and conditions generally, notwithstanding any potential success of the Corporation in creating revenues, cash flows or earnings. The value of securities distributed hereunder will be affected by market volatility.
Risks Related to COVID-19
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This contagious disease outbreak, which has continued to spread, and any related adverse public health developments, has adversely affected workforces, economies, and financial markets globally, potentially leading to an economic downturn. It is not possible for the Company to predict the duration or magnitude of the adverse results of the outbreak and its effects on the Company’s business or ability to raise funds.
The Company continues to closely monitor developments in the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic, including the potential impact on the Company's operations.
SUMMARY OF QUARTERLY RESULTS
The following table sets forth selected quarterly consolidated financial information for each of the last eight quarters with the figures for each quarter in Canadian dollars.
| Unrealized | Earnings (Loss) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gain/(loss) on | per share | ||||
| Property and | short-term | (basic & fully | |||
| Quarter end | Finance income | other income | investments | Net income (loss) | diluted) |
| 30-Jun-21 | 4,938 | 50,983 | (1,030,820) | 821,455 | 0.00 |
| 31-Mar-21 | 3,731 | 30,964 | (387,380) | 564,892 | 0.01 |
| 31-Dec-20 | 2,480 | 32,907 | 432,494 | 50,039 | 0.00 |
| 30-Sep-20 | 2,195 | 19,987 | (385,851) | 2,338,398 | 0.03 |
| 30-Jun-20 | 1,652 | 11,077 | 561,520 | 284,187 | 0.01 |
| 31-Mar-20 | 22,748 | 32,557 | (354,541) | (677,235) | (0.01) |
| 31-Dec-19 | 12,655 | 6,000 | 1,345,279 | 686,194 | 0.01 |
| 30-Sep-19 | 15,927 | 331,391 | (339,689) | (1,625,043) | (0.03) |
During the three months ended June 30, 2021, the net income was primarily due to the unrealized gain on short-term investment of $1,030,820 in connection with the changes in fair market value of the marketable securities. Please refer to the unaudited financial statements and related notes for the nine months ended June 30, 2021, Note 5, Short-term investments for details.
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the net income was primarily due to the realized gain on short-term investment of $1,172,012 and unrealized loss on short-term investment of $45,114 in connection with the sales of Arizona Metal shares for net proceed of $1,464,342 and changes in fair market value marketable securities. Please refer to the unaudited financial statements and related notes for the six months ended March 31, 2021, Note 5, Short-term investments for details. Also, the
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decrease in consulting fees by $96,173 was mainly contributed to the recoveries of administration services on BHP, Carlyle and Hochschild alliance programs.
During the three months ended December 31, 2020, the net income was primarily due to the unrealized gain on short-term investment of $432,494 and the decrease in consulting fees by $60,072 was mainly contributed to the recoveries of administration services on BHP, Carlyle and Hochschild alliance programs.
During the three months ended September 30, 2020, the net income was primarily due to the Company recognized a gain on spin-out of Penoles of $2,417,283 in consideration for 17,500,000 common shares of Capitan with a value of $3,500,000. As well, the sales of 500,000 Arizona Metals Corp’s common shares and 1,000,000 Silver Viper Minerals Corp’s common shares for recognizing a realized gain on short-term investment of $365,449.
During the three months ended June 30, 2020, the net income was primarily due to the Company recognized an unrealized gain on short-term investments of $561,520 that was mainly triggered by a significant increase in the fair market value of Arizona Metals Corp’s common shares as at June 30, 2020. As well, the sale of 4,400,000 Arizona Metals Corp’s common shares for recognizing a realized gain on short-term investment of $210,820.
During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the net loss was primarily due to the Company recognized a realized loss on short-term investments of $354,541 that was mainly triggered by a significant decrease in the fair market value of Arizona Metals Corp’s common shares as at March 31, 2020. As well, an increase in the professional fee of $197,277 as a result of the Company incurred additional legal, accounting and compliance services with respects to the strategic reorganization of its exploration business. Subsequent to the period ended March 31, 2020, the Company billed and received all the related spin out costs in connection with the strategic reorganization was completed on August 14, 2020.
During the three months ended December 31, 2019, the net income was primarily due to the Company recognized an unrealized gain on short-term investments of $1,345,279 that was mainly triggered by a significant increase on the fair market value of Arizona Metals Corp’s common shares as at December 31, 2019.
During the three months ended September 30, 2019, the increase in net loss was primarily due to the Company recognized the provision tax penalty of $1,131,026 in connection with the lawsuit against with the Government of Mexico. Also, the Company sold all 55,087 shares of E3 Metals Corp for net proceeds $23,363 and recorded the unrealized loss on short-term investments of $339,689.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
The Company relies on equity financings and exploration alliances for its working capital requirements and to fund its planned exploration and development activities. Management ensures the Company has sufficient cash in its treasury to maintain underlying option payments and keep claims in good standing. Decrease in cash and cash equivalents for the period ended June 30, 2021 was $523,052. Working capital as at June 30, 2021 was $5,642,510. The Company has sufficient funds to meet ongoing corporate activities and planned exploration programs for the ensuing year.
Increase in cash and cash equivalents for the nine months ended June 30, 2020 was $263,075. Working capital as at June 30, 2020 was $3,247,417. The Company has sufficient funds to meet ongoing corporate activities and planned exploration programs for the ensuing year.
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
The Company has no undisclosed off-balance sheet arrangements or off-balance sheet financing structures in place.
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
Related party transactions are in the normal course of operations and are recorded at their exchange amount which is the price agreed to between the Company and the directors and officers.
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The Company entered into the following transactions with related parties:
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Payee / Payer Nature of Period ending Fees Shares Amount payable
transactions June 30, (Income) ($) (receivable) at
($) period end ($)
Arriva Management and 2021 175,500 Nil Nil
Management Inc. consulting fees (i) 2020 174,600 Nil Nil
GSBC Financial Management and 2021 72,000 Nil Nil
Management Inc. consulting fees (i) 2020 72,000 Nil Nil
Alberto Orozco Consulting fees (i) 2021 479 Nil Nil
2020 123,750 Nil Nil
Omni Resource Consulting fees (i) 2021 42,000 Nil Nil
Consulting Ltd. 2020 45,000 Nil Nil
Brian Groves Director fees(ii) 2021 9,000 Nil Nil
2020 9,000 Nil Nil
James Clare Director fees(ii) 2021 Nil Nil Nil
2020 Nil Nil Nil
Carol Ellis Director fees(ii) 2021 9,000 Nil Nil
2020 9,000 Nil Nil
Walter Henry Director fees(ii) 2021 9,000 Nil Nil
2020 9,000 Nil Nil
First Helium Inc. Rent (iii) 2021 (18,000) Nil Nil
2020 (18,000) Nil (18,900)
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Key management personnel include those persons having authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the Company as a whole. The Company has determined that key management personnel consist of executive and non-executive members of the Company’s Board of Directors and corporate officers. The remuneration of directors and key management personnel during the period ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
| 2021 | 2020 | |
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| Directors’ fees (ii) Management and consulting fees (i) Share-based payments |
$ 27,000 299,979 113,213 $ 440,192 |
$ 27,000 460,350 68,401 $ 555,751 |
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(i) Management and consulting fees of the key management personnel for the year were allocated as follows: $81,000 (2020 - $81,000) expensed to consulting fees, $81,100 (2020 - $379,350) capitalized to exploration and evaluation assets and $137,879 (2020 - $nil) capitalized to exploration work performed for alliances that will be reimbursed.
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(ii) Starting from January 1, 2019, James Clare, director, agreed not to receive director fees from the Company and waived $26,846 in amounts owed to him from the Company. As a result, the Company recognized a gain on debt settlement of $26,846 during the year ended September 30, 2019.
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(iii) Starting from February 2019, the Company agreed to share their office space with First Helium Inc. (“First Helium”), a company with a common officer with the Company. During the period ended June 30, 2021, the Company recognized rental recovery of $18,000 (2020 - $12,000) from First Helium, which was recorded in other income.
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RIVERSIDE RESOURCES INC. (An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
On November 30, 2019, the Company received 300,000 pre-consolidated shares of First Helium Inc. to settle $21,000 in debt. On September 8, 2020, the Company acquired an additional 472,500 pre-consolidated shares of First Helium Inc. at $0.04 per share by paying cash of $18,900. On November 9, 2020, the Company acquired the additional 772,500 preconsolidated shares of First Helium Inc. at $0.007 per share by paying cash of $5,408. Please refer to the Note 5 & Note 15 (a) of the nine months ended June 30, 2021 condensed interim consolidated financial statement for additional details.
PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS
At the present time, there are no proposed transactions that should be disclosed.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
The Company’s accounting policies are described in Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2020. Management considers the following to be the most critical in understanding the judgments that are involved in preparing the Company’s financial statements and the uncertainties that could impact its results of operations, financial condition and future cash flow.
Financial instruments
Financial assets
The Company classifies its financial assets in the following categories: at fair value through profit or loss (“FVTPL”), at fair value through other comprehensive income (“FVTOCI”) or at amortized cost. The determination of the classification of financial assets is made at initial recognition. Equity instruments that are held for trading (including all equity derivative instruments) are classified as FVTPL; for other equity instruments, on the day of acquisition the Company can make an irrevocable election (on an instrument-by-instrument basis) to designate them as at FVTOCI.
The Company’s accounting policy for each of the categories is as follows:
Financial assets at FVTPL: Financial assets carried at FVTPL are initially recorded at fair value and transaction costs are expensed as incurred. Realized and unrealized gains and losses arising from changes in the fair value of the financial assets held at FVTPL are recognized in profit or loss.
Financial assets at FVTOCI: Investments in equity instruments at FVTOCI are initially recognized at fair value plus transaction costs. Subsequently they are measured at fair value, with gains and losses arising from changes in fair value recognized in other comprehensive income (loss).
Financial assets at amortized cost: A financial asset is measured at amortized cost if the objective of the business model is to hold the financial asset for the collection of contractual cash flows, and the asset's contractual cash flows are comprised solely of payments of principal and interest. They are classified as current assets or non-current assets based on their maturity date and are initially recognized at fair value and subsequently carried at amortized cost less any impairment.
Impairment of financial assets at amortized cost: The Company assesses all information available, including on a forwardlooking basis, the expected credit losses associated with its assets carried at amortized cost. The impairment methodology applied depends on whether there has been a significant increase in credit risk. To assess whether there is a significant increase in credit risk, the Company compares the risk of a default occurring on the asset as at the reporting date, with the risk of default as at the date of initial recognition, based on all information available, and reasonable and supportive forward-looking information.
Financial liabilities
The Company classifies its financial liabilities into one of two categories, depending on the purpose for which the liability was acquired. The Company's accounting policy for each category is as follows:
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(An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
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Fair value through profit or loss - This category comprises derivatives, or liabilities acquired or incurred principally for the purpose of selling or repurchasing it in the near term. They are carried in the statement of financial position at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in profit or loss.
Other financial liabilities - This category comprises liabilities initially recognized at fair value less directly attributable transaction costs. Subsequently, they are measured at amortized cost using the effective interest method.
The following table shows the classification of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities:
| Financial asset or liability | IFRS 9 Classification |
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| Cash and cash equivalents | FVTPL |
| Short-term investments | FVTPL |
| Receivables | Amortized cost |
| Accounts payable and accrued liabilities | Amortized cost |
| Governmentloan | Amortized cost |
New Accounting Policies Adopted
IFRS 16 - Leases (new; replaces IAS 17)
On October 1, 2019, the Company adopted IFRS 16, which supersedes IAS 17- Leases (“IAS 17”). The standard provides a single lessee accounting model, requiring lessees to recognize assets and liabilities for all leases unless the lease term is 12 months or less or the underlying asset has a low value. Lessors continue to classify leases as operating or finance, with IFRS 16’s approach to lessor accounting substantially unchanged from its predecessor, IAS 17.
IFRS 16 requires lessees to recognize a right of use of asset and a lease obligation at the lease commencement date. The Company has assessed its monthly office rent payments and concluded that it does not meet the definition of a lease in the context of IFRS 16. As such, the adoption of the standard did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
IFRIC 23 - Uncertainty over Income Tax Treatments
On October 1, 2019, the Company adopted IFRIC 23, which is a new standard to clarify the accounting for uncertainties in income taxes. The interpretation provides guidance and clarifies the application of the recognition and measurement criteria in IAS 12 “Income Taxes” when there is uncertainty over income tax treatments. The adoption of this standard did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Financial instruments
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 or liabilities; Level 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability either directly or indirectly; and Level 3 – Inputs that are not based on observable market data.
The fair value of the Company’s receivables, accounts payable, accrued liabilities and government loan approximate carrying value, which is the amount recorded on the statements of financial position. The fair value of the Company’s other financial instruments, cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, under the fair value hierarchy are based on level 1 quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities.
The Company’s risk exposures and the impact on the Company’s financial instruments are summarized below:
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RIVERSIDE RESOURCES INC. (An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
Credit risk
Credit risk is the risk of loss associated with a counterparty’s inability to fulfill its payment obligations. The Company’s cash and cash equivalents are held with major financial institutions in Canada and Mexico which management believes the risk of loss to be remote. Receivables consist of tax refunds from the Federal Government of Canada and Mexico, in which regular collection occurs, and land tax recovery. The Company believes its credit risk is equal to the carrying value of this balance.
Liquidity risk
The Company’s approach to managing liquidity risk is to ensure that it will have sufficient liquidity to meet liabilities when due. As at June 30, 2021, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $4,065,526 to settle current liabilities of $1,861,045 The Company believes it has sufficient funds to meet its current liabilities as they become due.
Interest rate risk
The Company has interest-bearing cash balances. The interest earned on cash balances approximates fair value rates, and the Company is not at a significant risk to fluctuating interest rates. The Company’s current policy is to invest excess cash in investment-grade short-term deposit certificates issued by its banking institutions. The Company periodically monitors the investments it makes and is satisfied with the credit ratings of its banks. As of June 30, 2021, the Company had investments in short-term deposit certificates of $23,000.
Price risk
The Company is exposed to price risk with respect to commodity and equity prices. Equity price risk is defined as the potential adverse impact on the Company’s earnings due to movements in individual equity prices or general movements in the level of the stock market. Commodity price risk is defined as the potential adverse impact on profit or loss and economic value due to commodity price movements and volatilities. The Company closely monitors commodity prices of gold, silver and copper, individual equity movements, and the stock market to determine the appropriate course of action to be taken by the Company.
The Company currently maintains short-term investments, which include marketable securities. There can be no assurance that the Company can exit these positions if required, resulting in proceeds approximating the carrying value of these securities.
Foreign currency risk
The Company is exposed to foreign currency risk on fluctuations related to cash and cash equivalents, receivables, and accounts payable and accrued liabilities that are denominated in US dollars (US) and Mexican pesos.
Sensitivity analysis
The Company operates in Mexico and is exposed to risk from changes in the US dollar and the Mexican peso. During the period ended June 30, 2021, a simultaneous 10% fluctuation in the US dollar and Mexican peso against the Canadian dollar would affect loss for the period by $368,710.
The Company holds marketable securities and is exposed to risk from changes in the share price of the marketable securities. During the period ended June 30, 2021, a simultaneous 15% fluctuation in share prices would affect short-term investments and profit or loss for the period by approximately $331,052.
OUTSTANDING SHARE DATA
The authorized capital of the Company consists of an unlimited number of common shares and an unlimited number of preferred shares. No preferred shares have been issued to date. An aggregate of 71,017,631 common shares were issued and outstanding as of the date of this MD&A.
The Company has nil share purchase warrants outstanding as of the date of this MD&A.
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(An Exploration Stage Enterprise) Management Discussion and Analysis For the nine months ended June 30, 2021
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The following summarizes information about the stock options outstanding as of the date of this MD&A:
| Number of | Weighted average | Number of | ||
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| Expiry date | options | remaining life | Exercise | options |
| (mm/dd/yyyy) | outstanding | inyears | price | exercisable |
| 12/16/2021 | 935,000 | 0.71 | $ 0.32 | 935,000 |
| 11/03/2022 | 688,000 | 1.59 | $ 0.21 | 688,000 |
| 01/08/2024 | 560,000 | 2.78 | $ 0.13 | 560,000 |
| 11/15/2024 | 855,000 | 3.63 | $ 0.11 | 855,000 |
| 03/27/2025 | 100,000 | 3.99 | $ 0.12 | 100,000 |
| 10/19/2025 | 1,330,000 | 4.56 | $ 0.30 | 270,000 |
| 4,468,000 | 2.88 | 3,408,000 |
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