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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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(or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements
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AUGUSTA GOLD CORP.
TABLE OF CONTENTS TO FORM 10-Q
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1 - CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)
AUGUSTA GOLD CORP.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
MARCH 31, 2025 AND DECEMBER 31, 2024
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AUGUSTA GOLD CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2025 AND 2024
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AUGUSTA GOLD CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2025 AND 2024
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AUGUSTA GOLD CORP.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2025 AND 2024
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NOTE 1 - NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Augusta Gold Corp. (the “Company”) is a junior exploration stage mining company engaged in the acquisition and exploration of properties that may contain gold, silver, and other metals in the United States. The Company’s target properties are those that have been the subject of historical exploration. The Company owns, controls or has acquired mineral rights on patented claims and federal unpatented claims in the state of Nevada for the purpose of exploration and potential development of gold, silver, and other metals. The Company plans to review opportunities and acquire additional mineral properties with current or historic precious and base metal mineralization with meaningful exploration potential.
The Company’s Reward Gold Project has mineral reserves under subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K (“S-K 1300”) under the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), but the Company has not yet made a development and production determination for the project and the Company’s other mineral properties do not have any reserves. The Company plans to conduct exploration and engineering evaluation programs on these properties with the objective of ascertaining whether any of its properties contain economic concentrations of precious and base metals that are prospective for mining.
Basis of Presentation and Statement of Compliance
The unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements (the “consolidated financial statements”) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by U.S. GAAP. The Company believes that the disclosures made are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report filed on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. These unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year.
Basis of Measurement
These consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, under the historical cost convention, except for certain financial instruments that are measured at fair value as described herein.
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Augusta Gold Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Standard Gold Corp. (“Standard Gold”), Bullfrog Mines LLC (“Bullfrog Mines”), CR Reward, LLC (“CR Reward” or “Reward”) and Rocky Mountain Minerals Corp. (“Rocky Mountain Minerals” or “RMM”). All significant inter-entity balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Subsidiaries are entities the Company controls when it is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement in the entity and can affect those returns through its power to direct the relevant activities of the entity. Subsidiaries are included in the consolidated financial results of the Company from the date of acquisition up to the date of disposition or loss of control.
Going Concern and Management’s Plans
As at March 31, 2025,
the Company has a working capital deficiency of approximately $
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Concentration
The Company
considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when acquired to be cash equivalents. The Company places
its cash with high credit quality financial institutions in the United States and Canada. On March 31, 2025, the Company’s cash
balance was approximately $
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Critical Judgements and Estimation Uncertainties
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of policies and reported amounts of assets, liabilities, and expenses. These estimates and judgements are subject to change based on experience and new information which could result in outcomes that require a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets or liabilities affecting future periods. Actual results may differ from these estimates. The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognized prospectively.
Impairment of mineral properties – Management applies significant judgment in its assessment of mineral properties and whether there are any indications of impairment. The Company considers both internal and external sources of information when making the impairment assessment. External sources of information considered are changes in the Company’s economic, legal and regulatory environment, which it does not control, but affects the recoverability of its mining assets. Internal sources of information the Company considers include the manner in which mining properties are expected to be used and indications of economic performance.
Share-based compensation – The fair value of share-based compensation is calculated using the Black-Scholes model. The main assumptions used in the model include the estimated life of the option, the expected volatility of the Company’s share price, and the risk-free rate of interest. The resulting value calculated is not necessarily the value that the holder of the option could receive in an arm’s-length transaction.
Warrant liability – The fair value of the warrant liability is calculated using the Black-Scholes model. The main assumptions used in the model include the estimated life of the warrant, the expected volatility of the Company’s share price, and the risk-free rate of interest. The resulting value calculated is not necessarily the value that the holder of the warrant could receive in an arm’s-length transaction.
Asset retirement obligation – Significant judgment is involved in the determination of future reclamation costs, inflation rates, discount rate, and the life of mine. Revisions to these inputs may result in an adjustment to the carrying value of the obligation and the mineral properties involved.
Foreign Currency Translation
The Company is exposed to currency risk on transactions and balances in currencies other than the functional currency. The Company has not entered into any contracts to manage foreign exchange risk.
These consolidated financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars (“USD”), which is the Company’s reporting currency. The functional currency of the Company and its subsidiaries is the US dollar; therefore, the Company is exposed to currency risk from financial assets and liabilities denominated in Canadian dollars. The Company does not consider the currency risk to be material to the future operations of the Company and, as such, does not have a program to manage currency risk.
Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded in the functional currency at exchange rates prevailing on the dates of the transactions. At the end of each reporting period, monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the period end exchange rates. Non-monetary items are translated at the exchange rates in effect on the date of the transactions. Foreign exchange gains and losses arising on translation are presented in the consolidated statements of loss and comprehensive loss.
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Property and Equipment
Property and equipment is stated at cost less
accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated
useful lives of the assets, which range from
Leases
The Company has adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), for reporting leases. For leases of 12 months or less, the Company has elected to apply the short-term lease exemption permitted by ASC 842. For leases with a lease term greater than one year, the Company recognizes a lease asset for its right to use the underlying leased asset and a lease liability for the corresponding lease obligation.
Mineral Property Acquisition and Exploration Costs
Mineral property exploration costs are expensed as incurred until economic reserves are quantified. To date, the Company has established proven and probable reserves on its Reward Gold Project but has not established any proven or probable mineral reserves on its other mineral properties. The Company has not yet made a development decision on the Reward Gold Project. Costs of lease, exploration, carrying and retaining unproven mineral lease properties are expensed as incurred. The Company has chosen to expense all mineral exploration costs as incurred given that it is still in the exploration stage. Once the Company has identified proven and probable mineral reserves in its investigation of its properties and upon development of a plan for operating a mine, it would enter the development stage and capitalize future costs until production is established. When a property reaches the production stage, the related capitalized costs will be amortized over the estimated life of the probable-proven mineral reserves. When the Company has capitalized mineral properties, these properties will be periodically assessed for impairment of value and any diminution in value. To date, the Company has only determined the commercial feasibility of its Reward Gold Project but has not made a development decision on the project and has not established the commercial feasibility of any of its other exploration prospects; therefore, all exploration costs are being expensed. Costs of property and equipment acquisitions are being capitalized.
The Company is required
to reclaim the property at the Bullfrog Project and Reward Project at the end of their useful lives. In accordance with FASB ASC 410-20,
Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations, the Company recognized the fair value of a liability for an ARO in the amount of $
Although the ultimate
amounts for future site reclamation and remediation are uncertain, the best estimate of these obligations was based on information available,
including current legislation, third-party estimates, and management estimates.
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At March 31, 2025, the estimated future cash flows
have been determined using real cash flows and discounted using a rate of
At March 31, 2024, the estimated future cash flows
have been determined using real cash flows and discounted using a rate of
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. There are three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
Level 1 - Valuation based on quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities.
Level 2 - Valuation based on quoted market prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets.
Level 3 - Valuation based on unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity, therefore requiring management’s best estimate of what market participants would use as fair value.
The fair value of cash, deposits, accounts payable, and notes payable approximates their carrying values due to their short term to maturity. The warrant liabilities are measured using level 3 inputs (Note 4).
Income Taxes
Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method in accordance with ASC 740, “Income Taxes”. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases as well as operating loss and tax credit carry forwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the periods in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance to the extent that the recoverability of the asset is unlikely to be recognized.
The Company reports a liability, if any, for unrecognized tax benefits resulting from uncertain tax positions taken, or expected to be taken, in an income tax return. The Company has elected to classify interest and penalties related to unrecognized income tax benefits, if and when required, as part of income tax expense in the statement of loss and comprehensive loss. No liability has been recorded for uncertain income tax positions, or related interest or penalties. The tax returns are generally open for IRS examination for three years from the date the return was filed or the due date of the return, whichever is later.
Long Lived Assets
The Company assesses the impairment of long-lived assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. When the Company determines that the carrying value of long-lived assets may not be recoverable based upon the existence of one or more indicators of impairment and the carrying value of the asset cannot be recovered from projected undiscounted cash flows, the Company records an impairment charge. The Company measures any impairment based on a projected discounted cash flow method using a discount rate determined by management to be commensurate with the risk inherent in the current business model. Significant management judgment is required in determining whether an indicator of impairment exists and in projecting cash flows.
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Preferred Stock
The Company accounts for its preferred stock under the provisions of the ASC 480 on Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, which sets forth the standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity. This standard requires an issuer to classify a financial instrument that is within the scope of the standard as a liability if such financial instrument embodies an unconditional obligation to redeem the instrument at a specified date and/or upon an event certain to occur. The Company has determined that its preferred stock does not meet the criteria requiring liability classification as its obligation to redeem these instruments is not based on an event certain to occur. Future changes in the certainty of the Company’s obligation to redeem these instruments could result in a change in classification.
Stock-Based Compensation
Stock-based compensation is accounted for based on the requirements of the Share-Based Payment Topic of ASC 718 which requires recognition in the consolidated financial statements of the cost of employee and director services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments over the period the employee or director is required to perform the services in exchange for the award (presumptively, the vesting period). This ASC also requires measurement of the cost of employee and director services received in exchange for an award based on the grant-date fair value of the award.
The estimated fair value of each stock option as of the date of grant was calculated using the Black-Scholes pricing model. The Company estimates the volatility of its common stock at the date of grant based on Company stock price history. The Company determines the expected life based on the simplified method given that its own historical share option exercise experience does not provide a reasonable basis for estimating expected term. The Company uses the risk-free interest rate on the implied yield currently available on U.S. Treasury issues with an equivalent remaining term approximately equal to the expected life of the award. The Company has never paid any cash dividends on its common stock and does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The shares of common stock subject to the stock-based compensation plan shall consist of unissued shares, treasury shares or previously issued shares held by any subsidiary of the Company, and such number of shares of common stock are reserved for such purpose.
Derivative Financial Instruments
The Company accounts for derivative instruments in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (“ASC 815”), which requires additional disclosures about the Company’s objectives and strategies for using derivative instruments, how the derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for, and how the derivative instruments and related hedging items affect the financial statements. The Company does not use derivative instruments to hedge exposures to cash flow, market, or foreign currency risk. Terms of convertible debt and equity instruments are reviewed to determine whether or not they contain embedded derivative instruments that are required under ASC 815 to be accounted for separately from the host contract and recorded on the balance sheet at fair value. The fair value of derivative liabilities, if any, is required to be revalued at each reporting date, with corresponding changes in fair value recorded in current period operating results. Pursuant to ASC 815, an evaluation of specifically identified conditions is made to determine whether the fair value of warrants issued is required to be classified as equity or as a derivative liability.
Certain warrants are treated as derivative financial liabilities. The estimated fair value, based on the Black-Scholes model, is adjusted on a quarterly basis with gains or losses recognized in the statement of loss and comprehensive loss. The Black-Scholes model is based on significant assumptions such as volatility, dividend yield, expected term and liquidity discounts.
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Earnings (Loss) per Common Share
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting – Improvements to Reportable Segments Disclosures. The amendments enhance disclosures of significant segment expenses by requiring disclosure of significant segment expenses regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (CODM), extend certain annual disclosures to interim periods, and permit more than one measure of segment profit or loss to be reported under certain conditions. The amendments are effective for the Company in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption of the amendment is permitted, including adoption in any interim periods for which financial statements have not been issued. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 effective as of December 31, 2024, and the segment disclosures in Note 7 are reflective of that adoption.
Accounting pronouncements not yet adopted
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which improve the transparency of disclosures related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The amendments are effective for the Company in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025. Early adoption is permitted for annual financial statements that have not yet been issued or made available for issuance. The Company evaluated the guidance and its impact is immaterial to the financial statements.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which requires all public entities to disclose information about purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization, and depletion for each income statement line item that contains those expenses. The amendments are effective for the Company in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 27, 2027. Early adoption is permitted on either a prospective or retrospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the guidance and its impact to the financial statements.
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NOTE 2 - MINERAL PROPERTIES AND EQUIPMENT
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Mineral properties consist of two main projects:
Bullfrog Gold Project, Nevada
On October 26, 2020, the Company completed its acquisition of Bullfrog Mines pursuant to the Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the “MIPA”) among the Company, Homestake Mining Company of California (“Homestake”), and Lac Minerals (USA) LLC (“Lac Minerals” and together with Homestake, the “Barrick Parties”).
Reward Gold Project, Nevada
On June 13, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of the outstanding membership interests (collectively, the “CR Interests”) of CR Reward LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Waterton (“CR Reward”), pursuant to a membership interest purchase agreement with Waterton Nevada Splitter, LLC (“Waterton”). CR Reward holds the Reward Project located seven miles from the Company’s Bullfrog Project in Nevada.
See Note 6 Commitments for discussion of other option agreements underlying mineral claims.
NOTE 3 - STOCKHOLDER’S EQUITY
The Company did not issue common shares for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
Convertible Preferred Stock
In August 2011, the Board of Directors designated
In October 2012, the Board of Directors designated
As of March 31, 2025 and 2024, there was no Preferred Stock outstanding.
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Common Stock Options
On
February 22, 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a new stock option plan (the “Plan”). The aggregate
number of shares of common stock of the Company (a “Share”) that may be reserved for issuance pursuant to the Plan shall not
exceed
On April 16, 2024, the
Company granted
The Company
recognized share-based compensation expense related to stock options of $
The Black Scholes option pricing model was used to estimate the aggregate fair value of the options with the following inputs:
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Stock Option Activity
A summary of the stock options as of March 31, 2025, and changes during the periods are presented below:
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NOTE 4 - DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Warrants have an exercise price in Canadian dollars while the Company’s functional currency is US dollars. Therefore, in accordance with ASU 815 - Derivatives and Hedging, the Warrants have a derivative liability value.
The value of the January 2023 Warrants of $
| 1/20/23 | 12/31/24 | 3/31/25 | ||||||||||
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NOTE 5 - RELATED PARTY
Augusta Investments Inc.
| ● |
On September 13, 2022, the Company entered into a secured note purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Augusta Investments Inc. (“Augusta Investments”), which shares a common director of Augusta Gold, to offer and sell a secured promissory note of the Company (the “Note”) in exchange for Augusta Investments loaning the Company $
|
The Note bears
interest at a rate of prime plus
The payment
of the obligations of the Company under the Note is also guaranteed by each of the subsidiaries of the Company pursuant to the Security
Agreement. The Company paid Augusta Investments an origination fee of
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| ● | On September 13, 2023, the Company and Augusta Investments entered into Amendment Number One (the “Amendment”) to the Note. The Amendment amended Section 1 of the Note to change the maturity date of the Note from September 13, 2023 to the earlier of (i) first Business Day occurring 30 days after the Lender has provided written notice to the Company demanding payment on the entire unpaid balance of principal and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon; (ii) the date upon which the Company makes payment in full of the entire unpaid balance of principal and all accrued and unpaid interest; and (iii) December 13, 2023. |
| ● |
On December 13, 2023, the Company and Augusta Investments entered into Amendment Number Two (“Amendment 2”) to the Note. Amendment 2 amended Section 1 of the Note to change the maturity date of the Note from December 13, 2023, to March 31, 2024. In consideration for the Lender granting an extension to the maturity date, the Company has agreed to pay to the Lender an extension fee of $
|
| ● |
On March 27, 2024, the Company entered into Amendment Number One (the “Purchase Agreement Amendment”) to its previously issued Purchase Agreement with Augusta Investments, pursuant to which Augusta Investments agreed to purchase the Note in the amount of US$
|
In connection with entering into the Purchase Agreement Amendment, Augusta Investments loaned the Company an additional $
| ● |
On April 26, 2024, the Company amended Schedule A to the Amended and Restated Note. In connection with amending Schedule A, the Purchaser
loaned the Company an additional $
|
| ● | On June 28, 2024, the Company entered into Amendment Number One (the “June 2024 Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Note. |
The June 2024
Amendment amended Section 1 of the Amended and Restated Note to change the outside maturity date of the Amended and Restated Note from
June 30, 2024, to September 30, 2024. In consideration for Augusta Investments granting an extension to the maturity date, the Company
agreed to pay to Augusta Investments an extension fee of $
In connection
with the June 2024 Amendment, the Company and Augusta Investments further amended Schedule A to the Amended and Restated Note to add the
amount of the Extension Fee to the principal amount of the Amended and Restated Note. As amended by the amended Schedule A, the Amended
and Restated Note was for a principal amount of $
| ● | On September 3, 2024, the Company further amended Schedule A to the Amended and Restated Note. |
The amended Schedule A evidenced Augusta
Investments loaning the Company an additional $
| ● | On September 30, 2024, the Company, entered into a Second Amendment (the “Second Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Note. |
The Second
Amendment amended Section 1 of the Amended and Restated Note to (i) extend the maturity date of the Amended and Restated Note from September
30, 2024 to April 30, 2025, (ii) approve an extension fee to the Lender of $
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| ● |
On November 5, 2024, the Company executed an amended Schedule A to its amended and restated secured promissory note. The Amended Schedule A evidenced Augusta Investments loaning the Company an additional $
|
| ● |
On December 27, 2024, the Company executed Amendment Number Three (“Amendment Number Three”) to its amended and restated secured promissory note. Amendment Number Three evidenced Augusta Investments loaning the Company an additional $
|
| ● |
On March 27, 2025, the Company executed an amended Schedule A to its amended and restated secured promissory note. The Amended Schedule A evidenced Augusta Investments loaning the Company an additional $
|
On February 26, 2024, the Company entered into
an unsecured note purchase agreement (the “DT Purchase Agreement”) with Donald Taylor to offer and sell an unsecured promissory
note (the “DT Note”) of the Company in exchange for Donald Taylor loaning the Company $
On December 27, 2024, the Company and Mr. Taylor amended the DT Note to extend the maturity date of the DT Note to June 30, 2025.
On March 27, 2025, the Company and Mr. Taylor
amended the DT Purchase Agreement (the “DT Amendment”). The DT Amendment amended the DT Purchase Agreement to: (i) amend the
terms of the DT Purchase Agreement such that all amounts loaned to the Company under the DT Purchase Agreement are set forth on Schedule
A to the DT Note, as amended and restated, from time to time; (ii) amend the DT Purchase Agreement to provide for multiple closings to
occur at mutually agreed upon dates as necessary; and (iii) amend the deliverable documents for each closing.
| Related Party - Augusta Investments |
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Interest |
Total | |||||||||
| As of December 31, 2023 | $ |
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| Related Party - Don Taylor |
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Total | |||||||||
| As of December 31, 2023 | $ |
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| As of December 31, 2024 | $ |
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On October 26, 2020, the Company entered into an arrangement to share office space, equipment, personnel, consultants and various administrative services with other companies related by virtue of certain directors and management in common. These services have been provided through a management company equally owned by each company party to the arrangement. Costs incurred by the management company are allocated and funded by the shareholders of the management company based on time incurred and use of services. If the Company’s participation in the arrangement is terminated, the Company will be obligated to pay its share of the rent payments for the remaining term of the office space rental agreement.
The Company was charged for the following with respect to this arrangement for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024:
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| 3/31/2025 | 3/31/2024 | |||||||
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As of March 31, 2025, there were
The Company entered a consulting arrangement with
Augusta Capital Corporation (“ACC”), a private company
The Chief Executive Officer had an amount due
from the Company of $
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NOTE 6 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
The Company has four mineral leases underlying
the Reward property which require annual advance royalty payments according to the following schedules. These leases are out of the scope
of ASC 842
Leases
, and any advance royalty paid is expensed off as exploration expenses. In the twelve months ended December 31,
2024, two of the four mineral leases were renewed resulting in an updated table of payments.
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On July 1, 2017, RMM entered into a
Under the
Lunar Lease, RMM shall expend as minimum work commitments of $
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On October 29, 2014, RMM entered into an Option
Agreement (the “Mojave Option”) with Mojave Gold Mining Corporation (“Mojave”) granting RMM the right to purchase
Mojave granted to RMM the sole and immediate working
right and option with respect to the property until the 10th anniversary of the closing date, to earn a
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In order to maintain in force, the working right
and option granted to RMM, and to exercise the Mojave Option, the Company issued Mojave
On December
9, 2020, Bullfrog Mines entered into a mining option agreement with Abitibi Royalties (USA) Inc. (“Abitibi”) granting
Bullfrog Mines the option (the “Abitibi Option”) to acquire forty-three unpatented lode mining claims to the south of the
Bullfrog deposit. The Abitibi Option was amended on December 9, 2022, to extend the exercise deadline and to increase the last payment
amount required to exercise the option. Bullfrog Mines made an initial payment to Abitibi of C$
| ● |
Paying to Abitibi C$
|
| ● |
Paying to Abitibi C$
|
| ● |
Granting to Abitibi a
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The Company is from time to time involved in various legal proceedings related to its business. Except as disclosed here in, management does not believe that adverse decisions in any pending or threatened proceedings or that amounts that may be required to be paid by reason thereof will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition or results of operations.
NOTE 7 - SEGMENTED INFORMATION
The Company is managed as
The Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker is the Chief Executive Officer (“CODM”). The CODM uses the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss as the measure of segment profit and loss to assess performance and allocate resources. The measure of segment assets is reported on the consolidated balance sheets as “Total assets” and the measure of segment capital expenditures is reported on the consolidated statements of cash flows as “Acquisition of mineral properties.”
| Three months ending | 3/31/2025 | 3/31/2024 | ||||||
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| Consultants/Contractors | $ |
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| Supplies and equipment |
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| Net loss and comprehensive loss | $ |
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NOTE 8 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On April 30, 2025, the
Company executed Amendment Number Four (“Amendment Number Four”) to its amended and restated secured promissory note issued
to Augusta Investments. Amendment Number Four evidenced Augusta Investments loaning the Company an additional $
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ITEM 2 - MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Certain statements in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”), other than purely historical information, including estimates, projections, statements relating to our business plans, objectives and expected operating results, and the assumptions upon which those statements are based, are “forward-looking statements”. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “would,” “expect,” “intend,” “could,” “estimate,” “should,” “anticipate,” or “believe,” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties which may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable law. Readers should carefully review the risk factors and related notes included under Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2025.
The following MD&A is intended to help readers understand the results of our operation and financial condition, and is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our Interim Unaudited Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes to Interim Unaudited Financial Statements under Part 1, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Unless otherwise indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, all references in this document to “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company,” and similar expressions refer to Augusta Gold Corp., and depending on the context, its subsidiaries.
Company History and Recent Events
General Corporate Overview
The Company is an exploration stage gold company focused on building a long-term business that delivers stakeholder value through developing the Company’s Bullfrog and Reward gold projects and pursuing accretive merger and acquisition opportunities. The Company is focused on exploration and advancement of gold exploration and potential development projects, which may lead to gold production or strategic transactions such as joint venture arrangements with other mining companies or sales of assets for cash and/or other consideration. At present, the Company’s Reward Gold Project has mineral reserves under SK 1300 and is a development stage property, however, the Company has not to date made a development decision on the project and has not started preparation of the mineral reserves for extraction meaning the Company remains an exploration stage issuer. The Company’s Bullfrog Project is in the exploration stage. The Company does not mine, produce or sell any mineral products and we do not currently generate cash flows from mining operations.
The Bullfrog Gold Project is located approximately 120 miles north-west of Las Vegas, Nevada and 4 miles west of Beatty, Nevada. The Reward Gold Project is located seven miles from the Bullfrog Gold Project. The Company owns, controls or has acquired mineral rights on federal patented and unpatented mining claims in the State of Nevada for the purpose of exploration and potential development of gold, silver, and other metals. The Company regularly reviews opportunities and acquire additional mineral properties with current or historic precious and base metal mineralization with meaningful exploration potential.
The Company is led by a management team and board of directors with a proven track record of success in financing, exploring and developing mining assets and delivering shareholder value.
Recent Development of the Business
On June 13, 2022, the Company closed (the “Closing”) on its previously announced membership interest purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with Waterton Nevada Splitter, LLC (“Waterton”) to acquire all of the outstanding membership interests (collectively, the “CR Interests”) of CR Reward LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Waterton (“CR Reward”). CR Reward holds the Reward Project located just seven miles from the Company’s Bullfrog Project in Nevada.
The CR Interests were acquired for the following consideration: (a) $12,500,000 in cash paid at closing; (b) the issuance of 7,800,000 shares of Augusta Gold common stock at closing; and (c) $22,126,000 in cash paid on September 14, 2022 (comprising collectively the “Second Payment” and the “Deferred Payment”).
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Reward Gold Project Feasibility Study
On September 30, 2024, the Company released its feasibility study for its Reward Gold Project in Nye County, Nevada. The report titled “Feasibility Technical Report for the Reward Project Nye County, NV, USA” with an effective date of September 3, 2024 and a signing date of September 30, 2024 (the “Feasibility Study”), was prepared for the Company by Mark Gorman of Kappes, Cassiday & Associates; Thomas Dyer of RESPEC; Mike Dufresne of APEX Geoscience Ltd.; Timothy D. Scott of Kappes, Cassiday & Associates; Mathew Haley of NewFields; James Cremeens of Knight Piésold and Co; and Mark Willow of SRK Consulting (U.S.), Inc., each of whom is a qualified person under S-K 1300 and NI 43-101, and is attached as an exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Results of Operations
Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 and 2024
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||
| 3/31/25 | 3/31/24 | |||||||
| Operating expenses | ||||||||
| General and administrative | $ | 571,063 | $ | 698,435 | ||||
| Lease expense | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Exploration, evaluation and project expense | 275,831 | 396,258 | ||||||
| Accretion expense | 78,228 | 29,894 | ||||||
| Depreciation expense | 10,856 | 11,014 | ||||||
| Total operating expenses | 935,978 | 1,135,601 | ||||||
| Net operating loss | (935,978 | ) | (1,135,601 | ) | ||||
| Revaluation of warrant liability | 127,776 | (764,059 | ) | |||||
| Interest expense | (836,976 | ) | (673,475 | ) | ||||
| Foreign currency exchange loss | 1,390 | (4,108 | ) | |||||
| Net loss and comprehensive loss | $ | (1,643,788 | ) | $ | (2,577,243 | ) | ||
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company decreased general and administrative expenses by approximately $127,000. The change was due to the following year over year variances:
| Three months ending | 3/31/2025 | 3/31/2024 | Variance | |||||||||
| Accounting fees | $ | 124,000 | $ | 137,000 | $ | (13,000 | ) | |||||
| Legal and other professional fees | 114,000 | 32,000 | 82,000 | |||||||||
| Marketing expense | 2,000 | 3,000 | (1,000 | ) | ||||||||
| Payroll | 82,000 | 137,000 | (55,000 | ) | ||||||||
| Corporate expenses & rent | 35,000 | 51,000 | (16,000 | ) | ||||||||
| Share based compensation | 112,000 | 275,000 | (163,000 | ) | ||||||||
| Insurance | 44,000 | 23,000 | 21,000 | |||||||||
| Stock exchange fees | 38,000 | 36,000 | 2,000 | |||||||||
| Other general expenses | 20,000 | 4,000 | 16,000 | |||||||||
| Total | $ | 571,000 | $ | 698,000 | $ | (127,000 | ) | |||||
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| ● | Accounting fees decreased in 2025 as a result of an increase in audit fees offset by additional consulting fees needed for required regulatory filings and planning/projection activities performed in 2024. |
| ● | Legal fees and professional fees increased due to additional corporate activities in 2025. |
| ● | Marketing expenses were consistent year over year. |
| ● | The payroll and corporate expenses result from the Company having an agreement to share office space, equipment, personnel, consultants and various administrative services for the Company’s head office located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Management expects payroll costs to fluctuate based on the personnel and consultants used during the period. | |
| ● | The Company granted options to officers, directors and employees of the Company pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Stock Option Plan. In September 2022 the options were repriced resulting in an increase in share based compensation for that period. Certain stock options were canceled in 2023 and 2024 after termination of an employee resulting in reversal of previous share based compensation expense. The options that were issued in February 2021 were fully vested in February 2024. In addition, the February 2024 Warrants of $97,370 has been calculated on the date of issuance of February 26, 2024, using Black-Scholes valuation technique. In April 2024, 2,800,000 options were granted that vested based on years of service up to three years. In August 2024, 200,000 options were granted that vested based on years of service up to three years. |
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company decreased exploration, evaluation and project expenses by approximately $120,000. The change was due to the following year over year variances:
| Three months ending | 3/31/2025 | 3/31/2024 | Variance | |||||||||
| Consultants/Contractors | $ | 74,000 | $ | 61,000 | $ | 13,000 | ||||||
| Supplies and equipment | 72,000 | 65,000 | 7,000 | |||||||||
| Overhead and payroll | 101,000 | 235,000 | (134,000 | ) | ||||||||
| Permits and fees | 23,000 | 1,000 | 22,000 | |||||||||
| Other | 6,000 | 34,000 | (28,000 | ) | ||||||||
| Total | $ | 276,000 | $ | 396,000 | $ | (120,000 | ) | |||||
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company continued with development and compliance activities for the Reward and Bullfrog Projects.
The revaluation of the warrant liability is based on the 3,362,573 warrants issued in January 2023 with an exercise price of C$2.30
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company has no revenue generating operations from which it can internally generate funds. To date, the Company’s ongoing operations have been financed by the sale of its equity securities by way of public offerings, private placements and the exercise of incentive stock options and share purchase warrants. The Company believes that it will be able to secure additional private placements and public financing in the future, although it cannot predict the size or pricing of any such financing.
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Liquidity
As of March 31, 2025, the Company had total liquidity of $202,000 in cash and cash equivalents. The Company had negative working capital of $35,500,000 and an accumulated deficit of $41,000,000. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company had negative operating cash flows before changes in working capital of $1,600,000 and a net loss of $1,600,000.
As of March 31, 2024, the Company had total liquidity of $440,000 in cash and cash equivalents. The Company had negative working capital of $30,000,000 and an accumulated deficit of $36,000,000. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company had negative operating cash flows before changes in working capital of $1,500,000 and a net loss of $2,600,000.
The Company does expect that it will be required to raise additional funds through public or private equity financings in the future in order to continue in business in the future past the immediate 12-month period. Should such financing not be available in that time-frame, the Company will be required to reduce its activities and will not be able to carry out all of its presently planned exploration and, if warranted, development activities on its currently anticipated scheduling.
Capital Management
The Company’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern in order to pursue the development and exploration of its mineral properties and to maintain a flexible capital structure, which optimizes the costs of capital to an acceptable risk.
As of March 31, 2025, the capital structure of the Company consists of 85,929,753 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001. The Company manages the capital structure and adjusts it in response to changes in economic conditions, its expected funding requirements, and risk characteristics of the underlying assets. The Company’s funding requirements are based on cash forecasts. In order to maintain or adjust the capital structure, the Company may issue new debt, new shares and/or consider strategic alliances. Management reviews its capital management approach on a regular basis. The Company is not subject to any externally imposed capital requirements.
Contractual obligations and commitments
The Company’s contractual obligations and commitments as of March 31, 2025, and their approximate timing of payment are as follows:
| <1 year | 1 - 3 years | 4 - 5 years | >5 years | Total | ||||||||||||||||
| Leases | $ | 88,000 | $ | 205,000 | $ | 50,000 | $ | 600,000 | $ | 943,000 | ||||||||||
| Royalty | $ | 60,400 | $ | 197,200 | $ | 147,300 | $ | 791,500 | $ | 1,196,400 | ||||||||||
Off Balance Sheet Arrangements
The Company does not engage in any activities involving variable interest entities or off-balance sheet arrangements.
Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
Stock based compensation is measured at grant date, based on the fair value of the award, and is recognized as an expense over the employee’s requisite service period. We estimate the fair value of each stock option as of the date of grant using the Black-Scholes pricing model. The Company determines the expected life based on historical experience with similar awards, giving consideration to the contractual terms, vesting schedules and post-vesting forfeitures. The Company uses the risk-free interest rate on the implied yield currently available on U.S. Treasury issues with an equivalent remaining term approximately equal to the expected life of the award. The Company has never paid any cash dividends on its common stock and does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
Mineral property exploration costs are expensed as incurred until economic reserves are quantified. To date, the Company has established proven and probable reserves on its Reward Gold Project but has not established any proven or probable mineral reserves on its other mineral properties. The Company has not yet made a development decision on the Reward Gold Project. Costs of lease, exploration, carrying and retaining unproven mineral lease properties are expensed as incurred. The Company has chosen to expense all mineral exploration costs as incurred given that it is still in the exploration stage. Once the Company has identified proven and probable mineral reserves in its investigation of its properties and upon development of a plan for operating a mine, it would enter the development stage and capitalize future costs until production is established. When a property reaches the production stage, the related capitalized costs will be amortized over the estimated life of the probable-proven mineral reserves. When the Company has capitalized mineral properties, these properties will be periodically assessed for impairment of value and any diminution in value. To date, the Company has only determined the commercial feasibility of its Reward Gold Project but has not made a development decision on the project and has not established the commercial feasibility of any of its other exploration prospects; therefore, all exploration costs are being expensed. Costs of property and equipment acquisitions are being capitalized.
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ITEM 3 - QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES AND MARKET RISK
Not Applicable.
ITEM 4 - CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As required by Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) our management conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2025.
Disclosure controls and procedures refer to controls and other procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating and implementing possible controls and procedures.
Our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. The design of any system of controls is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.
With respect to the quarterly period ending March 31, 2025, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operations of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act. Based upon our evaluation regarding the quarterly period ending March 31, 2025, our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, has concluded that its disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that: (i) information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit to the SEC under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in applicable rules and forms and (ii) material information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate, to allow for accurate and timely decisions regarding required disclosure .
Changes in Internal Controls
There have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the three months ended March 31, 2025, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1 - LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The Company knows of no material, active or pending legal proceedings against the Company, nor are we involved as a plaintiff in any material proceeding or pending litigation. There are no proceedings in which any of our directors, officers or affiliates, or any registered or beneficial shareholder, is an adverse party or has a material interest adverse to our interest.
ITEM 1A - RISK FACTORS
There have been no material changes to the risk factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024. The risks described in our Annual Report and as otherwise herein are not the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, and/or future results.
ITEM 2 - UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
None.
ITEM 3 - DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None
ITEM 4 - MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Pursuant to Section 1503(a) of the United States Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2011 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), issuers that are operators, or that have a subsidiary that is an operator, of a coal or other mine in the United States are required to disclose in their periodic reports filed with the SEC information regarding specified health and safety violations, orders and citations, related assessments and legal actions, and mining-related fatalities under the regulation of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) under the United States Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (the “Mine Act”). During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we had no U.S. properties subject to regulation by the MSHA under the Mine Act and consequently no disclosure is required under Section 1503(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
ITEM 5 - OTHER INFORMATION
(a) None.
(b) None.
(c) During the quarter ended March 31, 2025, none
of our directors or officers
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ITEM 6 – EXHIBITS
| * | Filed herewith |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| Date: May 12, 2025 | AUGUSTA GOLD CORP. | ||
| By: | /s/ Donald R. Taylor | ||
| Name: | Donald R. Taylor | ||
| Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) | ||
| Date: May 12, 2025 | AUGUSTA GOLD CORP. | ||
| By: | /s/ Tyler Minnick | ||
| Name: | Tyler Minnick | ||
| Title: |
Interim Chief Financial Officer
(Interim Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
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