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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;At December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the Company holds mineral interests in Nevada, and mineral concessions in west central Mexico, including the Magistral Mine, a former producing mine. The Magistral Mine was held on a care and maintenance basis with active exploration in the area of the mine and surrounding areas. In August 2011, the Company announced the decision to put the Magistral Mine back into production as part of Phase&amp;#160;1 production of the El Gallo Complex, with mining expected to commence during the second quarter of 2012. The Company anticipates spending approximately $15&amp;#160;million to expand and upgrade the current infrastructure. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;515&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Adjustment reflecting updated estimates&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(342&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(327&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Asset retirement obligation liability&amp;#8212;ending balance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6,253&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6,153&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Assumptions used to compute the asset retirement obligations for the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011 for the Tonkin property included a credit adjusted risk free rate and inflation rate of 8.7% (2010, 2009&amp;#8212;8.7%) and 3.0% (2010&amp;#8212;2.0%, 2009&amp;#8212;4.0%) respectively. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Assumptions used to compute the asset retirement obligations for the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011 for the Magistral Mine included a credit adjusted risk free rate and inflation rate of 6.4% (2010, 2009&amp;#8212;8.7%) and 3.8% (2010, 2009&amp;#8212;3.3%) respectively. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;It is anticipated that the capitalized asset retirement costs will be charged to expense based on the units of production method commencing with gold and silver production at the Company's properties, if any. There was no amortization recorded during 2011, 2010 or 2009 related to the capitalized asset retirement cost since the properties were not in operation. Reclamation expenditures are expected to be incurred between 2012 and 2040. As at December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the current portion of the asset retirement obligation was $0.5&amp;#160;million (December&amp;#160;31, 2010&amp;#8212;$0.5&amp;#160;million). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 5 LOAN SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH FABC &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On February&amp;#160;21, 1992, the Company entered into a Loan Settlement Agreement with its then senior secured lender, The French American Banking Corporation ("FABC"). At that time, the Company discharged its debt to FABC and terminated all prior security interests related thereto. As part of the consideration to FABC under the Loan Settlement Agreement, Tonkin Springs Gold Mining Company ("TSGMC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into an agreement with FABC entitled "Agreement To Pay Distributions," which requires TSGMC to pay a limited portion of certain distributions from Tonkin Springs Venture Limited Partnership ("TSVLP") to FABC. TSVLP, another subsidiary of the Company, has complete control of such distributions, if any, to TSGMC. Under the terms of the Agreement To Pay Distributions, TSGMC is required to pay to FABC (i)&amp;#160;the first $30,000 in cash or value of asset distributions, as defined in such agreement, received from TSVLP, plus (ii)&amp;#160;an amount equal to 50&amp;#160;percent of such retained distributions in cash or value of asset distributions after TSGMC has first received and retained $0.5&amp;#160;million of such retained distributions. This obligation to FABC shall terminate after FABC has been paid a total of $2.0&amp;#160;million thereunder. No payments have been made under this obligation. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 6 PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;At December&amp;#160;31, 2011 and 2010, property and equipment consisted of the following (in thousands): &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="45"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="44"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Trucks and trailers&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,247&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,005&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Office furniture and equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;638&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;591&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Drill rigs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;998&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;460&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Building&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;853&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;853&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Land&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;8,619&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,596&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mining equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;956&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;956&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Inactive milling equipment&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;778&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;778&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;14,089&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6,239&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Less: accumulated depreciation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(2,317&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(1,848&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;11,772&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,391&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Depreciation expense for 2011 was $0.6&amp;#160;million (2010&amp;#8212;$0.5&amp;#160;million, 2009&amp;#8212;$0.6&amp;#160;million). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The underlying fair value of inactive mining equipment in Mexico and inactive milling equipment in Nevada were written-down to the estimated net realizable value calculated by a third party valuator in 2009. As at December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the carrying value of these assets is less than their fair value and as a result, no impairment was recorded. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During the current year, the Company invested approximately $7&amp;#160;million to acquire surface rights (land packages) surrounding its El Gallo Complex in order to commence the Phase&amp;#160;2 development of its mining operations in Mexico. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 7 INCOME TAXES &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In various transactions entered into on February&amp;#160;21, 1992, as well as transactions during 2005, the Company had ownership changes, as that term is defined under the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC") Section&amp;#160;382 (g). As a result, the tax net operating loss carryforwards and the investment tax credit carryforwards are subject to annual limitations under IRC Section&amp;#160;382, following the date of such ownership change. Except as noted below, the Company may receive delayed future benefits from net operating loss carryforwards or investment tax credit carryforwards existing as of the dates of the ownership change. At December&amp;#160;31, 2011 and 2010, the Company estimates those tax loss carry forwards to be $140.5&amp;#160;million and $125.7&amp;#160;million, respectively expiring starting in 2012 and going through 2031. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities at December&amp;#160;31, 2011 and 2010 respectively, are presented below: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="50"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="50"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="5"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Deferred tax assets:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Alternative minimum tax (AMT) credit carryforward&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;41&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;41&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net operating loss carryforward&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;46,211&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;40,396&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mineral Property&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,528&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,468&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Other temporary differences&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;5,330&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,468&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Capital loss carryforward&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;241&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;242&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 30pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total gross deferred tax assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;54,351&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;45,615&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Less: valuation allowance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(53,578&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(37,543&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 30pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net deferred tax assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;773&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;8,072&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Deferred tax liabilities:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Reclamation obligation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;282&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;189&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mineral Property&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(41&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(7,246&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Basis in TSVLP&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(1,014&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(1,015&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Acquisition related deferred tax liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,786&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,966&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total Deferred tax liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(79,559&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(87,038&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total net deferred tax liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,786&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,966&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Breakdown between current and non-current:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Current deferred tax liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(393&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Non-current deferred tax liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,786&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,573&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total net deferred tax liability&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,786&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(78,966&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;A reconciliation of the tax provision for 2011, 2010 and 2009 at statutory US Federal and State income tax rates to the actual tax provision recorded in the financial statement is comprised of the following components: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;As at January&amp;#160;1, 2007, the Company did not have any unrecognized tax benefits. As a result of the 2007 acquisitions, the Company recognized a $0.6&amp;#160;million liability plus $0.7&amp;#160;million of accrued interest and penalties which relate to the Mexican properties and was accounted for as a part of the purchase price allocation. During 2009, $0.4&amp;#160;million of the liability and $0.4&amp;#160;million of the accrued interest and penalties were reversed due to a lapse of the statute of limitations for those tax years. During 2011, the remainder of the liability and accrued interest and penalties were reversed due to a lapse of the statute of limitations for the remaining outstanding tax year. As a result, the balance for the liability and accrued interest and penalties were nil as at December&amp;#160;31, 2011. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Liability For Unrecognized&lt;br /&gt;
Tax Benefits &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Balance at January&amp;#160;1, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;501&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Additions for Tax Positions of Current Period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Reductions for Tax Positions of Current Period&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Additions for Tax Positions of Prior Years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Reductions for Tax Positions of Prior Years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(501&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company or its subsidiaries file income tax returns in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. These tax returns are subject to examination by local taxation authorities provided the tax years remain open to audit under the relevant statute of limitations. The following summarizes the open tax years by major jurisdiction: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Canada:&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;2004 to 2011&lt;br /&gt;
Mexico:&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;2005 to 2011 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 8 SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Common Stock &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On November&amp;#160;30, 2006, shareholders approved an increase in the number of shares reserved under the Company's Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") from 5&amp;#160;million to 9&amp;#160;million shares (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;see&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; Note&amp;#160;9). On January&amp;#160;19, 2012, shareholders approved an increase in the number of shares reserved under the Plan from 9&amp;#160;million to 13.5&amp;#160;million shares (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;see&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; Note&amp;#160;16). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On February&amp;#160;24, 2011, the Company sold 17.25&amp;#160;million shares of common stock at a price of $6.50 per share (before the underwriters' commissions and expenses), which includes the exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option of 2.25&amp;#160;million shares of common stock, in a public offering pursuant to a registration statement filed with U.S securities regulators and a prospectus filed with Canadian securities regulators. Gross proceeds from the 17.25&amp;#160;million shares sold in the offering totaled $112.1&amp;#160;million. Proceeds to the Company, net of commissions and expenses, were approximately $105.4&amp;#160;million. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On May&amp;#160;19, 2009, the Company sold 25.15&amp;#160;million shares of common stock at a price of $2 per share (before the underwriters' commissions and expenses), which included 3.15&amp;#160;million shares under the underwriters' over-allotment option, in a public offering pursuant to a registration statement filed with U.S. securities regulators and a prospectus filed with Canadian securities regulators. Gross proceeds from the 25.15&amp;#160;million shares sold in the offering totaled $50.3&amp;#160;million with net recorded proceeds to the Company being $46.3&amp;#160;million, which is net of the underwriters' commissions and expenses, legal fees, securities listing costs, printing and other costs. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On February&amp;#160;22, 2006, the Company completed a private placement of 16.7&amp;#160;million subscription receipts at $4.50 per subscription receipt, from which the Company received $75.15&amp;#160;million in gross proceeds. Effective August&amp;#160;10, 2006, each subscription receipt was converted, for no additional payment, into one share of the Company's common stock and one-half of one common stock purchase warrant. Each whole warrant was exercisable until February&amp;#160;22, 2011 to acquire one additional share of common stock at an exercise price of $10.00. In connection with this private placement, the Company issued compensation options entitling the broker-dealer which acted as the placement agent to acquire, for no additional consideration, broker warrants to acquire up to 1.0&amp;#160;million units at an exercise price of $4.50 per unit until August&amp;#160;22, 2007. Each unit consisted of one share of our common stock and one-half of one warrant. These compensation options were converted into broker warrants contemporaneously with the conversion of the subscription receipts on August&amp;#160;10, 2006. The broker warrants were exercised in 2007. As at December&amp;#160;31, 2010, there were 8.9&amp;#160;million warrants outstanding. All of the warrants expired unexercised on February&amp;#160;22, 2011. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Exchangeable Shares and 2007 Acquisitions Related Transactions &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In connection with the 2007 acquisitions, the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, US Gold Canadian Acquisition Corporation ("Canadian Exchange&amp;#160;Co."), issued an aggregate of 43&amp;#160;million exchangeable shares. The exchangeable shares, by virtue of the redemption and exchange rights attached to them and the provisions of certain voting and support agreements, provide the holders with the economic and voting rights that are, as nearly as practicable, equivalent to those of a holder of shares of common stock of the Company. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Accordingly, remaining exchangeable shares are included as part of the consolidated share capital of the Company. The voting rights associated with the exchangeable shares are exercised by a trustee as the owner of the one outstanding share of the Company's Series&amp;#160;A Special Voting Preferred Stock ("Special Voting Share") pursuant to the provisions of a Voting and Exchange Trust Agreement. The Special Voting Share entitles the holder thereof to an aggregate number of votes equal to the number of exchangeable shares of Canadian Exchange&amp;#160;Co. issued and outstanding from time to time and which are not owned by US Gold or any subsidiary. Except as otherwise provided by law, the holder of the Special Voting Share and the holders of the Company's common stock vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders. The holder of the Special Voting Share has no special voting rights, and its consent is not required, except to the extent it is entitled to vote with the holders of shares of common stock for taking any corporate action. Through December&amp;#160;31, 2011, approximately 42.1&amp;#160;million exchangeable shares had been converted into an equivalent amount of common stock of the Company. At December&amp;#160;31, 2011, total outstanding exchangeable shares not exchanged totaled 3.2&amp;#160;million. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In connection with the 2007 acquisitions, we assumed stock options covering 812,918 shares of our common stock. Following the exercise of 170,125 options during 2007, expiration of 34,500 options during 2008, exercise of 143,625 options during 2010, and exercise of 70,075 options during 2011, a total of 394,593 options remain exercisable at December&amp;#160;31, 2011. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Effective March&amp;#160;17, 1989, the Company's Board of Directors adopted the U.S. Gold Corporation Non-Qualified Stock Option and Stock Grant Plan, or the "US Gold Plan." On October&amp;#160;3, 2005, the Board of Directors amended the US Gold Plan to provide for an increase in the number of authorized shares from 3.5&amp;#160;million to 5&amp;#160;million. The stockholders approved this amendment on November&amp;#160;14, 2005. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On October&amp;#160;19, 2006, the Board of Directors approved the amendment and restatement to the US Gold Plan to: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;dt style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -11pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(2)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;increase the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the US Gold Plan by 4&amp;#160;million, for a total of 9&amp;#160;million shares; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;dl compact="compact"&gt;
&lt;dt style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -11pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(3)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;specify that no more than 1&amp;#160;million shares may be subject to grants of options to an individual in a calendar year; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;dt style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -11pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(4)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;provide that awards under the US Gold Plan can be granted to employees, consultants, advisors, and directors as the Board of Directors or committee administering the plan determines in its discretion and to provide that the committee may delegate to certain officers the authority to grant awards to certain employees (other than such officers), consultants and advisors; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;
&lt;dt style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -11pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(5)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;provide the grant of restricted stock; and &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;dt style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: -11pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(6)&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;change the name of the US Gold Plan to US Gold Equity Incentive Plan. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The amendment and restatement of the US Gold Incentive Plan was approved at the Company's annual meeting of shareholders on November&amp;#160;30, 2006. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Under the Plan, as amended by shareholders on November&amp;#160;30, 2006, a total of 9&amp;#160;million shares of common stock are reserved for issuance thereunder. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On January&amp;#160;19, 2012, shareholders approved the amended and restated US Gold Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of authorized shares from 9&amp;#160;million to 13.5&amp;#160;million (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;see&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt; Note&amp;#160;16). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The fair value of the options granted under the Plan was estimated at the date of grant, using the Black-Scholes Option Valuation Model, with the following weighted-average assumptions; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 10%; WIDTH: 80%; PADDING-TOP: 0pt; POSITION: relative"&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;!-- COMMAND=ADD_TABLEWIDTH,"100%" --&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- User-specified TAGGED TABLE --&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px"&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS SET --&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" width="92"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" width="92"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" width="92"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2009 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Risk-free interest rate&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1.74% to 2.33%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2.18% to 2.97%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1.93% to 3.70%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Dividend yield&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;n/a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;n/a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;n/a&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Volatility factor of the expected market price of common stock&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;90% to 100%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;87% to 94%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;103% to 110%&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Weighted-average expected life of option&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6.6&amp;#160;years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6.4&amp;#160;years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6.6&amp;#160;years&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Weighted-average grant date fair value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$4.86&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$2.84&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$0.81&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- end of user-specified TAGGED TABLE --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During the period ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the Company recorded stock option expense of $2.7&amp;#160;million (December&amp;#160;31, 2010&amp;#8212;$1.6&amp;#160;million; December&amp;#160;31, 2009&amp;#8212;$1.3&amp;#160;million). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The following table summarizes information about stock options under the Plan outstanding at December&amp;#160;31, 2011: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 15%; WIDTH: 70%; PADDING-TOP: 0pt; POSITION: relative"&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;!-- COMMAND=ADD_TABLEWIDTH,"100%" --&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;!-- User-specified TAGGED TABLE --&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px"&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS SET --&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="34"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="44"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="77"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="41"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Shares &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Weighted&lt;br /&gt;
Average&lt;br /&gt;
Exercise&lt;br /&gt;
Price &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Weighted&lt;br /&gt;
Average&lt;br /&gt;
Remaining&lt;br /&gt;
Contractual Life&lt;br /&gt;
(Years) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Intrinsic&lt;br /&gt;
Value &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands, except per share and year data)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Balance at December&amp;#160;31, 2008&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,494&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3.32&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;8.2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Granted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,277&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;0.91&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Exercised&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;864&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Balance at December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3,870&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3.24&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;7.3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,520&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="FONT-SIZE: 1.5pt; HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Exercisable at December&amp;#160;31, 2011&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,044&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2.10&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6.2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3,092&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;At December&amp;#160;31, 2011, there was $2.3&amp;#160;million of unrecognized compensation cost related to 1.8&amp;#160;million unvested stock options. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 1.5&amp;#160;years. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 10 LOSS PER SHARE &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The computations for basic loss per common share are as follows: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="8"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Year Ended December&amp;#160;31, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2009 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="8"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands, except per share)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss for the year&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;61,872&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;33,091&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;27,698&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Weighted average number of common shares&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;137,046&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;121,987&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;112,224&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Loss per common share&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;0.45&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;0.27&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;0.25&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 12 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Effective January&amp;#160;1, 2011, the Company renewed its management services agreement ("Services Agreement") with 2083089 Ontario&amp;#160;Inc. ("208") pursuant to which the Company agreed to reimburse 208 for rent, personnel, office expenses and other administrative services on a cost recovery basis. A similar contract existed between the Company and 208 for calendar year 2010 and 2009. 208 is owned by Robert McEwen, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and beneficial owner of more than 5% of its voting securities. Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen is also the Chief Executive Officer and Director of 208. The Company paid $0.1&amp;#160;million in 2011 and 2010 under these agreements. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Beginning in the second quarter of 2010, an aircraft owned and operated by Lexam L.P (of which Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen is a limited partner and beneficiary) has been made available to the Company in order to expedite business travel. In his role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as well as senior management of two other junior mining companies, Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen must travel extensively and frequently on short notice. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen is able to charter the aircraft from Lexam&amp;#160;L.P. at a preferential rate. The Company's independent board members have approved a policy whereby only the variable expenses of operating this aircraft for business related travel are eligible for reimbursement by the Company. The hourly amount that the Company has agreed to reimburse Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen is well under half the full cost per hour of operating the aircraft or equivalent hourly charter cost and in any event less than even Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen's preferential charter rate. Where possible, trips also include other company personnel, both executives and non-executives, to maximize efficiency. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;For the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the Company paid $0.1&amp;#160;million to Lexam L.P for the use of this aircraft. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Each of the above agreements were approved or ratified by the independent members of the Company's Board of Directors. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During the fourth quarter of 2011, as a result of moving the Company's corporate office, which is shared with Lexam VG Gold&amp;#160;Inc. and Minera Andes&amp;#160;Inc., the Company recorded a net receivable of $30,000 and $51,113, respectively, totalling $81,113, related to rent and office expenses. As at December&amp;#160;31, 2011 the full balance remains outstanding and has been recorded in other current assets. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 13 UNAUDITED SUPPLEMENTARY QUARTERLY INFORMATION &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The following table summarizes unaudited supplementary quarterly information for the years ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011, 2010, and 2009: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 10%; WIDTH: 80%; PADDING-TOP: 0pt; POSITION: relative"&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="64"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="61"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Three Months Ended &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;March&amp;#160;31 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;June&amp;#160;30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;September&amp;#160;30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;December&amp;#160;31 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands, except per share)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(8,734&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(13,154&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(23,680&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(16,304&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss per share&amp;#8212;basic and diluted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.07&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.09&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.17&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Weighted average shares outstanding&amp;#8212;basic and diluted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;128,914&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;139,646&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;139,725&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;139,753&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 10%; WIDTH: 80%; PADDING-TOP: 0pt; POSITION: relative"&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="64"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="61"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Three Months Ended &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;March&amp;#160;31 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;June&amp;#160;30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;September&amp;#160;30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;December&amp;#160;31 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands, except per share)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(6,870&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(10,703&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(8,170&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(7,348&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss per share&amp;#8212;basic and diluted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.06&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.09&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.07&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.05&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Weighted average shares outstanding&amp;#8212;basic and diluted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;121,898&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;121,918&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;121,996&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;137,046&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 10%; WIDTH: 80%; PADDING-TOP: 0pt; POSITION: relative"&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;!-- COMMAND=ADD_TABLEWIDTH,"100%" --&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px"&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS SET --&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="46"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="64"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="61"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2009 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Three Months Ended &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;March&amp;#160;31 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;June&amp;#160;30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;September&amp;#160;30 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;December&amp;#160;31 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands, except per share)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(4,810&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(3,908&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(15,083&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(3,897&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Net loss per share&amp;#8212;basic and diluted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.05&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.04&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.12&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(0.03&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Weighted average shares outstanding&amp;#8212;basic and diluted&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;96,676&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;108,050&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;121,893&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;121,893&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 14 OPERATING SEGMENT REPORTING &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="50"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="60"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;USA &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mexico &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Corporate&amp;#160;&amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Other &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Property holding costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,506&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,958&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3,464&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Exploration costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;12,825&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;29,160&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;998&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;42,983&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mine construction and development costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,745&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,745&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Operating loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(15,412&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(35,867&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(8,906&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(60,185&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mineral property interests&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;232,704&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;12,750&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;245,454&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total assets&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;238,402&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;33,899&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;38,054&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;310,355&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;!-- end of user-specified TAGGED TABLE --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 15%; WIDTH: 70%; PADDING-TOP: 0pt; POSITION: relative"&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;!-- COMMAND=ADD_TABLEWIDTH,"100%" --&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px"&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS SET --&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="50"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="60"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="51"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;!-- TABLE COLUMN WIDTHS END --&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;USA &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mexico &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Corporate&amp;#160;&amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Other &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="11"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Property holding costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3,752&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;606&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,358&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Exploration costs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;11,467&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;768&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;19,210&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Operating loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(13,127&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Mineral property interests&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;224,483&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;10,670&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;235,153&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;230,542&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;20,527&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;10,556&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;261,625&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;8,240&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Operating loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;230,688&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 15 FAIR VALUE ACCOUNTING &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Fair value accounting establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities (Level&amp;#160;1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level&amp;#160;3 measurements). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described below: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;font size="2"&gt;Prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable (supported by little or no market activity).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Accounts payable and accrued liabilities&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 20pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Cash and cash equivalents&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company's cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments are classified within Level&amp;#160;1 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued using quoted market prices. The fair value of these balances approximates the carrying amounts due to the short-term nature and historically negligible credit losses. The cash equivalent instruments that are valued based on quoted market prices in active markets are primarily money market securities. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company's marketable equity securities which are exchange traded are valued using quoted market prices in active markets and as such are classified within Level&amp;#160;1 of the fair value hierarchy. The fair value of the marketable equity securities is calculated as the quoted market price of the marketable equity security multiplied by the quantity of shares held by the Company. The other portion of the Company's marketable equity securities, which are comprised of share purchase warrants not listed on a public exchange are valued using pricing models. Valuation models require a variety of inputs, including strike price, contractual terms, market prices, measures of volatility and interest rate. Because the inputs are derived from observable market data, the other portion of the marketable equity securities is classified within Level&amp;#160;2 of the fair value hierarchy. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The fair value of accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximates the carrying amounts due to the short-term nature and historically negligible credit losses. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan and Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On January&amp;#160;19, 2012, at a special meeting of shareholders, the Company's shareholders approved the amendments to the Equity Incentive Plan to, among other things, increase the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance thereunder from 9&amp;#160;million to 13.5&amp;#160;million shares. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;At the January&amp;#160;19, 2012 special meeting, the shareholders approved the Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation which, among other things, increased the authorized capital to 500,000,000 shares of common stock and one share of Series&amp;#160;B Special Voting Preferred Stock. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Completion of Business Combination with Minera Andes&amp;#160;Inc.&amp;#8212;January&amp;#160;24, 2012 &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On January&amp;#160;24, 2012, the Company completed through a court-approved plan of arrangement under Alberta law, the acquisition of Minera Andes&amp;#160;Inc. ("the Arrangement"), under which Minera Andes became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. On the closing date of the Arrangement, holders of Minera Andes' common stock received a number of exchangeable shares of McEwen Mining-Minera Andes Acquisition Corp. ("2012&amp;#8212;Exchangeable Shares"), an indirect wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of the Company, equal to the number of Minera Andes shares, multiplied by the exchange ratio of 0.45. In the aggregate, Minera Andes shareholders received 127,331,498 2012&amp;#8212;Exchangeable Shares. After closing of the Arrangement, the name of the Company was changed to McEwen Mining&amp;#160;Inc. As a result of the Arrangement, the combined company will be held approximately&amp;#160;52% by existing McEwen Mining shareholders and 48% by former Minera Andes shareholders. The Company's common stock began trading on the NYSE and TSX under the symbol "MUX" on January&amp;#160;27, 2012 and the 2012&amp;#8212;Exchangeable Shares began trading on the TSX under the symbol "MAQ". &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Robert R. McEwen, the Company's Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and largest shareholder and also the Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and largest shareholder of Minera Andes, proposed the Arrangement in 2011. In connection with the Arrangement, Mr.&amp;#160;McEwen received approximately 38.7&amp;#160;million 2012&amp;#8212;Exchangeable Shares. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Basis of Presentation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;McEwen Mining&amp;#160;Inc. (the "Company") was organized under the laws of the State of Colorado on July&amp;#160;24, 1979 and formerly operated under the name of US Gold Corporation. On January&amp;#160;24, 2012, the Company changed its name to McEwen Mining&amp;#160;Inc. after the completion of the business combination with Minera Andes&amp;#160;Inc. Since its inception, the Company has been engaged in the exploration for, development of, production and sale of gold and silver. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Basis of Consolidation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Statements of Cash Flows:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company considers cash in banks, deposits in transit, and highly liquid debt instruments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash and cash equivalents. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Concentrations:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company maintains cash in accounts which may, at times, exceed federally insured limits. At December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the Company has bank account balances of approximately $16.1&amp;#160;million in excess of the federally insured limits of $100,000. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Property and Equipment:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Office furniture, equipment, inactive milling equipment and vehicles are carried at cost net of accumulated depreciation. Normal maintenance and repairs are charged to operations while expenditures for major maintenance and improvements are capitalized. Gains or losses on disposition are recognized in operations. The carrying value of inactive milling and mining equipment reflects historic costs, as adjusted for permanent impairment. The Company evaluates the carrying value of inactive milling and mining equipment periodically or more often when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Property Holding Costs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Holding costs to maintain a property on a care and maintenance basis are expensed in the period they are incurred. These costs include security and maintenance expenses, lease and claim fees and payments, and environmental monitoring and reporting costs. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Mineral Property Interests:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Mineral property interests include acquired mineral, development and exploration stage properties, which are considered tangible assets. The amount capitalized relating to a mineral property interest represents its fair value at the time of acquisition, either as an individual asset purchase or as a part of a business combination. The value of mineral property interest is primarily driven by the nature and amount of mineralized material believed to be contained in the properties. If a mineable ore body is discovered, the capitalized costs would be amortized when production begins using the units-of-production method. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Exploration Costs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Exploration costs include costs incurred to identify new mineral resources, evaluate potential resources, and convert mineral resources into proven and probable reserves. Exploration costs are expensed as incurred. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Proven and Probable Reserves:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The definition of proven and probable reserves is set forth in the SEC Industry Guide 7. Proven reserves are reserves for which (a)&amp;#160;quantity is computed from dimensions revealed in outcrops, trenches, workings or drill holes, grade and/or quality are computed from the results of detailed sampling and (b)&amp;#160;the sites for inspection, sampling and measurement are spaced so closely and the geological character is so well defined that size, shape, depth and mineral content of the reserves are well-established. Probable reserves are reserves for which quantity and grade and/or quality are computed from information similar to that used for proven (measured) reserves, but the sites for inspection, sampling, and measurement are farther apart or are otherwise less adequately spaced. The degree of assurance, although lower than that for proven (measured) reserves, is high enough to assume continuity between points of observations. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;As of December&amp;#160;31, 2011 none of the Company's mineralized properties contain resources that satisfy the definition of proven and probable reserves. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Design, Construction, and Development Costs:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Certain costs to design and construct mining and processing facilities may be incurred prior to establishing proven and probable reserves. The Company classifies the Phase&amp;#160;1 development of the El Gallo Complex as an exploration stage project, and accordingly, substantially all costs, including design, engineering, construction, and installation of equipment are expensed. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Development costs are capitalized when proven and probable reserves exist and the property is a commercially minable property. Mine development costs incurred either to develop new ore deposits, expand the capacity of operating mines, or to develop mine areas substantially in advance of current production are capitalized. Costs incurred to maintain current production or to maintain assets on a standby basis are charged to operations. Costs of abandoned projects are charged to operations upon abandonment. The Company evaluates, at least quarterly, the carrying value of capitalized mineral property interest costs and related property, plant and equipment costs, if any, to determine if an impairment needs to be recorded. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Impairment of Long-Lived Assets:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable. Recoverability is measured by comparing the net book value to fair value. When the net book value exceeds fair value, an impairment loss is measured and recorded. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Mineral properties are monitored for impairment based on factors such as the Company's continued right to explore the area, exploration reports, assays, technical reports, drill results and its continued plans to fund exploration programs on the property. The Company uses the market approach to estimate the fair value of the properties by using a combination of the observed market value per square mile in the region and an observed market value per ounce of mineralized material. The Company is unable to estimate undiscounted future net cash flows from its operations due the nature of its mineralized material. As such, the appropriate evidence to perform estimates of future cash flows is not available and would not be accurate in supporting the Company's long-lived assets. For purposes of recognition and measurement of an impairment loss, the Company groups its properties by geological mineral complex, as this represents the lowest level at which the Company allocates its exploration spending independent of other assets and liabilities. For the Battle Mountain Complex, as described in the Properties section (Item&amp;#160;2) of the annual report on Form&amp;#160;10-K, the Company has separated its properties into three regions, due to their physical separation, for the purposes of impairment testing. The three regions are North (BMX), East (Slaven Canyon) and West (Fish Creek). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Depreciation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Depreciation is computed using straight-line methods. Office furniture, equipment and light vehicles are being depreciated over the estimated economic lives ranging from 3 to 5&amp;#160;years. Trailers, heavy vehicles and other site equipment are being depreciated over estimated economic lives from 5 to 15&amp;#160;years. Buildings are being depreciated over an estimated economic life of 20&amp;#160;years. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Asset Retirement Obligation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company records the fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation ("ARO") in the period that it is incurred if a reasonable estimate of fair value can be made. The associated asset retirement costs are capitalized as part of the carrying amount of the long-lived asset. Ongoing environmental and reclamation expenditures are credited to the ARO as incurred to the extent they relate to the ARO and to expense to the extent they do not so apply. The fair value of AROs is measured by discounting the expected cash flows using a discount factor that reflects the credit-adjusted risk free rate of interest, while taking into account an inflation rate. The Company prepares estimates of the timing and amounts of expected cash flows when an ARO is incurred, which are updated to reflect changes in facts and circumstances. Changes in regulations or laws, any instances of non-compliance with laws or regulations that result in fines, or any unforeseen environmental contamination could result in a material impact to the amounts charged to earnings for reclamation and remediation. Significant judgments and estimates are made when estimating the fair value of AROs. Expected cash flows relating to AROs could occur over long periods of time and the assessment of the extent of environmental remediation work is highly subjective. Considering all of these factors that go into the determination of an ARO, the fair value of the AROs can materially change over time. A change in the credit adjusted risk free rate and inflation rate used will not have a material impact on the ARO liability balance as the ARO amount is not significant in relation to the Company's overall balance sheets. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Foreign Currency:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The functional currency for the Company's operations is the U.S. dollar. All monetary assets and liabilities denominated in a currency which is not the U.S. dollar are translated at current exchange rates at each balance sheet date and the resulting adjustments are included in a separate line item under other income (expense). Revenue and expense in foreign currencies are translated at the average exchange rates for the period. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Stock-Based Compensation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company accounts for stock options at fair value as prescribed in ASC Section&amp;#160;718-20-25. The Company estimates the fair value of each stock option at the grant date by using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and provides for expense recognition over the service period, if any, of the stock option. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Comprehensive Loss:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In addition to net loss, comprehensive loss includes all changes in equity during a period, such as cumulative unrecognized changes in fair value of marketable equity securities classified as available-for-sale or other investments. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Per Share Amounts:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Basic earnings or loss per share includes no dilution and is computed by dividing income or loss available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common and exchangeable shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings or loss per share reflect the potential dilution of securities that could share in the earnings of the Company and are computed in accordance with the treasury stock method based on the average number of common shares and dilutive common share equivalents outstanding. In these financial statements, warrants and stock options are not considered in the computation of diluted earnings per share as their inclusion would be anti-dilutive for the periods presented. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Income Taxes:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The Company accounts for income taxes under ASC Section&amp;#160;740-10-25 using the liability method, recognizing certain temporary differences between the financial reporting basis of liabilities and assets and the related income tax basis for such liabilities and assets. This method generates either a net deferred income tax liability or asset for the Company, as measured by the statutory tax rates in effect. The Company derives the deferred income tax charge or benefit by recording the change in either the net deferred income tax liability or asset balance for the year. The Company records a valuation allowance against any portion of those deferred income tax assets when it believes, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred income tax asset will not be realized. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Fair Value of Financial Instruments:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;ASC Section&amp;#160;825-10-50 requires disclosure of fair value information about financial instruments. Fair value estimates discussed herein are based upon certain market assumptions and pertinent information available to management as of December&amp;#160;31, 2011. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The carrying values of financial instruments approximate their fair values. These financial instruments include cash and cash equivalents, marketable equity securities, short-term investments, accounts payable and accrued liabilities. Fair values were assumed to approximate carrying values for these financial instruments since they are short term in nature and their carrying amounts approximate fair value or they are receivable or payable on demand. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 2 MARKETABLE EQUITY SECURITIES &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;These securities are valued at fair value. Any resulting gain or loss is recorded to an unrealized gain and loss account (accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income) that is reported as a separate line item in the shareholders' equity section of the balance sheet. The gains and losses on available-for-sale securities are not reported on the statement of operations until the securities are sold or are other than temporarily impaired. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Changes in the Company's holdings of marketable securities for the years ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011 and 2010 are as follows (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;in thousands&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;): &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="39"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Opening Balance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,576&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;11&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;284&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,023&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Proceeds from sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;19&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(1,546&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;542&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Ending Balance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="39"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="8"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(dollars in thousands, except&lt;br /&gt;
ounces and per ounce)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;# of ounces&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;5,656&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;552,812&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,442&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Average cost per ounce&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,278.63&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;28.18&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,019&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total cost&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;7,232&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;15,579&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,569&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Fair value per ounce&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,574.50&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;28.18&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,405&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Total fair value&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;8,905&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;15,579&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6,241&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The market value of gold and silver was based on the daily London&amp;#160;P.M. fix as at December&amp;#160;31, 2011 and 2010. Since ASC Topic 815 does not consider gold to be readily convertible to cash, the Company carries this asset at the lower of cost or market. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During 2011, the Company sold 4,008 ounces of gold and 150,499 ounces of silver with a cost of $4.7&amp;#160;million and $4.9&amp;#160;million, respectively, resulting in an overall gain of $2.1&amp;#160;million. As at December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the Company's average cost per ounce for silver was written down to its market value of $28.18 and as a result, the Company recorded an unrealized loss of $3.4&amp;#160;million in its statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Changes in the Company's holdings of gold and silver for the years ended December&amp;#160;31, 2011 and 2010 are as follows (&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;in&amp;#160;thousands&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;): &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="44"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="45"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="50"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="12"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="right" width="7"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="39"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="8"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2011 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2010 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gold &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Silver &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Total &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gold &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Opening Balance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,569&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,569&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,760&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="white"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Purchases&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;7,387&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;23,913&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;31,300&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,809&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCEEFF"&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Proceeds from sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(6,218&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(5,521&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(11,739&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Gain on sale&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;1,494&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;581&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2,075&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Unrealized loss&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(3,394&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;(3,394&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Ending Balance&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;7,232&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;15,579&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;22,811&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;$&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;4,569&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2.25pt double; FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  <mux:ProceedsFromStockOptionsAndWarrantsExercised decimals="-3" contextRef="D2011" unitRef="USD">773000</mux:ProceedsFromStockOptionsAndWarrantsExercised>
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE 11 RENTAL EXPENSE AND COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;At December&amp;#160;31, 2011, the Company is obligated under long term leases covering office space, exploration expenditures and option payments on properties for the following minimum amounts: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" width="69"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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Obligation &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr style="HEIGHT: 0px" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times" align="left"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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&lt;th style="FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2012&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2013&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;6,172&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;
&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2014&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;3,212&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 10pt; TEXT-INDENT: -10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;2016&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="FONT-FAMILY: times" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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