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Note 21 - Assets Held for Sale | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Statement Line Items [Line Items] |
Disclosure of non-current assets or disposal groups classified as held for sale [text block] |
| 21 | Assets held for sale
|  | Note |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | January 1, 2019 |
Non-current assets held for sale |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Eagle Vulture, Mascot & Penzance |  | 21.1 |  |  | 500 |  |  |  | – |  |  |  | – |
Sale of subsidiary |  | 21.2 |  |  | – |  |  |  | – |  |  |  | 296 |
| 21.1 | Eagle Vulture, Mascot and Penzance
Farvic Consolidated Mines (Pvt) Ltd (“Farvic”) requested permission from the Company to perform drilling on the Eagle Vulture, Mascot and Penzance orebodies to obtain an understanding of the technical feasibility and commercial viability of Eagle Vulture, Mascot and Penzance in 2019. Farvic later expressed their interest in buying Eagle Vulture, Mascot and Penzance in late 2020. Management evaluated the proposition and a price was determined in November of 2020. On February 24, 2021 Farvic and the Group concluded the sale contract at $500 and Blanket relinquished all rights to the properties. The assets were available for sale in their condition in December 2020 and therefore met the criteria to be classified as held for sale. Management determined the fair value as $500 at December 31, 2020, as this was the lower of the fair value less cost to sell and the carrying amount. The carrying amount of Eagle Vulture, Mascot and Penzance, before impairment, at December 31, 2020 was $3,430 and it was classified as an Exploration and evaluation asset. The write down resulted in an impairment expense of $2,930.
| 21.2 | Sale of subsidiary
On May 31, 2018 the Group entered into an amended share sale agreement with SH Mineral Investments Proprietary Limited (“SH Minerals”) to sell the shares and claims of Eersteling Gold Mining Company Limited (“Eersteling”), a South African subsidiary previously consolidated as part of the Group, that has been on care and maintenance since 1997. The amended share sale agreement allowed for a purchase price of $3,000 which would be settled by three payments of $1,000 payable on the completion date, 12 and 18 months after the completion date. On January 31, 2019 all suspensive conditions for the sale were met and the Group transferred the registered and beneficial ownership of Eersteling to SH Minerals. During 2020 $900 ( 2019: $1,000 ) was received as payment towards the purchase price. A further $340 was received in February 2021. Management believes that the remainder of the deferred consideration is recoverable. Details of the disposal are as follows:
|  | 2019 |
Carrying amounts of net assets over which control was lost: |  |  |  |
Non-current assets |  |  |  |
Property, plant and equipment |  |  | 227 |
Current assets |  |  |  |
Trade and other receivables |  |  | 84 |
Total assets |  |  | 311 |
Non-current liabilities |  |  |  |
Rehabilitation provision |  |  | 650 |
Current liabilities |  |  |  |
Trade and other payables |  |  | 8 |
Total liabilities |  |  | 658 |
Consideration receivable: |  |  |  |
Cash received |  |  | 1,000 |
Deferred consideration (at January 31, 2019) |  |  | 1,953 |
Total consideration |  |  | 2,953 |
Profit on sale of subsidiary: |  |  |  |
Net liabilities derecognised |  |  | 347 |
Cumulative exchange differences in respect of the net liabilities of the subsidiary reclassified from equity on loss of control of subsidiary |  |  | 2,109 |
Fair value consideration receivable (at January 31, 2019) |  |  | 2,953 |
Profit on sale of subsidiary |  |  | 5,409 |

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