4. Mineral Properties


		At March 31, 2015		At December 31, 2014

Mt Todd, Australia	$	2,146	$	2,146
Guadalupe de los Reyes, Mexico		1,724		2,224
Los Cardones, Mexico		-		1,036
	$	3,870	$	5,406

Proceeds received less costs associated with the transactions discussed below are applied to the capitalized cost basis of the respective project until the cost basis is depleted to zero. At that point, net proceeds received will be recorded as gain on disposal of mineral properties in the condensed consolidated statement of income/loss.

Guadalupe de los Reyes Gold/Silver Project, Sinaloa, Mexico

During April 2014, Minera Gold Stake S.A. de C.V. (“MGS”), Vista’s wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into a definitive option agreement with MGS (the “Option Agreement”) to option its interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project in Sinaloa, Mexico to Cangold Limited (“Cangold”) for consideration of $5,000 in payments over a three-year period, with payments totaling $1,000 in the first year (already received, of which $500 was received in March 2015 ), $1,500 in January 2016 and $2,500 in January 2017.

The Option Agreement provides that all cash payments are non-refundable and optional to Cangold, and in the event Cangold fails to pay any of the required amounts on the scheduled dates or fails to comply with its other obligations, the Option Agreement will terminate and Cangold will have no interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project. Provided it is not in breach of the Option Agreement, Cangold may at its discretion advance the above payment schedule and exercise the initial option for a 70% interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project any time during the three-year period.

Subject to Cangold earning a 70% interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project, MGS has granted Cangold the option to earn the remaining 30% interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project by notifying MGS of a production decision no later than the tenth anniversary of exercising the first option and by making a cash payment to MGS of $3,000 plus an additional cash payment based on a formula that includes the growth, if any, in estimated measured and indicated mineral resources of the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project, and the then prevailing spot gold price (“Escalator Payment”).

Should Cangold determine not to put the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project into production, the Option Agreement provides MGS with the right to buy back Cangold’s 70% interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project for a cash payment of $5,000 plus the Escalator Payment described above. If MGS does not exercise its buyback option, MGS will still retain a right of first refusal should Cangold elect to sell its 70% interest in the Guadalupe de los Reyes gold/silver project to a third party.

Los Cardones

In October 2013, we sold our 100% debt and equity participation in the Los Cardones gold project located in Baja California Sur, Mexico (“Los Cardones Sale”) to Invecture Group, S.A. de C.V. (“Invecture”) and RPG Structured Finance S.a.r.l. (together the “Purchasers”) for a total of $13,000 ($7,000 of which was paid in October 2013 and $6,000 of which was originally payable January 2014 (the “Subsequent Payment”) subject to the Purchasers’ option to elect to not make the Subsequent Payment. In 2014, the due date for the Subsequent Payment was extended to January 30, 2015 for additional consideration of $500. In October 2014, Invecture announced that the Los Cardones gold project had been suspended because the conditions for its development were not favorable at that time, which introduced substantial doubt that the Subsequent Payment would be made. After making this announcement, there were no apparent significant favorable changes to incentivize Invecture to lift the suspension. In January 2015, we agreed to amend the payment terms (the “Amendment”) of the Los Cardones Sale. Under the Amendment, the Company received a payment of $3,000 cash from the Purchasers as the final payment for 100% of the Company’s interest in the project. This resulted in a realized gain of $1,958.