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Accounts Receivable
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Receivables [Abstract]  
Accounts Receivable

NOTE D – ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

The accounts receivable balances at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012 were $6,681,697 and $2,101,941, respectively, which are net of reserves of $4,631,593 and $4,820,593, respectively. As described in NOTE F, Neptune Minerals, Inc. (“NMI”) completed a 2011 share exchange with Dorado Ocean Resources, Ltd. (“DOR”) shareholders which resulted in an executed assignment and assumption agreement, whereby NMI assumed $8,227,675 of the outstanding debt of DOR owed to us. The full reserve at September 30, 2013 and the full reserve at December 31, 2012 are for the remaining Neptune Minerals, Inc. (“NMI”) accounts receivable assumed from DOR as discussed in NOTE F. Also included in our September 30, 2013 balance is $500,000 that is for a loan made to NMI. See NOTE F.

During the three-month period ended September 30, 2013, we recorded an accounts receivable of $14,444,948 representing proceeds to be received from the sale of silver from the “Gairsoppa” project which included $9,226,398 for the contractual cost recoupment of previously expensed search and recovery costs related to the “Gairsoppa” project. The cost recoupment total consists of $26,749 of costs expensed to Marketing, general and administrative and $9,199,649 expensed to Operations and research. Within this period, we recovered approximately 61 tons of silver bullion from the wreck of the SS Gairsoppa and commenced the refining process which allows us to sell silver into London’s bullion market on behalf of United Kingdom Government. There are no cost of goods associated with this transaction since we do not own the silver bullion being sold, and we are acting only as an agent for the United Kingdom Government. The Gairsoppa project is discussed at length in ITEM 2 of this Form 10-Q. The balance remaining of this receivable at September 30, 2013 was $5,805,543. This entire remaining Gairsoppa related accounts receivable at September 30, 2013 was paid in full during the subsequent month.