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The RMB&#13;Warrants expire 36 months from their date of issuance and have an exercise price of $1.5387 per Warrant Share, subject&#13;to customary anti-dilution adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sandstorm royalty sale&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On June&#13;11, 2012, MH-LLC completed the sale of a 2.4% net smelter returns royalty (&amp;#147;NSR&amp;#148;) on the Mt. Hamilton project to Sandstorm&#13;Gold, Ltd (&amp;#147;Sandstorm&amp;#148;) for US$10,000,000. MH-LLC received an upfront payment of US$6,000,000 upon signing the agreement&#13;and received US$4,000,000 on January 15, 2013, which Solitario has recorded as a current asset as of December 31, 2012. As part&#13;of the agreement, MH-LLC will have the option, for a period of 30 months from June 11, 2012 to repurchase the NSR&#13;for US$12,000,000, provided that MH-LLC enters into a gold stream agreement with Sandstorm that has an upfront deposit of greater&#13;than US$30,000,000. In addition, MH-LLC has provided Sandstorm with a right of first refusal on any future royalty or gold stream&#13;financing for the Mt. Hamilton project. Pursuant to the Agreement, Solitario is jointly and severally liable for all obligations&#13;of MH-LLC to Sandstorm. See Note 2, &amp;#147;Mineral Properties,&amp;#148; below for further discussion of the Sandstorm royalty sale.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Investment in Kinross&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;has a significant investment in Kinross Gold Corporation (&amp;#147;Kinross&amp;#148;), which consisted of the following at December&#13;31, 2012 and December 31, 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td colspan="2" style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Year ended &lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;u&gt;December 31,&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 74%; padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 14%; padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2012&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 12%; padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2011&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Shares&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;670&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;850&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Fair value&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Current assets&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$3,110&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$4,361&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Long term assets&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$3,402&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$5,329&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;/table&gt;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.55in 0 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;current assets represent Solitario's estimate of the portion of marketable equity securities that will be liquidated within one&#13;year. Solitario sold the following shares of Kinross during 2012 and 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.55in 0 0; text-indent: 0.5in"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td colspan="2" style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Year ended&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;u&gt;December 31,&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 79%; padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; font-weight: bold"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 11%; padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2012&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 10%; padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2011&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Shares sold&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;180&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;130&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Proceeds&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1,591&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$2,035&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 11.6pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Gain on sale&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1,464&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 1.5pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1,937&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;/table&gt;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.55in 0 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;As of&#13;December 31, 2012 and 2011, Solitario has borrowed $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, respectively, in short-term margin loans, which are&#13;primarily secured by its investment in Kinross. The short-term margin loan is discussed below under Note 3, &amp;#147;Short-term debt.&amp;#148;&#13;As of March x, 2013, Solitario owns 200,000 shares of Kinross common stock which have a value of approximately $1.8 million based&#13;upon the market price of $9.00 per Kinross share. Solitario&amp;#146;s investment in Kinross common stock represents a significant&#13;concentration of assets, with the inherent risk that entails. Any significant fluctuation in the market value of Kinross common&#13;shares could have a material impact on Solitario&amp;#146;s liquidity and capital resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.55in 0 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Financial reporting&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Solitario and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, controlled non-wholly-owned&#13;subsidiaries and its equity investment in Pedra Branca Mineracao, Ltd &amp;#147;(PBM&amp;#148;), which owns the Pedra Branca project&#13;in Brazil. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The consolidated financial&#13;statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (&amp;#34;generally&#13;accepted accounting principles&amp;#34;), and are expressed in US dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Revenue recognition&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;records delay rental payments as revenue in the period received. Solitario recorded $300,000 and $242,000, respectively,&#13;in joint venture and property payments for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. Any payments received for the sale&#13;of property interests are recorded as a reduction of the related property's capitalized cost. Proceeds which exceed&#13;the capitalized cost of the property without reserves are recognized as revenue. Payments received on the sale of properties&#13;with reserves are recognized as revenue to the extent the proceeds exceed the proportionate basis in the assets sold. Gain on&#13;the sale of a mineral property revenue stream is deferred to the extent there is a guarantee for the future revenue stream&#13;until such time as the potential funding obligation for the guarantee is reduced or released to the extent Solitario no&#13;longer has any involvement of obligations.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Use of estimates&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The preparation&#13;of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions&#13;that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the&#13;financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ&#13;from those estimates. Some of the more significant estimates included in the preparation of Solitario's financial statements pertain&#13;to: (i) the recoverability of mineral properties and their future exploration potential; (ii) the estimate of the fair value of&#13;Solitario's stock option grants to employees; (iii) the ability of Solitario to realize its deferred tax assets; (iv) the current&#13;portion of Solitario's investment in Kinross stock and other marketable equity securities; (v) the fair value of Solitario&amp;#146;s&#13;liability for the RMB warrants.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In performing&#13;its activities, Solitario has incurred certain costs for mineral properties. The recovery of these costs is ultimately dependent&#13;upon the sale of mineral property interests or the development of economically recoverable ore reserves and the ability of Solitario&#13;to obtain the necessary permits and financing to successfully place the properties into production, and upon future profitable&#13;operations, none of which is assured.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cash equivalents &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Cash&#13;equivalents include investments in highly liquid money-market securities with original maturities of three months or less when&#13;purchased. As of December 31, 2012 and 2011, Solitario had concentrations of cash and cash equivalents in excess of federally insured&#13;amounts and cash in foreign banks, which are not covered under the federal deposit insurance rules for the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mineral properties &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;began capitalization of all of its expenditures on its Mt. Hamilton project, subsequent to the completion of the Feasibility&#13;Study. Solitario expenses all exploration costs incurred on its mineral&#13;properties prior to the establishment of proven and probable reserves. Initial acquisition costs of its mineral&#13;properties are capitalized. Solitario regularly performs evaluations of its investment in mineral properties to assess&#13;the recoverability and/or the residual value of its investments in these assets. All long-lived assets are reviewed&#13;for impairment whenever events or circumstances change which indicate the carrying amount of an asset may not be&#13;recoverable, utilizing established guidelines based upon undiscounted future net cash flows from the asset or upon the&#13;determination that certain exploration properties do not have sufficient potential for economic mineralization.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Derivative instruments&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;accounts for its derivative instruments in accordance with ASC 815 &amp;#34;Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities&amp;#34;&#13;(&amp;#147;ASC 815&amp;#148;). &lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Beginning in December 2008, Solitario sold covered calls covering its shares of Kinross common&#13;stock. Solitario also owned certain warrants issued by Ely, which expired unexercised during 2012. Solitario issued the RMB Warrants&#13;during 2012. Solitario has not designated its covered calls as hedging instruments and any changes in the fair market value of&#13;the covered calls and its warrants are recognized in the statement of operations in the period of the change. See Note 6, &amp;#147;Derivative&#13;instruments&amp;#148; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fair value&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;FASB&#13;ASC 820, &amp;#147;Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures&amp;#148; (&amp;#147;ASC 820&amp;#148;) establishes a framework for measuring fair&#13;value and requires enhanced disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC 820 clarifies that fair value is an exit price, representing&#13;the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants.&#13;For certain of Solitario's financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, short-term margin loans and accounts payable,&#13;the carrying amounts approximate fair value due to their short-term maturities. Solitario's marketable equity securities, and the Kinross calls are carried at their estimated fair value based on quoted market prices. See Note 7, &amp;#147;Fair value&#13;of financial instruments&amp;#148; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Marketable equity securities&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario's&#13;investments in marketable equity securities are classified as available-for-sale and are carried at fair value, which is based&#13;upon quoted prices of the securities owned. The cost of marketable equity securities sold is determined by the specific identification&#13;method. Changes in market value are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income within shareholders' equity, unless a decline&#13;in market value is considered other than temporary, in which case the decline is recognized as a loss in the consolidated statements&#13;of operations. The following tables summarize Solitario&amp;#146;s marketable equity securities and accumulated other comprehensive&#13;income related to its marketable equity securities:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 73%; text-align: justify"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 14%; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;December 31, 2012&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 13%; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;December 31, 2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Marketable equity securities at fair value&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="text-align: right"&gt;$7,093&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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Although Solitario's South American&#13;exploration activities have been conducted primarily in Brazil, Peru and Mexico, a portion of the payments under the land,&#13;leasehold and exploration agreements of Solitario are denominated in United States dollars. Foreign currency gains and losses are&#13;included in the results of operations in the period in which they occur. During 2012 and 2011, Solitario recorded foreign exchange&#13;losses of $32,000 and $43,000, respectively. Solitario's cash accounts in foreign subsidiaries not denominated in United States&#13;dollars represent the only significant foreign currency denominated assets. Foreign currency denominated cash accounts totaled&#13;$36,000 and $325,000, respectively, at December 31, 2012 and 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Foreign exchange&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;accounts for its investment in Pedra Branca do Mineracao, Ltd. (&amp;#147;PBM&amp;#148;) under the equity method as of July 21,&#13;2010, when Anglo Platinum Limited (&amp;#147;Anglo&amp;#148;) earned a 51% interest in PBM. Solitario elected not to record its&#13;investment in PBM at fair value after July 21, 2010 and during 2012 and 2011 recorded a reduction of $488,000 and $623,000,&#13;respectively, in its equity method investment for Solitario&amp;#146;s share of the loss of PBM during 2012 and 2011.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Income taxes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740, &amp;#147;Accounting for Income Taxes.&amp;#148; Under ASC 740, income taxes are&#13;provided for the tax effects of transactions reported in the financial statements and consist of taxes currently due plus deferred&#13;taxes related to certain income and expenses recognized in different periods for financial and income tax reporting purposes. Deferred&#13;tax assets and liabilities represent the future tax return consequences of those differences, which will either be taxable or deductible&#13;when the assets and liabilities are recovered or settled. Deferred taxes are also recognized for operating losses and tax credits&#13;that are available to offset future taxable income and income taxes, respectively. A valuation allowance is provided if it is more&#13;likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Accounting for uncertainty in income taxes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;ASC&#13;740 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in a company's financial statements. ASC 740 prescribes&#13;a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken&#13;or expected to be taken in a tax return. ASC 740 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties,&#13;accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition. ASC 740 provides that a company's tax position will be considered settled&#13;if the taxing authority has completed its examination, the company does not plan to appeal, and it is remote that the taxing authority&#13;would reexamine the tax position in the future. These provisions of ASC 740 had no effect on Solitario's financial position or&#13;results of operations. See Note 5, &amp;#147;Income taxes&amp;#148; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Earnings per share&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;calculation of basic and diluted loss per share is based on the weighted average number of common shares outstanding&#13;during the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011. Potentially dilutive shares related to outstanding common stock options&#13;of 2,598,400 and 2,433,400 for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2010, respectively, and RMB warrants of 1,624,748&#13;for the year ended December 31, 2012 were excluded from the calculation of diluted loss per share because the effects were&#13;anti-dilutive.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Employee stock compensation plans&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;font style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT-Identity-H,serif"&gt;In&#13;April 2010 the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-13, which addresses the classification of a share-based payment award with an exercise&#13;price denominated in the currency of a market in which the underlying equity security trades. ASC 718 was amended to clarify that&#13;a share-based payment award with an exercise price denominated in the currency of a market in which a substantial portion of the&#13;entity&amp;#146;s equity securities trade shall not be considered to contain a market, performance or service condition. Therefore,&#13;such an award is not to be classified as a liability if it otherwise qualifies for equity classification. The amendments in ASU&#13;2010-13 are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning on or after December 15, 2010,&#13;with early application permitted. &lt;/font&gt;Prior to the adoption of ASU 2010-13, Solitario classified its stock options as liabilities&#13;as they are priced in Canadian dollars and Solitario&amp;#146;s functional currency is United States dollars. Beginning January 1,&#13;2011, &lt;font style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT-Identity-H,serif"&gt;Solitario classifies its options as equity options, in accordance&#13;with ASU 2010-13 and no longer records a liability for the fair value of its outstanding options. &lt;/font&gt;In accordance with ASU&#13;2010-13, this change has been made on a prospective basis as of January 1, 2011 with a reduction to stock option liability of $2,775,000,&#13;an increase to additional paid-in capital of $1,240,000 and a reduction in accumulated deficit of $992,000, net of deferred taxes&#13;of $543,000 as a cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle. The adoption of ASU 2010-13 had the effect of increasing&#13;the 2011 net loss and basic and diluted earnings per share by $524,000 and $0.02 per share, respectively, by no longer accounting&#13;for its options as liabilities. 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Solitario announced on February 22, 2012 the completion of the Feasibility Study. As a result of the completion of the&#13;Feasibility Study, pursuant to the MH Agreement, Solitario earned an 80% interest in MH-LLC and reported mineral reserves at its&#13;Mt. Hamilton project. See Note 7, &amp;#147;Mineral Properties,&amp;#148; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;RMB facility agreement&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;As explained&#13;in more detail in Note 4, Long term debt, Solitario entered into a Facility Agreement (the &amp;#147;Facility Agreement&amp;#148;) with&#13;RMB Australia Holdings Limited, an Australian corporation (&amp;#147;RMBAH&amp;#148;), and RMB Resources Inc., a Delaware corporation&#13;(&amp;#147;RMBR&amp;#148;) whereby Solitario may borrow up to $5,000,000 from RMBAH (with any amounts outstanding collectively being&#13;the &amp;#147;RMB Loan&amp;#148;). Solitario borrowed $1,500,000 on August 21, 2012. Solitario paid an arrangement fee of $250,000 upon&#13;initial funding. The RMB Loan matures on the earlier to occur of (i) 36 months from the date of initial funding or (ii) the date&#13;on which financing is made available to MH-LLC for purposes of placing the Mt. Hamilton project into commercial production. The&#13;RMB Loan amounts bear interest at LIBOR plus 5%, payable in arrears on the last day of each quarterly interest period. The RMB&#13;Loan may be repaid at any time without penalty. Any amounts repaid may not be redrawn under the Facility Agreement. The RMB Loan&#13;is secured by a lien on Solitario&amp;#146;s 80% interest in MH-LLC as well as a general security interest in Solitario&amp;#146;s remaining&#13;assets.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;RMB warrants&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Pursuant&#13;to the Facility Agreement, Solitario issued 1,624,748 warrants (the &amp;#147;RMB Warrants&amp;#148;) to RMBAH as partial consideration&#13;for financing services provided in connection with the Facility Agreement. Each RMB Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one&#13;common share (the &amp;#147;Warrant Shares&amp;#148;) of Solitario pursuant to the terms and conditions of the RMB Warrants. The RMB&#13;Warrants expire 36 months from their date of issuance and have an exercise price of $1.5387 per Warrant Share, subject to customary&#13;anti-dilution adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sandstorm royalty sale&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On June&#13;11, 2012, MH-LLC completed the sale of a 2.4% net smelter returns royalty (&amp;#147;NSR&amp;#148;) on the Mt. Hamilton project to Sandstorm&#13;Gold, Ltd (&amp;#147;Sandstorm&amp;#148;) for US$10,000,000. MH-LLC received an upfront payment of US$6,000,000 upon signing the agreement&#13;and received US$4,000,000 on January 15, 2013, which Solitario has recorded as a current asset as of December 31, 2012. As part&#13;of the agreement, MH-LLC will have the option, for a period of 30 months from June 11, 2012 to repurchase up to 100% of the NSR&#13;for US$12,000,000, provided that MH-LLC enters into a gold stream agreement with Sandstorm that has an upfront deposit of greater&#13;than US$30,000,000. In addition, MH-LLC has provided Sandstorm with a right of first refusal on any future royalty or gold stream&#13;financing for the Mt. Hamilton project. Pursuant to the Agreement, Solitario is jointly and severally liable for all obligations&#13;of MH-LLC to Sandstorm. See Note 7, &amp;#147;Mineral Properties,&amp;#148; below for further discussion of the Sandstorm royalty sale.&lt;/p&gt;</XPL:RecentDevelopmentsPolicyTextBlock>
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The short-term margin loan is discussed below under Note 3, &amp;#147;Short-term debt.&amp;#148;&#13;As of March x, 2013, Solitario owns 200,000 shares of Kinross common stock which have a value of approximately $1.8 million based&#13;upon the market price of $9.00 per Kinross share. Solitario&amp;#146;s investment in Kinross common stock represents a significant&#13;concentration of assets, with the inherent risk that entails. Any significant fluctuation in the market value of Kinross common&#13;shares could have a material impact on Solitario&amp;#146;s liquidity and capital resources.&lt;/p&gt;</XPL:InvestmentKinrossPolicyTextBlock>
    <XPL:FinancialReportingPoliciesTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Financial reporting&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Solitario and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, controlled non-wholly-owned&#13;subsidiaries and its equity investment in Pedra Branca Mineracao, Ltd &amp;#147;(PBM&amp;#148;), which owns the Pedra Branca project&#13;in Brazil. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The consolidated financial&#13;statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (&amp;#34;generally&#13;accepted accounting principles&amp;#34;), and are expressed in US dollars.&lt;/p&gt;</XPL:FinancialReportingPoliciesTextBlock>
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Changes in market value are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income within shareholders' equity, unless a decline&#13;in market value is considered other than temporary, in which case the decline is recognized as a loss in the consolidated statements&#13;of operations. 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Hamilton&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;$9,275&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;$8,821&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Exploration&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Cerro Azul (Peru)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;3&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; 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Hamilton&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Formation of MH-LLC joint venture of the&#13;Mt. Hamilton project&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On&#13;November 12, 2010 Solitario made an initial contribution of $300,000 for a 10% interest in, upon the formation of,&#13;MH-LLC which was formed in December 2010. Pursuant to the MH Agreement, the fair value of the DHI-US contribution was valued&#13;at $3,000,000 for its 90% interest and MH-LLC assumed $3,066,000 for the fair value of the Augusta Resources Corporation&#13;(&amp;#147;Augusta&amp;#148;) debt, discussed below in Note 4, &amp;#147;Long-term debt.&amp;#148;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Feasibility Study&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On February&#13;22, 2012, Solitario announced the completion of the Feasibility Study on its Mt. Hamilton project prepared by SRK. As a result&#13;of the completion of the Feasibility Study, Solitario earned an 80% interest in MH-LLC, and intends to develop the Mt. Hamilton&#13;project, subject to a number of factors including obtaining necessary permits and availability of required capital, none of which&#13;is currently in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;MH-Agreement&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;MH Agreement provides that if Solitario completes a bankable feasibility study and earns an 80% interest in MH-LLC, as&#13;of that date, Solitario will be obligated to make any unpaid payments of cash and stock to DHI-US, investments into Ely and&#13;any unpaid payments to the underlying royalty holder by the due dates prescribed in the MH Agreement, or will be subject&#13;to dilution of its interest in MH-LLC. If Solitario fails to make any of the remaining required payments due after December&#13;31, 2012, Solitario will be diluted from its current 80% ownership interest, to a 49% interest in MH-LLC and DHI-US will&#13;increase its ownership interest to 51%. Furthermore, the MH Agreement provides that all costs for development at Mt. Hamilton&#13;after completion of the Feasibility Study will be shared by Solitario and DHI-US pro-rata. Upon completion of the feasibility&#13;study, DHI-US notified Solitario that it had exercised its option of having Solitario contribute DHI-US&amp;#146; share of costs&#13;through commercial completion as a loan, with such loan, plus interest at 8%, being repaid to Solitario from 80% of&#13;DHI-US&amp;#146;s share of distributions from MH-LLC. During 2012, Solitario loaned DHI-US $127,000 for its share of costs&#13;subsequent to the completion of the Feasibility Study. However, subsequently, DHI-US repaid Solitario $131,000 for the&#13;remaining balance due on the loan from Solitario, including interest, and has no balance due to Solitario as of December 31,&#13;2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During&#13;2012, MH-LLC distributed $2.5million to its members in proportion to their interests. Solitario received $2 million from&#13;this distribution which was eliminated in consolidation. In addition Solitario received $500,000 from DHI-US to repay a portion of a prior&#13;loan to Solitario, and Solitario agreed to forgive $35,000 of accrued interest due from DHI-US, which represented the accrued&#13;interest on loans made to DHI-US in connection with the MH Agreement through June 30, 2012. Including accrued interest of&#13;$17,000 prior to the repayment of the DHI-US loan, Solitario recorded a net  decrease to interest income of $18,000 for the&#13;interest earned and forgiven during 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During&#13;2012, Solitario and DHI-US agreed to modify the terms of the MH Agreement whereby certain continuing payment obligations of&#13;Solitario pursuant to the MH Agreement totaling $5,000,000 to buy down the production royalty payable to Centennial Minerals&#13;Company LLC (&amp;#147;CMC&amp;#148;) will now be payable on or prior to the date of commencement of commercial production at the Mt.&#13;Hamilton project, Previously, the MH Agreement obligated Solitario to make the continuing payment obligations to CMC of&#13;$3,500,000 on or before November 13, 2013 and $1,500,000 on or before November 13, 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sandstorm royalty sale&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In&#13;June 2012, MH-LLC completed the sale of a 2.4% NSR on its Mt. Hamilton project to Sandstorm for $10 million. MH-LLC received&#13;an upfront payment of US$6 million upon signing the agreement and received US$4 million on January 15, 2013, which Solitario&#13;has recorded as a current asset as of December 31, 2012. In determining the initial fair value of the Sandstorm receivable,&#13;Solitario has classified the receivable from Sandstorm as a Level 3 asset, in as much as there were no observable independent&#13;inputs to determine the fair value. Solitario recorded a deferred gain as a long-term liability on the sale of the Sandstorm&#13;royalty of $7,000,000 during 2012. In determining the gain on sale of the Sandstorm royalty, Solitario determined the basis&#13;in the property sold primarily based upon the purchase of a 2% royalty on the same property in May of 2011 for consideration&#13;of $2,500,000. In addition Solitario reviewed the relative fair values of the royalty sold to the assets retained, and&#13;applied that percentage to its existing capitalized costs at Mt. Hamilton. Solitario considers the basis of $3,000,000 for&#13;the royalty sold reasonable based upon this analysis. The Sandstorm royalty agreement provides that in the event Sandstorm&#13;does not receive $10 million in royalty proceeds by December 31, 2022, MH-LLC will make up any shortfall. As a result of this&#13;guarantee, Solitario believes it is appropriate to defer the gain on sale, until such time as the potential funding&#13;obligation under the guarantee is reduced or eliminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;As part&#13;of the agreement, MH-LLC will have the option, for a period of 30 months from the date of the agreement to repurchase the NSR for US$12 million, provided that MH-LLC enters into a gold stream agreement with Sandstorm that has an upfront deposit&#13;of greater than US$30 million. In addition, MH-LLC has provided Sandstorm with a right of first refusal on any future royalty or&#13;gold stream financing for the Mt. Hamilton project. Pursuant to the agreement, Solitario is jointly and severally liable for all&#13;obligations of MH-LLC to Sandstorm.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Capitalized costs&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;began capitalizing its development costs incurred at its Mt. Hamilton project subsequent to the completion of the Feasibility Study.&#13;During 2012, Solitario capitalized $3,129,000 of development costs at the Mt. Hamilton project. In addition, during 2012, Solitario&#13;capitalized $325,000 of lease payments to mineral properties related to Mt. Hamilton. Also during 2012, Solitario capitalized $300,000&#13;of advance royalty payments to an underlying leaseholder as long-term other assets.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Exploration property&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario's&#13;exploration mineral properties at December 31, 2012 consist of use rights related to exploration stage properties, and the value&#13;of such assets is primarily driven by the nature and amount of economic mineral ore believed to be contained, or potentially contained,&#13;in such properties. The amounts capitalized as mineral properties include concession and lease or option acquisition costs. Capitalized&#13;costs related to a mineral property represent its fair value at the time it was acquired. At December 31, 2012, none of Solitario&amp;#146;s&#13;exploration properties have production (operating) or contain proven or probable reserves. Solitario's exploration mineral properties&#13;represent interests in properties that Solitario believes have exploration and development potential. Solitario's mineral use rights&#13;generally are enforceable regardless of whether proven and probable reserves have been established.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In&#13;addition to its capitalized exploration properties, Solitario has aninterest in its Bongar&amp;#225; and Pedra Branca exploration&#13;concessions, which are currently subject to joint venture agreements. Solitario records joint venture property payment&#13;revenue received in excess of capitalized costs. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, neither of these properties have any&#13;remaining capitalized costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;also sold its mineral interests in its Yanacocha and Mercurio exploration projects and retained a royalty interest in each. Solitario&#13;has no capitalized costs related to these royalty interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Discontinued projects &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During&#13;2012, Solitario recorded $31,000 of mineral property mineral property write-downs related to its Excelsior, Triunfo and Espanola&#13;projects. During 2011, Solitario recorded $10,000 of mineral property mineral property write-downs related to its Paria Cruz property.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Exploration Expense&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;following items comprised exploration expense:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 76%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 13%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 11%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Geologic and field expenses&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1,307&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1,922&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Administrative&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;378&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;324&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Mt. Hamilton exploration&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;u&gt;301&lt;/u&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;3,700&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Total exploration expense&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;1,986&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;5,946&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;/table&gt;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</XPL:MineralPropertiesTextBlock>
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The UBS Bank credit line carries an interest rate which floats, based upon a base rate of 2.25% plus the&#13;one-month London Interbank Offered Rate (&amp;#34;LIBOR&amp;#34;), which is 0.27% as of December 31, 2012. The average interest rate&#13;was approximately 2.49% and 2.48%, respectively, for 2012 and 2011. UBS Bank may change the base rate at any time. The UBS&#13;Bank credit line provides that Solitario may borrow up to $2 million and that Solitario maintain a minimum equity value&#13;percentage in its UBS brokerage account above 40%, based upon the value of its Kinross shares and any other assets held in&#13;Solitario's UBS brokerage account, less the value of its UBS Bank credit line and any other balances owed to UBS Bank. UBS&#13;Bank may modify the minimum equity value percentage of the loan at any time. In addition, if the equity value in Solitario's&#13;UBS brokerage account falls below the minimum equity value, UBS Bank may sell enough Kinross shares held in Solitario's UBS&#13;brokerage account or liquidate any other assets to restore the minimum equity value. At December 31, 2012, the equity value&#13;in Solitario's UBS brokerage account was 67%.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;also maintains a short-term margin account with RBC Capital Markets, LLC (&amp;#34;RBC&amp;#34;). At December 31, 2012, the credit&#13;line is secured by all of Solitario&amp;#146;s assets held in its RBC brokerage account, consisting primarily of 210,000 of&#13;Solitario&amp;#146;s Kinross shares. 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If the equity value in Solitario's account at&#13;RBC falls below the minimum, RBC may call the loan, or may sell enough Kinross shares held in Solitario's brokerage account&#13;or liquidate any other assets to restore the minimum equity value. 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    <XPL:ShortTermDebtTableTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"&gt;December 31,&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 74%; text-align: justify"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 13%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; text-align: center"&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 13%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; text-align: center"&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;UBS short-term credit line&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 6pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 8.25pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Beginning balance&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 6pt; text-align: right"&gt;$ 2,000&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 8.25pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1,918&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Borrowing&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 6pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,200&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 8.25pt; text-align: right"&gt;82&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Repayments&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 6pt; text-align: right"&gt;(&lt;u&gt;1,700&lt;/u&gt;)&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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    <us-gaap:LongTermDebtTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;4. &lt;u&gt;Long-term debt:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Augusta long-term debt&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In connection&#13;with the formation of MH-LLC, the Mt. Hamilton properties contributed by DHI-US to MH-LLC were subject to a security interest granted&#13;to Augusta related to Ely&amp;#146;s acquisition of the Mt. Hamilton properties. Pursuant to the MH Agreement, as part of its earn-in,&#13;Solitario agreed to make private placement investments totaling $2,500,000 in Ely common stock, all to provide Ely with the funds&#13;necessary for DHI-US to make the loan payments due to Augusta as discussed below in Note 10, &amp;#147;Ely Gold investment and the&#13;Mt. Hamilton joint venture.&amp;#148; The payments due to Augusta are non-interest bearing. Accordingly, upon formation and the contribution&#13;of the mineral properties by DHI-US to MH-LLC, MH-LLC recorded discounted fair value of the payments due to Augusta, discounted&#13;at 7.5%, which was Solitario&amp;#146;s estimated cost of similar credit as of the formation of MH-LLC.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;The following is the schedule of debt payments due to Augusta as&#13;of December 31, 2012 and 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center"&gt;December 31,&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13; 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   &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;June 1, 2013&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;750,000&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;750,000&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;June 1, 2014&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;750,000&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;750,000&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;June 1, 2015&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,000,000&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; 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Solitario has recorded deferred offering costs of $518,000 as of December 31, 2012 in other long-term&#13;assets. The proceeds from the initial funding were used to pay the balance due on the facility arrangement fee of $175,000, to&#13;pay certain legal expenses related to the Facility Agreement, and to reduce outstanding short-term margin loans.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-indent: 0.5in"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;Facility Agreement was subject to a $250,000 arrangement fee, of which $75,000 had been paid prior to initial funding. The&#13;RMB Loan matures on the earlier to occur of (i) 36 months from the date of initial funding or (ii) the date on which&#13;financing is made available to MH-LLC for purposes of placing the Mt. 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Each RMB Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one  share of Solitario&#13;common stock pursuant to the terms and conditions of the RMB Warrants. The RMB Warrants expire 36 months from their date of&#13;issuance and have an exercise price of $1.5387 per Warrant Share, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments. Solitario&#13;recorded a discount to the RMB Loan for the fair value of the RMB Warrants of $650,000 as of August 21, 2012, based upon a&#13;Black-Scholes model using a 36-month life, volatility of 62%, and a risk-free interest rate of 0.39%. Solitario is amortizing&#13;this discount on a straight-line basis to interest expense over the three-year term of the RMB Loan and as of December 31,&#13;2012 the remaining unamortized warrant discount was $573,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:LongTermDebtTextBlock>
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    <us-gaap:IncomeTaxDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;5. &lt;u&gt;Income taxes&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario's&#13;income tax expense (benefit) consists of the following as allocated between foreign and United States components:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 77%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 11%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;2012&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 12%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;2011&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Current:&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;United States&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Foreign&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;18&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;14&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Deferred:&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;United States&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$(853)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$407&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Foreign&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Operating loss and credit carryovers:&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;United States&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;187&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;(1,056)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Foreign&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Income tax expense (benefit)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$(&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;648&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;u&gt;)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$(&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;635&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;u&gt;)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;/table&gt;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Consolidated&#13;income (loss) before income taxes includes losses from foreign operations of $1,944,000 and $2,657,000 in 2012 and 2011, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;See&#13;Note 1, &amp;#147;Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies&amp;#148; for a detail of the deferred taxes associated with&#13;the sale of marketable equity securities and the deferred taxes associated with unrealized gains and losses associated with other&#13;comprehensive income related to marketable equity securities.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;net deferred tax assets/liabilities in the December 31, 2012 and 2011 consolidated balance sheets include the following components:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 77%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 11%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 12%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Deferred tax assets:&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13; 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   &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;648&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Royalty&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,492&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,492&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Earnings in Unconsolidated Subsidiary&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;496&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;314&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Severance&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;30&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;30&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Unrealized loss on derivative securities&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;79&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Other&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;106&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;67&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13; 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padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Unrealized gain on derivative securities&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;107&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;MH-LLC investment&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,932&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,083&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13; 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text-align: right"&gt;4&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Total deferred tax liabilities&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;5,109&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;5,536&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Net deferred tax liabilities&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;963&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 77%; padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 11%; padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;2012&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 12%; padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;2011&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt"&gt;Expected income tax expense (benefit)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-align: right"&gt;$(1,444)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-align: right"&gt;$(2,585)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt"&gt;Non-deductible foreign expenses&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-align: right"&gt;1&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-align: right"&gt;1&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt"&gt;Non-deductible foreign stock compensation expense&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-align: right"&gt;20&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt; text-align: right"&gt;16&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.75pt; padding-left: 5.75pt"&gt;Foreign tax rate differences&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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Solitario has foreign loss carryforwards for which Solitario has&#13;provided a full valuation allowance and which expire over various periods from five years to no expiration depending on the foreign&#13;jurisdiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;adopted the provisions ASC 740, which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement&#13;recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. ASC 740 requires that Solitario recognize&#13;in its consolidated financial statements, only those tax positions that are &amp;#147;more-likely-than-not&amp;#148; of being sustained&#13;as of the adoption date, based on the technical merits of the position. As a result of the implementation of ASC 740, Solitario&#13;performed a comprehensive review of its material tax positions in accordance with recognition and measurement standards established&#13;by ASC 740. The provisions of ASC 740 had no effect on Solitario&amp;#146;s financial position, cash flows or results of operations&#13;at December 31, 2012 or December 31, 2011, or for the years then ended as Solitario had no unrecognized tax benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;and its subsidiaries are subject to the following material taxing jurisdictions: United States Federal, States of&#13;Colorado, and Nevada, Mexico, Peru and Brazil. The tax years that remain open to examination by the United States Internal&#13;Revenue Service are years 2009 through 2012. The tax years that remain open to examination by the State of Colorado are years&#13;2008 through 2012. The tax years that remain open to examination by Mexico are years 2009 through 2012. All tax years remain&#13;open to examination in Peru and Brazil. Solitario&amp;#146;s policy is to recognize interest and penalties related to uncertain&#13;tax benefits in income tax expense. Solitario has no accrued interest or penalties related to uncertain tax positions as of&#13;December 31, 2011, or December 31, 2012 or for the years then ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:IncomeTaxDisclosureTextBlock>
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    <XPL:IncomeTaxNetDeferredTaxAssetsAndLiabilitiesTableTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 77%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 11%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 12%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Deferred tax assets:&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Loss carryovers&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$10,118&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$9,887&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Deferred Gain&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1,253&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center"&gt;-&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Stock option compensation expense&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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Solitario recorded a loss on the RMB Warrants&#13;of $488,000 during 2012, based upon a Black-Scholes model using a 35 month-life, a volatility of 62% a stock price of $1.68&#13;per share and a risk free interest rate of 0.35%&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Covered call options&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/b&gt;Beginning&#13;in December 2008, Solitario sold covered calls covering its shares of Kinross common stock. In September 2012, Solitario sold options&#13;covering 100,000 shares for proceeds of $68,000. 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Solitario does not use its covered call derivative&#13;instruments as trading instruments; any cash received or paid related to its derivative instruments is shown as investing activities&#13;in the consolidated statement of cash flows.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ely warrants&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During&#13;2010, in connection with the acquisition of Mt. Hamilton and the formation of MH-LLC, Solitario made a series of equity investments&#13;in Ely. Solitario acquired 3,333,333 shares of Ely and warrants to purchase 1,666,666 shares of Ely stock for Cdn$0.25 per share,&#13;with warrants for 833,333 shares that expired on August 30, 2012 and warrants for 833,333 that expired on October 19, 2012. Solitario&#13;has recorded gains and losses on the Ely warrants in its gain (loss) on derivative instruments in the statement of operations as&#13;detailed below. Solitario has no remaining value for its investment in the Ely warrants in the consolidated balance sheet at December&#13;31, 2012. Solitario&amp;#146;s fair value for its investment in the Ely warrants at December 31, 2011, based upon a Black-Scholes&#13;option pricing model, was recorded as a current asset as detailed below.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kinross Collar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On&#13;October 12, 2007, Solitario entered into a Zero-Premium Equity Collar (the &amp;#34;Kinross Collar&amp;#34;) pursuant to a Master Agreement&#13;for Equity Collars and a Pledge and Security Agreement with UBS AG, London, England, an Affiliate of UBS Securities LLC (collectively&#13;&amp;#34;UBS&amp;#34;). Under the terms of the Kinross Collar, Solitario pledged 900,000 shares of Kinross common shares to be sold (or&#13;delivered back to Solitario with any differences settled in cash). On April 12, 2011, the remaining 100,000 shares under the Kinross&#13;Collar were released upon the expiration of the tranche of the Kinross Collar on that date. No shares were delivered to UBS under&#13;the Kinross Collar and no cash was paid or received upon termination of the final tranche of the Kinross Collar. Solitario had&#13;not designated the Kinross Collar as a hedging instrument as described in ASC 815, &amp;#147;Derivatives and Hedging,&amp;#148; and any&#13;changes in the fair market value of the Kinross Collar are recognized in the statement of operations in the period of the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;International Lithium Corp.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;In May&#13;2011 TNR Gold Corp. (&amp;#147;TNR&amp;#148;) completed a spin-out of a new entity, International Lithium Corp. (&amp;#147;ILC&amp;#148;).&#13;Solitario owned 1,000,000 shares of TNR at the time of the spin-out and received 250,000 shares of ILC and warrants to acquire&#13;250,000 shares of ILC (the &amp;#147;ILC Warrants&amp;#148;) at a price of Cdn$0.375 per share for a period of two years. Solitario has&#13;written-down its investment in the ILC Warrants and has no value recorded for the ILC warrants as of December 31, 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;following table provides the location and amount of the fair values of Solitario's derivative instruments presented in the consolidated&#13;balance sheet as of December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 0.25in; text-decoration: underline"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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text-align: right"&gt;$ - &amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Ely Investment warrants&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Current other assets&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;74&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;ILC warrants&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Current other assets&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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margin: 0 0 0 0.5in"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;following is a listing of Solitario&amp;#146;s financial assets and liabilities required to be measured at fair value on a recurring&#13;basis and where they are classified within the hierarchy as of December 31, 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 48%; text-align: justify"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="width: 13%; padding-right: 6pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;Level 1&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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Solitario's marketable equity securities,&#13;including its investment in Kinross common stock, TNR Gold and Ely equity investments are carried at their estimated fair value&#13;primarily based on publicly available quoted market prices. &lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; Solitario applies ASC 820, &amp;#34;Fair Value Measurements.&amp;#34; ASC 820 establishes a framework for measuring&#13;fair value and requires enhanced disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC 820 clarifies that fair value is an exit price,&#13;representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between&#13;market participants. 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    <XPL:ElyGoldInvestmentMtHamiltonJointVentureTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;10. &lt;u&gt;Ely Gold investment and the Mt. Hamilton joint venture:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On&#13;August 26, 2010, Solitario signed a letter of intent (the &amp;#147;LOI&amp;#148;) with Ely to make certain equity investments into&#13;Ely and to joint venture Ely&amp;#146;s Mt. Hamilton gold project through the formation of MH-LLC. The formation of MH-LLC and&#13;certain property investments are described above in Note 2 &amp;#147;Mineral property.&amp;#148; The terms of the joint venture are&#13;set forth in the MH Agreement (&amp;#147;MH-LLC&amp;#148;) between us and DHI-US .&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Initial investment in Ely&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;During&#13;2010, in connection with the acquisition of Mt. Hamilton and the formation of MH-LLC, Solitario paid $500,000 in cash for a series&#13;of equity investments in Ely. Solitario acquired 3,333,333 shares of Ely (the &amp;#147;Ely Shares&amp;#148;) and warrants to purchase&#13;1,666,666 shares of Ely stock for Cdn$0.25 per share, with warrants for 833,333 shares that expired on August 30, 2012 and warrants&#13;for 833,333 that expired on October 19, 2012. Solitario allocated its investment in Ely based upon the fair values of the assets&#13;purchased using quoted market prices for the Ely Shares and a Black-Scholes option pricing model for the Ely warrants. As of December&#13;31, 2012, and 2011 the Ely Shares are recorded at their fair value based upon quoted prices of $532,000 and $588,000, respectively,&#13;with  an unrealized gain included in other comprehensive income of $174,000 and $231,000, respectively, net of deferred taxes&#13;of $65,000 and $86,000, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left; text-indent: 27pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Additional tranches of Ely common stock for payment of MH-LLC&#13;long-term debt&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: left"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The&#13;LOI, as amended, provides that Solitario subscribe for three additional tranches of shares of Ely: (i) $750,000 in shares&#13;of Ely common stock on May 1, 2013 at a price equal to the greater of (a) the 20-day weighted moving average price on the&#13;TSXV (the &amp;#147;WMAP&amp;#148;) immediately preceding  May 1, 2013 and (b) the price of Ely&amp;#146;s shares on the TSXV on the day&#13;before May 1, 2013 (the &amp;#147;Third Tranche&amp;#148;), the entire amount of which Ely is required to utilize to make the&#13;$750,000 payment due to Augusta for the long-term debt in Note 4 above; (ii) $750,000 in shares of Ely common stock on&#13;or before May 1, 2014 at a price equal to the greater of (a) the WMAP immediately preceding the date that Solitario&#13;subscribes for such shares and (b) the price of Ely&amp;#146;s shares on the TSXV on the trading day immediately preceding the&#13;date that Solitario subscribes for such shares (the &amp;#147;Fourth Tranche&amp;#148;), the entire amount of which Ely is required&#13;to utilize to make the $750,000 payment due to Augusta for the long-term debt in Note 4 above; and (iii) $1,000,000 in shares&#13;of Ely common stock on or before May 1, 2015 at a price equal to the greater of (a) the WMAP immediately preceding the date&#13;that Solitario subscribes for such shares and (b) the price of Ely&amp;#146;s shares on the TSXV on the trading day immediately&#13;preceding the date that  Solitario subscribes for such shares (the &amp;#147;Fifth Tranche&amp;#148;), the entire amount of&#13;which Ely is required to utilize to make the $1,000,000 payment due to Augusta for the long-term debt in Note 4&#13;above. Although the MH Agreement provides that Solitario would have no obligation to subscribe for any of the shares if&#13;Solitario chooses to cease earning an additional interest in MH-LLC, discussed below, prior to the subscription for the&#13;shares, as a result of the completion of the Feasibility Study, Solitario intends to develop the Mt. Hamilton project and&#13;would be subject to dilution to a 49% interest in MH-LLC if it does not complete all of the payments to DHI-US and the&#13;subscription of Ely required in the LOI.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</XPL:ElyGoldInvestmentMtHamiltonJointVentureTextBlock>
    <us-gaap:RelatedPartyTransactionsDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;11. &lt;u&gt;Related party transactions:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&lt;font style="font-weight: normal"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;On&#13;June 26, 2012, &lt;/font&gt;Christopher Herald, President and Chief Executive Officer of Solitario, and James Maronick, Chief Financial&#13;Officer of Solitario, agreed to purchase shares of the Company&amp;#146;s common stock at a price of $1.22 per share, with Mr. Herald&#13;agreeing to purchase 180,000 shares and Mr. Maronick agreeing to purchase 45,000 shares. The purchase of the shares was unanimously&#13;approved by Solitario&amp;#146;s Board of Directors and was also unanimously approved by Solitario&amp;#146;s Audit Committee of the&#13;Board of Directors. The price of the shares was the last closing price of Solitario&amp;#146;s common shares as quoted on the NYSE&#13;MKT (formerly NYSE Amex) on June 25, 2012. Solitario received total proceeds of $275,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:RelatedPartyTransactionsDisclosureTextBlock>
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    <XPL:MaronickSharePurchase contextRef="AsOf2012-06-26" unitRef="Shares" decimals="INF">45000</XPL:MaronickSharePurchase>
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    <us-gaap:SegmentReportingDisclosureTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0.55in 0 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in"&gt;12. &lt;u&gt;Segment reporting&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;With the completion&#13;of the Feasibility Study on February 22, 2012, Solitario now operates in two segments, (i) mineral exploration and (ii) mining&#13;development and operations. Solitario is capitalizing Mt. Hamilton development and operations costs subsequent to February 22,&#13;2012, as detailed above in Note 2, &amp;#147;Mineral properties.&amp;#148; The following summarizes Solitario segment information for&#13;the year ended December 31, 2012:&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 0 35.25pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: top"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: -1.8pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;(in thousands)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td colspan="4" style="padding-right: -1.8pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;Year ended December 31, 2012&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 50%; padding-right: 0.55in; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 13%; padding-right: -5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;Mt Hamilton&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 12%; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;Exploration&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 13%; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Corporate and&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;u&gt;Other&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 12%; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center"&gt;Consolidated&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Exploration expense&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$ 301&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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text-align: right"&gt;234&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;418&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Other &lt;font style="font-size: 8pt"&gt;(1)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;58&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;798&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;986&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: -0.9pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-decoration: underline; text-align: right"&gt;1,842&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13; 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Under the terms&#13;of the 2006 Plan, the Board of Directors may grant up to 2,800,000 options to Directors, officers and employees with exercise prices&#13;equal to the market price of Solitario's common stock at the date of grant.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-indent: 0.5in"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Solitario&#13;accounts for its stock options under the provisions of ASC 718 &amp;#147;Compensation &amp;#150; Stock Compensation.&amp;#148; Pursuant&#13;to ASC 718, as of January 1, 2011, Solitario classifies its stock options as equity options in accordance with ASU 2010-13. 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padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Granted&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;165,000&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1.49&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Exercised&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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   &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Forfeited&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Outstanding, end of year&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2,598,400&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$2.22&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;$1,650&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2,433,400&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;1,271,150&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$2.24&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;$-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;/table&gt;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 8pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="font: 8pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"&gt;(1)The intrinsic value at December 31, 2012 and 2011 based upon&#13;the quoted market price of Cdn $1.50 and Cdn $1.36, respectively, per share for our common stock on the TSX and an exchange&#13;ratio of 1.0312 and 0.9804, respectively, Canadian dollars per United States dollar.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;&#13;&#13;&#13;&lt;p style="margin: 0pt"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</us-gaap:ScheduleOfEmployeeStockOwnershipPlanESOPDisclosuresTextBlock>
    <XPL:GrantDateFairValueTableTextBlock contextRef="From2012-01-01to2012-12-31">&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse"&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; width: 61%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Grant Date&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 13%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center"&gt;12/16/12&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 13%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center"&gt;5/5/10&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; width: 13%; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: center"&gt;5/19/09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; border-top: black 1pt solid; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Option &amp;#150; grant date price (Cdn$)&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border-top: black 1pt solid; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1.49&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border-top: black 1pt solid; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$2.40&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; border-top: black 1pt solid; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1.55&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Options outstanding &lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;165,000&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;2,065,000&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;519,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Expected life yrs.&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;5.0&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;5.0&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;5.0&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Expected volatility &lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;68%&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;56%&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;56%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Risk free interest rate&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;0.7%&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;2.2%&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;1.9%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Weighted average fair value &lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$0.84&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$1.19&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$0.65&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: justify"&gt;Grant date fair value&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$139,000&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$2,449,000&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$339,000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;/table&gt;</XPL:GrantDateFairValueTableTextBlock>
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padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;-&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#13;&lt;tr style="vertical-align: bottom"&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt"&gt;Outstanding, end of year&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2,598,400&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;$2.22&lt;/td&gt;&#13;    &lt;td style="padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-left: 5.4pt; text-align: right"&gt;&lt;font style="text-underline-style: double"&gt;&lt;u&gt;$1,650&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#13; 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