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Income Taxes (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Income Taxes - Benefit Allocation |
(in thousands) | 2013 | 2012
Current: |  |
United States | $ 5 | $ -
Foreign | 12 | 18
Deferred: |  |
United States | (614) | (853)
Foreign | - | -
Operating loss and credit carryovers: |  |
United States | 421 | 187
Foreign | - | -
Income tax benefit | $(176) | $(648)
Income Taxes - Net Deferred Taxes in Balance Sheet |
(in thousands) | 2013 | 2012
Deferred tax assets: |  |
Loss carryovers | $9,852 | $10,118
Deferred Gain | 2,335 | 1,253
Stock option compensation expense | 932 | 900
Royalty | 1,363 | 1,492
Earnings in Unconsolidated Subsidiary | 798 | 496
Severance | 23 | 30
Unrealized loss on derivative securities | - | 79
Other | 107 | 106
Valuation allowance | (12,545) | (11,441)
Total deferred tax assets | 2,865 | 3,033
Deferred tax liabilities: |  |
Unrealized gain on derivative securities | 160 | -
MH-LLC investment | 1,168 | 819
Exploration costs | 845 | 845
Unrealized gains on marketable equity securities | 688 | 2,328
Other | 4 | 4
Total deferred tax liabilities | 2,865 | 3,996
Net deferred tax liabilities | $ - | $963
Income Taxes - Reconciliation of Income Tax Benefit |
(in thousands) | 2013 | 2012
Expected income tax benefit | $(741) | $(1,444)
Non-deductible foreign expenses | - | 1
Non-deductible foreign stock compensation expense | 18 | 20
Foreign tax rate differences | 31 | 72
State income tax | 303 | (82)
Change in valuation allowance | 233 | 629
MH-LLC Investment | (16) | 102
Permanent differences and other | (4) | 54
Income tax benefit | $(176) | $(648)

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