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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Tax Expense

(in thousands)	2015	2014
Current:
Federal	$    -	$   -
State	-	-
Foreign	-	-
Deferred:
Federal	662	-
State	(102)	-
Foreign	-	-
Income tax expense	$ 560	$ -

Income Tax Expense in Financial Statements

(in thousands)	2015	2014
Continuing Operations	$  560	$   -
Discontinued Operations	998	-
Other Comprehensive Income	(1,558)	-
Total Income tax expense	$     -	$   -

Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities

(in thousands)	2015	2014
Deferred tax assets:
Loss carryovers	$6,982	$11,168
Deferred gain	-	2,376
Stock option compensation expense	7	350
Royalty	1,482	1,387
Unrealized loss on derivative securities	38	-
Earnings in Unconsolidated Subsidiary	-	865
Other	105	105
Valuation allowance	(8,571)	(12,431)
Total deferred tax assets	43	3,820
Deferred tax liabilities:
Unrealized gain on derivative securities	-	238
MH-LLC investment	-	2,305
Exploration costs	-	845
Unrealized gains on marketable equity securities	41	152
Capitalized interest	-	277
Other	2	3
Total deferred tax liabilities	43	3,820
Net deferred tax liabilities	$    -	$       -

Reconciliation of Income Taxes

(in thousands)	2015	2014
Expected income tax benefit	$(976)	$(627)
Reversal of disproportionate Tax Effect in other comprehensive income	1,558	-
Equity based compensation	575	850
Foreign tax rate differences	3	(101)
State income tax	(606)	(146)
True-up of deferred taxes	267	-
Tax attributes of disposed subsidiary	3,941	-
Previously unrecognized basis in disposed subsidiary	(4,170)	-
Change in valuation allowance	(40)	(5)
MH-LLC investment	1	3
Permanent differences and other	7	26
Income tax expense	$    560	$     -

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-Section 50
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Tabular disclosure of the reconciliation using percentage or dollar amounts of the reported amount of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for the year to the amount of income tax expense that would result from applying domestic federal statutory tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations.

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