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Income Taxes (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract] |
Income Tax From Continuing Operations |
(in thousands) | 2017 | 2016
Current: |  |
Federal | $ - | $ -
State | - | -
Foreign | - | -
Deferred: |  |
Federal | - | (309)
State | - | (44)
Foreign | - | -
Income tax (benefit) expense | $ - | $ (353)
Income Tax Expense in Financial Statements |
(in thousands) | 2017 | 2016
Income tax (benefit), Operations | $ - | $ (353)
Income tax expense, Other Comprehensive Income | $ - | 353
Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities |
(in thousands) | 2017 | 2016
Deferred tax assets: |  |
Loss carryovers | $12,187 | $8,168
Investment in Mineral Property | 3,138 | -
Capitalized Exploration Costs | 1,197 | -
Stock option compensation expense | 13 | -
Royalty | 989 | 1,482
Unrealized loss on derivative securities | 28 | -
Other | 135 | 105
Valuation allowance | (17,436) | (9,118)
Total deferred tax assets | 251 | 637
Deferred tax liabilities: |  |
Unrealized gain on derivative securities | - | 196
Unrealized gains on marketable equity securities | 230 | 395
Other | 22 | 46
Total deferred tax liabilities | 251 | 637
Net deferred tax liabilities | $ - | $ -
Reconciliation of Income Taxes |
(in thousands) | 2017 | 2016
Expected income tax benefit | $(355) | $(701)
Reversal of disproportionate tax effect in other comprehensive income | - | -
Equity based compensation | - | 366
Foreign tax rate differences | 17 | 6
State income tax | (27) | (237)
Impact of Tax Legislation | 4,494 | -
Tax attributes of disposed subsidiary | - | 1,652
Previously unrecognized basis in disposed subsidiary | - | (1,884)
Change in valuation allowance | (4,120) | 547
MH-LLC investment | - | -
Permanent differences and other | (9) | (102)
Income tax (benefit) expense | $ - | $ (353)

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- Definition 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. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 9 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84230637&loc=d3e32639-109319 + Details
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