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Asset Retirement Obligations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Asset Retirement Obligation Disclosure [Abstract]

Asset Retirement Obligations

9. ASSET RETIREMENT OBLIGATIONS

The following is a reconciliation of the changes in the Company’s liabilities for asset retirement obligations for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016:

		2017								2016
		Oil and Gas				Mining				Oil and Gas				Mining
Balance, beginning of year		$	1,045			$	-			$	1,038			$	204
Accretion			32				-				33				-
Sold/Plugged			(167	)			-				(26	)			(204	)
New drilled wells			3				-				-				-
Liabilities incurred			-				-				-				-
Balance, end of year		$	913			$	-			$	1,045			$	-

As discussed further in Note 6, asset retirement obligations related to the Company’s mining segment are presented as discontinued operations in the accompanying balance sheets.

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The entire disclosure for an asset retirement obligation and the associated long-lived asset. An asset retirement obligation is a legal obligation associated with the disposal or retirement from service of a tangible long-lived asset that results from the acquisition, construction or development, or the normal operations of a long-lived asset, except for certain obligations of lessees.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 410
-SubTopic 20
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/subtopic&trid=2175671

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