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Income Taxes (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Components of net deferred tax assets (liabilities)

		2013		2012		2011
Deferred tax assets:
	Percentage depletion carryforwards	$1,336,630		$1,336,630		$1,180,896
	Deferred stock-based compensation	24,003		13,844		2,872
	Asset retirement obligation	252,158		205,616		179,462
	Net operating loss	503,659		171,411		125,848
	Other	3,237		3,695		6,200
		2,119,687		1,731,196		1,495,278
Deferred tax liabilities:
	Excess financial accounting bases over tax bases of property and equipment	(2,972,886)		(2,615,899)		(2,407,941)
	Net deferred tax liabilities	$ (853,199)		$ (884,703)		$ (912,663)

Reconciliation of the provision for income taxes to income taxes computed

		2013		2012		2011
Tax expense at federal statutory rate (1)		$   (70,678)		$   102,691		$     47,634
Statutory depletion carryforward		--		(155,734)		(86,221)
Effect of graduated rates		3,391		(16,940)		(3,074)
Revision of prior year estimates		--		4,314		44,503
Permanent differences		35,783		30,210		(17,309)
Other		--		7,499		(1,129)
	Total income tax benefit	$ (31,504)		$   (27,960)		$   (15,596)
	Effective income tax rate	(15%)		(9%)		(11%)

Reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of unrecognized tax benefits

	2013		2012		2011
Unrecognized tax benefits at beginning of period	$   677,000		$   670,000		$   524,000
Additions based on tax positions related to the current year	-		-		146,000
Changes to tax positions of prior years	-		7,000		-
Settlements	-		-		-
Expirations	-		-		-
Unrecognized tax benefits at end of period	$   677,000		$   677,000		$   670,000

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Tabular disclosure of the components of net deferred tax asset or liability recognized in an entity's statement of financial position, including the following: the total of all deferred tax liabilities, the total of all deferred tax assets, the total valuation allowance recognized for deferred tax assets.

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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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