Derivative Liabilities - Fair value assumptions, derivative warrant liability (Details) - $ / shares		3 Months Ended
Aug. 02, 2015	Oct. 31, 2016	Jul. 31, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements
Current exercise price		$ 0.015	$ 0.015
Time to expiration	2 years 1 month	2 years 1 month
Risk-free interest rate	0.76%	1.00%
Estimated volatility	101.00%	100.00%
Dividend
Stock price at period end date		$ 0.008	$ 0.01

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Agreed upon price for the exchange of the underlying asset.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
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-Section 50
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Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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