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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
3 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2013
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

14.  Subsequent Events 

The Companies have evaluated and disclosed subsequent events from January 31, 2013 through the issuance date of this Form 10-Q.

On February 21, 2013, Blue Ridge and Hanson Aggregated BMC, Inc., Assignee of The Conservation Fund pursuant to an Assignment of Agreement of Sale dated February 1, 2013, (the Purchaser) entered into a Fourth Amendment (the Fourth Amendment) to the Agreement of Sale between Blue Ridge and the Purchaser dated February 17, 2011 (the Initial Phase 3 Agreement), as amended by the First Amendment dated August 15, 2011 (the First Amendment), as amended by the Second Amendment dated February 20, 2012 (the Second Amendment, and as amended by the Third Amendment dated September 6, 2012 (the Third Amendment), and the Initial Phase 3 Agreement as amended by the First, Second and Third Amendments (the Phase 3 Agreement) for raw land owned by Blue Ridge.  As previously disclosed, under the Phase 3 Agreement, Blue Ridge agreed to sell the Purchaser land located in Thornhurst Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, consisting of approximately 376 acres (the Property), for a purchase price of $1,600,000, $5,000 of which was paid by the Purchaser as a deposit (the Deposit) within five business days of the effective date of the Phase 3 Agreement, and the remainder of which is payable to Blue Ridge at the closing of the sale of the Property (the Closing).  

Prior to the Fourth Amendment, the Phase 3 Agreement provided, among other things, that (i) the Seller reserved the oil and gas rights on the Property for a period commencing on the date of Closing and terminating on December 31, 2031; and (ii) that the terms of a surface use agreement for gas and oil rights on the Property (the Surface Use Agreement) would be negotiated during the inspection period (as extended by the terms of the Third Amendment).  The Fourth Amendment provides that (i) the term and duration of the oil and gas reservation reserved by Seller in Section 1 of the Phase 3 Agreement is extended and shall expire on December 31, 2035; (ii) the parties have completed review of the Surface Use Agreement referenced in Section 1 of the Phase 3 Agreement and attached to the Phase 3 Agreement as Exhibit C (the Surface Use Agreement Exhibit); and (iii) the parties agree that the Surface Use Agreement Exhibit shall be the final form of Surface Use Agreement and shall be incorporated by reference and attached to the deed at Closing.  All other terms and conditions of the Phase 3 Agreement in effect prior to the Fourth Amendment remain in effect.