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Note 2 - Summary of Significant Policies
3 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Business Description and Basis of Presentation [Text Block]
NOTE
2:
SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT POLICIES
 
Basis of Presentation
 
The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States (“U.S.”) generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and are presented in U.S. dollars. Accordingly, they do
not
include all of the information and footnotes required under U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form
10
-K for the year ended
July 31, 2020 (
“Fiscal
2020”
). In the opinion of management, all adjustments of a normal recurring nature and considered necessary for a fair presentation have been made. Operating results for the
three
months ended
October 31, 2020
are
not
necessarily indicative of the results that
may
be expected for the fiscal year ending
July 31, 2021 (
“Fiscal
2021”
).
 
Exploration Stage
 
We have established the existence of mineralized materials for certain uranium projects, including for our Palangana Mine.  We have
not
established proven or probable reserves, as defined by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under Industry Guide
7
(“Industry Guide
7”
), through the completion of a “final” or “bankable” feasibility study for any of our uranium projects, including the Palangana Mine.  Furthermore, we have
no
plans to establish proven or probable reserves for any of our uranium projects for which we plan on utilizing in-situ recovery (“ISR”) mining, such as the Palangana Mine.  As a result, and despite the fact that we commenced extraction of mineralized materials at the Palangana Mine in
November 2010,
we remain in the Exploration Stage, as defined under Industry Guide
7,
and will continue to remain in the Exploration Stage until such time that proven or probable reserves have been established.
 
Since we commenced the extraction of mineralized materials at the Palangana Mine without having established proven or probable reserves, any mineralized materials established or extracted from the Palangana Mine should
not
in any way be associated with having established or produced from proven or probable reserves.
 
In accordance with U.S. GAAP, expenditures relating to the acquisition of mineral rights are initially capitalized as incurred while exploration and pre-extraction expenditures are expensed as incurred until such time we exit the Exploration Stage by establishing proven or probable reserves.  Expenditures relating to exploration activities such as drilling programs to establish mineralized materials are expensed as incurred. Expenditures relating to pre-extraction activities such as the construction of mine wellfields, ion exchange facilities and disposal wells are expensed as incurred until such time proven or probable reserves are established for that project, after which expenditures relating to mine development activities for that particular project are capitalized as incurred.
 

 
Companies in the Production Stage, as defined under Industry Guide
7,
having established proven and probable reserves and exited the Exploration Stage, typically capitalize expenditures relating to ongoing development activities, with corresponding depletion calculated over proven and probable reserves using the units-of-production method and allocated to future reporting periods to inventory and, as that inventory is sold, to cost of goods sold. We are in the Exploration Stage which has resulted in us reporting larger losses than if we had been in the Production Stage due to the expensing, rather than capitalizing, of expenditures relating to ongoing mill and mine development activities. Additionally, there would be
no
corresponding amortization allocated to future reporting periods of our Company since those costs would have been expensed previously, resulting in both lower inventory costs and cost of goods sold and results of operations with higher gross profits and lower losses than if we had been in the Production Stage. Any capitalized costs, such as expenditures relating to the acquisition of mineral rights, are depleted over the estimated extraction life using the straight-line method. As a result, our consolidated financial statements
may
not
be directly comparable to the financial statements of companies in the Production Stage.