- Definition

The capitalized costs incurred during the period (excluded from amortization) in identifying areas that may warrant examination and in examining specific areas that are considered to have prospects of containing oil and gas reserves, including costs of drilling exploratory wells and exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells. Exploration costs may be incurred both before acquiring the related property (sometimes referred to in part as prospecting costs) and after acquiring the property. Principal types of exploration costs, which include depreciation and applicable operating costs of support equipment and facilities and other costs of exploration activities, are: costs of topographical, geographical and geophysical studies, rights of access to properties to conduct those studies, and salaries and other expenses of geologists, geophysical crews, and others conducting those studies. Collectively, these are sometimes referred to as geological and geophysical or "G&G" costs. Exploration costs also include costs of carrying and retaining undeveloped properties, such as delay rentals, ad valorem taxes on properties, legal costs for title defense, the maintenance of land and lease records, dry hole contributions and bottom hole contributions, costs of drilling and equipping exploratory wells and costs of drilling exploratory-type stratigraphic test wells.

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Mineral Interests and Maintenance Fees (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2014	Oct. 31, 2013	Oct. 31, 2014	Oct. 31, 2013	Sep. 02, 2014 acre
Mineral Interests and Maintenance Fees (Details) [Line Items]
Land Subject to Ground Leases (in Acres)					10,000us-gaap_LandSubjectToGroundLeases
Impairment of Intangible Assets, Finite-lived	$ 1,400,000		$ 1,400,000
Exploration Costs, Period Cost	11,461us-gaap_ExplorationCosts	34,470us-gaap_ExplorationCosts	80,607us-gaap_ExplorationCosts	137,383us-gaap_ExplorationCosts
Maintenance Fees [Member]
Mineral Interests and Maintenance Fees (Details) [Line Items]
Prepaid Expense, Current	$ 0		$ 0