Lode-Star Mining Inc. - Quarter Report: 2023 September (Form 10-Q)

FORM 10-Q

Commission file number 000-53676

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1 East Liberty Street, Suite 600

Reno, NV 89501

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code.)

(775) 234-5443

(Telephone number, including area code)

Check whether the issuer (1) filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the past 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the last 90 days. YES þ NO o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “non-accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). YES þ NO o

State the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common equity, as of the latest practicable date: 120,937,442 at November 13, 2023.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE THREE MONTHS AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 AND 2022

(Unaudited)

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

BALANCE SHEETS

(Unaudited)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim financial statements.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim financial statements.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Unaudited)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim financial statements.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIENCY

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited interim financial statements.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

NOTES TO INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 AND 2022

(Unaudited)

Lode-Star Mining Inc. (“the Company”) was incorporated in the State of Nevada, U.S.A., on December 9, 2004. The Company’s principal executive offices are in Reno, Nevada. The Company was originally formed to acquire exploration stage natural resource properties. At present, the Company has no business activity and is actively seeking a project to invest in.  

Going Concern

The accompanying unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. The future of the Company is dependent upon its ability to establish a business and to obtain new financing to execute its business plan. As shown in the accompanying financial statements, the Company has had no revenue and has incurred accumulated losses of $4,303,770 as of September 30, 2023. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. To continue as a going concern, the Company will need, among other things, additional capital resources. The Company is significantly dependent upon its ability and will continue to attempt to secure additional equity and/or debt financing. There are no assurances that the Company will be successful and without sufficient financing, it would be unlikely for the Company to continue as a going concern. These financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to  the amounts of and classification of liabilities that might be necessary in the event the Company cannot continue in existence.

Basis of Presentation

The unaudited interim financial information reflects all adjustments which, in the opinion of management, are necessary to fairly state the Company’s financial position and the results of its operations for the periods presented. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. The Company assumes that the users of the interim financial information herein have read, or have access to, the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022, and that the adequacy of additional disclosure needed for a fair presentation may be determined in that context. Accordingly, certain footnote disclosures, which would substantially duplicate the disclosures contained in the Company’s financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, have been omitted. The results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 are not necessarily indicative of results for the entire year ending December 31, 2023.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

NOTES TO INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 AND 2022

(Unaudited)

The financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”). Because a precise determination of many assets and liabilities is dependent upon future events, the preparation of financial statements for a period necessarily involves the use of estimates which have been made using careful judgment. All dollar amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. The financial statements have, in management’s opinion, been properly prepared within reasonable limits of materiality.

The Company has implemented all applicable new accounting pronouncements that are in effect. Those pronouncements did not have any material impact on the financial statements unless otherwise disclosed, and the Company does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.

The Company’s mineral property interest was in a group of thirty-one claims known as the “Goldfield Bonanza Project” (the “Property”), in the State of Nevada. Pursuant to an option agreement dated October 14, 2014, as amended October 31, 2019 (“Option Agreement”), with LSG, the Company acquired an initial 20% undivided interest in and to the mineral claims owned by LSG and an option to earn a further 60% interest in the claims. LSG received 35,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock and is its controlling shareholder.

Termination of the Option Agreement

On December 23, 2021, the Company attempted to acquire from Sapir Pharmaceuticals, all of the assets used in connection with the proprietary stabilized formulation of the Epigallocatechin-gallate (EGCG) molecule for further pharmaceutical development (the “Sapir Agreements”). In January 2022, due to circumstances beyond the control of either party, the Company entered into a Rescission Agreement to terminate the Sapir Agreements agreement and restore both the Company and Sapir to their respective positions immediately in advance of the execution and delivery of the Sapir Agreements. No shares or compensation of the Company was paid to Sapir. Prior to entering into the Sapir Agreements the Company entered into a Settlement Agreement whereby the Company and LSG agreed to the immediate termination of the Option Agreement (other than certain standard provisions that will survive according to their terms), with the result that the Company will return its 20% undivided interest in and to the Property to LSG. The carrying value of the 20% undivided interest was $230,179 at the date of the Settlement Agreement. In exchange, LSG has agreed to forgive all amounts owing by the Company to LSG under the Option Agreement, which includes $2,246,145 in accrued, unpaid penalties and other payments. The Settlement Agreement also includes a broad mutual release.

The full terms of the Settlement Agreement were agreed to between the parties prior to December 31, 2021, with the formal execution to be completed as soon as the documentation was prepared. Therefore, the impact of the Settlement Agreement has been reflected in the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021, to most accurately report the Company’s financial position on December 31, 2021, resulting in a gain on settlement of shareholder debt of $2,015,966 recognized in stockholders’ deficiency.

On June 8, 2022, and in connection with the rescission of the Sapir Agreements, we entered into a debt reinstatement agreement (the “Reinstatement Agreement”) with LSG pursuant to which we agreed to reinstate the Debt. Also on June 8, 2022, we entered into debt conversion agreements with three related parties, including LSG, pursuant to which the creditors converted an aggregate of $2,601,207 in accrued, unpaid debt into 70,302,906 shares of our common stock at a price of $0.037 per share.

LODE-STAR MINING INC.

NOTES TO INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 AND 2022

(Unaudited)

Capitalization

The authorized capital of the Company is 500,000,000 shares of capital stock, divided into 480,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share, and 20,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share. The Company reserved 10,000,000 shares of common stock for issuance under its 2016 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan. The Company has issued 120,937,442 common shares and no preferred shares. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company issued 70,302,906 shares of its common stock in three debt settlement agreements dated June 8, 2022 (Note 3).

Options

On November 20, 2018, the Company granted 500,000 non-qualified stock options pursuant to its Equity Incentive Plan, to key outside consultants. Each option is exercisable into one share of the Company’s common stock at a price of $0.06 per share, for a term of five years. During the year ended December 31, 2021, 50,000 of the options were exercised on March 4, 2021 on a cashless basis, resulting in the issuance of 28,571 common shares. At December 31, 2021, the remaining 450,000 options had an intrinsic value of $15,750 based on the exercise price of $0.06 per option and a market price of $0.095 per share.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the remaining 450,000 options were cancelled.

On February 14, 2017, the Company granted 9,500,000 non-qualified stock options pursuant to the Equity Incentive Plan, to key corporate officers and outside consultants. Each option is exercisable into one share of the Company’s common stock at a price of $0.06 per share for a term of five years. At December 31, 2021, the options had an intrinsic value of $332,500 based on the exercise price of $0.06 per option and a market price of $0.095 per share.

During the year ended December 31, 2022, the options expired unexercised.

Summary of option activity for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 and for the period September 30, 2023: 

Schedule of Options Outstanding 

At September 30, 2023, the Company had the following amounts due to related parties:

$66,062 in bridge loan vendor financing; with no specific terms of repayment, due to LSG, the Company’s majority shareholder, with no accrued interest payable.

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our unaudited interim financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report. In addition to historical financial information, the following discussion includes certain forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and our current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Forward-looking statements are often identified by words like: believe, expect, estimate, anticipate, intend, project and similar expressions, or words which, by their nature, refer to future events. You should not place undue certainty on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this report. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States, we do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.

New Business

The Company has no active business at the present time. We are actively seeking business opportunities to engage in.

Funding

All of our ongoing operations have continued to be funded by monies advanced to us by Lode-Star Gold INC. (LSG), our majority shareholder. We do not currently have enough funds to carry out our entire plan of operations, so we intend to meet the balance of our cash requirements for the next 12 months through a combination of debt financing and equity financing through private placements. There is no assurance that we will be successful in completing any such financings.

If we are unsuccessful in obtaining sufficient funds through our capital-raising efforts, we may review other financing options, although we cannot provide any assurance that any such options will be available to us or on terms reasonably acceptable to us. Further, if we are unable to secure any additional financing then we plan to reduce the amount that we spend on our operations, including our management-related consulting fees and other general expenses, so as not to exceed the capital resources available to us. Regardless, our current cash reserves and working capital will not be sufficient for us to sustain our business for the next 12 months, even if we decide to scale back our operations.

Intellectual Property

We do not have any intellectual property.

 Personnel

We have no employees. Our President, CEO, CFO and corporate secretary Mark Walmesley, receives no compensation for his services. We expect to continue to use outside consultants, advisors, attorneys and accountants as necessary.

Going Concern

There is substantial doubt that we can continue as an on-going business for the next twelve months unless we obtain additional capital to pay our expenses. This is because we have not generated any revenues to-date and we cannot currently estimate the timing of any possible future revenues. Our only source of cash at this time is from loans from LSG.

 Results of Operations

The following summary of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with our financial statements for the period ended September 30, 2023 which are included above in Part I, Item 1.

Revenues

We had no operating revenues during the nine-months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022. We recorded a net loss of $8,843 for the current quarter.

Expenses

Notable year over year differences in expenses for the second quarter are as follows:  

Consulting services for mining consultants decreased as the Company no longer has a mining project in 2023 as compared to 2022.

Professional fees in 2022 were higher due to accounting, audit and legal fees related to the rescinded Sapir Pharmaceutical asset purchase and the unwinding of the transaction.

 Balance Sheets at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022

Items with notable period-end differences are as follows: 

Due to related parties increased due to legal and accounting expenses to maintain filing status.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

At September 30, 2023, our total assets were $4,876 and our total liabilities were $71,833. Our working capital deficiency at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022 and the changes between those dates were as follows:

The decrease in our working capital deficiency from December 31, 2022 to September 30, 2023 was primarily due to the debt owed to LSG for legal and accounting fees.

Cash Flows

We have yet to generate any revenues from our business operation and our ability to generate adequate amounts of cash to meet our needs is entirely dependent on the issuance of shares or loans, which have been our principal sources of working capital so far. For the foreseeable future, we will have to continue to rely on those sources for funding. We have no assurance that we can successfully engage in any further private sales of our securities or that we can obtain any additional loans.

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are not required to provide the information under this item.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We conducted an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures also include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective, due to the size and nature of the existing business operation. Given the size of our current operation and existing personnel, the opportunity to implement disclosure control procedures is limited. Until the organization can increase sufficiently in size to warrant an increase in personnel required to effectively execute and monitor formal disclosure control procedures, those formal procedures will not be implemented. Given the current size of the organization, there are not significant levels of supervision, review, independent directors or a formal audit committee 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II - OTHER INFORMATION

We are a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are not required to provide information under this item. Our business is subject to risks inherent in the establishment of a new business enterprise, including, without limitation, the items listed in Item 1A RISK FACTORS in our report filed on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.

We had no unregistered sales of securities during the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

Other than as disclosed above and in previous reports filed with the SEC, we have not issued any equity securities that were not registered under the Securities Act within the past three years.

The following documents are included herein:

SIGNATURES

In accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on this 13th day of November 2023.

In accordance with the Exchange Act, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

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