History
Royal Mines & Minerals merged into a Nevada shell in 2007, then spent a decade funding its leaching technology through small share placements and debt swaps before deregistering in 2018.
2007-2009: A merger and a technology
The company began as Centrus Ventures Inc. On 24 September 2007 it agreed to merge with Royal Mines Inc., a private Nevada exploration company. The deal closed on 5 October 2007, and a second merger the next day renamed the company Royal Mines And Minerals Corp. It issued 32,183,326 shares to Royal Mines holders, about 69.7% of the company, while Kevin Epp's 23,500,000 shares were cancelled for $23,500. The company gained the Piute Valley Lakebed Claims in Clark County, Nevada, a thiourea ore-leaching technology (a chemical method of extracting gold), and a planned but never confirmed 51/49 tailings venture with Iron King Reclamation LLC. It also planned two private placements of 7,500,000 units each, though no units had been sold at that point and completion was not assured.
The first licence came in March 2009, when Greene Lyon Group, LLC took a five-year exclusive licence to use the technology on recycled electronic scrap in North America. It was to pay the greater of $5,000 a year or 2% of the value of metals recovered.
2010-2013: Funding by units and the Golden Anvil loan
The company paid its way by selling units at $0.05, each a share plus a warrant to buy another at $0.10 for two years. In January 2010 it sold 29,455,500 units for $1,472,775. In August 2010 it advanced $600,000 to Golden Anvil, SA de CV to refurbish a processing plant in Mexico, hoping for a joint venture.
Further rounds followed: 32,070,000 units in January 2011 and 23,020,000 in July 2011, both settling large amounts of debt owed to insiders with shares. In January 2012 it sold more units and cancelled 18,000,000 warrants held by E-Ore Holdings LLC. In June 2012 Phoenix PMX LLC agreed to provide up to $600,000 for pilot plants using the company's Cholla Process, which recovers gold from fly ash (the residue of burnt coal), in return for a large share of gold proceeds.
The Golden Anvil plan failed. In September 2013 the company released Golden Anvil from $983,055 of debt in exchange for 2,000,000 shares of Gainey Capital Corp., ending the relationship. In November 2013 it issued 27,220,000 units for $345,000 cash and $1,016,000 of debt settlement, and promised cash subscribers a share of future technology profits.
2014-2016: New partners for coal ash
In April 2014 the company took a $150,000 loan from GJS Capital Corp., convertible at $0.05, with a planned 50/50 joint venture. It also arranged a convertible loan of up to $250,000 from Bruce Matheson, of which $100,000 was advanced. In July 2014 it signed a non-binding letter of intent with Lafarge North America to commercialise the coal ash process at power stations. No definitive agreement appears in the record, and the letter was due to end on 31 December 2015.
In September 2016 the GJS agreement was replaced. The loan was extended to 31 December 2016, 15,065,570 shares were issued to settle $329,000 of debt, 1,400,000 Gainey shares were to go to GJS, and consultant Gregg Sedun was promised 20% of proceeds from partners he introduced.
2017-2018: A quiet end
The record for 2017 and most of 2018 is quiet. As of the latest context, in July 2018, the company still held its Piute Valley claims and its leaching technology, and had issued 1,200,000 units in June 2018. Earlier reports carried a going-concern warning. On 20 December 2018 the company deregistered its securities, ending its duty to file reports with the SEC.
Written from the 17 story beats below (2007 to 20 Dec 2018), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.