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NORTH BAY RESOURCES INC.
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By Order of the Board,
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/s/: Perry Leopold
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Lansdale, PA
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Perry Leopold
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November 17 , 2014
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Chairman of the Board
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Title Of Class
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Name And Address Of Beneficial Owner (1)
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Amount And Nature
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Approximate
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Percent of
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Total
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Common
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Perry Leopold(4)(5)
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41,930,228
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3.97
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80.00
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Common
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Fred Michini
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1,439,890
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0.26
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Common
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Tangiers Investors, LP(3)
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32,429,281
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5.88
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1.18
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Common
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Ruby Development Company(6)
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28,000,000
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4.99
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Common
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Typenex Co-Investment, LLC(7)
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14,893,422
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2.70
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Common
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All executive officers and directors as a group (2 persons)
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23,370,118
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4.23
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80.05
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Series A Preferred
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Perry Leopold(4)
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4,000,000
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100
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Series I Preferred
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Perry Leopold(5)
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100
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100
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(5)
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100
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(5)
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(1)
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Except as noted above, the address for the above identified officers and directors of the Company is c/o North Bay Resources Inc., 2120 Bethel Road, Lansdale, PA 19446.
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Beneficial Ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Shares of common stock subject to options, warrants, or convertible debt currently exercisable or convertible, or exercisable or convertible within 60 days of the Record Date are deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of the person holding such option or warrant. Percentages are based on a total of 551,835,737 shares of common stock outstanding as of the date of this information statement and shares issuable upon the exercise of options, warrants exercisable, and debt convertible on or within 60 days of the date of this information statement, as described above. The inclusion in the aforementioned table of those shares, however, does not constitute an admission that the named shareholder is a direct or indirect beneficial owner of those shares. Unless otherwise indicated, to our knowledge based upon information produced by the persons and entities named in the table, each person or entity named in the table has sole voting power and investment power, or shares voting and/or investment power with his or her spouse, with respect to all shares of capital stock listed as owned by that person or entity.
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The number of shares, the percentage of ownership and voting percentage listed in the table above represents the maximum amount of shares that Tangiers can beneficially control under a contractually stipulated 9.99% ownership restriction as of the date of this information statement. Tangiers is the investor under the Securities Purchase Agreement dated October 7, 2009, and owns 0 shares of common stock as of the date of this information statement. All investment decisions of, and control of, Tangiers are held by Robert Papiri and Michael Sobeck, its managing partners. Tangiers Capital, LLC makes the investment decisions on behalf of and controls Tangiers. Tangiers acquired all shares being registered in this offering in a financing transaction with us. As of the date of this information statement, Tangiers holds an aggregate of 5,550,000 warrants, as follows: (a) 2.5 million 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.05 pursuant to a $50,000 Convertible Promissory Note Agreement dated September 27, 2010, (b) 250,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.115 pursuant to a $50,000 Convertible Promissory Note Agreement dated December 29, 2011, (c) 500,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.13 pursuant to two $50,000 Convertible Promissory Note Agreements dated February 2, 2012, (d) 500,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.09 pursuant to two $37,500 Convertible Promissory Note Agreements dated March 15, 2012, (e) 150,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.07 pursuant to a $50,000 Convertible Promissory Note Agreement dated May 16, 2012, (f) 150,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.06 pursuant to a $25,000 Convertible Promissory Note Agreement dated May 30, 2012, and (g) 750,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.14 and 750,000 5 year warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.07 pursuant to a $100,000 Convertible Promissory Note Agreement dated June 19, 2012. As of the date of this information statement, Tangiers also holds the following promissory notes which are eligible to be converted into an aggregate of 26,879,281 shares of common stock: (a) one $25,000 convertible promissory note with an interest rate of 9.9 per year, convertible into common stock at a price of $0.08 per share (with an outstanding balance of $31,208 as of the date of this information statement), (b) two $50,000 convertible promissory notes with an interest rate of 9.9 per year, convertible into common stock at a price of $0.08 per share (with an aggregate outstanding balance of $123,882 as of the date of this information statement), (c) two $37,500 convertible promissory notes with an interest rate of 9.9% per year, convertible into common stock at a price of $0.09 per share (with an aggregate outstanding balance of $92,057 as of the date of this information statement, (d) one $50,000 convertible promissory note with an interest rate of 9.9% per year, convertible into common stock at a price of $0.06 per share (with an outstanding balance of $60,531 as of the date of this information statement), (e) one $25,000 convertible promissory note convertible into common stock at a price of $0.06 per share (with an outstanding balance of $30,170 as of the date of this information statement), (f) one $100,000 convertible promissory note with an interest rate of 7% per year, convertible as amended into common stock at a price of $0.02 per share (with an outstanding balance of $114,211 as of the date of this information statement), and (g) one $750,000 convertible promissory note with an interest rate of 7% per annum, convertible as amended into common stock at a price of $0.02 per share (with an outstanding balance of $457,283 as of the date of this information statement). All of the warrants and promissory notes held by Tangiers contain a blocker provision under which Tangiers can only exercise its warrants or convert its promissory notes to a point where it would own a maximum of 9.99% of the total shares outstanding.
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Mr. Leopold, the Company’s CEO and Chairman owns 4,000,000 shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock. Each outstanding share of the Series A Preferred Stock has 10 votes per share, and may be converted to shares of common at a ratio of 5 to 1, which would thus convert to 20,000,000 shares of common stock. The Series A Preferred Stock was issued in August 2009. Mr. Leopold is prohibited from converting any of his Preferred Stock without providing the Company with at least 61 days advance notice.
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Mr. Leopold owns 100 shares of the Company’s Series I Preferred Stock. Each outstanding share of the Series I Preferred Stock represents its proportionate share of eighty per cent (80%) of all votes entitled to be voted and which is allocated to the outstanding shares of Series I Preferred Stock. These shares are not convertible into common stock or any commodities. The Series I Preferred Stock was issued in February 2007. These shares were issued our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Perry Leopold, in February 2007 as an anti-takeover measure to insure that Mr. Leopold maintains control of the Company during periods when the Company’s stock may be severely undervalued and subject to hostile takeover in the open market. As specified in the Certificate of Designation filed by the Company with the Delaware Secretary of State in February 2007, ”the outstanding shares of Series I Preferred Stock shall vote together with the shares of common stock of the Corporation as a single class and, regardless of the number of shares of Series I Preferred Stock outstanding and as long as at least one of such shares of Series I Preferred Stock is outstanding, shall represent eighty percent (80%) of all votes entitled to be voted at any annual or special meeting of shareholders of the Corporation or action by written consent of shareholders. Each outstanding share of the Series I Preferred Stock shall represent its proportionate share of the 80% that is allocated to the outstanding shares of Series I Preferred Stock. The Series I preferred shares supersede any other shares that Mr. Leopold may own so that any additional securities that Mr. Leopold may own do not increase his 80% voting rights, and are therefore included within the 80%.
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The four (4) principals of Ruby Development Company (“RDC”), the estate of R.E. Frederking Trustee, W. R. Frederking, G. W. Frederking, and R. L. Frederking., each own 2.5 million shares of common stock. Ruby Development Company is also entitled to 10 million warrants, immediately exercisable, and giving them the option to purchase up to 10 million shares of common stock at $0.02 per share until December 30, 2018, 2 million warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.10 per share until December 30, 2018, 2 million warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.09 per share until December 30, 2018, and 4 million warrants convertible to common stock and exercisable at $0.04 per share until December 30, 2018. The warrants may be exercised, in whole or in part, any time, and from time to time, at RDC's discretion. The number of shares, the percentage of ownership and voting percentage listed in the table above include the shares underlying the aforementioned warrants held by the shareholder. All of the warrants held by RDC contain a blocker provision under which RDC can only exercise its warrants to a point where it would beneficially own a maximum of 4.99% of the total shares outstanding.
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Typenex Co-Investment, LLC ("Typenex") has the right to convert a Secured Convertible Promissory Note dated October 1, 2013, into shares of our common stock. As of the date of this information statement, the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by Typenex was 14,893,422 shares, which assumes full conversion of the Secured Convertible Promissory Note under the terms of the Promissory Note currently in effect. The 14,893,443 shares represent 2.70% of the shares outstanding as of the date of this Information Statement. All investment decisions of, and control of, Typenex are held by John M. Fife, in his position as Manager of Typenex.
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Perry Leopold, CEO
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Includes 21,930,228 shares of common stock and 4,000,000 shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock owned by Mr. Leopold, the Company’s CEO and Chairman. Each outstanding share of the Series A Preferred Stock has 10 votes per share, and may be converted to shares of common at a ratio of 5 to 1, which would thus convert to 20,000,000 shares of common stock. The Series A Preferred Stock was issued in August 2009. Mr. Leopold is prohibited from converting any of his Preferred Stock without providing the Company with at least 61 days advance notice.
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Mr. Leopold owns 100 shares of the Company’s Series I Preferred Stock. Each outstanding share of the Series I Preferred Stock represents its proportionate share of eighty per cent (80%) of all votes entitled to be voted and which is allocated to the outstanding shares of Series I Preferred Stock. These shares are not convertible into common stock or any commodities. The Series I Preferred Stock was issued in February 2007.
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# of Common Shares, as at the Record Date of Oct 30, 2014
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# of Common Shares, subsequent to increase in Authorized Shares and Reserve shares, relative to Oct 30, 2014, record date.
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Issued and Outstanding
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Reserved for Potential Issuance (1)
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Authorized but Unissued / Not Reserved
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Percentage increase from current outstanding shares if all reserved shares were to be eventually issued
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$ | 0.0004 | $ | 0.0003 | $ | 0.0002 | $ | 0.0001 | |||||||||||||
JMJ Note - July 11, 2012
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | |||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 85,897 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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306,775,000 | 409,033,333 | 613,550,000 | 1,227,100,000 | |||||||||||||||||
Typenex Note - October 1, 2013
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 58,986 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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210,664,286 | 280,885,714 | 421,328,571 | 842,657,143 | |||||||||||||||||
LG Note 1 - February 3, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 58,252 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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$ | 208,042,857 | 277,390,476 | 416,085,714 | 832,171,429 | ||||||||||||||||
LG Note 2 - March 13, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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Potential share issuance
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137,500,000 | 183,333,333 | 275,000,000 | 550,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||
GEL Note - January 31, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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Potential share issuance
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22,046,429 | 29,395,238 | 44,092,857 | 88,185,714 | |||||||||||||||||
Union Note - March 13, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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Potential share issuance
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35,714,286 | 47,619,048 | 71,428,571 | 142,857,143 | |||||||||||||||||
Beaufort Note - March 27, 2014
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 12,073 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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43,117,857 | 57,490,476 | 86,235,714 | 172,471,429 | |||||||||||||||||
Caeser Note - April 10, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 34,486 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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123,164,286 | 164,219,048 | 246,328,571 | 492,657,143 | |||||||||||||||||
WHC Note - April 21, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 48,495 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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173,196,429 | 230,928,571 | 346,392,857 | 692,785,714 | |||||||||||||||||
Typenex Note 2 - May 8, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 150,000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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535,714,286 | 714,285,714 | 1,071,428,571 | 2,142,857,143 | |||||||||||||||||
LG Note 3 - May 9, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 37,400 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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133,571,429 | 178,095,238 | 267,142,857 | 534,285,714 | |||||||||||||||||
JSJ Note - July 14 , 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (58%)
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$ | 0.00023 | $ | 0.00017 | $ | 0.00012 | $ | 0.00006 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 100,000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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431,034,483 | 574,712,644 | 862,068,966 | 1,724,137,931 | |||||||||||||||||
KBM Note - Aug 6 , 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (75%)
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$ | 0.000300 | $ | 0.000225 | $ | 0.000150 | $ | 0.000075 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 83,500 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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278,333,333 | 371,111,111 | 556,666,667 | 1,113,333,333 | |||||||||||||||||
RSL Note - Aug 7 , 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (80%)
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$ | 0.00032 | $ | 0.00024 | $ | 0.00016 | $ | 0.00008 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 20,000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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62,500,000 | 83,333,333 | 125,000,000 | 250,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||
JMJ 2 - Sept 3, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (70%)
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$ | 0.00028 | $ | 0.00021 | $ | 0.00014 | $ | 0.00007 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 75,000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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267,857,143 | 357,142,857 | 535,714,286 | 1,071,428,571 | |||||||||||||||||
KBM 2 - Sept 3, 2014
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Issuance share price with Discount Applied (75%)
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$ | 0.000300 | $ | 0.000225 | $ | 0.000150 | $ | 0.000075 | ||||||||||||
Outstanding Balance Due
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$ | 48,000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Potential share issuance
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160,000,000 | 213,333,333 | 320,000,000 | 640,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||
Total Shares
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3,129,232,102 | 4,172,309,469 | 6,258,464,204 | 12,516,928,407 | |||||||||||||||||
% increase in dilution
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567.06 | % | 756.08 | % | 1134.12 | % | 2268.23 | % |
By Order of the Board,
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/s/: Perry Leopold
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Lansdale, PA
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Perry Leopold
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November 17 , 2014
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Chairman of the Board
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By:
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/s/ Perry Leopold Authorized Officer
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Authorized Officer
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Title:
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CEO/Chairman of the Board
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Name:
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Perry Leopold
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