LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: time to time in the ordinary course of our business, we may be involved in legal proceedings, the outcomes of which may not be determinable.
−Removed: The results of litigation are inherently unpredictable.
−Removed: Any claims against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result
−Removed: in costly litigation, require significant amounts of management time and result in diversion of significant resources.
−Removed: However, we are
−Removed: currently not a party to any pending legal actions.
−Removed: We have insurance policies covering any potential losses where such coverage is cost
−Removed: are not at this time involved in any additional legal proceedings that we believe could have a material effect on our business, financial
−Removed: condition, results of operations or cash flows.
+Added: From time to time in the ordinary course of our
+Added: business, we may be involved in legal proceedings, the outcomes of which may not be determinable.
+Added: The results of litigation are inherently
+Added: unpredictable.
+Added: Any claims against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, require significant
+Added: amounts of management time and result in diversion of significant resources.
+Added: We have insurance policies covering any potential losses
+Added: where such coverage is cost effective.
+Added: The Company records accruals for outstanding legal
+Added: proceedings, investigations, or claims when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably
+Added: The Company evaluates developments in legal proceedings, investigations, and claims that could affect the amount of any accrual,
+Added: as well as any developments that would make a loss contingency both probable and reasonably estimable on a quarterly basis.
+Added: contingency is not both probable and reasonably estimable, the Company does not accrue the loss.
+Added: However, if the loss (or an additional
+Added: loss in excess of the accrual) is at least a reasonable possibility and material, then the Company discloses a reasonable estimate of
+Added: the possible loss or range of loss, if such reasonable estimate can be made.
+Added: If the Company cannot make a reasonable estimate of the possible
+Added: loss, or range of loss, then that is disclosed.
+Added: In addition, legal fees and other directly related costs are expensed as incurred.
+Added: Shareholder Complaint Filed in New Jersey Civil
+Added: On December 8, 2025, the Company received by certified
+Added: mail copy of a complaint filed in the New Jersey Special Civil Division (Sussex County) by a New Jersey resident.
+Added: In the complaint, the
+Added: plaintiff asserted claims for negligent misrepresentation, misrepresentation, and consumer deception against the Company and its former
+Added: Chief Financial Officer, Kenneth Fisher, and sought total damages of $20,000.
+Added: The plaintiff’s complaint stated that the
+Added: plaintiff had traded in the Company’s common stock between 2022 and 2023 and relied on e-mail communications between the plaintiff
+Added: Fisher when deciding whether to continue holding and purchasing shares.
+Added: The plaintiff asserted that such communications misrepresented
+Added: matters related to regulatory progress, financial condition and capital actions.
+Added: The complaint also attached a copy of a report that the
+Added: plaintiff stated they had submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing what the plaintiff described as a multi-year pattern
+Added: of material misstatements and omissions, market manipulation and governance failures by the Company.
+Added: The Company believes that the complaint was without
+Added: merit and included several allegations that were directly contradicted by the Company’s public filings and were not based in fact.
+Added: The Company believes that the complaint took good faith e-mail communications between the plaintiff and Mr.
+Added: Fisher and portrayed them
+Added: in a manner that was highly misleading and out of context.
+Added: On January 20, 2026, the Company filed an answer and counterclaim with the
+Added: court in which the Company denied the allegations and asserted counterclaims against the plaintiff for defamation based on a series of
+Added: message board posts that the plaintiff admitted making about the Company that the Company believes were verifiably untrue.
+Added: 21, 2026, the court scheduled a trial for the matter on March 24, 2026.
+Added: Though the Company was willing to contest these
+Added: matters in a trial, to avoid further legal expenses, the Company accepted on February 17, 2026 an offer from the plaintiff to enter into
+Added: a mutual release of claims pursuant to which the plaintiff withdrew the New Jersey civil court complaint and the matter was dismissed.
+Added: Pursuant to the agreement between the parties, the Company agreed to reimburse the plaintiff for $1,050 in out-of-pocket expenses related
+Added: to the matter.
+Added: No other payments were made between the parties.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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