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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

12. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

 

 

 March 31, 2026

 

 

 March 31, 2025

 

Balances due to related parties

 

($)

 

 

($)

 

Hunter Dickinson Services Inc.

 

 

269,360

 

 

 

242,569

 

United Mineral Services Ltd.

 

 

12,332

 

 

 

30,173

 

High Hills Consulting Ltd. (CFO fees)

 

 

17,648

 

 

 

 

Diane Nicolson (expenses reimbursement)

 

 

12,565

 

 

 

 

Thomas Wilson (former-CFO fees)

 

 

 

 

 

5,496

 

Total

 

 

311,905

 

 

 

278,238

 

 

(a) Transactions with key management personnel

 

Key management personnel (“KMP”) are those persons that have the authority and responsibility for planning, directing, and controlling the activities of the Company, directly and indirectly, and by definition include all the directors and officers of the Company.

 

During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, and Corporate Secretary provided services to the Company under a service agreement with Hunter Dickinson Services Inc. (note 12(b)).

 

During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company recorded equity settled share-based compensation expense of $132,342 (year ended March 30, 2025 - $263,523) in relation to 200,000 stock options issued to directors and officers of the Company in April 2023 and 300,000 stock options issued to officers of the Company during the year ended March 31, 2026.

 

During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company incurred fees totaling $159,244 (year ended March 31, 2025 -$66,857) in respect of services provided by the Chief Financial Officer.

 

(b) Hunter Dickinson Services Inc.

 

Hunter Dickinson Inc. (“HDI”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Hunter Dickinson Services Inc. (“HDSI”) are private companies established by a group of mining professionals. HDSI provides contract services for a number of mineral exploration and development companies, and also to companies that are outside of the mining and mineral development space. Amarc acquires services from a number of related and arms-length contractors, and it is at Amarc’s discretion that HDSI provides certain contract services.

 

The Company has one director in common with HDSI, namely Robert Dickinson. Also, the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, and Corporate Secretary are contracted to work for the Company under an employee secondment agreement between the Company and HDSI.

 

Pursuant to an agreement dated July 2, 2010, HDSI provides certain technical, geological, corporate communications, regulatory compliance, and administrative and management services to the

 

Company, on a non-exclusive basis as needed and as requested by the Company and as available from HDSI (the “Services Agreement”).

 

The Company is not obligated to acquire any minimum amount of services from HDSI. The monetary amount of the services received from HDSI in a given period of time is a function of annually set and agreed charge-out rates for and the time spent by each HDSI employee engaged by the Company.

 

HDSI also incurs third-party costs on behalf of the Company. Such third-party costs include, for example, capital market advisory services, communication services and office supplies. Third-party costs are billed at cost, without markup.

 

There are no ongoing contractual or other commitments resulting from the Company’s transactions with HDSI, other than the payment for services already rendered and billed. The agreement may be terminated upon 60 days’ notice by either the Company or HDSI.

 

The following is a summary of transactions with HDSI that occurred during the reporting periods:

 

 

 

 Years ended March 31,

 

 

 

 

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

(rounded to the nearest thousand CAD)

 

($)

 

 

($)

 

 

($)

 

Services received from HDSI and as requested by the Company

 

 

1,909,000

 

 

 

1,977,000

 

 

 

1,278,000

 

Information technology – infrastructure and support services

 

 

84,000

 

 

 

84,000

 

 

 

62,000

 

Office rent

 

 

55,000

 

 

 

53,000

 

 

 

45,000

 

Reimbursement, at cost, of third-party expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

incurred by HDSI on behalf of the Company

 

 

434,000

 

 

 

271,000

 

 

 

329,000

 

Total

 

 

2,482,000

 

 

 

2,385,000

 

 

 

1,714,000

 

 

(c) United Mineral Services Ltd.

 

United Mineral Services Ltd. (“UMS”) is a private company wholly-owned by one of the directors of the Company. UMS is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral property interests. During the year ended March 31, 2026, the Company incurred $38,266 reimbursement of expenses to UMS (year ended March 31, 2025 - $41,938 respective of geological services provided by UMS).