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COMPOSITION OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL STATEMENT ITEMS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Composition Of Certain Financial Statement Items  
COMPOSITION OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL STATEMENT ITEMS

NOTE 2 – COMPOSITION OF CERTAIN FINANCIAL STATEMENT ITEMS

 

Property and Equipment

 

The following table sets forth the components of our property and equipment as of December 31, 2025, and 2024:

 SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT 

   December 31, 2025   December 31, 2024 
       Accumulated   Net Book       Accumulated   Net Book 
   Cost   Depreciation   Value   Cost   Depreciation   Value 
Capital assets subject to depreciation:                              
Computers and office equipment  $29,314    (5,731)   23,583   $10,616   $(165)  $10,451 
Machinery and equipment   202,051    (24,931)   177,120    184,824    (4,024)   180,800 
Facilities   16,327    (1,848)   14,479    14,508    (191)   14,317 
Land   4,346,554    -    4,346,554    4,144,470    -    4,144,470 
Prepaid Assets (CIP)   29,124,356    -    29,124,356    23,449,896    -    23,449,896 
Mining rights   6,921,197    (748)   6,920,449    6,558,161    -    6,558,161 
Exploration costs   7,353,364    -    7,353,364    4,496,976    -    4,496,976 
Total fixed assets  $47,993,163    (33,258)   47,959,905   $38,859,451   $(4,381)  $38,855,071 

 

 

For the years ended December 31, 2025, and 2024, we recorded depreciation expense of $28,877 and $4,381, respectively recorded in general and administrative expense. In December 2024, the Company wrote off $1.3 million relating to the premium paid for an option to acquire two mining rights. Results of geological studies did not achieve the expected results and the Company decided not to exercise the option, derecognizing the amounts recorded for the premium paid. The assets objective of this option do not have any relation with the Company’s Das Neves Project.

 

Exploration costs such as drilling, development and related costs are either classified as exploration and charged to operations as incurred, or capitalized, such as to assist with mine planning within a reserve area. Whether to capitalize an exploration cost or incur an expense also depends on whether the drilling or development costs relate to an ore body that has been determined to be commercially mineable and whether the expenditure relates to a probable future benefit to be generated singly or in combination with other assets. The basis of the mineral interest is amortized on a units-of-production basis.

 

Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

 SCHEDULE OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES

  

December 31,

2025

  

December 31,

2024

 
         
Trade payables  $3,942,879   $4,779,903 
Payroll and social charges   355,750    157,191 
Taxes payable   199,896    64,571 
Total  $4,498,525   $5,001,664 

 

Leases

 

Finance Leases

 

For the reporting period ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, no financial leases meeting the criteria outlined in ASC 842 have been identified.

 

Operating Leases

 

Right of use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of the future lease payments over the lease term. When the rate implicit to the lease cannot be readily determined, we utilize our incremental borrowing rate in determining the present value of the future lease payments. The ROU asset includes any lease payments made and lease incentives received prior to the commencement date. Operating lease ROU assets also include any cumulative prepaid or accrued rent when the lease payments are uneven throughout the lease term. The ROU assets and lease liabilities may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option. The ROU and lease liabilities are primarily related to commercial offices with third parties.

 

The lease agreements have terms between 2 to 5 years, with the possibility of extending one of the contracts for an additional two years and another for an additional 12 months. The liability was measured at the present value of the lease payments discounted using interest rates with a weighted average rate of 6.5% which was determined to be our incremental borrowing rate. The continuity of the lease liabilities is presented in the table below:

 SCHEDULE OF OPERATING LEASE LIABILITY

Lease liabilities on January 1, 2025  $447,217 
Additions  $306,310 
Accretion  $32,879 
Lease payments  $(216,906)
Foreign exchange   48,801 
Lease liabilities on December 31, 2025  $618,301 
     
Current portion  $286,876 
Non-current portion  $331,425 

 

The maturity of the lease liabilities (contractual undiscounted cash flows) is presented in the table below:

 

     
Less than one year  $317,713 
Year 2  $212,758 
Year 3  $92,765 
Year 4  $46,382 
Year 5  $- 
Total contractual undiscounted cash flows  $669,618 

 

 

Convertible Debt

 

   December 31,
2025
   December 31,
2024
 
Due to Nanyang Investment Management Pte Ltd   5,996,205    5,933,866 
Due to Jaeger Investments Pty Ltd   1,998,759    1,977,979 
Due to Modha Reena Bhasker   999,368    988,978 
Due to Clipper Group Limited   999,367    988,978 
Total convertible debt  $9,993,699   $9,889,801 
Current portion  $9,993,699   $81,918 
Non-current portion  $-   $9,807,883 

 

On November 7, 2023, we entered into a convertible note purchase agreement (“November 7, 2023, Convertible Note Agreement”) with Mr. Martin Rowley and other investors to raise up to $20,000,000 in proceeds through the issuance of convertible promissory notes with the following key terms:

 

- Maturity date: 36 months from the date of issuance;
- Principal repayment terms: due on maturity;
- Interest rate: 6.5% per annum;
- Interest payment terms: due semiannually in arrears until Maturity, unless converted or redeemed earlier and payable at the election of the holder in cash, in shares of our common stock, or in any combination thereof;
- Conversion right: the holder retains the right to convert all or any portion of the note into shares of our common stock at the Conversion Price up until the maturity date; and
- Conversion price: US$28.225/share
- Redemption right: we retain the right to redeem the convertible notes if and when (i) twelve months have passed since the loan origination and (ii) the volume weighted average price exceeded 125% of the conversion price for 5 trading days within a 20-day trading period. However, if we notify the holder of our election to redeem the convertible note, the holder may then convert immediately at the conversion price.

 

On November 7, 2023, we issued $10,000,000 in convertible promissory notes under the terms of the November 7, 2023, Convertible Note Agreement, and there were no other purchases and sales of the convertible promissory notes pursuant to the November 7, 2023 Convertible Note Agreement. On the date of issuance, we received $10,000,000 in cash proceeds and recorded (i) a $9,688,305 convertible debt liability and (ii) a $311,695 conversion feature derivative liability in our consolidated statement of financial position, as further disclosed below. In the year ended December 31, 2025, we recorded $650,002 in interest expense and $103,898 in accretion expense in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss ($651,782 and $104,183, for the year ended December 31, 2024).

 

Derivative Liabilities

 

   December 31, 2025   December 31, 2024 
Derivative assets          
Derivative assets - Non-Deliverable Forward  $219,556   $- 
Total derivative assets   219,556    - 
Derivative liabilities          
Derivative liability – conversion feature on the convertible debt   6,507    66,310 
Derivative liability – restricted stock awards   15,072    121,512 
Derivative liability - Non-Deliverable Forward   -    274,816 
Total derivative liabilities  $21,579   $462,638 

 

a) Derivative liability – embedded conversion feature on convertible debt

 

On November 7, 2023, we issued convertible promissory notes to Martin Rowley and other investors as further disclosed in Note 2. In accordance with FASB ASC 815, the conversion feature of the convertible debt was determined to be an embedded derivative. As such, it was bifurcated from the host debt liability and was recognized as a derivative liability in the consolidated statement of financial position. The derivative liability is measured at fair value through profit or loss.

 

 

On December 31, 2024, the fair value of the embedded conversion feature was determined to be $66,310 using a Black-Scholes collar option pricing model with the following assumptions:

 

   Value cap   Value floor 
Measurement date  December 31, 2024   December 31, 2024 
Number of options   354,297    354,297 
Stock price at fair value measurement date  $6.3300   $6.3300 
Exercise price  $26.1101   $32.6376 
Expected volatility   115.64%   115.64%
Risk-free interest rate   4.25%   4.25%
Dividend yield   0.00%   0.00%
Expected term (years)   1.85    1.85 

 

At December 31, 2025, the fair value of the embedded conversion feature was determined to be $6,507 using a Black-Scholes collar option pricing model with the following assumptions:

 

   Value cap   Value floor 
Measurement date  December 31, 2025   December 31, 2025 
Shares to be issued in case of conversion   354,297    354,297 
Stock price at fair value measurement date  $4.230    4.230 
Conversion price  $28.225    35.281 
Expected volatility   83.551%   83.551%
Risk-free interest rate   3.48%   3.48%
Dividend yield   0    0%
Expected term (years)   0.85    0.85 

 

In the Black-Scholes collar option pricing models, the expected volatilities were based on historical volatilities of our and our peers’ securities, and the risk-free interest rates were determined based on the prevailing rates at the grant date for U.S. Treasury Bonds with a term equal to the expected term of the instrument being valued.

 

In the year ended December 31, 2025, we recognized a $59,804 gain on changes in fair value of financial instruments in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss ($419,993 in the year ended December 31, 2024).

 

b) Derivative liability – restricted stock unit (“RSU”) awards

 

The employment agreement of Igor Tkachenko, a Vice President of the Company, dated September 30, 2023, provides for the issuance of shares of the Company’s common stock based on us achieving certain market capitalization milestones. As of December 31, 2025, the Company’s obligations under this employment agreement contemplates the issuance of additional shares of the Company’s common stock in five tranches, each representing 0.2% of the Company’s common stock outstanding at the time of vesting, with an expiry date of December 31, 2026 and market vesting conditions as follows:

 

- Tranche 3: when we achieve a $400 million market capitalization
- Tranche 4: when we achieve a $500 million market capitalization
- Tranche 5: when we achieve a $600 million market capitalization
- Tranche 6: when we achieve a $700 million market capitalization
- Tranche 7: when we achieve a $1.0 billion market capitalization

 

In accordance with FASB ASC 815, these RSU awards were classified as a liability, measured at fair value through profit or loss, and compensation expense is recognized over the expected term.

 

 

As of September 30, 2023, the grant date fair value of these awards was $2,517,300, as determined a Monte Carlo Simulation valuation method according to the assumptions disclosed in Note 5. In the year ended December 31, 2023, we recognized $513,757 in stock-based compensation expense in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss, met the market conditions for Tranche 1 and Tranche 2, and issued 40,533 shares of common stock to the executive officer.

 

As at December 31, 2025, Tranche 3, Tranche 4, Tranche 5, Tranche 6 and Tranche 7 remain outstanding and unvested, and the total fair value of these restricted stock awards outstanding was $15,072, as measured using a Monte Carlo Simulation with the following ranges of assumptions: our common stock price on the December 31, 2025 measurement date, expected dividend yield of 0%, expected volatility of 84.64%, risk-free interest rate between a range of 3.48%, and an expected term 12 months. The expected volatilities were based on historical volatilities of the securities of the Company and of our peers, and the risk-free interest rates were determined based on the prevailing rates at the grant date for U.S. Treasury Bonds with a term equal to the expected term of the award being valued.

 

c) Derivative liability - Non-Deliverable Forward

 

Atlas Litio, a subsidiary of Atlas Lithium, is exposed to foreign-currency exchange-rate fluctuations in the normal course of business considering that portion of expenses are in Brazilian reais (BRL). To mitigate this exposure, the subsidiary utilizes non-deliverable forward foreign-exchange contracts (NDFs), which are designed to offset changes in cash flow attributable to currency exchange movements.

 

The Company applies hedge accounting in accordance with U.S. GAAP (ASC 815). As a result, these derivative instruments are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges, with the entire gain or loss on the derivative initially recorded in Other Comprehensive Income (OCI). These amounts remain deferred in OCI and are subsequently reclassified into earnings in the same income statement line item as the hedged item when it affects earnings.

 

Atlas Lithium actively monitors the derivative portfolio of its subsidiary monthly to assess financial results and cash flow implications. These contracts are used strictly for risk management purposes, and neither the subsidiary nor Atlas Lithium engages in speculative transactions. Additionally, these contracts do not contain any credit-risk-related contingent features.

 

As of December 31, 2025, the fair value of outstanding NDF contracts was recorded as Derivative Assets on the balance sheet.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2025:

 

  Unrealized gains/losses from NDF contracts recognized in Other Comprehensive Income (OCI): $224,905
     
  Amount reclassified into Finance Costs (Revenue): $475,312

 

The following table summarizes the non-deliverable forward foreign exchange contracts that remain open as of December 31, 2025:

 

Subsidiary 

Dates

Entered into

 

Derivative Financial

 Instrument

 

Total Notional

Amounts (USD)

  

FX rate (BRL/USD)

  

Total Notional

Amounts (BRL)

  

Settlement

Dates (Range)

                      
Atlas Litio Brasil Ltda  April, 2025  Forward foreign exchange contracts (USD/BRL)  $1,250,000    6.33    7,916,950   31-Jan-2026 - 15-Mar-2026
                         
Atlas Litio Brasil Ltda  December, 2025  Forward foreign exchange contracts (USD/BRL)  $4,750,000    5,84    27,726,625   31-Mar-2026 - 31-Dec-2026