E10-11 El Dorado Drilling paid $298,500 for the right to extract ore from a 200,000-ton mineral deposit.
Question:
E10-11 El Dorado Drilling paid $298,500 for the right to extract ore from a 200,000-ton mineral deposit. In addition to the purchase price. El Dorado also paid a $500 filing fee, a $1,000 license fee to the state of Wyoming, and $60,000 for a geological survey of the property. Because the company purchased the rights to the minerals only, the company expected the asset to have zero residual value when fully depleted. During the first year. El Dorado removed 42.000 tons of ore. Make journal entries to record
(a) purchase of the minerals (debit Mineral Asset).
(b) payment of fees and other costs. and
(c) depletion for the first year.
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Accounting
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