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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Wednesday was a positive 55-47-155. The TSX Venture Exchange gained five points to 997 while polished diamond prices were flat. James Campbell's Rockwell Diamonds Inc. (RDI) lost one-half cent to 31.5 cents on 96,000 shares. Rockwell, which has been mining alluvial diamond deposits along the Middle Orange River in South Africa since the mid-2000s, may have cut operating costs sufficiently to earn a profit. Closing its marginal mines and opening a new one at Saxendrift have also helped considerably. Glenn Kelly's Orbite Aluminae Inc. (ORT) gained 1.5 cents to 27.5 cents on 1.25 million shares. The company now deems its planned smelter-grade alumina project a "longer term priority." The delay is partly why the company's stock has fallen steadily from $5.69 over the past three years. The other reason is that Orbite's short-term project, its high-purity alumina plant, has expanded into a long-term construction project.

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