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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a lethargic 49-49-165. The TSX Venture Exchange fell three points to 1,005 while diamond prices held steady. Ken MacNeill and George Read's Shore Gold Inc. (SGF) jumped 3.5 cents to 28.5 cents on 572,000 shares. Shore has not had any news of late but the stock is slowly climbing, much like it has several times since it first dipped below 25 cents in 2012. Optimists -- and they are in great supply around Shore Gold -- gleefully note the stock has been climbing steadily since setting an all-time low of 11.5 cents in December. Richard Clark's RB Energy Inc. (RBI) lost six cents to 49 cents on 4.67 million shares. RB Energy is far off its 2013 high of $2.88, thanks to big cost overruns and delays at its lithium mine near Val d'Or. Those problems forced Peter Secker to merge his struggling Canada Lithium Corp. with Mr. Clark's cash-rich Sirocco Mining Inc. early this year to avoid bankruptcy. Mr. Clark, CEO, expects the mine to have completed ramp-up to full production by late this year but in the meantime, RB Energy's cash has been dwindling fast.

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