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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Friday was a cheerful 56-42-159 although the TSX Venture Exchange lost 11 points to 668. Polished diamond prices were flat. Robert Gannicott and Brendan Bell's Dominion Diamond Corp. (DDC) gained 12 cents to $13.37 on 174,000 shares. The company will reveal its first quarter results on June 8. Its mines appear to have had a good quarter and rough prices are rising, but investors have been apprehensive recently.

Quentin Yarie's Honey Badger Exploration Inc. (TUF: $0.025) expanded its Quebec diamond hunt this week with the addition of a new project just southeast of Wemindji, on the east coast of James Bay. Mr. Yarie, president and chief executive officer, touts the 1,388-hectare play as being "in the same fertile kimberlite area" as the company's LG diamond project. (Mr. Yarie uses the Howe Street version of "area," as LG is 400 kilometres northwest of Wemindji. He also stretches the notion of fertility to the breaking point, as the few kimberlites found between Wemindji and LG carried no more than a few small gems.)

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