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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score on Monday was a weak 68-106-136 as the TSX Venture Exchange slid 20 points to 859. Canada's federal government has put two critical minerals projects operated by junior explorers on its major projects list. Unfortunately, while the Star-Orion South diamond deposit, on the Fort a la Corne property in central Saskatchewan, is definitely a major general among majors, diamonds are not deemed critical. And so, <b>Star Diamond Corp.</b> (DIAM) continues to tread water, dropping one-half cent to 3.5 cents on 549,000 shares today.

Eric Desaulniers's Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. (NOU) was plenty pleased to reveal that its phase II Matawinie mine project did make the list. The news Friday barely budged the company's stock, as it slipped two cents to $4.15 on 1.41 million shares, but it had a good week in anticipation of the news, as a share could be had for $3.85 on Tuesday and sold as high as $5 at the open on Thursday.

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