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by Will Purcell

Happy New Year! Well, not yet -- first we had to get through the last ho-hum day of 2025 on the market. The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score was a so-so 83-79-148, as the TSX Venture Exchange fell six points to 987. There were some busy traders today, with Energy Fuels Inc. (EFR) leading the way with a 42-cent gain to $19.88 on 1.22 million shares. F3 Uranium Corp. (FUU) also traded merrily, but it lost one-half cent to 15 cents on 3.67 million shares. Lithium Americas Corp. (LAC) was arguably the most active of them all, as it lost seven cents to $5.97 on 2.2 million shares.

The shareholder structure of Ken Johnson's Lipari Mining Ltd. (LML: $0.26) became simpler late last week -- unchanged, mind you, but less complex -- with word that its controlling shareholder, Dubai-based BH Diamonds ME DMCC, has bought the nearly 14.5 million Lipari shares held by Antwerp-based Lipari Holding BV, along with the 1.58 million shares owned by Amsterdam-based Aftergut N & Zonen BVBA. BH Diamonds, which acquired the shares through a private transaction at 30 cents per share, now directly holds 43.3 million shares, nearly 30 per cent of the company.

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