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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score on Friday was a rousing 127-59-124 as the TSX Venture Exchange leapt 20 points to 1,154. Homeland Nickel Inc. (SHL), an eight-center to start the year, rattled off 13 consecutive up days, reaching 74 cents before the regulators asked what was up. Nothing new, the company said, and so down she came: Homeland fell 10 cents yesterday and another 16 cents today, closing at 44 cents on 12.98 million shares.

Vance White's Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. (NOB) went nowhere but traded eagerly Thursday, closing unchanged at 24.5 cents on 6.72 million shares, as it hired a driller to test the Thomas Carbonatite rare earth project near Timmins. It has done so, the company cheers, because research by its crew has identified a magnetic feature resembling a classic carbonatite magnetic signature. The company is particularly enthused because, to the best of its knowledge, the feature has never been drilled.

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