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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals box score for Tuesday was a positive 96-85-129 as the TSX Venture Exchange dipped one point to 1,011. Thin trading Quantum Battery Metals Corp. (QBAT) slumped 20 cents to 43 cents on 47,000 shares. The slump occurred in silence -- unless the Canaccord Genuity client selling nearly 42,000 shares at market during the morning uttered some discernible whimpering sounds. Li-FT Power Ltd. (LIFT), at $5.10 early on, lost 21 cents to $4.64 on 118,000 shares, also in silence.

Adam Lundin and Dr. William Lamb's Lucara Diamond Corp. (LUC) added three-quarters of a cent to 28 cents on 1.23 million shares. The company's shareholders are breathing a bit easier now that it has completed its private placement of $350-million (U.S.) of senior secured bonds. (The bond offering follows the closing of Lucara's placement of 1.03 billion -- yes, billion -- shares at 16 cents each, which raised $165-million in January.) The bonds have a five-year term and carry an interest rate of 12.5 per cent per year, payable in quarterly instalments.

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