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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Monday was a weak 58-86-166 as the TSX Venture Exchange fell two points to 630. Dr. Ray Davies's Talmora Diamond Inc. (TAI) was unchanged at 2.5 cents on 11,000 shares. Spring has sprung, but the company's stock has lost its elasticity in the absence of any significant effort on its Horton River diamond property north of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, or by the company and Olivut Resources Ltd. (OLV) on their shared Seahorse property.

Hope springs eternal, at least in the heart of Dr. Davies, Talmora's founder, president and chief executive officer, who has not lost his enthusiasm for diamond exploration despite two decades of limited budgets and disappointing results. The highlight of the 2010s came in 2012, when Dr. Davies had a skeleton crew lug a packsack drill -- the name says it all -- to a target that he deemed likely to be a kimberlite.

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