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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score on Monday was a weak 65-115-130 as the TSX Venture Exchange slid 24 points to 933. Patrick Evans's Arctic Blue Diamonds Inc., a private company founded in 2020 to market diamond jewellery on-line, is pushing ahead with plans to mine its own gems. Mr. Evans, a one-time South African diplomat who turned his gift for gab to promoting diamond stocks 20 years ago, is looking to make a go of one of Canada's first Lac de Gras diamond discoveries -- the 1994 Tli Kwi Cho kimberlite dud that has stealthily found new life under its DO-27 moniker.

Mr. Evans is well acquainted with the area. He became a director of Dr. Christopher Jennings's SouthernEra Resources Ltd. in the late 1990s, when that company was chasing gems in Angola and South Africa and had a project or two in the Northwest Territories. He moved over to Dermot Desmond's Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. (MPVD: $0.045) in 2005, where he remained until Mr. Desmond apparently thought he might like a change of pace. (Officially, Mr. Evans left as the result of a "mutual decision" that he move on.)

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