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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score for an abbreviated Christmas Eve session was a positive 85-60-165. The TSX Venture Exchange added five points to 996. Critical minerals stocks wandered about aimlessly today. One, Graphano Energy Ltd. (GEL), dropped 1.5 cents to 14 cents on 55,000 shares, and another graphite promotion, Graphite One Inc. (GPH), lost three cents to $1.96 on 214,000 shares. On the other hand, nickel and cobalt explorer, Giga Metals Corp. (GIGA), added 1.5 cents to 11 cents on 1.27 million shares. Another nickel hunter, FPX Nickel Corp. (FPX). added two cents to 49 cents on 195,000 shares.

Well, that was quick -- not a success, but quick. A week ago, Victor Cantore and Yves Rougerie's Vision Lithium Inc. (VLI) set out to sell 25 million flow-through shares at two cents apiece, seeking $500,000 for exploration. On Tuesday, the company said it closed the placement, having sold 14 million of the shares and adding $280,000 to its treasury. Since Mr. Cantore, executive chairman, and Mr. Rougerie, president and chief executive officer, were initially vague about where they wanted to spend the cash, they did not have to say which of their projects would be getting lumps of coal for Christmas.

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