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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score was a weak 65-99-146 on Wednesday as the TSX Venture Exchange fell 13 points to 877. Natasha Dixon's Mink Ventures Corp. (MINK), unchanged at 10.5 cents on 44,000 shares Tuesday, has wrapped up a phase II drill program at its Warren nickel-copper-cobalt project, west of Timmins in Northern Ontario. It was a modest phase -- two holes spanning 477 metres -- designed to probe two geophysical anomalies deemed favourable for the company's critical minerals of choice. Look for the assays to trickle in toward the end of August, says Ms. Dixon, president and chief executive officer.

Mink is marking time this summer with planned drilling at the Montcalm property, also a nickel, copper and cobalt prospect, about 65 kilometres northwest of Timmins. That effort will start in late August, perhaps early September, waffles Ms. Dixon, hedging her bets with the common promotional get-out-of-jail-free card -- "subject to ground conditions for access at that time."

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