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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score for Wednesday was an upbeat 101-68-141 as the TSX Venture Exchange leapt 26 points to 918. Mike Taylor's Slam Exploration Ltd. (SXL) rose one cent to 10 cents on 179,000 shares. The company has extended the strike of the Farquharson copper-nickel-cobalt zone at its Goodwin project in northeastern New Brunswick, thanks to a deep hole that hit a 51.2-metre interval of mineralized jargon. (The rock was gabbro, with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, Slam says, which translates to "the assays are pending, so some geologese will have to do for now.")

The new hole was drilled deep beneath a geophysical conductor, Slam says, at a site 100 metres from an earlier hole. Assays are still pending from that earlier hole, which had been completed two weeks ago, but the company did cheer a 49.4-metre zone of mineralized gabbro that it hit much closer to surface. That hole, in turn, had been a 50-metre eastward stepout from another hole this year, which produced nearly 75 metres of gabbro.

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