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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score was a glowing 123-61-126 on Wednesday as the TSX Venture Exchange added two points to 1,036. As we mentioned yesterday, Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. (AVL) and its Nechalacho rare earth project in the Northwest Territories are as old as the hills, but the stock moved nimbly again today on its new legs.

An Avalon share cost just five cents early Tuesday, but it gained a cent before the day was out. Today it added 2.5 cents more, closing at 8.5 cents on a hefty 21.54 million shares. This was its busiest day since October, when the stock briefly tripled to 15 cents on news about its lithium play in Northwestern Ontario. The main focus since then has been on rare earths and Nechalacho, but Avalon is content to find any critical minerals port in the promotional storm.

Stephen Rentschler's Nevada Lithium Resources Inc. (NVLH) rose one-half cent to 19.5 cents on 581,000 shares. The company has identified significant rare earth elements mineralization in old drill core from its Bonnie Claire project in south-central Nevada -- enough of it that Nevada Lithium plans more work to examine the distribution of rare earths across the project, and to assess the potential for extracting those elements along with the lithium and boron that it has been touting for years. (The most recent applause for the lithium and boron potential came last year in a preliminary economic assessment.)

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