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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score was a mediocre 76-107-127 on Wednesday as the TSX Venture Exchange fell 14 points to 1,038. Mark Appleby's Tartisan Nickel Corp. (TN) rose one-half cent to 40.5 cents on 126,000 shares. The company has drilled a 10.7-metre interval at depth grading 1.58 per cent nickel and 0.79 per cent copper in a new hole designed to test the potential along strike and downdip on its Kenbridge project, near Sioux Narrows in Northwestern Ontario. Tartisan said the drilling seeks to advance several key objectives, including resource conversion, locating potential extensions of high-grade nickel-copper sulphide zones and collecting technical data to support engineering and development studies.

The intercept comes from the first hole of a drill program that began in December -- three holes are now complete and a fourth is under way. Much of the metal sat within a five-metre portion that ran 3.02 per cent nickel and 1.48 per cent copper. The headline hit came from the A zone, but the hole also encountered the B zone about 30 metres deeper, where it produced a 9.1-metre interval averaging 0.58 per cent nickel and 0.2 per cent copper, again with a higher-grade subinterval. (That richer area returned 2.04 per cent nickel and 0.38 per cent copper across 1.2 metres.)

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