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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a weary 55-128-127 as the TSX Venture Exchange fell 19 points to 1,060. Copper Giant Resources Corp. (CGNT) lost six cents to 90 cents on 3.84 million shares. The company is nudging Mocoa, its giant copper and molybdenum project in Colombia, toward a "future preliminary economic assessment."

Scott Monteith's Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. (AVL) was unchanged at seven cents on 832,000 shares Wednesday on word that Dave Marsh has rejoined the company to support its process development and the advancement of an updated feasibility study of its Nechalacho rare earths and zirconium project, southeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. Yes, he was there previously, but investors who recall his first coming likely have greying hair -- and are enthusiastic metallurgists.

When Mr. Marsh first joined Avalon in 2012 as vice-president of metallurgy, he was tasked with the responsibility of developing the metallurgical process for a recovery circuit capable of recovering rare earth elements from the Nechalacho ore. He beavered away and became chief operating officer the following year, but his work at Nechalacho petered off in 2014, after Avalon shifted promotional gears from rare earths to lithium at Separation Rapids in Ontario. He quietly departed Avalon about five years ago.

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