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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score was a mediocre 73-89-148 on Wednesday as the TSX Venture Exchange fell 14 points to 987. Dermot Desmond's floundering -- if not foundering -- diamond miner, Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. (MPVD), touched its all-time low at 3.5 cents Tuesday, ending the day down 1.5 cents to four cents on 2.23 million shares. The slide followed word that shareholders will face some disquieting matters at the company's annual meeting at the end of June. Mountain Province fared a bit better today, as it added one-half cent to four cents on 1.85 million shares.

Cory Belyk's Canalaska Uranium Ltd. (CVV) had a good day Tuesday, adding six cents to 64 cents on 591,000 shares on word that a recently completed geophysical program, at the West McArthur joint venture project in the eastern Athabasca district of Saskatchewan, "highlights a new exploration target area." (West McArthur is a joint venture with Cameco Corp. (CCO: $148.70), which owns an 11.11-per-cent sliver of the project.)

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