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by Will Purcell

The diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a so-so 78-67-165 as the TSX Venture Exchange rose two points to 640. Ewan Mason's Star Diamond Corp. (DIAM) had a good run the past two weeks, leaping from its customary four-cent perch to a brief but encouraging high of nine cents on Monday. Over 4.5 million shares traded in a three-day stretch -- more than two million of them trading on Monday -- but the rally has run its course for now. Star Diamond added one-quarter cent to 7.5 cents on 372,000 shares today.

Herb Duerr's St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp. (SX) lost one-half cent to eight cents on 201,000 shares. The company cheers that it has "confirmed the presence" of niobium at its Notre Dame critical minerals project in northeastern Quebec. The confirmation comes from drilling and surface sampling assays and from early-stage mineralogical analysis. As well as niobium, the samples yielded tantalum, gallium and rare earth elements across the channel samples and drilling.

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