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by Will Purcell

The critical and specialty minerals stocks box score on Friday was a nasty 44-146-120 as the TSX Venture Exchange slid 28 points to 1,018. Mark Appleby's Tartisan Nickel Corp. (TN) was nevertheless unchanged at 30 cents on 31,000 shares.

Tartisan was back in the news yesterday -- a day after it expanded its Turtle Pond nickel project in Northwestern Ontario -- with word of a promotable hit on its nearby Kenbridge nickel project. The headline interval in its latest drill hole was a 24.6-metre intercept at depth that averaged 0.71 per cent nickel, 0.56 per cent copper and 0.02 per cent cobalt. Three higher-grade subintervals padded those grades, led by a 2.5-metre zone with 1.85 per cent nickel, 2.18 per cent copper and 0.06 per cent cobalt.

Mr. Appleby, chief executive officer, cheered the new hole as representing a significant high-grade intercept. He and his crew were "very encouraged to see the wider intersection, as the deposit appears to now flare outward at depth." The full zone intersected, he enthused, "confirms continuity of significant nickel-copper mineralization in this system," while the results "will strengthen our ability and confidence in upgrading our resource, and in the project's overall potential."

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