TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE

摘要

A modest bullion price pullback coupled with swings in the U.S. dollar prompted an 85.91-point drop on the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index over the April 24-30 trading session, closing at 3,265.92. Average daily trading volumes on the junior board also retracted slightly on the week at 88.8 million shares. The number of companies hitting new 52-week highs also relaxed over the week at 56, but still outstripped the 28 junior explorers that slipped to new annual lows. On strengthening zinc and silver prices, prospective developer Yukon Zinc grabbed top trading honours with 18.3 million shares changing hands, closing the week up 3.5 cents at 23.5c per share. The company recently closed a 10.2-million dollars brokered private-placement financing earmarked for its Wolverine zinc-silver project in southwestern Yukon. U.S. Silver saw over 14.5 million shares change hands to close at 1.19 per dollars share, posting a 9 cents gain. The company recently boosted silver reserves at its Galena mine complex, in northern Idaho, by about 40 percent.