TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE

摘要

On level gold and base metal prices, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index posted a 43.46-point gain over the holiday-shortened Feb. 12-15 trading session to close at 2,584.99. Average daily trading volumes retracted over the week, to 65 million shares. Bears overwhelmed bulls roughly 10 to one on the trading period, with just a dozen junior explorers touching new 52-week share price highs while 119 dipped to new annual lows. On news of a wide gold intercept from its Fayolle project, near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., Typhoon Exploration posted the highest trading volume for the week - closing up 2.5 cents at 14 cents per share on 21.6 million shares traded. Drill hole FA-07-24 cut a pair of mineralized zones: one of 12 metres grading 13.6 grams gold per tonne, followed by a deeper zone of 40 metres at 4.3 grams gold.