TSX Venture Exchange March 13-19

Tracking Global Market Swings, the March 13-19 Trading Session Marked Another Choppy Week for the Junior Mining-Dominated S&p-Tsx Venture Composite Index, Which Shed 59.34 Points to Close at 3,075.74. Average Daily Trading Volume Also Slipped Over the Week to 75.2 Million Shares.

The Weekly Bull-Versus-Bear Battle Was Almost a Draw With 38 Junior Miners Reaching New 52-Week Highs Against 36 That Slumped to Yearly Lows.

Luzon Minerals Grabbed the Week’s Top Trading Honours in Terms of Volume, With Almost 15.8 Million Shares Changing Hands and Gaining a Nickel to Close at 11.5. the Junior Entered Into a New Deal With Vista Gold to Acquire Its Amayapampa Gold Project in Bolivia. the Company Also Snubbed a Reported Takeover Offer From Aussie Company Republic Gold.

Another Penny-Trader, Mandorin Goldfields Grabbed Second Place With Volume of 15.2 Million Shares, Moving Up 4.5 to 8.5 Per Share. a Subsidiary of the Company Recently Acquired a Coal Project in South Africa.

Searchgold Resources Continued to Post Strong Volume of 13.6 Million Shares on the Week, Slipping 3.5 to 33.5 Per Share. Drilling on Its Bakoudou Gold Project in Gabon, West Africa, Delivered a Number of Gold-Mineralized Intercepts Over Widths of Up to 17 Metres.

Urasia Energy Saw 10.4 Million Shares Change Hands Over the Session, Trading Up 6 at $7.21 Per Share. With Uranium Production From Operations in Kazakhstan, the Company Recently Entered Into a New 5-Year Contract to Supply About 2.5 Million Lbs. of U3o8 Between 2009 and 2013. It Has Also Become the Takeover Target of Sxr Uranium One Under a Friendly Deal That Would See 0.45 of An Sxr Share Exchanged for Each Urasia Share.

Bard Ventures Remained a Strong Trader With Volume of 10.1 Million Shares on the Week, Closing Off a Half-Penny at 33 Per Share. the Market Awaits Assays From Five Drill Holes at the Junior’s Lone Pine Project in Northern British Columbia, Where It Recently Intersected a Wide Molybdenum Interval.

Another B.C. Molybdenum Explorer, Ttm Resources, Also Garnered Continued Investor Interest With Trading of 6.4 Million Shares, Holding Even at 80 Per Share. Drilling Recently Cut 198 Metres of 0.132% Molybdenum at Ttm’s Chu Project in Northern B.C.

Acquisition of Uranium Projects in the Hornby Basin Region of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Prompted Strong Trading in Gravity West Mining With Volume of 9.3 Million Shares Propelling the Stock Up Half a Penny to 18.

Capella Resources Posted An 80% Gain to Close Up 63 at $1.42 Per Share on Trading Volume of 2.6 Million. the Junior Announced Plans to Acquire Private Company Tripple Uranium Resources, Which Holds An Extensive Uranium Project Portfolio in Eastern Canada.

Recent Strong Nickel Results Pushed Inspiration Mining Up 28%, or 71, to $3.25 Per Share on Trading of Over 1.5 Million Shares. Drilling on the Company’s Langmuir Project Near Timmins, Ont., Has Returned a Number of Wide, High-Grade Nickel Intercepts Beneath Past Workings.

TSX-V Most Active Issues

		Volume(000s)	high	low	close	change
Luzon Minls	lzn	15750	0.15	0.065	0.115	+0.05
Mandorin Goldf	mgd	15192	0.09	0.04	0.085	+0.045
Searchgold Res	rsg	13624	0.43	0.33	0.335	-0.03
Urasia Energy	uuu	10383	7.29	6.61	7.21	-0.06
Bard Vent	cbs	10148	0.39	0.31	0.33	-0.005
Gravity West	grw	9338	0.20	0.155	0.18	+0.005
Bishop Gold	bsg	6699	0.05	0.025	0.045	+0.02
Ttm Res	ttq	6429	0.93	0.62	0.80	0.00
Canadn Imp Vnt	cqv	6022	0.115	0.085	0.11	-0.03
Cypress Dev	cyp	5993	0.475	0.34	0.45	+0.02

TSX-V Greatest Percentage Change

		Volume(000s)	high	low	close	change
Mandorin Goldf	mgd	15192	0.09	0.04	0.085	+112.5
Bishop Gold	bsg	6699	0.05	0.025	0.045	+80.0
Luzon Minls	lzn	15750	0.15	0.065	0.115	+76.9
Capella Res	cps	2585	1.47	0.74	1.42	+73.1
Dynamite Res	dnr	817	0.51	0.27	0.50	+61.2
Mountain-Wst R	mwr	105	0.26	0.18	0.25	+51.5
Dorex Minls	dox	379	0.40	0.325	0.38	+40.7
Coniagas Res	cny	115	0.44	0.33	0.44	+37.5
Navasota Res	nav	555	0.22	0.17	0.22	+37.5
Harvest Gold	hvg	1232	0.21	0.16	0.185	+37.0
Great Sthn Ent	gsr	31	0.055	0.03	0.045	-43.7
Tiger Intl	tgr	101	0.53	0.40	0.40	-33.3
Darnley Bay	dbl	126	0.245	0.18	0.185	-27.4
Kwg Res	kwg	746	0.05	0.045	0.045	-25.0
Nevada Star Re	nev	73	0.275	0.19	0.19	-24.0
Azteca Gold	azg	89	0.445	0.32	0.32	-23.8
Threegold Res	thg	85	0.295	0.24	0.24	-22.5
Wildcat Expl	wel	300	0.40	0.305	0.31	-22.5
Valencia Vent	vvi	12	0.45	0.395	0.435	-22.3
Champion Bear	cba	12	0.60	0.50	0.53	-22.0

TSX-V Greatest Value Change

		Volume	close	change
Seabridge Gold	sea	74957	17.32	+0.97
Pac Booker Min	bkm	64985	8.60	+0.90
Capella Res	cps	2585319	1.42	+0.60
Inspiration Mg	ism	1562618	3.25	+0.46
Rainy River Rs	rr	667866	4.25	+0.39
Mag Silver	mag	386002	9.10	+0.38
Digger Res	dig	20100	1.70	+0.35
Palmarejo S&g	pjo	134085	9.30	+0.35
Midway Gold	mdw	187600	2.99	+0.34
Gobimin	gmn	388012	3.51	+0.32
Bear Creek Mng	bcm	221200	6.60	-0.54
Pitchstone Exp	pxp	392089	3.33	-0.51
Crosshair E&mg	cxx	1403708	3.00	-0.49
Northern Dyn M	ndm	794385	11.65	-0.45
Western Prospc	wnp	422984	4.40	-0.44
Triex Minerals	txm	250505	5.10	-0.42
Intl Enexco	iec	202642	3.11	-0.33
Mawson Res	maw	547395	2.50	-0.30
Aquila Res	aqa	321699	1.61	-0.28
Sacre-Coeur Ml	scm	80400	2.50	-0.26