The onslaught of selling resumed with a vengeance during Thursday trading on the Canadian Markets. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange lost 6.95%, while the TSX Gold Index plunged 14.8% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, dropped 6.73% with the declining issuers swamping the advancers by a 698 to 216 margin on volume of 154 million shares traded.

A decent showing by the gold guys helped trim the losses on the big board but the junior bourse continued to face a barrage of selling during Tuesday trading on the Canadian markets.