stockwatch gold stocks review Christopher McFadden's Nxgold Ltd. (NXN) jumped 1.5 cents to 20.5 cents on 758,000 shares in the opening hour before the stock was halted "pending clarification of news." The news, revealed just before the open, was that "maiden trenching" on the company's Mt. Roe gold project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia "confirms potential sources of gold nuggets" found on the property. (Perhaps the regulators were perplexed as to how something that exists only potentially can be confirmed, or perhaps they sought details about how the trenching provided confirmation.