BHP and Canada’s Lundin Mining extend mining time

Gold futures reversed early losses to reach new all-time highs Tuesday, gaining for a third straight session on weaker U.S. bond yields and persistent trade and monetary policy uncertainty as investors continue to anxiously await President Trump’s August 1 tariff deadline.

The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes fell near two-week low, making non-yielding bullion more attractive.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he plans to meet his Chinese counterpart next week, suggesting a possible extension of an August 12 tariff deadline, but European Union diplomats hinted that the E.U. is looking at broader counter-measures against the U.S. as prospects for a trade agreement dwindle.

“Trade uncertainty is prompting some safe haven demand,” Kitco Metals senior analyst Jim Wyckoff wrote. “The U.S. has got several trade deals in the works and there’s rumors that the E.U. and the U.S. might not be able to come to an agreement or certainly are not anywhere close yet.”

Source – Seeking Alpha

Stealth Fed Dollar Crisis Predicted To Spark A Bitcoin Price Boom To Rival Gold

“Current inflation measures, such as consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI), are significantly lower than previous 40-year highs. However, they remain ‘stubborn’ or ‘sticky,’ resisting a return to the central bank’s preferred 2% target,” Fidelity Digital Assets research director Chris Kuiper wrote in a report that asked: “Why is no one talking about stagflation?”—defined as a combination of low economic growth and persistently high inflation.

Source – Forbes

Meet the Ultrathin Conductor Set to Replace Copper in Advanced Electronics

“We are breaking a fundamental bottleneck of traditional materials like copper,” said Asir Intisar Khan, who received his doctorate from Stanford and is now a visiting postdoctoral scholar and first author on the paper. “Our niobium phosphide conductors show that it’s possible to send faster, more efficient signals through ultrathin wires. This could improve the energy efficiency of future chips, and even small gains add up when many chips are used, such as in the massive data centers that store and process information today.”

Source – SciTechDaily

True North Copper Secures $53.44 Million in Capital Raising, Prepares for ASX Reinstatement

This move facilitates the company’s reinstatement of its securities to official quotation, following a consolidation of its issued capital and the settlement of various creditor liabilities.

These financial maneuvers are expected to strengthen True North’s operational foundation and strategic positioning in the mining sector.

Source – Tip Ranks