Closing Bell: ASX rallies, gold fires, Bitcoin and US$80k kiss and make up

The ASX put on one of its better shows of August as healthcare and tech fired, while gold pushed towards US$4700/oz and Bitcoin smashed back through US$80,000.

Resources Top 5: Best gold hit yet sends Metal Hawk flying high; Encounter spikes on high-grade niobium

Metal Hawk led Tuesday’s resources movers after delivering its best Leinster South drill hit yet, while Encounter, TG Metals and Australian Rare Earths advanced.

Waratah stretches Consols and finds new shallow high-grade gold zone

The new results are from an ongoing 80,000m growth and extensional drilling campaign at Spur.

White Cliff Minerals scales up Rae copper project

Thick copper hits expand the Danvers 1 mineralised trend by 480% to 4.75km, triggering fast-tracked infill drilling.

Vertex to go round the clock on Reward gold as restrictions lift

Approvals have been won for continuous 24-hour underground operations at the Reward gold mine.

AI-driven trading rewriting the rules of profit season

There’s a new fund manager in town, and it never blinks. It scrapes the earnings transcript in real time, and places a trade before the CEO has finished their sentence.

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