London BTC Company Ltd (LSE:BTC, OTCQB:VINZF) is expanding its Nevada gold portfolio as a strategy to complement its core Bitcoin treasury and mining operations. According to an interview with Proactive, CEO Hewie Rattray stated that the company is pursuing gold as a “natural fit” because many of the board members have significant experience in the sector. The company recently staked two projects, Huntington-Whitman and Amonett-Frank, which Rattray noted are located near major gold operations and have seen little modern exploration. The company’s objective is to build a differentiated listed platform providing exposure to scarce assets. Rattray explained that the ultimate goal of the gold strategy is to monetize those assets and reinvest the proceeds into Bitcoin, seeking a different route to building the company’s balance sheet than simply raising capital to purchase Bitcoin directly. The company expects to be very active throughout the summer, which Rattray anticipates will be its busiest period in about a year. In unrelated market news, Taseko Mines Ltd. (NYSEAmerican:TGB) saw its share price rise 9.49 percent on Friday to $7.50. The company, which produces copper for the North American market, recently reported a first-quarter net income of CA$16.8 million, a swing from a CA$28.56 million net loss in the same period last year. Taseko Mines also reported a 70.5 percent year-on-year revenue increase to CA$237 million. The company plans to hold an annual shareholders’ meeting on June 24, 2026, to seek approval for a corporate name change to Trekor Metals Limited to support its expansion of metal assets across North America.