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Innovaero Technologies IPO: Bringing Sovereign Defence Technology to the ASX
Innovaero Technologies is raising A$40 million to list on the ASX on 18 September 2026. What the OWL loitering munitions and the numbers actually say.

Noel Ong
1 day ago13 min read


Bengwenyama's Second Product, and the Discount Nobody Has Explained
South Africa holds about four fifths of the world's platinum group metal reserves. Samso looks at what Bengwenyama's chrome, its missing offtake and its unexplained discount are actually worth.

Noel Ong
1 day ago64 min read


Why is the Copper Price Rising? ASX Copper Stocks to Watch in 2026
Copper has pushed into record territory above US$14,700 a tonne, driven by mine-supply problems, tariff-related stockpiling and rapidly growing electricity demand. We examine what is behind the copper price rally, whether it can last and which ASX copper stocks provide investors with exposure.

Noel Ong
2 days ago18 min read


Position Sizing Before Stock Selection
Position sizing for ASX investors, and how much to put in one stock. An MIT lecturer hands out paper, names a sum, and exposes the decision most skip.

Noel Ong
2 days ago22 min read


Kaoko Metals Limited (ASX: KAO)
Kaoko Metals drilled its first ever holes at Chalkos in Namibia and logged about sixty metres of visible copper. The stock ran from 73 cents to A$2.50 in two sessions, and the company then raised A$20 million at A$2.20, above its fifteen-day average. This workup sets out what has actually been proven, what has not, and why the assay result is still the event that settles it.

Noel Ong
3 days ago53 min read


Australian Rare Earths Limited (ASX: AR3)
Australian Rare Earths carries two very different assets on one small balance sheet. Koppamurra is an ionic clay rare earths project with a Pre-Feasibility Study and a maiden Ore Reserve, one of only two assets in its peer group to hold one. Overland is a niobium carbonatite discovery that is one drill hole old. This workup separates what has been proven from what has been interpreted, at both.

Noel Ong
3 days ago55 min read


The Grain Size Tin Problem: why identical assays are not identical deposits
Two tin deposits can report identical assays and still have opposite futures. The variable that separates them is the size of the ore mineral grains: grain size sets recovery, recovery multiplies grade, and no drill intersection reports it. Part 2 of the eastern Australia tin and tungsten series explains the grain size problem and how it decided which known fields became mines.

Noel Ong
4 days ago17 min read


Inside Saudi Arabia’s Mining Push: Five ASX Companies to Watch
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is transforming the Kingdom into one of the world’s emerging mineral exploration destinations, and Australian companies are increasingly becoming part of that transformation.

Noel Ong
5 days ago14 min read


ASX Data Centre Stocks: What the Market Is Actually Paying
Australia has a real data centre industry and a small number of ASX companies are actually in it. Across three years of price action, binding contracts moved share prices and held, while non-binding memoranda and pipeline announcements faded.

Noel Ong
6 days ago23 min read


The Manganese Market, Where the Price Has Been, Where Demand Is Headed, and the Distance Left for the Explorers
Manganese has traded in a band for a decade while steelmakers quietly consumed almost all of it. A small, unproven battery-chemistry demand story is now attached to that steel story. On the ASX, a handful of companies sell the actual product and report the revenue.

Noel Ong
Sep 519 min read


Has the Market Overestimated Simandou?
Simandou's 120 Mtpa is read as a straightforward reason for lower iron ore prices. This Samso Insight tests whether the market's supply-side arithmetic leaves out depletion, ramp-up time and demand outside China.

Noel Ong
Sep 429 min read


Storm Exploration - Drilling a Five Kilometre Conductor at Gold Standard - Testing the Potential of a VMS Discovery
Storm Exploration is drilling a five kilometre conductor at Gold Standard, Ontario, to test a VMS target. Eric Sprott is the largest shareholder.

Noel Ong
Sep 317 min read
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