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Black Horse Mining (ASX: BHL) — Maiden Drilling at Mt Egerton Lights Up a Forgotten Victorian Goldfield
Black Horse Mining Ltd (ASX: BHL) is a Victorian-focused gold explorer that debuted on the Australian Securities Exchange on 2 December 2025 following a heavily oversubscribed A$8 million initial public offering.

Noel Ong
May 2113 min read


Iron Bear Resources Limited (ASX: IBR) — Indicated Resource Doubles to 4.5 Billion Tonnes at 29.5% Fe and 20.6% Magnetic Fe at the Iron Bear Project
Iron Bear Resources is advancing a magnetite iron ore project in a jurisdiction that has been producing iron ore since 1954 and that hosts some of the world's most established direct-reduction-grade producers.
Our facination as a shareholder wiht the Iron Bear story can be measured with three attributes that matter most for a development-stage magnetite story.

Noel Ong
May 1818 min read


Argentina - A Changing Republic For Mineral Resources Investments?
Argentina has long been one of those jurisdictions that sits in the investor’s peripheral vision, not being ignored, but was never fully committed to as a "safe or aprropriate jurisdiction. For close to three decades, the global mining industry has watched the country with a mix of interest and hesitation.

Noel Ong
May 1338 min read


AI and The NVIDIAs AI Revolution – Why This Story Is Much Bigger Than a Chip Company.
I started to look at the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) seriously 12 months ago with a trip to the SuperAI Conference in Singapore in 2025, an event that I will be attending again this year on the 10th and 11th June 2026. As part of the AI revolution for the Samso Platform, I hunted for practitioners of the industry to get on a Coffee with Samso to just give us the "AI for Dummies" approach to start our journey into AI.

Noel Ong
Apr 2713 min read


AI and Dementia: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Diagnosis, Care and Early Detection
Dementia is one of those global health issues that quietly grows in the background until it becomes impossible to ignore. It does not carry the drama of a sudden outbreak or the headlines of a breakthrough cancer drug, but its impact is profound. It affects memory, judgement, independence and identity.

Noel Ong
Apr 249 min read


Direct Reduction (DR) Pellets and Green Steel – Who are the Industry Leaders?
Introduction – Are we looking at the sunset season of Iron Ore Investments or are we looking at the beginning of a long Spring and Summer Season
Investors in the iron ore sector have been dwelling on global market chatter of a declining iron ore price as the giant Simandou Iron Ore mine ships its first shipment of high0grade ore. The street talk is that the imminent 120 million tonnes per annum production coming out of Guinea is going to drive iron ore pricing to the sub US

Noel Ong
Apr 2222 min read


Namibia A Forgotten Uranium Oasis
Introduction – Are we looking at the sunset season of Iron Ore Investments or are we looking at the beginning of a long Spring and Summer Season
Investors in the iron ore sector have been dwelling on global market chatter of a declining iron ore price as the giant Simandou Iron Ore mine ships its first shipment of high0grade ore. The street talk is that the imminent 120 million tonnes per annum production coming out of Guinea is going to drive iron ore pricing to the sub US

Noel Ong
Apr 1318 min read


The Scandium Story - A Small-Market Metal with Outsized Leverage in Lightweight Alloys and Clean-Energy Ceramics
Scandium sits in that rare category of commodities where the market is tiny, but the strategic value can be loud. It is widely dispersed in nature, commonly recovered (if at all) as a by-product, and its modern story is increasingly tied to two technology lanes: aluminium–scandium (Al-Sc) alloys and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs).

Noel Ong
Apr 623 min read


Direct Reduction Iron – The Iron Ore Opportunity Investors May Be Missing
Introduction – Are we looking at the sunset season of Iron Ore Investments or are we looking at the beginning of a long Spring and Summer Season
Investors in the iron ore sector have been dwelling on global market chatter of a declining iron ore price as the giant Simandou Iron Ore mine ships its first shipment of high0grade ore. The street talk is that the imminent 120 million tonnes per annum production coming out of Guinea is going to drive iron ore pricing to the sub US

Noel Ong
Mar 1136 min read


Prominent Hill vs Carrapateena – The IOCG Potential of the Gawler Craton
When we talk about modern mineral discoveries in Australia, two names inevitably surface in the same breath: Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. Both sit in South Australia’s Gawler Craton, both are world-class Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) systems, and both ended up becoming cornerstone assets for OZ Minerals, now part of BHP. But lumping them together as “IOCG discoveries” misses the deeper story.

Noel Ong
Jan 1811 min read
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