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Lion Rock Minerals (ASX: LRM): A Rutile-Rich Corridor Emerges Across 130 km² at Cameroon's Minta Project
Lion Rock Minerals Limited (ASX: LRM) has delivered the results of its completed drilling hand-auger campaign at Mboma and Loum, two priority zones within the 8,800 km² Minta Rutile & Monazite Project in central Cameroon.

Noel Ong
Jul 1510 min read


OD6 Metals (ASX:OD6): High-Grade Sampling Results and an 8 km Corridor Build the Quinn Fluorspar Case
Discover the latest high-grade sampling results from OD6 Metals, as they reveal an 8 km corridor at Quinn Fluorspar. OD6 Metals is a first-mover in US fluorspar.

Noel Ong
Jul 1411 min read


Miramar Resources: A Kalgoorlie Gold Explorer Doubles Its Gidji Exploration Target
Discover how Miramar Resources has doubled its Gidji Exploration Target. Learn more about Miramar Resources' significant gold exploration

Noel Ong
Jul 1311 min read


The Handback: What Rio Tinto's Kasiya exit says and doesn't say about titanium and graphite
On 8 July 2026, Rio Tinto told Sovereign Metals it will not exercise its option to become operator of the Kasiya rutile-graphite project in Malawi, handing back full control of one of the largest critical-minerals discoveries of the decade. Read one way, that looks like a vote of no confidence from the world's second-largest miner.

Noel Ong
Jul 1218 min read


Echo IQ: A Fully Funded, FDA-Cleared Cardiac-AI Company Scaling EchoSolv into the US
Discover how Echo IQ, a leading cardiac-AI company, is advancing in the US market with its FDA-cleared EchoSolv technology. Explore Echo IQ's innovations now!

Noel Ong
Jul 1012 min read


The Science Beneath the Announcements: ISMUMS2026, Critical Metals, and Why Independent Research Matters on the ASX
The world's best minds in magmatic ore deposits just spent a week in Perth. Most ASX investors never heard about it and yet their portfolios are built on the science discussed in that room.
ISMUMS2026 covered the mineral systems behind Ni, Cu, Co, PGEs, V, Ti and Cr: the metals of the energy transition, and the bread and butter of the ASX junior sector. Samso's job is to carry that knowledge across the gap as research, not promotion, for investors who want to understand t

Noel Ong
Jul 97 min read


The Big Consolidation — where the gold price settles before its next move
Start with the facts as of this week. Spot gold is trading around US$4,025–4,050 per ounce (2 July 2026), having touched an eight-month low earlier in the week before recovering above US$4,000. That is roughly 28% below the record high of ~US$5,595–5,602 set on 28–29 January 2026 — and yet still about 22% higher than a year ago. Both of those numbers matter, and most commentary quotes only one of them.

Noel Ong
Jul 817 min read


Neu Horizon Uranium IPO: A Two-Jurisdiction Uranium Float
Neu Horizon Uranium Limited (proposed ASX: NHU) is raising to $15 million to chase uranium in two of the more interesting addresses on the map: the structurally-controlled and black-shale uranium districts of northern Sweden, and the basement rocks along the northern rim of Canada’s Athabasca Basin — the highest-grade uranium district on earth.

Noel Ong
Jul 610 min read


When the Smartest AI Model Is Worth the Least
At SuperAI 2026, a European lab, a Chinese lab, and a veteran investor agreed the AI frontier has quietly moved — away from topping benchmarks, toward owning deployment, distribution, and the ground beneath the tokens.A panel discussion, moderated by Zixuan Li (Head, Z.ai), with:Geoff Soon, Mistral AI · Cherie Shi, MiniMax · Hemant Mohapatra, LightspeedSuperAI 2026 · Marina Bay Sands, Singapore · 10 June 2026For a few years, the word frontier had a simple meaning in artificia

Noel Ong
Jul 611 min read


Copper's precious passengers — where platinum and palladium hide in a porphyry
A handful of the world's giant copper mines also carry platinum and palladium. They are rarely worth mining on their own — but the story of how they got there is one of the clearest windows we have into how a copper-gold deposit is made. This is that story, told for the curious rather than the credentialled.

Noel Ong
Jul 520 min read


The overselling of Encounter Resources— a niobium number two priced like an afterthought
As the ASX small-cap market is showing a slowness in hype, is Encounter Resources simply a case the market may be missing the potential value to come.

Noel Ong
Jul 314 min read


Kaiser Reef: Gold Producer Restarts Drilling at Historic Maldon
An established, cash-generating gold producer has begun a 4,350m surface drilling campaign at Maldon - a historic, high-grade Victorian goldfield adjacent to a processing facility it already owns.

Noel Ong
Jul 29 min read
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