Timing, visibility, funding and luck decide more investing outcomes than talent. Part 1 of a Samso series on the human behaviours behind our decisions.

Monvia is behind the core systems of some of Australia's largest life insurers hit the boards at midday, priced at $1.10 a share and valued at approximately $103.5 million at the offer price.

The iron ore market is splitting in two. The product that pays today's dividends, 62% Fe fines (62% iron content) into Chinese blast furnaces, carries a softening price outlook on every published forecast. The product with the strongest structural story, high-purity magnetite feed for direct-reduction steelmaking, sits mostly in projects that are the hardest to finance. That is the dilemma.

Elk Range Mining lists on the ASX to advance a district-scale Idaho gold portfolio

Discover the Alurion Resources IPO, a unique ASX float backed by a 568 Mt Brazilian bauxite-gallium project. Learn about Alurion Resources IPO now!

Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) is a serious greenfield explorer chasing million-ounce potential in the Stawell Corridor, and a fast-to-market, minimal-footprint gold producer at a previously mined pit two kilometres north of the township of St Arnaud.

The gold price has fallen roughly 28% from its January 2026 record high, and the share prices of small gold companies have fallen even harder. This Insight walks through twelve ASX-listed gold small-caps, one by one, in plain language. For each company we ask two simple questions. Does the project stack up as a real, money-making mine? And does the company look like the kind of business a bigger gold miner would want to buy?

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.

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.

Discover how Miramar Resources has doubled its Gidji Exploration Target. Learn more about Miramar Resources' significant gold exploration

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.

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!