--- title: Rock Talk | Mining & Market Insights with Callum Newman description: Subscribe to Rock Talk, Callum Newman’s weekly take on mining, financial markets, and the trends shaping miners, markets and drillers. Free every Friday. image: https://get.mining.com.au/hubfs/LinkedIn_Facebook_Twitter.jpg --- [![miningComAu-colour-whiteType-1](https://get.mining.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/miningComAu-colour-whiteType-1.png?width=350&height=103&name=miningComAu-colour-whiteType-1.png "miningComAu-colour-whiteType-1")](https://mining.com.au/) # AI can give you the information. I’ll give you the judgement. #### In *Rock Talk*, I’ll bring you the conversations, observations and market experience you can’t get from a search engine, and my take on what it all means for mining and investing. ![Untitled design (1)-4](https://get.mining.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(1)-4.png?width=900&height=1930&name=Untitled%20design%20(1)-4.png "Untitled design (1)-4") ![letter head](https://get.mining.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/letter%20head.png?width=1250&height=300&name=letter%20head.png "letter head") ![mobile banner](https://get.mining.com.au/hubfs/mobile%20banner.png "mobile banner") ## My 15 years in markets at your service…FREE In the era of ChatGPT and Claude, you don’t need another information letter. You can get all the statistics you might want in a heartbeat. That’s where RockTalk comes in with something different. It’s called context and judgement. That’s because human expertise can still outpunch all the computational power in the world. Any AI can read the latest RBA press release. It can’t sit down over a coffee with a fund manager and ask him what he’s watching and buying. Claude can’t go to a conference and look an MD in the eye and see if he’s bluffing or looking perky about his next drilling result. Anthropic can tell you all about a mine in WA…but guaranteed no one from the company has physically been anywhere near it or spoken to someone who works there. Companies aren’t dumb, either, by the way. Already they are writing press releases with algorithms in mind. You need someone on the inside to trust what’s really going on. Everybody has all the public information, all the time, at a click of the fingers. There’s no advantage in it. That’s where I come in to help, *direct from the real world*. It might mean interviewing a fund manager one week…reporting from a conference another…or bringing you insight from the elite intelligence services I access too. We look at the stories making the news, the trends behind them, and the questions you should be asking yourself next. It’s my take on what’s moving miners, markets, and drillers every week. No corporate waffle. No regurgitating headlines. Just a 5 minute read on what I think matters, why it matters, and what we should all be watching next. My name is Callum Newman, by the way. I’ve run trading services, spoken at conferences and even worked at a $100 million fund, for a time. I’ve invested in gold shares and traded lithium stocks and sweated the latest iron ore inventory levels and followed and analysed mining for more than a decade. It all sums to a unique perspective you can use in your own analysis. Subscribe to Rock Talk now, and you’ll have me at your service in your inbox every Friday. 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