Hatch and Maaden have formalised a strategic delivery owner-partnership agreement to accelerate Maaden’s next phase of mine and processing project development in Saudi Arabia. The deal follows a memorandum of understanding signed at the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh in January 2026 and moves the relationship into long-term execution support. For engineers, this signals expanded EPCM-style involvement by Hatch across Maaden’s portfolio, likely affecting front-end studies, detailed design, and brownfield debottlenecking on major phosphate, gold, and aluminium operations.

Nvidia’s market value has fallen by about $1 trillion since mid‑May 2026, wiping out the equivalent of nearly five BHPs and briefly pushing the chipmaker down to 18× forward earnings, below the S&P 500 average. The MINING.COM TOP 50 miners are now worth $2.19 trillion versus Nvidia’s $5.11 trillion, narrowing the gap from 2.7× a year ago to 2.3×, with mining stocks up 47% over 12 months against Nvidia’s 27%. The piece stresses that AI hardware still depends on a long list of mined inputs, from copper, gold and cobalt to hafnium, gallium and rare earths such as cerium, lanthanum and praseodymium.

New Murchison Gold has reported high-grade grade-control and resource-definition drilling at its Cloudkicker deposit in Western Australia, including standout intersections such as 10m at 13.61g/t gold, with results expected to lift both grade and tonnage ahead of an updated resource estimate. The work targets an emerging orebody within the broader Murchison goldfield, where existing infrastructure and historical workings could accelerate development. For mine planners and geotechs, the tighter drill spacing and strong grades support earlier conversion of near-surface material to higher-confidence ore reserves.