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.

Atlas Copco is promoting a single, integrated compressed-air rental system that links pit drilling, crushing, screening and mineral processing, centred on its DrillAir Y1260 high-pressure compressor. Instead of separate, fixed compressors at each stage, mines can deploy mobile units with variable pressure and flow to power down-the-hole drilling, air knives on crushers and air-operated valves or pumps in the plant. The approach targets lower installed power, reduced redundancy and easier maintenance planning, but requires careful air-network design and control to avoid pressure drops and bottlenecks across the full circuit.