Chinese Investors Briefed on Industrial, Mining Investment Opportunities in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef met with Chinese investors in Shanghai.
Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef met with Chinese investors in Shanghai.
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Chinese Investors Briefed on Industrial, Mining Investment Opportunities in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef met with Chinese investors in Shanghai.
Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef met with Chinese investors in Shanghai.

The Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef met with Chinese investors in Shanghai, where they discussed investment opportunities available in the Kingdom in mining and industry sectors.
President of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu Khalid Al-Salem, Vice Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources for Mining Affairs Khalid Al-Mudaifer, and leading officials of the industry and mining sectors attended the meeting, said SPA.
Interlocutors previewed the prominent investment opportunities provided by the Kingdom in the industrial and mining sectors.
The Saudi side highlighted the goals of the National Strategy for Industry and the opportunities provided in various industrial sectors.
The meeting examined the measures, initiatives and incentives provided by the ministry to create an attractive investment environment, remove obstacles for investors, and offer the required facilitations.
The Saudi officials spoke about the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030 in the mining sector and the opportunities it provides for investors worldwide in mineral exploration and investment opportunities.
The Saudi side highlighted the mining investment system in the Kingdom and the goals of the mining strategy.
Alkhorayef made the official visit to the People's Republic of China to strengthen the economic partnership in the industrial and mining sectors.
The visit also seeks to review the qualitative investment opportunities between the two countries and brief the Chinese side on the Kingdom's initiatives to enhance the strategic sectors of industry and mining.



Saudi Firm Manara May Invest in Pakistan's Reko Diq Mine

Trucks working in a mineral mine (Saudi Public Investment Fund)
Trucks working in a mineral mine (Saudi Public Investment Fund)
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Saudi Firm Manara May Invest in Pakistan's Reko Diq Mine

Trucks working in a mineral mine (Saudi Public Investment Fund)
Trucks working in a mineral mine (Saudi Public Investment Fund)

Saudi Arabian mining company Manara Minerals could invest in Pakistan's Reko Diq mine in the next two quarters, Pakistani Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik said on Tuesday.

Manara, a joint venture between state-controlled miner Ma'aden and the $925-billion Public Investment Fund (PIF), was set up as part of the Kingdom's efforts to diversify its economy away from oil, including by buying minority stakes in assets overseas.

“I'm very hopeful that in the next quarter or two we will have very big announcements,” Malik said on the sidelines of the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh, adding they would be copper-related.

“So we're very hopeful that this year, we will make some big announcements, both in the way of Reko Diq, but hopefully also” in mines around it, he added.

Asked if Manara would be involved, Malik said, “why not, of course.”

Executives from Manara visited Pakistan in May last year for talks about buying a stake in the Reko Diq mine, considered one of the world's largest underdeveloped cooper-gold areas by global mining company Barrick Gold, which owns the project jointly with Pakistan.

Manara's then-acting chief executive Robert Wilt, now CEO of Ma'aden, told Reuters that a stake in Reko Diq was among several opportunities the company was evaluating.