The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi stressed that Saudi Mining and Minerals Exhibition and Forum 2015 comes in time, as the Kingdom is seeking to diversify its economic base, including the mining sector, which is one of the most important sectors that contributes to achieving this objective, especially with the completion of the ministry's short and long term mining strategy. He said in a speech at the opening of the forum here today, "This sector contributed to the Kingdom's growth and development process during the past seventy years through the provision of industrial mineral ores and construction materials , and will contribute more and more in the coming decades,'' noting that the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is currently preparing ambitious mining plans and strategies to be implemented in stages of five years, ten years, and twenty years, and this will lead to a quantum leap in this sector and the Saudi economy as a whole. --More 16:15 LOCAL TIME 13:15 GMT تغريد
