Naimi also said the ministry conducted over 550 field tours reserving the mineralized zones, monitor the activities of licensees to make sure they were complying with the technical, legal and environmental criteria. He said the ministry coordinated with concerned local government units such as Riyadh, Makkah, MadinaH, Jouf, the Najran regions and the Eastern Province for reserving complexes where granite, gypsum, silica sand, porcelain and quarry materials and other building materials can be mined. The ministry also carried out surveys in 32 approved complexes in where gold ore, granite, magnesite, clay, quarry materials and ordinary sand can be exploited, the report said. Among the ministry's other functions, it distributed over 13,000 copies of technical publications and bulletins in Arabic and English to the investors and participants in their symposia and conferences.
