Industry Ministry allocates 7 clusters for mining activities

The Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources allocated sites for the establishment of seven mining clusters in Riyadh, Makkah, Asir, and Al-Baha, which comes as part of its efforts to ramping up the investment environment in the mining sector.

In a statement, the ministry said that the seven clusters are distributed across the mentioned regions, as shown in the following table:

The ministry also indicated that establishing these mining clusters will contribute to enhancing transparency and governance in the mining sector, protecting mining sites from illegal encroachments, achieving social impact in the areas surrounding the clusters, and supporting mining licenses for building material quarries.