Ma'aden Aluminium Company, based at Ras Al Khair, is a joint venture between Ma'aden, a leading Saudi Arabian Mining Company and ALCOA. It is engaged in building a world-class and state-of-the-art aluminium industry at Ras Al Khair.
Ma'aden's billion joint venture with Alcoa will be the largest and most efficient vertically integrated aluminium complex in the world. It will use Saudi Arabia's bauxite resources to profitably produce aluminium for domestic and international markets as well as to facilitate the development of domestic downstream industries in the Kingdom.
The flagship mine, Al Masane Copper Zinc Mine, is located in the South-West of Saudi Arabia at an elevation of 1620m, and approximately 640km South-East to Jeddah. It lays about 414km away from Jazan Port on the Red Sea, connected to Najran by a newly paved road, and 835km away from Jeddah. The nearest communities of significant size are Khamis Mushayt which is 190km away, Abha to the West is 220km away and Najran to the South-East is approximately 100km away from the mine site.
AMAK is also actively exploring for other precious and base metal mineralizations within the vast borders of exploration tenements. Nearby Guyan Gold Project has started construction in November 2019 with a target to be commissioned in 2020.
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