Saudi miner Ma'aden actively looking for overseas investments - CEO

Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Ma'aden), the Gulf's largest miner, is actively looking for investment opportunities overseas that would complement and strengthen its business inside the kingdom, the company's CEO said on Thursday.

Ma'aden, which mines gold and copper and has in recent years expanded into the production of aluminium and phosphates, is key to Saudi Arabia's plan to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons. The government aims to more than triple mining's contribution to the nation's economic output by 2030.