Saudi Arabia’s gold miner plans to be a global top-20 supplier

Saudi Arabian Mining Co wants to more than double gold output within five years.

Maaden, as the State-backed company is known, plans to boost gold output from about 415 000 oz this year to one-million by 2025, CEO Darren Davis said in an interview. That would catapult the oil-rich kingdom from a marginal gold producer to one of the world’s top-20 suppliers.