Saudi Arabia to visit Brazil and Chile as seeks to diversify mining
The diversification strategy includes plans to expand into international mining to secure access to minerals including copper, cobalt and nickel, as well as lithium.
Copper production in the Democratic Republic of Congo rose 17% year-on-year to 1.433 million tonnes in 2019, central bank figures showed on Tuesday.
Cobalt production fell 19.86% to 87,676 tonnes, while gold output slid 5.76% to 34,657 kilograms.
(By Hereward Holland and Anna Pujol-Mazzini; Editing by Louise Heavens)
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