News facts: A delegation from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, headed by Minister Dr. Saleh Al-Kharabsheh, participated in the Mining Conference of the Association of Prospectors and Developers in Canada, which was held recently in Toronto.
During his meeting with Conference Chairman Raymond Goldie and Conference CEO Lisa McDonald, Al-Kharabsheh stressed His Majesty King Abdullah II’s keenness to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Jordan and Canada.
According to a statement by the ministry, today, Saturday, Al-Kharabsheh, during his meeting with the Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion and Small Business and Economic Development of Canada, Mary Ng, and the Canadian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, expressed the government’s keenness to attend international events organized by the Canadian government, and its role in Raising bilateral relations to the level of trade and investment cooperation between them
This came during the Jordanian delegation’s recent participation in the Prospectors’ Association Conference (PDAC), which is considered the first event for the mineral industry in the world in which more than 2,700 delegations representing the category of geological prospectors in the mining sector around the world participate.
The delegation met with the Executive Director of Middle East Relations and Global Affairs in Canada, Gregory Galligan. During the meeting, Minister Kharabsheh reviewed ways to consolidate Jordanian-Canadian relations and expand levels of partnership and technical support for the Jordanian mining sector. The meeting included a review of investment opportunities in the sector and Jordan’s measures to facilitate the investment journey in the Kingdom. .
The delegation also met with the Director of Business Development of the Canadian Trade Cooperative, Claude Gendron, and the Representative of the General Directorate and High Services for Global Affairs for Export Sectors in Canada, Jordan Reeves.
The meeting discussed ways to strengthen the Jordanian mining sector through implementing a technical support project by Canadian companies specialized in conducting geophysical survey studies in Jordanian areas where previous exploration studies have not been completed, which provides an attractive database for investment.
The delegation, headed by Al-Kharabsheh, held meetings with representatives of the Canadian government and private sectors, and a number of international companies working in the mining of rare elements and strategic mineral ores.
During these meetings, Al-Kharabsheh reviewed the investment opportunities for Jordanian strategic minerals, and invited companies to visit Jordan and learn about the attractive investment environment and the availability of the necessary infrastructure to invest in high-value manufacturing industries.
The Jordanian delegation participating in the conference activities included the Kingdom’s ambassador to Canada, Sabah Al-Rafii, the director of natural resources studies at the ministry, geologist Hisham Al-Zyoud, and a representative from the International Trade Cooperation Office at the Canadian Embassy in Amman.
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