(Arabian Oil and Gas) -- The
Saudi Arabian Mining Company Ma'aden has successfully loaded and unloaded a
trial shipment of phosphate concentrate. The company said that the phosphate
shipment was transported from the plant of the phosphate concentrate in Al
Jalamid mine site in the north of the Kingdom to Ras Az Zawr through railway
transportation, after the completion of the 980Km railway by the Saudi Railways
Company.
Ma'aden Phosphate Company, a joint venture between Ma’aden and SABIC,
will produce approximately 2.92 million t/y of granular DAP, plus approximately
440 KTa of excess ammonia for export to world markets. It is also
anticipated that the Phosphate Project will generate approximately 160 KTa of
excess phosphoric acid for sales to the domestic market.
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