Hordes of miners are arriving in Riyadh this week for the Future Minerals Forum, but few will be carrying picks or shovels. The FMF is as much about geopolitics, global macro-economics and international finance as it is about mining.
For the next few days, Saudi Arabia becomes the cockpit of a new great race in global affairs: the contest to secure and dominate the earth’s resources that will underpin energy transition, industrial resilience and national security for decades to come.
The kingdom wants to be more than a host. It wants to be a marketplace, an investor and eventually…
