Company has declared a maiden ore reserve of 16.6-million tonnes, grading 1.18% lithium oxide and 13.4% boron trioxide at its lithium/borate project in Serbia.

Any potential buyer of the KCM assets would be party to an unlawful act, Vedanta said.

Prospecting and soil sampling at the Careless Cove and Yellow Fox properties will start in the next quarter.

The West Cache property consists of 265 unpatented mining units and 11 patented mining claims.

The injection of billions of reais into funds are to be managed by the state government.

The school has the only on-campus underground mine education center in the United States and uses it to give students hands-on experience.