NLC emerges as preferred bidder for a critical mineral block in Telangana

Public assemblage mining and powerfulness procreation institution NLC India has emerged arsenic the preferred bidder for a Vanadium, Titanium and Aluminous Laterite artifact successful Telangana.

“NLC India Limited is declared arsenic preferred bidder for Parvathapur Vanadium, Titanium and Aluminous Laterite artifact of Sanga Reddy, Telangana, consequent to the Critical and Strategic mineral blocks e-auction held connected June 11 by the Union Ministry of Mines,” the institution said successful a filing connected Friday (June 12, 2026).

The announcement comes adjacent connected the heels of NLC signing an MoU with CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), Karaikudi, to foster collaboration successful the tract of captious and strategical minerals beneficiation and extraction technologies. Under the MoU, elaborate studies volition beryllium undertaken connected overburden materials and tailings generated from NLC’s Neyveli mines to measure the imaginable for extraction and betterment of uncommon world elements (REEs) and different hint elements.

In a merchandise connected June 11, connected the MoU, NLC had said the collaboration volition besides research akin opportunities crossed different mining and exploration projects of the company, with the nonsubjective of processing sustainable and economically viable technologies for assets betterment from secondary sources.