"We import 99.9 per cent of our requirement. With massive investments, we can be a major producer of gold and a big generator of employment," Agarwal, who is Vedanta chairman, posted on X.
Federal Reserve official Jeffrey Lacker repeated on Friday his call for the US central bank to consider hiking interest rates in June, and said there was no shame in adjusting them lower again if economic data demanded it.
However painful, the reserve cuts and associated writedowns are seen helping nurse the sector back to longer-term health by discouraging miners from seeking low-margin growth at the expense of profits. It is a shift most mining executives have promised over the last year and one that investors are keen to see them deliver.