Balkan Mining and Minerals Ltd. announced the appointment of Geops Balkan Drilling Services d.o.o (Geops) as the Company's drilling contractor ahead of its inaugural drilling program scheduled to commence late September 2021 at the Rekovac Lithium-Borate Project, located in the highly prospective Vardar Zone in Serbia. BMM's initial drilling campaign will utilise data obtained from the ongoing mapping and geophysical work currently being conducted at the Rekovac Project in order to identify priority targets for drilling. The drill program will also leverage drill results obtained from the projects previous owner Jadar Resource Ltd. (Jadar) (ASX:JDR). Jadar completed two stratigraphic DD holes totalling 1,238.1m in May 2020 which intercepted preserved borate and lithium in both holes. Of note, REK-002 intercepted 171m with over 10,000 ppm of B2O3 and up to 969 ppm Li2O from 35m including, 49.6m with over 20,000 ppm of B2O3 and up to 624 ppm Li2O from 51.5m and remains open laterally to the east, west and south as well as at depth. Please refer to BMM's prospectus for further details on Jadar's previous drilling campaign.