** Shares of UK's mineral explorer and developer Kendrick
Resources Plc KEN.L rise as much as 5.63% to 1.29p
** Co buys two further exploration licences covering its
Airijoki vanadium-copper project in Northern Sweden
** Says project includes copper-rich target parallel to the
existing vanadium bearing bodies
** Copper soil anomaly with good continuity extends over a
7km length on new licence Airijoki Nr 105 - Co
** Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3
up 0.5% at $7,690 a tonne, as of 0815 GMT
** As of last close, shares down 63.1% since its IPO in May
(Reporting by Kavya B in Bengaluru)
((Kavya.B@thomsonreuters.com;))