From hands-on agricultural education and controlled grazing to manage fire risk, through to celebrating culture with a striking Anaiwan mural, management says it is keen to embed long-term social, environmental and cultural value alongside mine development.
In a big tick for farmers and bushfire management, Larvotto has kicked off a grazing and community farm initiative at Echidna Gully Village, introducing cattle onto pastoral land to support agricultural education partnerships with local schools. The program aims to promote the practical benefits of controlled grazing by helping manage vegetation, thereby reducing fire risk around the site.
Beyond Hillgrove, Larvotto says it’s steadily building the company’s next growth engines. At its Eyre project in Western Australia, aircore drilling has wrapped up to feed rare earths metallurgical test work. Laboratory studies are now underway to probe mineralogy, recoveries and processing pathways across a suite of promising targets.
In Queensland, meanwhile, the company has continued to make progress on its due diligence at the historic Blockade copper mine near Mt Isa, where more than 4,100 metres of reverse circulation (RC) drilling has been completed across five nearby prospects.
Visual results so far from Blockade have hinted at multiple copper-mineralised zones, with assays pending and results set to guide potential resource modelling and a decision on acquisition. The Mt Isa assets could underpin a potential hub-and-spoke copper development strategy close to existing processing infrastructure.
With refurbishment works accelerating, underground mining back in motion and multiple exploration and acquisition catalysts on the horizon, Larvotto is shaping up as a tightly focused near-term antimony and gold producer with meaningful upside across copper and rare earths.
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