Larvotto Resources (ASX:LRV) confirms, with recent surveys, the presence of ‘recoverable’ antimony and gold at its 1.4 million tonne tailings facility at the Hillgrove Antimony-Gold Project, 24km east of Armidale in New South Wales.
Initial metallurgical flotation testwork on material from Tailings Storage Facility 1 (TSF1) confirmed the presence of recoverable antimony and gold. The process uses conventional flotation methods already deployed at the Hillgrove Plant, which is scheduled to start production in August 2026.
Testwork demonstrated that historical tailings from more than 20 years ago contain recoverable antimony, gold, and tungsten.
“The pathway is becoming very clear: reprocess the tailings, recover the metals, and simultaneously rehabilitate a facility that sits adjacent to a 500-metre gorge,” Managing Director Ron Heeks says.
The rehabilitation of the said facility, Heeks notes, can deliver “significant environmental and closure benefits alongside significant metal recovery”.
“We are now moving quickly through the cleaner flotation work and resource estimation process, and we look forward to updating the market as those milestones are achieved.”
With these next steps, Larvotto hopes to assess concentrate upgrade potential for antimony and gold and further optimise flotation conditions and grade–recovery trade‑offs.
It also plans to proceed with environmental and regulatory assessments and, if warranted, proceed to resource estimation.
“The retreatment and rehabilitation of the TSF1 material is a high priority for Larvotto and the wider community,” Heeks says.
Larvotto Resources is an antimony, copper, gold, cobalt, lithium, and multi-metals explorer with assets in Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.
Write to Richard Szabo at Mining.com.au
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