This week, Larvotto Resources Ltd announced that PYBAR Mining Services Pty Ltd has mobilised to site and underground development activities have now commenced at the company’s 100%-owned Hillgrove antimony-gold project in New South Wales.
Larvotto Resources Managing Director, Ron Heeks, commented: “Having PYBAR on-site and with underground development activities now underway is one of the final requirements to bring the Hillgrove Project back into production. We are delighted with the process and how PYBAR have integrated into the site team, with now over 70 Larvotto employees on-site and 80 third party, as we are now firmly in execution mode.”
He added: “It has been an incredibly busy 2025, having achieved many financial, technical and project milestones and now turning our full focus on exploration and site development, to increase our resources and bring the project back into production next year.”
Following the execution of a binding underground development contract, PYBAR has now mobilised
equipment and personnel to Hillgrove and commenced underground development works. The program forms part of an approximately 20 km underground development scope planned over an initial four-year term. Activities include decline and lateral development, rehabilitation, ground support installation and haulage. Works commencing at the Metz zone and will progress to Garibaldi.
This program is in addition to the already substantial underground mine development already in
place that includes ore already developed and awaiting stoping. PYBAR is delivering a full-service underground development solution, including equipment, workforce and statutory supervision under its established Safety and Health Management System. The development program is a key enabler for reopening underground mining operations and delivering ore to the processing plant.
Source: im-mining.com
