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Lara Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: LRA) operates a Prospect and Royalty Generator business model across South America, generating and staking prospects then joint-venturing them to partners in exchange for a minority interest and/or royalty (portfolio spans Brazil, Peru and Chile). A Preliminary Economic Assessment (effective 15 October 2025, based on a 3 July 2024 maiden resource) outlined an 18-year open-pit mine averaging 36 kt (79M lb) Cu/yr and 7.2 koz Au/yr in its first 6 years (560 kt / 1.2B lb Cu and 111 koz Au total over the mine life), with after-tax NPV8% of US$378M, 21% IRR, and a 3.5-year post-tax payback. As of June 2026 seven diamond drill rigs were running a 14,000m validation program at Planalto.
Notable vs. Peers
- Financials score of 7.9/10 is stronger than the peer average of 5.5/10.
Lifecycle Milestones
Not yet determined: mill, tailings facility.
Jurisdiction (40%)7/10
The Planalto project is in the Carajas district of Para State, northern Brazil, one of the world's premier copper-iron mining districts, with deep large-scale mining infrastructure; a new mine there still has to work through federal and state permitting.
Infrastructure (40%)7.9/10
Confirmed road access and confirmed grid power at Planalto Copper-Gold Project, Carajas, Para State, Brazil; existing mill and tailings facility not yet researched, counted at a neutral 5/10 until established.
Nearby producing mine (20%)Not yet researched
No project coordinates on file yet, so distance to a producing mine can't be measured.
Acquisition Susceptibility
A relative ranking of how closely this company matches the profile of juniors that have actually been acquired — not a probability, and not a reason to buy. Acquisitions are rare: only a few dozen significant deals happen a year across a universe of thousands of juniors, so even a high score here describes a long shot. The strongest signal in the research, a producer that already owns part of the company, is scored from its disclosed strategic shareholders. A producer that is a joint-venture or earn-in partner on the project, rather than a shareholder, isn't captured yet.
How this score is built
- Disclosed pending dealSub-score: Not scored
No pending acquisition or merger disclosed (checked)
Not scored: having no deal in flight isn't held against a company.
Weight 26.25% - Producer's strategic stakeSub-score: Not scored
No producer holds a disclosed stake on file (holder register researched) See holders
Not scored: most juniors that do get bought had no prior toehold, so a missing stake says little either way.
Weight 25% - Distance to a producing mineSub-score: Not yet researched
Distance not yet researched: no project coordinates on file
Distance can't be measured without coordinates, so excluded rather than counted as far.
Weight 22.5% - Lifecycle stageSub-score:6/10
Stage: Preliminary Economic Assessment
Feasibility and permitting score 10, where deals cluster, and production 5.5; earlier stages score less, down to 1 at grassroots.
Weight 15% · 57% here - JurisdictionSub-score:7/10
Brazil: jurisdiction score 7/10
Our jurisdiction score, used as is: higher means lower political and permitting risk.
Weight 6.75% · 26% here - CommoditySub-score:8/10
Primary commodity: Copper
Gold 10, copper 8, silver 5, nickel and uranium 4, others 2: most majors' deals are for gold.
Weight 4.5% · 17% here
Weight is each input's share of the full score. “Here” is its share of this company's score: inputs that aren't scored are left out and the rest re-weighted, never counted as zero.
Your Rankings
Lara Exploration Ltd. generates and stakes exploration projects, then brings in joint-venture partners to fund the drilling in exchange for Lara retaining a carried interest, royalty, or reduced equity stake — spreading exposure across multiple projects while avoiding the shareholder dilution a self-funded drill program requires. The projects below are the company's own designated material/flagship JVs; only figures the company has actually disclosed are shown, nothing here is estimated.
No individual JV projects are recorded for this company yet.
Management Team
Chairman of Lara Exploration Ltd. Exploration geologist with 30+ years' global experience; co-founder of Lara Exploration (2006) and two other firms. 2016 Thayer Lindsley Award (PDAC) for the Cukaru Peki copper-gold discovery in Serbia; previously Manager of Business Development at Gold Fields Exploration.
President, CEO and Director of Lara Exploration Ltd., appointed CEO Jan 2024. Senior international executive with 25+ years in natural resources; co-founder of Reservoir Capital and Reservoir Minerals (2016 Thayer Lindsley Award). BSc exploration/mining geology and PhD mineral-resource evaluation, Cardiff University.
Director of Lara Exploration Ltd. 30 years' financial-management experience; previously President and CFO of The Fertility Partners Inc. and Senior Managing Director at Sprott Inc. CFA, ICD.D.
Director of Lara Exploration Ltd. and Audit Committee Chair. Chartered accountant and business valuator; youngest partner at Williams & Partners; CFO for multiple healthcare companies.
Director of Lara Exploration Ltd. Managing partner at IMC Consultoria since 1985; director of shipbuilding and investment companies; independent director of Brazilian oil and gas producer Petro Rio.
VP Exploration of Lara Exploration Ltd. Graduate of University of Tasmania, MSc Camborne School of Mines; track record of gold and base-metal exploration success in Australia, Brazil and West Africa.
VP Corporate Development of Lara Exploration Ltd. Commerce graduate, Queen's University; previously held a similar role at Reservoir Minerals; focuses on corporate finance, strategic development and communications.
Corporate Secretary of Lara Exploration Ltd. since 1994, serving several public companies on major exchanges; experienced in cross-jurisdictional regulatory compliance.
Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary of Andina Copper Corporation (since 2023), CFO and Secretary of Daura Gold Corp., and Chief Financial Officer of Lara Exploration Ltd. (since 2022). A shared corporate-services CFO who also serves Seabord Services Corp. (since 2011), Nova Royalty Corp. (since 2023) and Seafire Capital Corp. (since 2022). More than 15 years of accounting experience in mineral exploration and mining, focused on financial reporting, regulatory compliance, internal controls and corporate finance.
Insiders, Investors & Smart Money
Notable shareholders and insiders whose involvement is worth knowing about, plus what we're seeing from institutional/large-investor activity.
No smart-money tracking (institutional/large-investor activity) for this miner yet — this is a planned feature, not live data.
No notable insiders tracked for this miner yet.
Reports, Presentations & Documents
Lara Exploration is a prospect and royalty generator across South America that also advances its own 100%-owned Planalto copper-gold project in the Carajás district of Pará State, Brazil. Planalto's resource, effective 3 July 2024, has 253,000 t of contained copper in indicated resources (47.7 Mt at 0.53% Cu and 0.06 g/t Au), with no measured category, plus 549,000 t inferred. The preliminary economic assessment, effective 15 October 2025, outlines an open-pit mine averaging 36 kt of copper a year over its first 6 years and shows an after-tax NPV8% of US$378M and a 21% IRR, with initial capital of US$546M, an 18-year mine life and an all-in sustaining cost of US$2.70/lb. As of June 2026, seven diamond rigs were running a 14,000 m validation drill programme at Planalto.