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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Sonja Neame

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

  • Current as of 2026-10-31; exact start date not supplied: Larvotto Resources Limited — Chief Operating Officer. Half Yearly Report and Accounts (Directors’ report / current executive roster)

  • Earlier career; exact dates not fully disclosed: Previous employers and professional roles as summarized in issuer disclosure — global business development/operations/compliance experience; MD Ravensgate International; NED Trek Metals; Group Administration Manager RSG Global. Board and Management (Management section)

  • Prior role; exact dates not stated in issuer biography: Ravensgate International — Managing Director, mining consultancy. Management team (Management biography)

  • Prior role; exact dates not stated: RSG Global — Group Administration Manager, mining consultancy. Management team (Management biography)

  • Prior role; dates not in issuer source: Trek Metals Ltd. — Non-Executive Director. Management team (Management biography)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional credentials

Not dated · issuer reported · low materiality

GradDip Business Management; AIG graduate; AICD graduate. Credentials are reported in the cited issuer or secondary biography; the issuing institutions were not independently queried in this pass.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The cited biography names the qualification; independent verification of award records was not available.

Relevance: Relevant professional preparation for the current position.

Board and Management (Management section)

Contributions and company outcomes

Company-level project and delivery record

2026 through 2026-10-30 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Larvotto reported first production at Hillgrove in August 2026 after mine restart and plant refurbishment. Its 30 October Q3 report records the first 68-tonne antimony concentrate shipment to Wogen after quarter-end and says mine-gate delivery satisfied a condition for an initial payment under the offtake prepayment facility. These are company-level outcomes during the executives’ tenures; no individual causal contribution is inferred. The 2025 AEMR’s historical consent matters are tracked separately.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The individual held the stated role during some or all of the reported period; available evidence does not isolate personal contribution.

Relevance: Provides the company outcome against which the executive’s delivery record should be assessed.

Half Yearly Report and Accounts (FY2026 operating update and first production); Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report (pp. 1 and 4; post-quarter shipment and mine-gate delivery); Annual Environmental Management Report 2025 (pp. 5–9; historical consent compliance)

Environmental record

Legacy Hillgrove consent audit recorded outstanding non-compliances

Legacy consent conditions; AEMR reporting year 28 January 2025–27 January 2026; update dated 20 July 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The 2024–25 AEMR previously recorded five Development Consent non-compliances still outstanding at the start of the 2025 reporting year. In the July 2026 updated AEMR, four remained at year end: three were being held open pending Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure approval of environmental control standards (noise and air/dust), and one remained open; the report states no other breaches were found. The AEMR also says quarterly noise results were compliant, while the legacy conditions remained formally open. A separate NSW Resources Regulator mining-lease audit recorded a warning letter over the rehabilitation plan format, rectified 12 December 2024, and a late 2024 forward-program submission; the regulator took no further action on lateness. The AEMR’s open items arise from historical consent conditions; they are company/site compliance issues, not findings of personal misconduct. CEO Heeks and COO Neame are relevant current operational oversight, but the records do not attribute the legacy breaches to either individual.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. Company/site compliance context; no personal causal link to Heeks or Neame established.

Relevance: Relevant to environmental controls, site rehabilitation and production ramp-up.

Annual Environmental Management Report 2025 (pp. 5–9, section 1 and Table 2; pp. 81–84, section 10.3: count/status and compliance updates); Hillgrove Mines – Mining Act audit report (pp. 16–20, sections 3.2.7–3.2.14: format warning rectified, late filing and no further regulator action)

Suitability for the current role

Professional fit for Chief Operating Officer

Current role as of cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Role fit is an analytical inference from the documented position and the listed experience. The current role aligns with the function stated in the title; demonstrated personal outcomes are not inferred from employer results.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Analyst assessment based on the cited role and career record; it does not establish performance causation.

Relevance: Assesses documented capability against the current role and company stage.

Half Yearly Report and Accounts (Current executive roster); Board and Management (Management section)

Evidence gaps

  • The 2025 AEMR still records four historical consent items as open at its reporting cutoff; the 2026 Q3 report describes Mod 5 as under assessment but does not establish closure of those historical items by 2026-11-02.