Lara has developed an extensive portfolio of mineral projects in Brazil, Peru, Columbia and China since 2006. Commodities in the portfolio include gold, copper, iron ore, tin, lateritic and sulphide nickel, base metals, phosphates, limestone-dolomite and potash.

Included (2000-2001) geological modelling of the open pit and underground gold mineralization at the Anglogold Corrego do Sitio Project, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais

Gold exploration in Brazil (1985-1988) and Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin and Guinea (1989-1999). Reviewed gold and base metal projects throughout the rest of region ranging from Algeria to Gabon.

Gold exploration throughout the Archaean and Proterozoic greenstone belts and Proterozoic sedimentary basins of Brazil. Initial discovery of the komatiite-hosted nickel mineralization near Crixas,Goias State, Brazil

Uranium exploration in Australia from 1976 and early 1977 in Alligator Rivers-Northern Territory, Amadeus Basin of Central Australia and in the Georgetown Inlier in North Queensland with Urangesellschaft. Uranium exploration throughout basement terrains and sedimentary basins of Brazil from 1977 to 1982 with Nuclam-Nuclebras.