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Mt. Holland Project

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 Location:
368 km E from Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  Project Contacts:
L3, 109 St Georges Tce
Perth
Western Australia, Australia
6000
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Overview

StageConstruction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Lithium
  • Spodumene
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Production Start...
Mine Life50 years (as of Jan 1, 2021)
Covalent Lithium is progressing with the development of the Mt Holland lithium project. Construction continues on the mine with the village and the aerodrome completed. Construction on the concentrator and the Kwinana refinery continues, with first production from the refinery expected in the second half of calendar year 2024.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Wesfarmers Ltd. 50 % Indirect
Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. 50 % Indirect
Covalent Lithium Pty Ltd (operator) 100 % Direct
Covalent Lithium Pty Ltd (Covalent) is the manager appointed by a joint venture between subsidiaries of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) and Wesfarmers Limited to develop and operate the Mount Holland Lithium Project, which will be a unique, fully integrated producer of battery quality lithium hydroxide in Western Australia.

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Deposit Type

  • Pegmatite


Summary:

The Earl Grey pegmatite is hosted within a series of steeply dipping ultramafic and mafic rocks of Archaean age. The pegmatite consists of a main tabular body of approximately 1,000m in strike length, over 2,000m in dip extent, and thicknesses of up to 100m. This main pegmatite is flanked by several hanging wall and footwall dykes, and the main body itself branches into multiple dykes at its southern and eastern extents. The pegmatite dips 5-15° to the north west and is slightly offset by several north-south trending fault zones.

The mineralogy of the pegmatite consists of a simple albite-quartz-microcline-spodumene-petalite assemblage with minor biotite, muscovite and tourmaline. The only significant mineralogical variation across the deposit occurs within the lithium aluminosilicates; spodumene, petalite and several alteration phases occur in discrete domains.

Spodumene is present in two forms at Earl Grey; a coarse form produced during initial crystallisation of the melt, and a finer spodumene-quartz intergrowth (SQI) derived from the isochemical inversion of petalite.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The Mount Holland Lithium Project (the project) is an integrated project consisting of a mine, concentrator, and refinery to produce battery quality lithium hydroxide (LiOH) for the international market.

Conventional open pit mining utilising experienced contractors will be adopted at Earl Grey(subject to further study). The mining method was evaluated for a traditional truck and hydraulic excavator (backhoe) operation, combined with suitable drill and blast. The operation evaluated different bench heights in different areas of the pit. In the pegmatite and waste contact zones, mining was determined to be standard 5m benches (2 x 2.5m flitches), and a 10m bench height was assumed for bulk waste mining outside of these zones. Ramp widths were maintained at a nominal 30m. A series of 15 pit designs (staged cutbacks) are planned with mining developing from the initial pits at the south end where the pegmatite comes to surface and proceeding in a northerly direction as the deposit is systematically mined down dip. Equipment (100t-200t excavators loading 100-200t trucks) has been selected and scheduled to meet the 2Mtpa plant throughput. Overall the pit design contained 94.2 million tonnes of ore at 1.5% Li2O and 421 million tonnes of waste at an overall strip ratio of 4.5 to 1.Dump trucks will haul ore to the ROM pad approximately 2km haul from the pit crest to the ROM. After various pit optimisations were performed using the geological block model which supports ........


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Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. Annual
Lithium dmt 50,276
All production numbers are expressed as hydroxide.

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Reserves at December 31, 2018:
Mineral Resources cut-off: 0.5% Li2O

CategoryTonnage CommodityGrade
Proven 54.4 Mt Li2O 1.5 %
Proven 54.4 Mt Fe2O3 1.3 %
Proven 54.4 Mt Ta2O5 45 ppm
Probable 39.8 Mt Li2O 1.5 %
Probable 39.8 Mt Fe2O3 1.4 %
Probable 39.8 Mt Ta2O5 54 ppm
Proven & Probable 94.2 Mt Li2O 1.5 %
Proven & Probable 94.2 Mt Fe2O3 1.4 %
Proven & Probable 94.2 Mt Ta2O5 50 ppm

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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Annual Report 2022
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Corporate Presentation 2018
Pre-Feasibility Study Report 2018
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