NRW Holdings announced the award of a material contract to Primero Group for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of the Mt Holland Concentrator project for Covalent Lithium - a joint venture between Wesfarmers and SQM. Primero has been awarded the EPC contract that will process `run of mine' ore at a rate of circa 2mtpa and produce an output of circa 400,000 tpa of spodumene concentrate to feed the company's integrated Lithium Hydroxide conversion refinery situated at Kwinana. The Mt Holland project has been worked on in various development phases over the past 18 months between the Covalent and Primero teams, with the planning and works now culminating in the full award of the EPC delivery contract. The project scope covers the vertical delivery of engineering design of all disciplines, procurement of all equipment and materials, site construction, commissioning, and performance testing of the spodumene concentrator at the Mt Holland site located in Western Australia. The full execution will commence immediately with site works planned to commence in October and an expected peak workforce of 350 personnel.