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| Thiess enters alliance with ACA over Lake Lindsay project Leighton Holdings announced that Anglo Coal Australia (ACA) has entered into an alliance agreement with Thiess Sedgman Joint Venture to deliver the coal preparation and handling aspects of the $346.4 million Lake Lindsay Project, one of the largest design and construct contracts awarded in the Australian coal industry to date. The existing German Creek Mine, which was established in the 1980s, will be expanded to cater for the Lake Lindsay deposit and will see an upgrade of the mine's coal handling and processing capability from 11mtpa to 16mtpa. The Alliance is responsible for the design, construction and commissioning of a new coal handling and preparation plant, coal handling facilities and an overland conveyor at the mine. The work includes five fully automated stockpile machines, an 800 tonne per hour coal preparation plant and a 21 km long single flight belt conveyor, the second longest of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. The project introduces new coal sources from the Lake Lindsay mining lease, complementing those from the existing three separate mine sources. The high-tech plant will contain dense medium cyclones, spirals and flotation circuits and a plate and frame filter. The product coal will be loaded via high capacity automated reclaimers to a new rail load out facility. Located 290 km south west of Mackay, the German Creek Mine is operated by Anglo Coal Australia (Capcoal). The ACA/TSJV Alliance work is scheduled to be completed in December 2007, with the construction workforce peaking at 500 people. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |