Thiess entered an alliance agreement with Anglo Coal Australia to deliver the coal preparation and handling aspects of the Lake Lindsay Project, one of the largest design and construct contracts awarded in the Australian coal industry.

The existing German Creek Mine was expanded to cater for the Lake Lindsay deposit and resulted in an upgrade of the mine's coal handling and processing capability from 11mtpa to 16mtpa.

• a new coal handling and preparation plant
• coal handling facilities, and
• an overland conveyor at the mine.

The work included five full automated stockpile machines, an 800 tonne per hour coal preparation plant and a 21km long single flight belt conveyor, the second longest of its type in the Southern Hemisphere.

The project introduced new coal sources from the Lake Lindsay mining lease, complementing those from the existing three separate mine sources. The high-tech plant contain dense medium cyclones, spirals and floatation circuits and automated reclaimers to a new rail load out facility.