Lake Lindsay is a significant project increasing Anglo Coal Australia’s coal production and product range.

This dragline will be Australia’s first Alternating Current (AC) dragline, with improved power efficiency and fewer components requiring less maintenance and downtime. As the world’s first AC gearbox driven dragline there will be significant structural, operating, maintenance and safety improvement innovations.

The dragline will be erected on site at Lake Lindsay mine near Middlemount in Central Queensland, with site work having commenced in March 2007 and with commissioning scheduled for September 2008. The Bucyrus 8750 dragline will:

• Include more than 28,000 kW of installed motor power
• Weigh in at over 5600 tons
• Walk itself around the pit using two shoes each more than 21m long and 4m wide
• Dig to a depth of more than 50m and dump soil more than 50m high into the air
• Features a boom of over 109m in length