LTS Mining & Civil drilled more than 200 foundations for two Queensland power lines. On 13 October it appointed administrators.

Before a bridge or a transmission tower rises above the ground, someone has to build what holds it up.

That can mean drilling several metres into solid rock, lowering steel into the hole and filling it with concrete. Once the structure is finished, the work disappears from view.

LTS Mining & Civil Pty. Ltd., ACN 164 598 645, built more than 200 of those foundations for two Queensland electricity transmission lines. On 13 October 2026 the company entered voluntary administration, appointing Lindsay Stephen Bainbridge and Timothy James Bradd of Pitcher Partners as administrators. Creditors meet on 23 October.

Is LTS Mining & Civil in liquidation? No. In a voluntary administration the administrators take control of the company, investigate its position and report to creditors. Creditors then decide its future: a deed of company arrangement, a return to the directors, or liquidation.

For anyone who contracted with LTS, supplied it or hired equipment to it, the question is what was unfinished or unpaid when the administrators took control.

LTS Mining & Civil was registered on 2 July 2013. The Australian Business Register places its main business location in postcode 2445 on the New South Wales Mid North Coast, and its 2019 website gave an address at Lake Cathie. ASIC's notice records the company as incorporated in Victoria. Its supplier profile lists premises at Yatala, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

In Queensland it holds Queensland Building and Construction Commission licence 15595877, for Foundation Work (Piling and Anchors). The licence sits in financial Category 3, which allows annual turnover of up to $30 million. That is a ceiling the licence permits, not a revenue figure.

Coopers Gap Wind Farm sits near Cooranga North, between Dalby and Kingaroy. Its electricity reaches the grid along a transmission line, and every structure on that line needs a foundation.

LTS's own project page, as published in 2019, records the company as engaged to build those foundations. The job ran to more than 100 foundations, from 1.5 to 2.5 metres in diameter and up to 9 metres deep, through rock stronger than 150 MPa. In ordinary terms, that is exceptionally hard rock, and LTS described breaking it with drill-and-blast rigs.

The foundations were for the electricity connection, not the wind turbines themselves.

At Kennedy Energy Park, near Hughenden in north Queensland, LTS's project page records the foundations for the transmission line to Cape River Substation, and for the substation itself: another 100-plus foundations, 0.45 to 1.5 metres across and up to 9 metres deep, in very high strength rock.

The same project list included the Clarence River bridge at Tabulam, the Pacific Highway upgrade from Warrell Creek to Nambucca Heads, a BHP and BMA transmission line at Caval Ridge and a shoring wall at Port Macquarie hospital.

These are completed jobs, published years before the administration. They show what kind of business this was: one whose work depends on heavy drilling rigs, skilled operators and difficult ground. Replacing a contractor like that partway through a package can mean new machinery, crews and mobilisation. That is a general point about the trade, not evidence that any project was affected.

Project pages describe work from the contractor's side. Bellingen Shire Council's contracts register for 2021–22 records it from the customer's. It lists LTS Mining & Civil, of Lake Cathie, for the piling on the Tallowwood Point Bridge under the Fixing Country Bridges program, starting on 2 July 2021 after three quotes were received.

The register records the contract at $181,505, with two variations recorded at $208,760 and $28,656. The council reopened the bridge in December 2021.

The company's most recent public trail runs to the Gold Coast. Earlier in 2026, an LTS project manager wrote publicly about working on The Landmark at Mermaid Beach for LTS. The Landmark is Aniko Group's four-tower development, reported at $2.5 billion, which broke ground in June 2025 with Aniko's own construction arm as builder. In May 2026, Aniko published a construction update reporting its perimeter retention piling complete.

That establishes a public link between LTS and the project during 2026. It does not establish what LTS's package was, who drilled the piling Aniko reported complete, or whether any LTS work there was unfinished on 13 October. Nothing in the public record connects the administration to the project.

Specialist piling depends on large drilling rigs. LTS's 2018 website published the specification sheet for a Soilmec SR-40 rig. In 2024, Soilmec Australia announced that LTS was adding an SR-65 BlueTech rig to its fleet, and in 2026 an advertisement promoted two SR-40 rigs available for wet hire through LTS, meaning with operators.

Using a machine is not the same as owning it. A rig may be owned outright, financed or hired, and a machine advertised for hire is not automatically an asset available to unsecured creditors. Which of LTS's rigs belong to the company, and which are subject to someone else's interest, is a question for the administrators.

For all four, the company is LTS Mining & Civil Pty. Ltd., ACN 164 598 645, ABN 71 164 598 645. The first creditors' meeting is a virtual meeting at 11am AEDT on 23 October, with proofs and proxies due by 5pm AEDT on 22 October.

None of those answers is in the appointment notice. The administrators' report to creditors is where they start.

The question is not how much the projects LTS worked on were worth. It is what LTS itself owned, owed and was still contracted to deliver on 13 October.

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We publish public-record information, not advice. The administrators are the authoritative source on the administration, and nothing here is a statement about any project, contractor or claim.