cr157422

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Sunshine Coast Regional Council

LOCATION: The resource lies 9 kilometres west of Coolum and is located west of McCord's Road and Yandina Creek Road (see map KRA 54).

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Quarry Rock

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION: The extractive resource comprises hard intrusive diorite and rhyolite flows, which crop out as numerous slabs and bluffs around the low hills between McCords Road, Pryor Road and Yandina Creek northwest of the Toolborough Road quarry. The resource is currently undeveloped.

SIGNIFICANCE: The Yandina Creek resource is strategically placed to provide construction aggregates and armour stone for a large part of the northern Sunshine Coast. It meets the criteria for State significance.

SEPARATION AREA: The full extent of the resource has not yet been defined by subsurface investigations. The resource limit is determined by the hills that would need to be retained to screen operations from adjacent lots to the north, west and south. This allows a separation distance of 500 metres. The separation area on the east is set at the toe of the adjacent ridge slope at about 500 metres.

TRANSPORT ROUTE: The entry point of the transport route to the adjacent roads is most likely to be on the eastern side of the resource entering McCords Road and Yandina Creek Road and then onto Toolborough Road to the Yandina-Coolum Road. This is the shortest route to the Sunshine Coast Motorway and enters the Yandina-Coolum Road at an established truck entry point.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: The KRA contains areas of vegetation having State biodiversity significance under the Biodiversity Planning Assessment administered by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and forms part of a bioregional wildlife corridor. It also contains records of flora and fauna species of significance under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 and the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, including migratory bird species. Some parts of the separation area and a small portion of the resource/processing area are covered by Strategic Cropping Land Trigger Mapping under the Strategic Cropping Land Act 2011 administered by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines. This indicates the location of potential SCL and further on-ground assessment against the SCL criteria is required to confirm whether the area is or is not an SCL.