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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Townsville City Council

LOCATION: The resource is located about 13 kilometres south of Townsville, east of the Flinders Highway and east of the settlement of Roseneath (see map KRA 35).

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Quarry Rock

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION: The northern part of this resource consists of rhyolitic welded tuff and other volcanic rocks. A major quarry currently operates in this part of the resource. The southern part of the resource consists of similar volcanic rocks on land recently acquired for possible longer term extraction when the northern quarry is exhausted. The current quarry produces road base, concrete and bitumen aggregates and railway ballast.

SIGNIFICANCE: Resources are expected to be sufficient for the next 30 years. The northern part of the resource is currently supplying a large proportion of the Townsville regional market for crushed aggregates. The current quarry is one of three major quarries currently supplying crushed aggregates to the Townsville regional market. The southern section has sufficient rock to continue this supply into the longer term. The resource is of State significance.

SEPARATION AREA: The northwestern boundary is along Stuart Creek, providing a separation of about 900 metres from the existing quarry face and about 200 m from a planned future processing area to the small lots already existing on the western side of the creek. The northern and eastern boundaries lie along crests of ridges within the Prison Reserve to the north and east of the quarry. The boundary continues around the eastern and southern sides of the southern section of the resource at a separation distance of 1000 metres due to the surrounding flat land. The southwestern boundary is on a major ridge crest. The western boundary extends about 1000 metres from the existing quarry (this is within the Brookhill Explosives Reserve) and the southern resource.

TRANSPORT ROUTE: Products are transported on a private gravel road along an easement through the Explosives Reserve to the Flinders Highway. The same route would be used for extraction from the southern resource.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: A small portion of the separation area is 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.