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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Ipswich City Council

LOCATION: The resource is located east of the Boonah Road about 4 kilometres northeast of Peak Crossing. It is about 18 kilometres south of Ipswich (see map KRA 82).

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Quarry Rock

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION: The resource consists of a thick steeply dipping sill of fine dark grey basalt, which is underlain by weathered sandstone. It forms a prominent conical hill in which a moderate sized quarry has been established largely on the western side.

SIGNIFICANCE: The resource provides a substantial proportion of the aggregate production for the Ipswich and Fassifern Valley districts. There are only sufficient resources remaining for less than 10 years supply in the approved area, with potential for extensions into adjoining properties which would maximise resource utilisation by allowing deepening of the quarry.

SEPARATION AREA: The full 1000 metre separation distance has been adopted around most of the resource/processing area as the resource is topographically higher than the surrounding land. The separation area has been slightly truncated in the west where the boundary is defined as the Ipswich-Boonah Road.

TRANSPORT ROUTE: The transport route is along T. Morrows Road to the Ipswich-Boonah Road. The majority of the rock is transported to Ipswich to the north, but some is transported to rural markets elsewhere.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: 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.