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LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Lockyer Valley Regional Council

LOCATION: The resource is located adjacent to Seventeen Mile Road about 16 kilometres northeast of Helidon (see map KRA 79).

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Quarry Rock

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION: The extractive resource consists of a deposit of greenstone, which occurs adjacent to Seventeen Mile Road northeast of Helidon. Only a limited proportion of the resource area has been investigated in detail to date but large resources are likely to be present. Testing indicates the rock to be suitable for good quality aggregates for the full range of applications from road bases, road sealing aggregates and concrete aggregates. The greenstone deposit has not been worked to date.

SIGNIFICANCE: The resource is sufficiently large and of such quality that it represents a regionally significant resource for the long-term future.

SEPARATION AREA: The separation area is largely defined on the basis of a full separation distance of 1000 metres from the resource boundary. The separation distance has been reduced where intervening ridges or high relief allow a lesser distance from the resource boundary than the 1000 metres.

TRANSPORT ROUTE: Seventeen Mile Road is already used to transport sand and building stone from several sandstone mines closer to Helidon onto the Warrego Highway at Helidon. The use of the part of the road north of the sandstone quarries for the transport of extractive materials would be consistent with this designation.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: The KRA contains areas having State biodiversity significance under the Biodiversity Planning Assessment administered by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and encompasses three cultural heritage sites of State significance. The Xanthorrhea Nature Refuge is adjacent to the western end of the resource/processing area. The eastern end of the KRA is adjacent to the Lockyer National Park. The KRA contains land classified as good quality agricultural land (mostly Class C1 improved pastures, with small areas of Class B and Class D non agricultural land).