cr158031

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Banana Shire Council

LOCATION: The resource is located along 1135 Orange Creek Road, 25 km west of Biloela (see map KRA 102).

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE TYPE: Quarry Rock

EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION: The resource is a large volcanic complex consisting of dacitic and andesitic ignimbrites, andesites and rhyolites with minor volumes of metamorphosed metasediments.

SIGNIFICANCE: The resource is large and is capable of producing significantly greater than 5 percent of annual demand for the commodity type in the region or sub-region. The current market area for the quarry is large and material is supplied to Gladstone as well as Biloela, Banana and nearby mining projects. Drilling, petrology and independent NATA certified testing has confirmed that material at the existing quarry is suitable for the production of a wide range of low to high specification materials including rail ballast. There is currently a modest shortage of approved high quality materials in the area. The existing quarry is located immediately adjacent to the rail line and there are plans to build a rail siding on the site to accessmaterial for use as rail ballast.

SEPARATION AREA: The quarry is located on freehold land and has few environmental or planning constraints. A separation distance of 1000 m is applied from the resource/processing area boundary as blasting may be required to access the hard rock resource.

TRANSPORT ROUTE: Material is transported directly onto Orange Creek Rd and eastward to Goovigen Road then onto Dawson Highway. A second route transports material directly to the Dawson Highway at the southern end of the resource.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: A small portion of the resource/processing and separation area to the north 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.