State Planning Policy 2/07 Guideline - Queensland Mining and Safety

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INGLEWOOD KEY RESOURCE AREA – KRA 2
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Inglewood Shire
LOCATION:
The resource is located about 10 kilometres east of Inglewood via the Cunningham Highway
(see map KRA 2).
EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Quarry Rock
EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION:
The resource consists of a basalt plug, intruded through older sedimentary rocks. It forms a
flat-topped hill with gentle outer slopes.
A quarry supplying various rock products is located at the eastern end of the hill.
SIGNIFICANCE:
The life of the available resource is expected to be over 50 years at the present rate of
production. The resource has provided the majority of various rock products to the
Inglewood and Waggamba Shires and to townships and road works further west, such as St
George. Some products have been transported into New South Wales.
SEPARATION AREA:
The outermost slopes of the basalt hill are weathered and thus unsuitable for extraction. Thus
any future development will tend to be confined to the slightly weathered or fresh basalt in the
middle part of the hill, with the outer slopes being retained to screen the operations from the
surrounding land.
Therefore the separation distance is set at 500 metres from the outermost edge of the basalt
resource.
TRANSPORT ROUTE:
A transport route constructed across private property extends westwards around the southern
flank of the hill, then along the boundary with the adjacent property and onto the Cunningham
Highway to the south.
State Planning Policy 2/07 Guideline