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

SUNROCK KEY RESOURCE AREA – KRA 51
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Caloundra City
LOCATION:
The resource is located approximately 3 kilometres northeast of Beerburrum on Nursery
Road, east of the Steve Irwin Way (see map KRA 51).
EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE: Quarry Rock
EXTRACTIVE RESOURCE DESCRIPTION:
The resource consists of fresh, hard, dark brown, olivine trachyte occurring in a plug at
Stoney Knob to the northeast of Beerburrum. There is minimal overburden.
It is the site of a major quarry supplying a wide range of crushed rock products.
SIGNIFICANCE:
The remaining resource will last about 30 years. A wide range of products is supplied to a
primary market extending from northern Brisbane to the southern Sunshine Coast.
SEPARATION AREA:
The quarry is being widened and deepened by reducing the height of the surrounding
ridgeline and a bund of spoil material is being developed on the western side to screen the
operations from that direction. As this area is zoned Rural in the current Caloundra City
Planning Scheme, a separation distance of 500 metres has been adopted around this part of the
resource, being constrained by the Steve Irwin Way.
The processing area, including crushers and screening plant, is situated on the eastern side of
the resource. This boundary is accordingly set at 1000 metres from the plant as there are no
intervening ridges to the south and east of the quarry. This part of the separation area is
within State Forest. Future development will include deepening and widening of the pit such
that its surface extent will exceed the surface expression of the resource.
TRANSPORT ROUTE:
The rock is transported via Nursery Road onto the Steve Irwin Way. Provision is made for a
potential future alternative route northeastwards to the Bruce Highway via the Johnsons Road
overpass.
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